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 Eugenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugenic considerations also lay behind the adoption of incest laws in much of the USA and were used to justify many anti-miscegenation laws.
The second largest eugenics movement was in the United States.
Opponents of the act have attacked it as bringing in eugenics through the backdoor under the guise of a requirement of "consent".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics   (6616 words)

  
 Eugenics Watch
Roots of Racism and Abortion: An Exploration of Eugenics.
Williams is the Rous Ball Professor of English law at Cambridge University, a fellow of the English Eugenics Society, and, for the last twenty three years, head of the English Abortion Law Reform Association.
Wade decision and used as the unacknowledged basis for most Justice Blackmun's account of the history of abortion and of the personhood of the unborn child in that decision.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com   (2321 words)

  
 A Simple Act of mothering….
The case went all the way to the Supreme court and on May 2, 1927 the supreme Court upheld Virginia& right to sterilize the feebleminded.
The result was a new wave of sterilization legislation modeled on the Virginia law found legal by the Supreme court.
Between 1915 and 1979 (when the last eugenics language was removed form State law) more than 8000 children in the state of Virginia were sterilized because the state decided they were unfit to reproduce.
http://www.poormagazine.com/public_html/columns/column_91.html   (2462 words)

  
 ISAR - Brief History of European and American Eugenics Movements
The Second International Congress of Eugenics was hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York in the fall of 1921.¹ It was an impressive affair attended by over 300 delegates from around the world.
A brief history of the European and American eugenics movements of the 1930s: Excerpts from "A History of the American Eugenics Movement," University of Illinois, Ph.D. Thesis, 1988 by Barry Mehler.
The First International Congress of Eugenics had been held in London from 24-30 July 1912.
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/arcade/eugenics/movement.htm   (2662 words)

  
 EUGENICS AND THE LEFT
He is at pains of course to indicate that his empirical findings are not an endorsement of either eugenics or abortion.
In the person of Margaret Sanger and others, they were very active and prominent in the USA in first half of the 20th century, advocating (for instance) abortion.
And many of the eugenics true believers continued on postwar moving into campaigns for legalised abortion, planned parenthood and population control.
http://jonjayray.netfirms.com/lefteug2.html   (4569 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Book explores eugenics' origins
He wrote eugenics textbooks widely used in universities and high schools and led drives for sterilization laws that eventually emerged in 33 states.
And elsewhere, Carlson notes, influential geneticist Hermann Muller denounced the American Eugenics movement as racist, elitist and sexist at the 1932 International Congress of Eugenics.
Science historian and geneticist Elof Carlson of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, argues that Black does not capture the scope of historical bigotry and global racism.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-09-14-book-usat_x.htm   (897 words)

  
 Men Behind Hitler - Chapter II
Eugenics had been formulated and made known by Galton in 1883.
However no law was passed probably because the public after seeing first-hand the glorious achievements of a eugenically and racially based state in Nazi Germany would have raised a tremendous outcry.
Meanwhile criminals have to be dealt with effectively.
http://www.toolan.com/hitler/survive.html   (3594 words)

  
 Funding the Eugenics Movement
In 1932, the Third International Eugenics Congress was held in New York, at the Museum of Natural History.
One clear example is the Pathfinder Fund in the United States, which provided funds for abortion equipment when the American government refused to do so, and provided the equipment in a nation where abortion was illegal (by saying that the suction devices were for "menstrual regulation).
Kellogg was on the Advisory Council of the American Eugenics Society from the early days.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap12.html   (2561 words)

  
 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Is a New Eugenics Afoot? -- Allen 294 (5540): 59 -- Science
The author is in the Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
This led to passage of the Johnson-Reed Act in 1924, which restricted immigration from these regions.
This mind-set has serious implications for reproductive decisions.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5540/59   (2202 words)

  
 Eugenics
While eugenics is a "discredited science today," Hunt fears that current abortion and sterilization rates along with managed care economics could be a source of concern for a return of eugenics in America.
Larson examines the role of women in state campaigns for eugenic legislation in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina during the first third of this century.
Physicians acted as expert witnesses and sat on sterilization courts to ensure implementation of all the eugenics laws.
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/publications/scopenotes/sn28.htm   (8866 words)

