What do you know/can you share about American eugenics?

Here is what you should know about the anti-human movement that has haunted America for more than a century. ... breeding of people with preferred traits, and “negative” eugenics, which discourages “defective stock” by attempting to limit the breeding of people who possesses negative heritable traits. 2. read more

American eugenics has been almost wholly discredited at this point. Really, the last set of eugenics laws on the books were anti-miscegenation ones - and those were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia (1967). Like eugenics movements most everywhere else, the eugenics movement in the US was dealt a crippling blow by the Holocaust. read more

The eugenics movement became negatively associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when many of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials attempted to justify their human rights abuses by claiming there was little difference between the Nazi eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs. read more

Introduction to Eugenics. Eugenics is a movement that is aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race. Historically, eugenicists advocated selective breeding to achieve these goals. Today we have technologies that make it possible to more directly alter the genetic composition of an individual. read more

American eugenics has been almost wholly discredited at this point. Really, the last set of eugenics laws on the books were anti-miscegenation ones - and those were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. read more

The state of California was at the vanguard of the American eugenics movement, performing about 20,000 sterilizations or one third of the 60,000 nationwide from 1909 up until the 1960s. While California had the highest number of sterilizations, North Carolina's eugenics program which operated from 1933 to 1977, was the most aggressive of the 32 states that had eugenics programs. read more