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The non-surgical method of sterilizing women that I have invented is now almost perfected... As for the questions that you have directed to me, sir, I can today answer them in the way that I had anticipated: if the research that I am carrying out continues to yield the sort of results that it has produced so far (and there is no reason to suppose that this shall not be the case), then I shall be able to report in the foreseeable future that one experienced physician, with an appropriately equipped office and the aid of ten auxiliary personnel, will be able to carry out in the course of a single day the sterilization of hundreds, or even 1,000 women.

Carl Clauberg#2

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About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker describes a non‑surgical sterilization method that could allow one physician and ten staff to sterilize hundreds or a thousand women per day, assuming continued research success.
In plain terms
He claims a new method could let a doctor and ten staff sterilize up to a thousand women daily.
What can you take from it?
He promotes scalable, covert sterilization technology.

Where it applies

  • medical ethics
  • historical review
  • policy making

Putting it to work

  • investigate past experiments
  • strengthen oversight

Questions to consider

  • What ethical lines are crossed in such research?
  • How can societies detect and stop similar programs?

Another view

The method is intended for mass violation of bodily autonomy.

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