One modern advocacy group, Reproductive Freedom for All , states that it fights for “reproductive freedom for everybody.”

But who do we mean by “everybody” ? Does freedom for some come at the cost of injustice for others who have no voice?

After giving birth to her fourth child, my great-grandmother, Gertrud Paula Meyer, began to suffer from schizophrenia. Because of her mental illness, she became one of the countless victims of the Nazi regime’s so-called “euthanasia” program.

At first, physically and mentally disabled children were the primary targets; later, adults like my great-grandmother were also condemned. Initially, Paula underwent forced treatment, sending a letter to her husband, my great-grandfather, stating that she had to be sterilized under the “Law for the Prevention

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