# American Eugenics Movement and Euro Nazism

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**Created:** [April 17, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-eugenics-movement-and-euro-nazism/578759 "2011-04-17T21:53:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-eugenics-movement-and-euro-nazism/578759/6 "2011-04-17T22:56:56Z")

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What about government sponsored [IVF treatments](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article458210.ece)?  
[Designer babies](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/designerdebate/)? [Deaf](http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3860) designer babies?  
[Selective abortion](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html?_r=1&em&ex=1178942400&en=e6910805b7eb9afe&ei=5087%0A)? (Aborting fetuses with Down’s, for example?)  
Restricting marriage between two [cognitively disabled](http://www.slate.com/id/1007972/) people?  
[Surgically castrating](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/world/europe/11castrate.html)sex offenders?  
[Human cloning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning)?  
[Stem cell research](http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-10-24/news/17393486_1_cell-research-eugenics-stem)?

And, less seriously: [Animal breeding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_breeding)?  
Science can be a bitch.

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