id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195827 St. John-Stevas, Norman. Sterilization and public policy. 1965 .txt text/plain 20499 1102 55 Vasectomy was perfected in 1889 by Harry C. Sharpe of the Indiana State Reformatory, and after unsuccessful attempts to pass sterilization statutes in Michigan and Pennsylvania, the first act became law in Indiana in 1907. Since that date thirty-three States at different times have had sterilization statutes in force. cache/_005195827.txt txt/_005195827.txt