  
 Yale Study: U.S. Eugenics Paralleled Nazi Germany
Forced sterilization was legal in 18 U.S. states, and most states with eugenics laws allowed people to be sterilized without their consent by leaving the decision to a third party.
``The eugenics laws in the United States were virulent, just as they were in Sweden, France and Australia,'' said Art Caplan, head of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics.
The U.S. practice ended in the 1960s after being overwhelmed by court challenges and the civil rights movement.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/021500-02.htm   (641 words)

  
 Preaching Eugenics Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
And the movement was successful enough that many state governments legalized involuntary eugenic sterilization, a violation of human rights that was given the explicit sanction of the Supreme Court in the notorious 1927 decision Buck v.
Much has been written, and well, in recent years about this scandalous era, most recently by Edwin Black in his splendid War Against the Weak.
Preaching Eugenics Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
http://www.nrlc.org/news/2004/NRL08/preaching_eugenics_religious_lea.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Supremacist Science
Throughout the '20s, eugenicists pushed draconian immigration restrictions through Congress and persuaded most states to pass laws permitting the sterilization of the unfit.
He carefully studied American laws allowing sterilization of the "unfit" on eugenic grounds.
Eugenics was born in England; Francis Galton coined the term, which is Greek for "well born," in the 1880s.
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2003/09/ma_513_01.html   (1017 words)

  
 Social Origins of Eugenics
The eugenics movements in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia favored the negative approach.
The advocacy of Sharp and his medical colleagues, culminated in an Indiana law mandating compulsory sterilization of "degenerates." Enacted in 1907, this was the first eugenic sterilization law in the United States.
Both also were active in Eugenics Section of the American Breeder's Association (ABA).
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay2text.html   (847 words)

  
 Future Generations
Eugenics: Economics for the Long Run, by Edward M. Miller
The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell, by Marian Van Court
Evolution, Eugenics, and God's Will, by Marian Van Court
http://www.eugenics.net   (440 words)

  
 War Against the Weak
The eugenic network worked in tandem with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the State Department and numerous state governmental bodies and legislatures throughout the country, and even the U.S. Supreme Court.
Those who actively supported eugenics include America's most progressive figures: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
During the pre-War years, American eugenicists openly supported Germany's program.
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com   (451 words)

  
 Eugenics and Australia - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
The notion of universal humanism acts as a fortress on the moral high ground for lefties, muliracialists and globalist scum.
This was partly due to the misuse of eugenics by Nazi Germany.
Eugenics and Australia - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=875919   (5083 words)

  
 Eugenics - a planned evolution for life.
As time progressed they became more and more perverse in their decisions.
The Nazi Hereditary Health Courts was formed to review eugenics proposals and approved very many of them.
Some kind of eugenics nut?" the liberal then exclaims as he then shifts back to the first condition: that there is no genetic difference between the haves and have nots, so any reproductive restriction would only be cruel.
http://www.onelife.com/ethics/eugenics.html   (4724 words)

  
 Eugenics
Pro-Choice Forum search for keywords such as Abortion and Disability, abortion laws
Rethinking Schools -- The Forgotten History of Eugenics -- Volume 13, No. 3 -- Spring 1999
Information giving and decision making in ante-natal screening
http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/eugenics.html   (431 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eugenics
MARSHALL, (London, 1910); DAY, Marriage, Divorce and Morality (London, 1912); GERRARD, Marriage and Parenthood (New York, 1912); IDEM, The Church and Eugenics (London and New York, 1912); IDEM in Catholic World (June, 1912); SLATER in Irish Theol.
The latest activity of the eugenics movement was the First International Congress held in London in 1912.
But the Church, too, has a doctrine concerning marriage and its use, and also a doctrine and a method of dealing with racial defects.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16038b.htm   (1467 words)

  
 BlackGenocide.org The Truth About Margaret Sanger
One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy.
Its statistics are accepted by major media and public health officials as "gospel"; its full-page ads appear in major newspapers; its spokespeople are called upon to give authoritative analyses of what America's family policies should be and to prescribe official answers that congressmen, state legislator and Supreme Court justiices all accept as "social orthodoxy."
These eugenic and racial origins are hardly what most people associate with the modern Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which gave its Margaret Sanger award to the late Dr. Martin Luther King in 1966, and whose current president, Faye Wattleton, is black, a former nurse, and attractive.
http://blackgenocide.org/sanger.html   (871 words)

