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institutionalization and sterilization from the inside, read
"The Sterilization Spectre," the Lost Disability Classic in the
Nov./Dec. 2002 Ragged Edge.  How you can get involved    The
eugenics apologies: How a pair of disability rights advocates
scored the first state apology for eugenics, and what they have
planned next.  by Dave Reynolds  old engraving of institution
Phil Theisen and Keith Kessler of Virginia want Congress to look
into the federal government's role in allowing more than 60,000
Americans to be surgically sterilized -- most against their will
-- during the last century.  They also want the president to
issue a statement of apology, officially acknowledging the U.S.
government's part in this sad chapter of our history.  Why does
the duo think they have a ghost of a chance of getting what they
want?  Perhaps a better question would be "Why not"? After all,
they almost single-handedly