A law for the sterilisation of the unfit and those afflicted with hereditary diseases has been drafted and will shortly receive the sanction of the Cabinet. It provides that persons such as hereditary and incurable drunkards, sexual criminals, lunatics, and those suffering from an incurable disease which would be passed on to their offspring are to be operated upon and rendered sterile even against their will if a college of doctors decides by a majority of votes that such an operation is necessary for the welfare of the nation.
A voluntary application for a sterilisation operation can also be made by any man or woman afflicted with hereditary disease. The health court to be formed would decide by a majority vote for the acceptance or rejection of the application.
As the final court of appeal on questions of voluntary or compulsory sterilisation, an upper court of health is to be constituted.
