Reaching Beyond The Moron Analysis

Reaching Beyond the “Moron”: Eugenics Control of Secondary Disability Groups (2009) by Gerald V. O’Brien and Meghan E. Bundy focused on The American Eugenics Movement and Eugenics Control. Eugenics, the approach of controlling a mass population through aborting, sterilizing and eliminating a group of people to procreate in hopes of eliminating or reducing their kind within society. O’Brien and Bundy’s article concentrate on the history of eugenics aiming to individuals with mental illness, epilepsy and physical impairments. It shows fundamental issues in society back then and today relating towards the oppression of individuals with disabilities within our society.

The Eugenics Movement began inserting itself into the American culture. Associations,

Ones physical appearance, IQ Test, and social limitations could be controlled in people generally such as t Charles Darwin's development of natural selection. Through time, this perspective has introduced America and the World in a moral fight to create the best population of humanity. The development of the Intelligence Test (IQ exam) played a large part of Eugenic history. “As on might speculate, it was this large group of ‘higher functioning’ feeble-minded persons who were said to pose the most threat to the community” (O'Brien and Bundy, p.158). Although, the Intelligence Test was developed in France, United States quickly adapted to this strategy to determine and point out the “unfit” in society. The more this test was being used the more people they found out were unfit and procreating in the

O’Brien and Meghan E. Bundy article I was very shock and disturbed by the way these so called “researchers”, “doctors”, “scientist”, and “leaders” thought. We are so brainwashed by how great our nation is but little do we know what goes on behind the scenes the created this so called “great nation”. Eugenics is not okay nor is it helpful. The idea of humans being examined and categorized and “fit” and “unfit” to be hereditarily purified sounds crazy. It is one thing to try to eliminate medical issues for the better of our society using medical treatment but to sterilize or kill of those with mental issues, physical issues harmfully is very brutal and unjust. Including qualities for knowledge or physicality would be an evil entity to our race.

Eugenics during the time period of Nazism was cruel and unforgivable. An issue that was held under the supreme court of justice like Buck vs. Bell (1927) sounded like something I would see in a horror movie. To basically neglect human rights and sterilize a seventeen-year-old girl because society considered her to be “unfit” is just not right. In addition, to state that “ three generations of imbeciles are enough” shows people like Holmes have no sympathy (Quinn, p. 1). I wonder if these higher power people where in the position of those who were considered “unfit” if they would act the