A human being, and not a mere social factor: Catholic strategies for dealing with sterilization statutes in the 1920s

Church History

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 383-411

  Leon, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 62449111879     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s000964070010931x     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Harry H. Laughlin, The Legal Status of Eugenical Sterilization (Chicago: Eugenics Associate of the Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1929), 7
2. Philip R. Reilly, The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United Stales (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 33, 39-40
3. See Edward J. Larson, Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
4. Barry Mehler, "A History of the American Eugenics Society" (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1988), 36-80
5. Henry H. Goddard, The Kallikak Family, A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (New York: Macmillan, 1912)
6. For more on family studies, see Nicole Hahn Rafter, ed., White Trash: The Eugenic Family, 1877-1919 (Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 1986)
7. Harry H. Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922)
8. and Eugenical Sterilization: 1926; Historical, Legal, and Statistical Review of Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (New Haven, Conn.: The American Eugenics Society, 1926), 2-3
9. Anonymous, "The Morality and the Lawfulness of Vasectomy," AER 45 (July 1911): 71-77
10. Steven M. Donovan, "Summing up the Discussion on Vasectomy," AER 45 (September 1911): 313-19
11. Theodore Labouré, "One Last Remark on Vasectomy," AER 45 (September 1911): 355-59
12. John A. Ryan, "Family Limitation," reprinted in Family Limitation and The Church and Birth Control (New York: Paulist, 1916), 5
13. Ryan, "The Church and Birth Control," reprinted in Family Limitation and The Church and Birth Control (New York: Paulist, 1916), 16-19
14. See Ruth O'Halloran, "Organized Catholic Laywomen: The National Council of Catholic Women, 1920-1995" (Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America, 1995), chapters 1-3
15. "State Legislatures Discuss Anti-Evolution Measures Propose Marriage Reforms," (NCWC News Service) The Tidings (February 25, 1927): 6
16. John A. Ryan, The State and The Church (Washington, D.C.: NCWC, 1922), 42-49
17. See for example, Thomas J. Shelley, "The Oregon School Case and the National Catholics Welfare Conference," Catholic Historical Review 75:3 (1989): 439-57
18. and Kathleen Tobin-Schlesinger, "Population and Power: the Religious Debate over Contraception, 1916-1936" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1994)
19. Ryan, The State and The Church, 207
20. Special Bulletin, 1-2, NCWC Papers (Collection 121D)
21. Special Bulletin, 9
22. Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, in The Papal Encyclicals in Their Historical Context, ed. Anne Fremantle (New York: Mentor Books, 1956), 171-72
23. Quoted in "Sterilization Bill is Killed," Catholic Universe Bulletin (April 15, 1927): 1
24. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics, 113-47
25. and Reilly, The Surgical Solution, 111-27
26. Patrick J. Ward, "Sterilization of Mental Defectives in the State of Virginia," 6 May 1927
27. and Ward to Burke, Memo regarding sterilization in Virginia, 7 May 1927, NCWC Papers (Collection 121D)
28. For a summary of the religious history of the Commonweal of Virginia, see W. Harrison Daniel, "Virginia," in Religion in the Southern States, ed. Samuel S. Hill (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1983), 335-62
29. "A New Issue," The Catholic Universe Bulletin (May 6, 1927): 16
30. "Unjustified Sterilization," America (May 14, 1927): 102
31. Francis S. Betten, S.J., "Sterilization Banned by Natural Law, Says Jesuit," Catholic Universe Bulletin (May 20, 1927): 8
32. Dolle to Burke, 28 May 1927, and Burke memo, 3 June 1927, NCWC Papers (Collection 121D)
33. Dolle to Burke, 8 June 1927, NCWC Papers (Collection 121D), and "Petition for Rehearing and Argument" for Buck v. Bell, NCWC Papers (121)
34. "Brush Foundation Deems Humans Barnyard Animals, Bishop Says," Catholic Universe Bulletin (June 22, 1928): 1
35. Ryan, Human Sterilization, foreword, 5