  
 The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell - Future Generations
Van Court, Marian (1983) Unwanted births and dysgenic reproduction in the United States, The Eugenics Bulletin, Spring, 1983, www.eugenics.net
The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell - Future Generations
The eugenics movement originated in Britain and the United States, and 27 other countries besides Germany enacted eugenics legislation during the same period and neither genocide nor anything else dreadful happened in those countries, so no remotely reasonable case can be made that eugenics causes genocide.
http://www.eugenics.net/papers/caseforeugenics.html   (4332 words)

  
 In Genes We Trust: When Science Bows to Racism; eugenics, genetics, human abuse and oppression
Harry Laughlin, director of the Carnegie Institute’s Eugenics Record Office, had been honored in 1936 by the Third Reich for his contributions to Nazi eugenics.
Sir Francis Galton, the father of eugenics and the first to advocated the study of twins to differentiate the effects of heredity and environment on human nature, bequeathed his Chair of Eugenics at the University of London to Karl Pearson, who along with Charles Spearman in the Psychology department competed for dominance in the field.
To help establish the Pioneer Fund, Draper asked Frederick Osborn, secretary of the American Eugenics Society, and Harry Laughlin, a supporter of Hitler’s race ideology, to organize research projects and distribute pro-eugenic propaganda.
http://www.sntp.net/eugenics/genetics_1.htm   (2394 words)

  
 - Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust -
The Jews were only slowly incorporated into the German eugenic theory and then laws.
It is hardly fair to Galton to blame him for the Holocaust or even for his failure to anticipate the consequences of his advocacy of the matter.
The business of the corporate state was eugenics or artificial selection &;
http://www.trueorigin.org/holocaust.asp   (7549 words)

  
 eugenics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening.
Sir Francis Galton, who introduced the term eugenics, is usually regarded as the founder of the modern science of eugenics; his emphasis was on the role of factors under social control that could either improve or impair the qualities of future generations.
Regulated eugenics continues in some parts of the world; China enacted restrictions on marriages involving persons with certain disabilities and diseases in 1994.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/eu/eugenics.html   (365 words)

  
 Category:Eugenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was last modified 11:54, 2 May 2006.
International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics
The main article for this category is Eugenics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eugenics   (85 words)

  
 CA006: Evolution and eugenics.
Evolutionists against eugenics; Post of the month: November 2000.
It is just as compatible with creationism, and in fact at least one young-earth creationist (William J. Tinkle) advocated eugenics and selective human breeding (Numbers 1992, 222-223).
Eugenics is based on genetic principles that are independent of evolution.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA006.html   (95 words)

  
 American Bioethics Advisory Commission
The great work of her life was enlisting the feminist movement in the service of the eugenics movement
Eugenics is an ideology, a movement, not a conspiracy.
A major part of eugenics today is population control.
http://www.all.org/abac/eugenics.htm   (74 words)

  
 Eugenics
Eugenics is a term which one seldom hears now.
It is racism, bigotry, unadulterated hatred in its purest and most dangerous form.
Africa 2000 Includes membership of the "professional" Eugenics Societies of US and Britain.
http://www.consistentlife.iwarp.com/eugen.htm   (407 words)

  
 History House: Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
History House: Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
When he published his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin unleashed the biggest excuse for bizarre social policy and perpetuation of prejudices since 'because I’m holding the gun'.
Party On You might also be interested in:
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/eugenics_1   (1808 words)

  
 Eugenics: From Science to Social Quackery
These slides go over some of the American eugenics movement.
Some of the slides are a bit fuzzy, they are copies of copies, so I will apologize ahead of time.
What follows is a series of slides that originally came from Cold Spring Harbor.
http://academy.asd20.org/kadets/lundberg/ethics   (156 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos tagged with eugenics
Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the 21St Century.
You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo.
The New Way to shop, One Stop - Start to Finish.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eugenics   (91 words)

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