How to Use eugenic in a Sentence

eugenic

adjective

• But today that is not the primary purview of eugenic methods.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2013
• And the obvious science showing us that unborn life is life is bringing some of abortion’s eugenic roots out in the open.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 6 Sep. 2021
• But the tradition has certainly moved away from its eugenic roots.
  — Audrey Farley, Longreads, 20 June 2019
• The 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell legitimized eugenic sterilization laws that were common in many states.
  — Editorial Mankato Free Press, Star Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
• In that sense Edwards’s eugenic aspirations should be part of his legacy.
  — Osagie K. Obasogie, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2013
• No evidence has surfaced that Berkeley used the money for eugenic research.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• There's no such thing obviously, and even those who sympathized with eugenic policies such as W. D. Hamilton rejected this notion at the end of the day.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2013
• Do not buy into this eugenic thinking that expects the most vulnerable to be sacrificed.
  — A.h. Reaume, Longreads, 10 Feb. 2022
• UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after a bioethicist and other faculty call it out.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• As Thompson and other historians have long noted, the Comstock Act was also rooted in eugenic sentiment, the idea that not enough of the right—in other words, white—babies were being produced.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Unless something is done, the medical profession may once again exhibit a cozy relationship with eugenic goals.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2019
• The Progressive movement in the early part of the twentieth century did overlap in discomfiting ways with eugenic thinking, from Margaret Sanger to some of the early leaders of the battle against infant mortality.
  — Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Payton Gendron, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, seems to have been inspired by replacement theory, a eugenic conspiracy that suggests that immigrants and people of color are driving white people to extinction.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Under California’s eugenic law, first passed in 1909, anyone committed to a state institution could be sterilized.
  — Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• This century is likely to be dominated by eugenic thinking, and all the more so as different populations face the specter of demographic decline and environmental threat.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2011
• Reprehensible as much of the eugenic program was, there is something unobjectionable and perhaps even morally required in the part of its motivation that sought to endow future generations with genes that might enable their lives to go better.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2011
• Eugenic arguments underlay the rationale behind the Immigration Act of 1924, scholars note.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2017
• Dight had organized the Minnesota Eugenics Society in 1923 and lobbied the legislature for a eugenic sterilization law.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• An obsession with hierarchy does not make a person a totalitarian, just as a devotion to proto-eugenic thinking combined with a rigid religious morality does not make a person a Nazi.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
• Although there is nothing inherently eugenic about IVF, being able to manipulate human conception outside of the womb is an essential platform technology for any modern eugenic goal.
  — Osagie K. Obasogie, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2013
• Genetic screening, and the underlying assumption that some humans are born better than others, often invites comparisons to Nazi eugenic experiments.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2022
• Nor do conservatives acknowledge the eugenic mechanisms rampant within the criminal justice system.
  — Audrey Farley, Longreads, 20 June 2019
• As American society was transformed by the arrival of millions of Southern and Eastern Europeans, a new and authoritative racial science confidently consigned newcomers to the lower tiers of humanity, a eugenic menace to be contained and excluded.
  — Paul A. Kramer, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• And several past presidents supported voluntary and compulsory eugenic sterilizations at some point in their careers.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 24 Jan. 2023
• Decades of eugenic practices. Sanctioned torture of people with intellectual disability.
  — Joel Michael Reynolds, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
• Though ultimately discredited following the atrocities endured during multiple years of Nazi reign, eugenic theory was steeped in this sinister view of genetic governance, manifest destiny run amok.
  — Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• Myron’s Diskobolos, the representation of masculinity in its dynamic aspect, was infamously appropriated by Nazis as their eugenic metric for beauty.
  — Autumn Wright, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
• Representing each individual recommended for eugenic sterilization in California in the early 20th century, these pieces take time to unfold.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• From upholding segregation, eugenic sterilizations, and Japanese internment camps, the Supreme Court has made indefensible judgements before.
  — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020

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