Editing Compulsory sterilization (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
In 1911, while he was serving as [[Home Secretary]], [[Winston Churchill]] favored the sterilization of [[feeble-minded]] persons. [[Reginald McKenna]], who succeeded Churchill as Home Secretary, introduced the [[Feeble-Minded Control Bill]], a bill that would enact forcible sterilization of such individuals; the bill gained the support of the [[Church of England|Anglican]] archbishops of [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]] and [[Archbishop of York|York]], that included forced sterilization. Despite support for the bill by the Anglican [[Primates in the Anglican Communion|primates]], English writer [[G. K. Chesterton]] and the [[Catholic Church in the United Kingdom]] led a successful effort to defeat that clause's inclusion in what would eventually become the [[Mental Deficiency Act 1913|1913 Mental Deficiency Act]], though the final act did create a scheme for state-enforced [[Involuntary commitment|confinement of mentally disabled persons]] in specialized institutions.<ref>Gilbert, Martin. [http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/594-churchill-and-eugenics Churchill and Eugenics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215071541/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/594-churchill-and-eugenics|date=2013-12-15}}</ref> In 1934, the [[Brock Report]] recommended sterilisation of people who were mentally and physically disabled, but its proposals did not gain enough support to be made law.<ref name=":05">{{Cite web |title=Eugenics in Britain |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/blue-plaque-stories/eugenics/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=English Heritage}}</ref>

In one specific case in 2015, the [[Court of Protection]] of the [[United Kingdom]] ruled that a woman with six children and an IQ of 70 should be sterilized for her own safety because another pregnancy would have been a "significantly life-threatening event" for her and the fetus and was not related to eugenics.<ref>{{cite web |author=Gallagher |first=James |date=4 February 2015 |title=Mother of six 'can be sterilised' – court ruling |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31128969 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208051831/http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31128969 |archive-date=8 February 2015 |access-date=12 February 2015 |website=[[BBC News]] |publisher=}}</ref>