"2,341 sterilizations are recorded to have occurred in the state of Oregon from 1921 until 1983"

"The law permitted the sterilization of “persons, male or female, who are feeble-minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts."

"Homosexual men were often the main targets of this discrimination"

"Ideas about eugenics and the genetically unfit may have also been passed to Oregon from the "Eugenics in New Germany" exhibit which was shown both in Salem and Portland. The exhibit from Germany displayed population trends in Germany, explained Mendelian laws of heredity, and showed how sterilization could be used to reduce "the transmission of physical, mental, and behavioral defects"

"The eugenics movement's most salient supporter and contributor was Bethenia Owens-Adair. Owens-Adair was Oregon's first female physician and a famous campaigner for women's equality and temperance."

http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/OR/OR.html