Why did eugenics program stop?

Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America's history, and one doesn't have to go too far back to find examples of it. read more

Eugenics programs stopped -- at least those designed to "improve" the human race through selective breeding and, as practiced in Nazi German, selective "culling" -- probably because they were flagrantly immoral, masquerading as "science". read more

However, many in the eugenics movement did not believe that Americans were ready to implement a large-scale euthanasia program, so many doctors had to find clever ways of subtly implementing eugenic euthanasia in various medical institutions. read more

While California’s eugenics programs were driven in part by anti-Asian and anti-Mexican prejudice, Southern states also employed sterilization as a means of controlling African American populations. read more