The history of eugenics and the us, were talking about involuntary sterilization. When we're not thinking about connecting gn to intelligence for the purposes of this ditopian control of people's reproduction, what can we use it for? What is the good of it? So m thinking about the lessons of the past and how we can carry those forward is a theme that runs throughout the entire book. I think i particularly in an american context where the reproductive rights debate more generally is so contentious and aclimonious,. there is also that history.