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Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
September 25, 2007
In the second installment of the five part series "Indiana Eugenics" WFYI's Mary Hartnett explores how the state created it's sterilization program and the Supreme Court case that made sterilization legal.
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
September 25, 2007
Eugenics supporters believed they could improve society with sterilization and other progressive...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
September 25, 2007
In part three of the series, a look at how the process worked and why the program finally ended....
Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
September 25, 2007
Indiana enforced a eugenic law that allowed institutions to sterilize the "mentally defective"...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
September 25, 2007
These days, a lot ethicists, scientists and sociologists say we are in a new eugenics era....
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