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State Criteria for Legal Sterilization
State&Type of Patient
Alabama& "Feebleminded"
Arizona& "Inmates of Hospital for Insane."
California& "Feebleminded, habitual criminals, insane, idiots, mental deficients."
Connecticut& "Feebleminded, insane, idiots, imbeciles and those with inherited tendency to crime."
Delaware& "Mentally defectives, insane, feebleminded or epileptic persons."
Idaho& "Feebleminded, insane, epileptics, habitual criminals, morally degenerate persons."
Indiana& "Hereditary insane, feebleminded or epileptic."
Iowa& "Feebleminded, insane, syphilitic, habitual criminals, morally degenerate persons."
Kansas& "Feebleminded, insane, habitual criminals."
Maine& "Feebleminded."
Michigan& "Mentally defectives, insane."
Minnesota& "Feebleminded, insane."
Mississippi& "Persons with hereditary form of insanity, feeblemindedness, idiocy, epilepsy."
Montana& "Feebleminded, insane, epileptic."
Nebraska& "Insane and feebleminded."
New Hampshire& "Feeblemindedness or certain forms of other mental diseases."
North Carolina& "Mentally defective persons."
North Dakota& "Feebleminded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts."
Oklahoma& "Habitual criminals, hereditary feebleminded, insane, idiots, imbeciles, epileptics."
Oregon& "Feebleminded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts."
South Carolina& "Hereditary form of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness or epilepsy."
South Dakota& "Feebleminded."
Utah& "Habitual criminals, insane, idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded, or epileptics."
Vermont& "Prevent procreation of idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded or insane persons."
Virginia& "Hereditary insanity, idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness or epilepsy."
Washington& "Feebleminded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts."
West Virginia& "Insanity, imbecility, epilepsy, idiocy, feeblemindedness."
Wisconsin& "Insane, feebleminded, epileptic and criminal persons."