HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Forced Abortion, Eugenics, Intersectionality
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Were racial, sexual, and social class dimensions to these ideas and their ensuing practices and policies. Politically, the movement advocated measures such as origin, iq tests, institutionalization, marriage restrictions, birth control, laws. We already have some familiarity with some of the material covered for today (jana. Grekul, sterilization in alberta, 1928-1972: gender matters, ) which discusses state sanctioned sterilization. Sterilization was practiced on people (predominantly women) who were categorized as. Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through sterilization, contraception, forced abortion as well as encouraging certain communities to reproduce through a variety of incentives. Eugenics advanced the idea that all human beings were not born equal and defined people(cid:495)s morality in terms of how it understood and defined (cid:494)genetic fitness(cid:495). There sterilization laws, vocational schools, children(cid:495)s removal from their families of prohibiting sexual relations across (cid:494)races(cid:495), racial segregation, forced abortions, forced pregnancies, exclusion from certain professions, etc.