Feb 28, 2021 · Photo from Belly of the Beast, used by permission. Yesterday, California became the third state in the nation to provide reparations to survivors of coerced sterilization under 20 th century eugenics laws, and the first state to both notify and compensate those sterilized involuntarily in state women’s prisons.

Nov 30, 2022 · He insists that “eugenics does not commit us to endorsing state-sponsored coercion” – Simone Collins might learn from his approach. The idea of world-changing technologies has attracted some increasingly serious investments into genome analysis and what The Economist characterized as “ the fountain of youth ,” when Altos Labs raised ...

The Consequences of Misremembering Eugenics [Watch a video recording of Panel 2 here ] Building on the morning panel, conversation will turn to the underlying social and cultural dynamics that motivate eugenic ideas and practices of …

Apr 18, 2020 · Justifying eugenics as necessary because of "cold equations" is still eugenics. George Annas is a Distinguished Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University, and co-founder of Global Lawyers & Physicians, an NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights.

Once the rest of the world recognised this, eugenics was done – not simply as a social movement with state support, but as an endorsable idea guiding social policy. But this view doesn’t capture what eugenics feels like from where I have stood for the past 20 years. For most of the past two decades, I have lived in the Canadian province...

The Eugenics Legacy of the Nobelist Who Fathered IVF Osagie K. Obasagie, Scientific American October 4th, 2013. The Bleak New World of Prenatal Genetics by Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern, The Wall Street Journal June 12th, 2013. The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans Marcy Darnovsky, Different Takes Spring 2000

photo via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 3.0. Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical guidelines and claimed he had produced genetically modified babies designed to resist HIV infection.

Rather than ending abruptly, modern eugenics was gradually phased out and ingeniously re-invented, allowing it to survive past 1945. Optimizing Mankind: Eugenics Before the Nazis In her book Controlling Human Heredity , historian of genetics Diane Paul explains that manipulating human reproduction to optimize a population’s traits is an old idea.

The Frontline documentary “The Choice,” which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics. Trump’s father instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.

Some friends and colleagues have asked me whether such reductions, which entail prenatal diagnosis and elective pregnancy termination, mean that we are still practicing some form of eugenics. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder usually associated with an extra copy of chromosome 21 – hence its other name, trisomy 21.