Not just given. SOLD BY CATHOLIC CURCH. They took about 50.000 babies in less then 3 decades and made BILLIONS !!

This is a well known fact. They even made a movie about it starring Benedict Counterstrike

Now it is forbidden to write rapist? Really Bored Panda?

Same in Norway. Shame on us.

Also, Norway is one of the world's biggest exporters of weapons.

Is this actually a surprise? I mean Poland publicly announced "gay free zones"

No one haven't because it is such a recent and new nation there aren't much in the end. (Not saying there isn't at all, but their history is still quite short, and nothing they did hasn't been done before by others.)

The stories about stolen generations is so terribly sad and heartbreaking. Children ripped away from their mothers arms to be brought up by others (whites). This has caused so much damage it's indescribable. https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/the-stolen-generations#:~:text=The%20Stolen%20Generations%20refers%20to,through%20a%20policy%20of%20assimilation.

I think this a worldwide problem :(

In Cambodia's case, it's because of the Khmer Rouge :-(

Actually I heard of this happening in Lithuania to this day. The reason why? Because when a mentally disabled person lives in a mixed-sexes institution, it's impossible to keep them away and romance does happen more often than you think. (I don't know what happens to same sex institution). Unfortunately people there often don't realise they should use birth control ( because of their permeant mental conditions). The person is unable to care for their child so the baby would end up in an orphanage which would hurt both: parents and the child. I know it's a controversial topic and it's hard to decide what is right or wrong here.

As a parent of a special needs adult I can tell you this isn't as cruel as you think it is. Our daughter isn't mentally capable of taking care of herself let alone a child. She lives with us but as we get older if she has to go live in a group home and she can still bear children we will probably do this. It's for her safety and well being. I know the wording "forced" makes it sound cruel but the alternative of putting someone with a child like mentality through pregnancy and child birth can be so much worse!

I met a woman in the US who was told she had cysts that needed surgery. They gave her a hysterectomy and she didn't find out until a nurse who had been involved in many of these secret abuses started looking for all the victims. It was widely done in the US to young black women between the ages of 18-21 to prevent the spread of what was considered second-class human beings.

I don't see nothing wrong here. If you are intellectually disabled how could you possible think of consequences of actions such as getting pregnant during sex, let alone taking care of a baby!

Wow, I'm deeply disturbed by all the commenters here saying forced steralization is okay. As a queer person, do I need to remind you that homosexuality was considered a mental disease by many for generations and used as an excuse to steralize people? Do I need to remind you that hysteria was once considered a legit mental disorder that only impacted women? Or that Stephen Hawking had a disability that could impair thinking though he was also a literal genius? Or that within just the last 20 years or so, the general understanding of autism went from it being a feared developmental disability to an understanding that the brains of autistic people just work differently? My point is our understanding of disabilities changes constantly. As much as we think we may understand mental disabilities today, none of us are experts. Permanently forcing our understanding of disabilities today on someone by steralizing them is a horrible, short-sighted, dehumanizing decision.

With all due respect, if this is really a problem, two solutions come to mind. Firstly, segregate the sexes, then no pregnancies can occur. However, if it is seen as necessary to have males having access to severely disabled, highly vulnerable women which they could r*pe, surely birth control implants would be a better option than forcing a very major operation on the poor lasses? Seems a bit unnecessarily extreme to actually sterilise people . There are other choices.

"the most significant era of eugenic sterilization was between 1907 and 1963, when over 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under eugenic legislation in the United States. In 1972, United States Senate committee testimony brought to light that at least 2,000 involuntary sterilizations had been performed on poor black women without their consent or knowledge. Overall, according to one 1989 study, 31.6% of African American women without a high school diploma were sterilized while only 14.5% of white women of the same educational status were sterilized."

"The Oregon Board of Eugenics, later renamed the Board of Social Protection, existed until 1983, with the last forcible sterilization occurring in 1981. In Georgia there was a sudden spike within the United States in 2020. Reports show that illegal hysterectomies were performed in Georgia on immigrants at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Irwin County center. In addition to eugenics purposes, sterilization was used as punitive tactic against sex offenders, people identified as homosexual, or people deemed to masturbate too much."

It still does.

" The compulsory sterilization of American men and women continues to this day. In 2013, it was reported that 148 female prisoners in two California prisons were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures."

During the Progressive Era (ca. 1890 to 1920), the United States was the first country to concertedly undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics. President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1965, announced the establishment of federal funding of birth control used on the poor.

USA also did this to black and poor women up through the 1970s.

" Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden were sterilisations which were carried out in Sweden, without a valid consent of the subject, during the years 1906–1975 on eugenic, medical and social grounds. Between 1972 and 2013, sterilisation was also a condition for gender reassignment surgery."

That's just wrong. How many of our disabled haves suffered through rape of people who claim to be intellectually able. Sterilize those bastards.

Happened all over the “civilized” world

I don't know but that seems like a good idea from evolutionary & survival point of view & the reasons mentioned in top comment

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Ableism at its finest

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Never heard of it before, and I am doubting. Will check

Religions are barbaric.

they surrendered without firing one shot in 1938 and embraced the Nazis...after the war they considered themself as the first victims of Nazi Germany....

All occupied countries had an element of collaboration, collaborators were mostly looking out for themselves although there was a lot of score settling too, people are people the world over.

The VOC was a very powerful company. They didn't care about the suffering they inflicted, it's all about the money and power and influence. Not something to be proud of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Islands

In my school we had a "priest" who had been moved for "accusations". And was moved from our school for a similar thing. But he was badly beaten, as he was coming out of the church one night. The story was that he was mugged and the contributions were stolen but we all thought if was for other reasons. This was late 80s as things were starting to change. The catholic church was losing support fast by then as the stories were coming out. Father Ted had a big effect on breaking the spell the church held over the country.

This is because the immigrants from certain countries mutilate their young girls mostly when on holiday... Unfortunately it's hard to prove and control. I think it would help if the women were better educated and taught about the consequences (bodily harm and legal). Some mothers don't want this for their daughters but are pressured by relatives... It's terribly sad.

Brainwashed into thinking that the outside world is against you, don't underestimate the fear when living in a regime / dictatorship. Russians aren't stupid, just scared.

France actually outlawed specific letters needed to write in Breton. Like the Turks have done with Kurdish.

Georgian "patriots" publicly murdered a journalist covering the storming of an LGBTQ rights building

But yeah, keep complaining about immigrants from Africa when they come to france to live somewhere that ISNT a mess as a result of colonial violence? Irony abounds.

Population as of 2020 was 2.795 million according to google, so that's nearly 700 lives voluntarily lost.

Everybody knows that Wallis Simpson and her husband were Nazi sympathizers, lol

According to the Romanian Orthodox Church, epilepsy is considered a demonic possession and depression is a sign of lack of faith.

Nothing about Switzerland being built on the money of drug dealers, despots, warlords, fraudsters, - and going further back - Nazis? Switzerland: the streets are clean but the money is filthy.

On the upside, we were the first country to legalise same sex marriage by public vote