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Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden ((スウェーデン語:Tvångssterilisering i Sverige)) occurred between 1934 and 2012. The objectives of the programme included racial purity, public health, reducing public expenditure and reduction of antisocial behaviour. Forced sterilisation was considered an important tool in the country's crime prevention programme. According to the 2000 governmental report, 21,000 were estimated to have been forcibly sterilised, 6,000 were coerced into a 'voluntary' sterilisation while the nature of a further 4,000 cases could not be determined.〔(Steriliseringsfrågan i Sverige 1935 - 1975 ), SOU 2000:20, in Swedish with an English summary.〕 However, the 40,000 or so socio-medical cases are contested. The Swedish state subsequently paid out damages to victims who contacted the authorities and asked for compensation. The program included all known criteria for sterilisation. They were summed up in three indications:〔(page 30 Steriliseringsfrågan i Sverige 1935 - 1975 ), SOU 2000:20, in Swedish with an English summary.〕 *Medical if a pregnancy could seriously put a woman suffering from chronic illness or permanently weakened constitution at risk of life and health. *Eugenisk indication meant sterilisation could be done if a person's offspring would receive undesired genes for insanity, severe illness or physical handicap of other kind. *Social indication allowed sterilisation for someone evidently unsuitable to foster a child due to mental illness, being feebleminded or other distortion of the psyche, or having an asocial lifestyle. In 1922 the State Institute of Racial Biology was founded in Uppsala. In the 1930s, a law legitimized forced sterilization of thousands. Another law, passed in 1941, was more far reaching, included a social indication and did not include any age of consent limit. From 1950, the number of eugenic sterilizations under the 1941 legal provisions gradually decreased. In Sweden, sterilization was only mandatory before sex change.〔(Sweden keeps sex-change sterilization law ), The Local, January 12, 2012〕 This last mandatory sterilization has been criticized by several political parties in Sweden and since 2011 the Parliament of Sweden was expected to change the law but ran into opposition from the Christian Democrat party. After efforts to overturn the law failed in parliament, the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal overturned the law Dec. 19, declaring it unconstitutional〔http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/14/transgender-people-in-sweden-no-longer-face-forced-sterilization/〕〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/sweden-transgender-sterilization-law-overturned_n_2472925.html〕 after the law was challenged by an unidentified plaintiff. ==See also== *Compulsory sterilization *Folkhemmet *History of eugenics 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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