Historians estimate that between 60,000 to 70,000 Americans were eventually sterilized against their will, in at least 30 ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

The former “Mead Memorial Chapel” on the Middlebury College campus in Vermont. (Emily Power) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity's gene pool can be improved ...

Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of ...

The Guardian and antifascist group Hope Not Hate have revealed the existence of a new network of far-right intellectuals and activists in an undercover investigation. Called the Human Diversity ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

In today’s public discourse, the use of terms like “animals” and “apes” to refer to members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups strikes a painful chord. In a related manner (though ...

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An eminent ER doctor and health policy expert has warned that President Donald Trump’s government shutdown talk about “deserving” patients mirrors a “eugenics” policy adopted by the Nazis. The ...

In his 2019 opinion in Box v Planned Parenthood, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an impassioned concurrence describing abortions based on sex, disability or race as a form of 'modern-day eugenics.' He ...