While it’s true many early 20th cen eugenicists embraced birth control & abortion, Thomas is (shockingly) completely wrong is claiming “From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means of effectuating eugenics”—birth control & abortion LONG predate eugenics.https://twitter.com/drvox/status/1133436947106488320 …
"Whatever the reasons for these disparities" — I mean, the "reasons" are exactly what determine whether something is actually eugenic or not. If it is being done for non-eugenic reasons, then it is probably not eugenics.
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(I have a book from the 1910s in which it is argued that exercise is useful for eugenics. That does not mean that allowing people to exercise today is a eugenics program.)
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