eugenics

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“Helping people with autism and intellectual disabilities to die is essentially eugenics,” Stainton said.

From Washington Times

I could no more sit down with RFK Jr. than I could sit down with a white supremacist and discuss eugenics.

From Los Angeles Times

Roosevelt's ideas were primarily based in eugenics, the pseudoscience of controlling human reproduction to ensure that genetic traits deemed desirable were passed on.

From Salon

Asked to elaborate, Mr. Kandula told police he admired their “authoritarian nature, eugenics, and their one world order.”

From Washington Times

And well after the abolition of slavery, hospitals performed unnecessary hysterectomies on Black women, and eugenics programs sterilized them.

From Seattle Times