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Excerpt from: Doctor To Let Patient's Baby Defective Die “Chicago is full of defectives,” Dr. Haiselden concluded. “The average physician today saves imbeciles at birth. This adds to the crime waves of the city’s future. There will be a great awakening some day which will result in the enactment of laws providing for the sterilization of the criminal and the lunatic, and possibly for the painless death of the hopelessly insane.”... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Doctor To Let Patient's Baby Defective Die | |
| From: | Dr. Haiselden And The Bollinger Baby | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | November 17, 1915 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | The Chicago Daily Tribune | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.1,7 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Bioethics; Chicago, IL; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Crime; Death; Doctors; Eugenics; Euthanasia; Family; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; H.F. Haiselden; Hospitals; Ideologies; Illinois; Insanity; Institutions; Japan; Jurisprudence; Laws & Regulation; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Parenting; Physical Disability; Policy; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Reproduction; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Sterilization; Women & Gender |
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