eugenic

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Today’s eugenic thought does deviate from the version that prevailed in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

And several past presidents supported voluntary and compulsory eugenic sterilizations at some point in their careers.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2023

Oklahoma, when the high court finally rejected eugenic sterilization as a legitimate state goal and recognized that procreation “involves one of the basic civil rights of man.”

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2020

“For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy,” he wrote.

From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2020

What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee