Eugenics’ Lasting Legacy
An examination of eugenics from its beginnings to today
Though eugenics is a discredited pseudoscience of the past, its reach lingers today. Recently, several women at a Georgia immigration facility alleged they were coerced to undergo aggressive or unnecessary medical procedures, some affecting their fertility, while reports from Australia state that female passengers flying out of Qatar were forcibly examined. What is eugenics? What happened in the case of Buck v. Bell? And what lessons have we learned — or not — since?
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