POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Outcrossing, Vasectomy, Leading Question
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Superintendents of mental health institutions would lobby for sterilization, and the. Catholic church was usually unable to stop them. The holocaust did not put an end to sterilization (ex. program terminated in ab in 1989) Eugenics was largely a solution to increasing overpopulation and preserving the welfare. Framing way in which an argument is presented state . Policy continued because the argument was continuously reframed. Adopt policies that encourage breeding among the fit (positive eugenics) and to discourage breeding among the unfit (negative eugenics) 66,000 people (63,000 in the us and 3000 in canada) were sterilized. Us, canada, scandinavia and germany were the big four that mostly participated in eugenics. Eugenics is a comprehensive program that impacts family policy, immigration policy, sterilization policy and was the great success story it was a policy, but also a religion it claimed to uncover the laws of history .
