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Control: Eugenics And The Corruption Of Science

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Eugenics and Women's Rights

Margaret Sanger was a reproductive rights leader in the US. She was also a member of the American Eugenics Society. The Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas cited eugenics as being part of the whole conversation about abortion rights and that abortion was a tool of eugenics. We need to be much, much less partisan in having this conversation because history is super complex.

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