Sharon M. Leon
George Mason University
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Church History | 2004
Sharon M. Leon
In the wake of the 1927 landmark Supreme Court decision in the Buck v. Bell case, which affirmed the constitutionality of laws authorizing the compulsory sterilization of so-called “feeble-minded” residents of state institutions, moral theologian and priest John A. Ryan took up his pen to address the issue of sterilization from a Catholics perspective. In the resulting pamphlet, Human Sterilization , Ryan argued that eugenic sterilization measures were not only unscientific and bad social policy, but that the Buck decision in its articulation of civil rights represented a clear departure from the understanding of natural rights in Catholic moral teaching. The production of this text was the first piece of literature published by the National Catholic Welfare Conference that attempted to mobilize Catholic citizens throughout the United States in active opposition to eugenic sterilizahon laws as they came before the state legislatures.
Archive | 2010
Kelly Schrum; Sheila A. Brennan; James Halabuk; Sharon M. Leon; Tom Scheinfeldt
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | 2004
Sharon M. Leon
Archive | 2009
Sharon M. Leon; Sheila A. Brennan; David Lester
The Journal of American History | 2017
Jeffrey McClurken; Sharon M. Leon
Oral History Review | 2017
Sharon M. Leon
Archive | 2017
Sheila A. Brennan; Sharon M. Leon
Archive | 2017
Sharon M. Leon
The Public Historian | 2016
Sharon M. Leon
The American Historical Review | 2015
Sharon M. Leon