https://www.independentliving.org/docs5/sterilization.htmlEradication of "deviants": the dark side of the Swedish Model." | Independent Living Institute
The world was shocked by the recent news of a skeleton in Sweden’s closet, the country’s forced sterilization policy of disabled people and others who were not found to be worthy to have children. The facts are clear, there is no reason to question the authencity of the sterilization records. Sources other than Dagens Nyheter, the nation’s largest daily newspaper that recently started the sterilization discussion, as well as researchers are confirming the facts. Also, Sweden is famous for its comprehensive statistics. Thus, all sterilizations records and "patient" journals are archived and available to researcchers and journalists. Persons who were sterilized against their will have come out of their silence and appeared in the media. The sterilizations were fully legal according to the laws of the time. There were well-developed and state-regulated routines with medical experts at the local and national level, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, with a panel of highly placed representatives of political parties (mainly female Social Democrats including an ambassador to the United Nations) who signed the decisions that would deprive tens of thousands of persons of one of the most basic human rights, the right to have children.
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40871Project MUSE - Eugenics and the Welfare State
https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/08/how-did-sweden-sterilise-up-to-30000-people-against-their-will-in-the-cause-of-eugenicsWhy did Sweden sterilise up to 30,000 people against their will in the cause of eugenics? | Euronews
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976. “They wanted to get rid of a certain type of people: The weaker ones”.
Kjell Sundstedt’s family had never talked about the darkest moment in their history.
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