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While he is justifiably critical of the white eugenic impulse and compulsory heterosexuality weaved in Bradley's Mizora and Gilman's Herland, Sharp's analyses did not add much to already existing criticism of these texts' narratives of white racial purity.

Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century.

Summary: Eugenic Protection Law subjected 16,500 people to forced sterilisation and was aimed at eliminating 'inferior' children

A highlight reel of Nazi cinema rewinds a familiar and fearful montage: the celebration of eugenic perfection in Leni Riefenstahl's triumphal pseudo-docs, the anti-Semitic agit-prop of Hippler and Harlan, and the stock footage from archival compilations whose final act reveals the skeletons, living and dead, from the liberation of the concentration camps.

This fourth scenario is called postnatal counseling, and it is very similar to preconception counseling in the way it is carried out and in terms of the possible eugenic consequences (10-14).

In August, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo wrote in the Gosc Niedzielny, a conservative Catholic magazine, that she would support a ban on "eugenic abortion." In October, a legal opinion written by a group of ultraconservative Catholic lawyers closely connected to members of the Law and Justice party was leaked; the opinion suggested prosecution for anyone providing information about how to access abortion services abroad.

This book begins with an overview of the history of forced sterilization programs that were legal in 32 states, then concentrates on the eugenic sterilization program in Minnesota from 1880s to 1970s.

Outside of economics, Woodrow Wilson would go from the presidency of Princeton University to the presidency of the United States with explicitly racist and eugenic views.

But eugenic thinking can undermine a society's commitment to human equality and to the dignity of human beings who are weak, sick, disabled, or "imperfect."

Though they did not always align, the birth control movement included many eugenic planners--particularly those targeting contraception and sterilization programs at working-class communities.