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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.”...
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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; 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; Sterilization; Women & Gender
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Social Movements & Advocacy


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