Norway passes Sterilization Law

1934. The Norway Sterilization Law differed from the sterilization law passed in Germany because its primary criterion was social not biological. Biological heredity was accepted as a reason for sterilization, only when there was a danger of it being passed to the offspring. In the post-WWII period the number of sterilizations performed dropped and sterilizations were mainly used as voluntary birth control.

-Erna Kurbegovic

  • Tyden, M. (2010). The Scandinavian States: Reformed Eugenics Applied. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. P. Levine & A. Bashford (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Norway passes Sterilization Law

1934. The Norway Sterilization Law differed from the sterilization law passed in Germany because its primary criterion was social not biological. Biological heredity was accepted as a reason for sterilization, only when there was a danger of it being passed to the offspring. In the post-WWII period the number of sterilizations performed dropped and sterilizations were mainly used as voluntary birth control.

-Erna Kurbegovic

  • Tyden, M. (2010). The Scandinavian States: Reformed Eugenics Applied. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. P. Levine & A. Bashford (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Norway passes Sterilization Law

1934. The Norway Sterilization Law differed from the sterilization law passed in Germany because its primary criterion was social not biological. Biological heredity was accepted as a reason for sterilization, only when there was a danger of it being passed to the offspring. In the post-WWII period the number of sterilizations performed dropped and sterilizations were mainly used as voluntary birth control.

-Erna Kurbegovic

  • Tyden, M. (2010). The Scandinavian States: Reformed Eugenics Applied. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. P. Levine & A. Bashford (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.