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Eugenics: a toxic history

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Eugenics Lawsuits in Canada and the United States

Eugenics has an idea udays is a word becomes toxic. And most countries abandon, over over the second half of the twentieth century, any eugenics legislation. But that doesn't mean that the practice doesn't continue. There are plenty of examples of coercive sterilization in america to day. The numbers are significantly lower than they were in the twenties and thirties. But then you look in india and china, and the numbers are huge. Just ten thousand women in three months had enforced sterilization for violating the ontof child policy. So population control is eternal. It becomes sciencofi in the nineteenth century. For 50 years it's extremely popular,

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