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• a  pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced

• A resolution was passed at Milan by a committee of leading physicians urging that engaged couples should obtain before marriage medical certificates containing simple eugenic .
• The Eugenics Research Association was founded in 1913.
• The mass murder of "unfit" individuals and ethnic groups by the Nazis gave eugenics a black mark that can never be washed off.

• dysgenic

News & Articles

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• Disability Rights Activists Targeting Of DNA Medical Screening Understandable But Misguided
  A recent article in the Denver Post decrying “the rise of a new eugenics” is provocative and heartfelt but misguided. It could, if its advice is followed, result in the curtailment of genetic screens that prevent many crippling diseases, reports the Genetic Literacy Project.
  July 10, 2013 - Forbes
• California inmate sterilizations report recalls a dark history
  Almost 150 female California inmates were sterilized between 2006 and 2010, according to an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The report recalls a dark history of eugenic thought in the US.  
  July 8, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor