The 1909 law:
From Remington's Compiled Statutes of Washington Annotated, 1922
And from Harry H. Laughlin's 1922 summary of U.S. eugenical legislation:
and
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Between 1920 and 1945, the state of Washington sterilized approximately 700 people, mostly patients and inmates of state institutions. These sterilizations were carried out in the name of eugenics. This blog documents my quest for information and my efforts, through my senior thesis, to tell this story from the ground up.
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It looks like the research is coming along well, Jill. Are you finding any interesting individual cases?
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