The Twisted Logic Behind America's Shameful Eugenic History

080318 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. From 1929 to 1974, the state of North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 7,500 people—a program supposedly aimed at eliminating “feeble-mindedness” and other ills, but more often than not targeting the poor, the disabled, and African-Americans. On June 30, the deadline passed for victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program to file for compensation from the state’s $10 million fund. At the 2014 World Science Festival program “Designer Genes: Fashioning Our Biological Future,” Duke University law and philosophy professor Nita Farahany provides background on the history of eugenics in America.

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Original Program Date: May 30, 2014

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