PubMed · 8484308
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D Bertsch. 1993. Cost-saving idea.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8484308/
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An Alberta woman recently won a lawsuit against the government of Alberta for wrongful sterilization that took place when she was a 14-year-old ward at the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives. It was the first time the province has been held accountable for actions taken under the Sexual Sterilization Act, a 1927 law that promoted the theory of eugenics and led to the sterilization of more than 2800 people. It has since been repealed. A physician who served on the province's Eugenics Board said the decisions were based on the best scientific advice and medical techniques available at the time. Today, she added, eugenics is being practised in a different way through prenatal diagnosis and therapeutic abortion.
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Proposals to create private wings catering mainly to American patients at some public hospitals in Alberta have attracted strong opposition. Physicians at the Leduc General Hospital near Edmonton voted unanimously against a proposal to create a private wing at their hospital. Proponents say such moves would simply provide additional funding for Canada's cash-strapped health care system.