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ROBERT G EDWARDS, inventor of IVF that led to the first test tube baby in 1978, and Nobel winner for the work, was an active member of Britain's Eugenics Society. "Taking their cue from livestock breeders, eugenicists argued that socially disadvantageous characteristics could be bred out of human populations." http://lnkd.in/dmvAZ93 View in LinkedIn

RECENT CALIFORNIA PRISON STERILIZATIONS. "A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible for hundreds of other inmate sterilizations, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found." 132 tubal legations took place 2006-2010. http://lnkd.in/dbmqPud View in LinkedIn

NORTH CAROLINA EUGENICS VICTIMS. "North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Last year, the General Assembly set aside $10 million to compensate victims with one-time payments." http://lnkd.in/d4yDhjQ View in LinkedIn

PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND EUGENICS. "Perhaps the most notorious eugenicist of [the 1920s eugenics era was] Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who called the “undesirable and unfit” human weeds, and urged their being weeded out of the human race." http://lnkd.in/d6bjrwN View in LinkedIn

THE NAZI EUGENICS PROGRAM. "Those humans were targeted who were identified as "life unworthy of life" ... including but not limited to the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain of heredity." http://lnkd.in/dJECGiX View in LinkedIn

FORCED STERILIZATIONS. "Eugenic policies were first implemented in the early 1900s in the United States. Later, in the 1920s and 30s, the eugenic policy of sterilizing certain mental patients was implemented in other countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Sweden." http://lnkd.in/dMhgNqm View in LinkedIn

HUMAN EUGENICS STARTED EARLY. "American William Goodell (lived from 1829 to 1894) advocated castration and spaying of the insane. Mortality rates from "Battey's operation", the surgical removal of healthy ovaries, was as high as one in five deaths at the time, but the surgery kept being performed." http://lnkd.in/dMhgNqm View in LinkedIn

LIVESTOCK EUGENICS MODEL FOR HUMANS. "Domestic plants and animals were also the obvious model systems for early studies in experimental evolution and genetics. When the Eugenics Record Office was founded at Cold Spring Harbor in 1910, the adjacent Station for Experimental Evolution looked to all the world like a farm." http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/topics_fs.pl?theme=28 View in LinkedIn

VICTORIAN PET EUGENICS. "Just 100 short years ago, 88% of the current breeds of dog available today did not exist. Today, there are over 500 breeds of dog in existence, with new hybrids and designer pooches available every few years. In just a few short generations and breeding cycles, humans are now able to breed the perfect dog to suit their needs." http://lnkd.in/duWGwdq View in LinkedIn

EUGENICS, "the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species ... especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction ... (positive eugenics)." http://lnkd.in/dqBkw_6 View in LinkedIn