eugenics

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In spring 2021, the Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations.

From Seattle Times

“Names of pet animals are discouraged,” the guidelines note, and historical figures associated with “the slave trade, genocide or eugenics” are not acceptable.

From New York Times

She hadn’t even talked to her family or friends about whether she wanted children, and here was a man she barely knew speaking to her about eugenics.

From Washington Post

Planned Parenthood has been publicly reckoning with allegations of racism, including critiques of its founder, Margaret Sanger, who believed in eugenics and was linked to white supremacist groups.

From New York Times

From eugenics to conversion therapy, science has routinely been manipulated and invoked to justify racist, homophobic and transphobic beliefs and policies, and it remains rife with implicit bias of all kinds.

From Washington Post