Category Archives: Eugenics
Despite best efforts of new book, the truth about PPFA Founder Margaret Sanger Grows Harder and Harder to Deny
By Dave Andrusko Six years ago, NRLC’s Director of Education Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon reviewed “Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy,” the outstanding work by Angela Franks, then a doctoral student (www.nrlc.org/news/2005/NRL04/Sanger.html). He perceptively observed, “Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy is a scholarly,
Still Paying the Price for Eugenics’ Evil
By Wesley J. Smith The New York Times YT had a front page story [Sunday]about the price still being paid for eugenic sterilizations, that in North Carolina’s case, extended into the 1970s! Making NC’s program even more frightening was that
The Tragedy of Eugenics “Shouldn’t be Forgotten”
By Dave Andrusko Last month we ran a sad story about the much-delayed but sincere effort of the part of the state of North Carolina to compensate the victims of a eugenics program that between 1929 and 1974 “authorized the
Janice Black’s Story: A Painful Reminder of our “dark period of eugenics”
By Dave Andrusko Janice Black puts a human face on inhuman actions taken against her. She was one of “tens of thousands of Americans [who]were sterilized from the 1920s into the 1970s under programs that embraced eugenics,” as the Charlotte
Eugenics rules in Europe, three generations after Nazism
By John Smeaton Daniel Blackman, one of the researchers for SPUC [the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children], has sent me his report on a recent debate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the
Sex Selection Eugenics
By David Prentice Editor’s note. This appeared on Dr. Prentice’s excellent blog. A review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association documents the accuracy of a simple blood test for sex determination of a developing human fetus as
Eugenics: “As Long as it’s Healthy….”
By Gerard M. Nadal Editor’s note. The following appears on the blog of Dr. Gerard M. Nadal. When Regina was pregnant with our three children, people would ask if it was a boy or a girl. When I responded with,
Annals of Human Genetics Opens Archives, Reveals Dark Past
By Dave Andrusko The headline in a USA Today story that ran last month (but which I missed until today) was as accurate as it was chilling: “Genetics Journal Reveals Dark Past.” The journal in question is what it changed