Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Alexander Graham Bell

In early 20th century, Alexander Graham Bell advocated legislation to prohibit deaf persons from marrying each other (and require compulsory sterilization of deaf girls). The reason was to prevent hereditary deafness from passing to new generations, forming a deaf human race. Such a legislation would have required every deaf person to marry an hearing person, or else live "in sin" or live alone.

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