Eugenics

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Eugenics is a pseudoscientific and often racist movement that seeks to limit the birth rate of certain groups based on disability, IQ, or other factors.[1] Eugenics was widespread in the United States from the 1920s to 1970s and helped inspire Nazism.[2]

History

Plato suggested eugenics around 400 BCE.

In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in favor of forced sterilization in Buck v. Bell. By the 1970s, southern states had sterilized about 70,000 people, mostly Black women, and 30% of the Puerto Rican population was sterilized. Forced sterilization continues in prisons in California to this day.[3]

See also

References

  1. Donna Goodman (2022-03-08). "Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22.
  2. Jacob Levich (2014-11-02). "The real agenda of the Gates Foundation" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-07-08.
  3. Sue Davis (2020-08-19). "Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger problem" Workers World. Retrieved 2023-08-12.