informative speech on eugenics
... that these people were "probable potential parents of socially inadequate offspring." Most of those sterilized were teens that had barely past puberty. It was thought that selective mating would eliminate mental, moral, and physical defects thought to be hereditary. HOW EUGENICS REALLY WORKS- Eugenics has a hard time finding a place in a democrocy like ours. It did so by appealing to the welthy by attacking the minorities. The goal is to destroy democrocy and creat an elite species. In a democrocy it is easier for the eugenicists to hide behind a from and slowly decieve the public. Groups that the eugenicists hide behind are The Pioneer Fund who is for white supremecy, Planned Parenthood who is behind legalizing abortion, and the public council who is forever coming out with new contriceptives. Their guidlines are 1. it's not racism it is "gene frequency." 2.work through crypto-eugenics. 3.The use of ambiguities and loopholes. 4.Advertisment to spread the word. 5.Main enemy, the catholic church. In the early 60's they used deluded catholic preists and friars to make them sound less imoral. eugenicists are against the too old, tooinfirior, other races, and want to take evolution into their own hands. BUCK VS. BELL- Carrie Buck (1906-1983) was old and poor so she was sterilized against her will in 1927 when the court held up the new law in virginia. Reproductive rights were given out based on social ills and scientific solutions....