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==Liberal Eugenics==
==Liberal Eugenics==
Some argue that parents who abort infants with genetic mutation or other disabilities are practicing a form of eugenics<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html</ref>. Some doctors and scientists have defended this practice and named it "liberal eugenics" in order to differentiate it from traditional forms of eugenics such as Nazi eugentics.<ref>http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4541</ref>
Some argue that parents who abort infants with genetic mutation or other disabilities are practicing a form of eugenics<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html</ref>. Some doctors and scientists have defended this practice and named it "liberal eugenics" in order to differentiate it from traditional forms of eugenics such as Nazi eugentics.<ref>http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4541</ref> Eugenicists in the United States and elsewhere have been known to employ or advocate [[abortion]] as a method of eugenics.
The banner of eugenics was taken up by a variety of groups in the United States and around the world, each of which believed that it would lead to the creation of healthier, more intelligent people, conserve society's limited resources, and reduce human suffering. Of course, one of the unspoken aspects of this "reduction" in suffering was that it worked, not by reducing suffering ''per se'', but by reducing the number of people through forced sterilization -- fewer people, ergo, less suffering. Many women were sterilized involuntarily and without their knowledge under Eugenics laws which were passed in many states of the [[United States]] throughout the nineteen-teens and twenties.
The banner of eugenics was taken up by a variety of groups in the United States and around the world, each of which believed that it would lead to the creation of healthier, more intelligent people, conserve society's limited resources, and reduce human suffering. Of course, one of the unspoken aspects of this "reduction" in suffering was that it worked, not by reducing suffering ''per se'', but by reducing the number of people through forced sterilization -- fewer people, ergo, less suffering. Many women were sterilized involuntarily and without their knowledge under Eugenics laws which were passed in many states of the [[United States]] throughout the nineteen-teens and twenties.
==Historical Eugenics==
==Historical Eugenics==