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• s  retarded in intellectual development

• The patient himself, being either insane or feebleminded, cannot give a consent which is legally or morally worth much.
• It's their irrational (but plausible to the feebleminded) excuse for their continued refusal to participate.
• On second thought, they let him go and got another from a feebleminded 19-year-old named George Bilger.

• backward
• half-witted
• slow-witted

News & Articles

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• At Least 150 Women Illegally Sterilized in California's Prisons
  California has a dark history of sterilizing at least 20,000 people who were deemed too poor, too drunk, too promiscuous, too criminal or too feebleminded to reproduce between 1909 and 1964. But a recent investigation finds that even in the 21st century, some female inmates are still being pressured to undergo tubal tubal ligation. [ more › ]        
  July 7, 2013 - LAist