08 July 2013 (01:16 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Sha’ban 1434/17 Tir 1391/01 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

“Over a 10 year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money, compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children, as they procreated more.”-James Heinrich, former OB-GYN at Valley State Prison for Women

From the late 1990s to 2010 California taxpayers paid for the sterilization of at least 250 women prisoners, in violation of state regulations.

That’s the result of an investigation by Center for Investigative Reporting.  The sterilizations happened at the California Institution for Women in Corona, and the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla (now a men’s prison).

The program targeted poor inmates who already had children, or pregnant inmates who had somehow been determined by prison officials to be destined to end up back in prison after their release.

Here’s the kicker, in 1979 state officials supposedly banned such sterilizations after it was revealed that prison and mental institution inmates were being sterilized against their will.  Since then prison officials have been coercing inmates to “voluntarily” request such procedures.  Many former inmates say they did it out of fear and regret it.

This can be traced back to the eugenics laws originating in the United States around the turn of the 20th Century (that’s right, the NAZIs were not the ones who started this, it was the elite Victorian British, followed by the elites in the U.S. The NAZIs simply copied the U.S. & British laws).  Under those eugenics laws minority groups, the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill and criminals have no rights.