In the 1920s and early 1930s the ________ movement resulted in the frequent sterilization of mentally handicapped women.

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The eugenics movement was a social and scientific movement that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the human population by selective breeding and sterilization of "undesirable" individuals, including mentally handicapped women. This movement gained popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, leading to the frequent sterilization of thousands of individuals deemed unfit to reproduce in the United States and other countries.

In the 1920s and Early 1930s the ________ Movement Resulted