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Why Clarence Thomas Is Trying to Bring Eugenics Into the Abortion Debate

They really do not have anything to do with each other.

by Adam S. Cohen, Dahlia Lithwick via Slate
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on June 17, 2019
Clarence Thomas Used My Book to Argue Against Abortion

The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

by Adam S. Cohen via The Atlantic
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on May 29, 2019
Harvard’s Eugenics Era

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.

by Adam S. Cohen via Harvard Magazine on March 1, 2016

Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

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An old hospital room

“I Assumed It Was Urgent”: Helen Hurd’s Story

The story of medical sterilization, which in many cases was disguised as a routine appendectomy surgery.

by Caryn Radick via Nursing Clio on March 16, 2021

An elephant on top of the Supreme Court building.

How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.

by John Fabian Witt via The New Republic on April 7, 2020

Carrie Buck with her mother Emma.

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

by Andrea DenHoed via The New Yorker on April 27, 2016

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