Bad Ideas: The Eugenics Movement In America

Ed Newman
3 min readMay 17, 2019

Let’s say it again. Bad ideas have bad consequences.

Illustration by the author.

A few years ago I listened to a story on National Public Radio about one of the victims of a forced sterilization program in North Carolina. At age 14, when she was giving birth to her first child she was sterilized without her knowledge. At age 19, married and trying to have children, she discovered that a procedure was performed…

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Ed Newman

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