Pros Of Eugenics

Eugenics, meaning well-born in Greek, is the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase desirable heritable characteristics. Eugenics was discovered by Sir Francis Galton, a British scholar and cousin of Charles Darwin, in 1883. In the United States, if people had “undesirable” hereditary traits, there were many procedures practiced by eugenicists to get rid of them, including perverted forms of euthanasia. Entire families would be segregated from society or murdered by eugenicists. The goals of eugenics are more attainable now in the modern era with advancements in technology. The eugenics era, from the United States to Nazi Germany, was a horrible time in history that should never repeat itself. Eugenicists in the United States used Sir Francis Galton’s ideas to decide who to remove from society. “In the 1930s, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the “unfit” from the genetic pool. Along with the “feebleminded,” insane, and criminal, those so classified included women who had sex out of wedlock (considered a

A more popular tool of eugenics was forced sterilization, employed on a raft of lost souls who, through misbehavior or misfortune fell into the hands of state governments……Louie was never more than an inch from juvenile hall or jail, as a serial troublemaker, a failing student, and a suspect Italian, he was just the sort of rogue that eugenicists wanted to cull” (Hillenbrand 11). Contrary to popular belief, the Nazi Party in Germany did not begin the practice of eugenics. The actual practice of eugenics started in California in 1909. It was spread throughout the rest of the country by the 1930s. Many of the criteria of the “unfit” were things that people couldn’t control or needed help controlling, such as