New Mexico Committee Passes Legislation Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/02/new-mexico-committee-passes-legislation-legalizing-abortions-up-to-birth/
Woman forced to abort 2nd child, be sterilized under eugenics law files suit
KUMAMOTO – A woman filed a lawsuit at the district court here on Jan. 29 seeking compensation from the government, saying she was forced under the eugenic protection law (1948-1996) to abort her second child and undergo sterilization surgery because her first child was judged to have a disability.
The 72-year-old woman, who lives in Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan, is demanding 33 million yen in redress. While lawsuits concerning the eugenics law are currently being argued in the Tokyo, Sendai, Sapporo and other district courts nationwide, this is an exceptional case, as the woman's first child's disability was given as the justification for the sterilization operation.
She is the second to file a suit in the Kumamoto District Court. Fellow prefectural resident Kazumi Watanabe, 74, is also seeking 33 million yen in compensation from the government for reportedly having his testicles removed when he was around 10 years old.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190129/p2a/00m/0na/032000c
September 2003
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called "Master Race."
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stamford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.
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http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
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BOMBSHELL: Arizona Republican Party Accuses Government Official of Coordinating with Democrats to Secure Votes
Republicans in Arizona were suspicious after elections that seemed won by the GOP on election night slowly shifted to Democrat victories in the days after the election.
Now, it appears that an internal election audit commissioned by the Arizona Republican Party, released Thursday, may offer some answers on what happened in the state’s closest election in recent memory.
The 228-page memo details several suspect and concerning practices employed by County Recorder Adrian Fontes, a Democrat. Fontes has already earned a reputation for controversy among election integrity advocates in Arizona, for a series of incidents including telling a candidate for the state legislature to “go f— yourself” on Facebook.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/bombshell-arizona-republican-party-accuses-government-official-of-coordinating-with-democrats-to-secure-votes/
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN PARTY ELECTION AUDIT
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5699777-AZGOP-Preliminary-Audit-Findings.html