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By the 1970s, over 60,000 Americans had been sterilized under eugenics policies that aimed to control reproduction and improve societal health.
The 1923 libel trial involving a controversial activist and a Catholic doctor highlights the contentious relationship between birth control and eugenics during the interwar period.
Josef Mengele and other Nazi doctors performed in vivo experiments on thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz to develop sterilization methods for what they called inferior races.
Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," was a notorious Nazi doctor whose inhumane experiments on concentration camp prisoners left a dark legacy.
Eugenics, rooted in American history and linked to Nazi Germany, reveals a century-long agenda of elite control over population and medical science.
Three people were released from prison through the efforts of The Innocence Project, which uses DNA evidence to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals.
In California prisons, a pattern of illegal sterilizations reveals systemic reproductive injustice and modern-day eugenics, as documented over seven years.
CRISPR technology, which allows precise changes to DNA, is discussed alongside its potential to eliminate hereditary diseases and ethical concerns about designer babies.
Advances in prenatal genetic screening raise ethical questions about defining "disease" versus "difference" and the potential impact on population diversity.
Over 20 prehistoric artifacts were discovered during the excavation for President Gerald Ford's swimming pool on the White House South Lawn.
Eugenics in the US and Europe led to over 60,000 forced sterilizations of deemed 'unfit' individuals.
Christine, who was sterilized at 18 without her knowledge, shares her experience and the emotional impact of losing her reproductive rights.
California prisons force sterilizations on women, revealing a dark eugenics legacy.
