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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 measures. Indiana enacted the first eugenic sterilization law in 1907. WFYI's Mary Hartnett examines why the eugenics movement and how it became such a big part of Indiana's health and welfare system, in the first part of a five part series on "Indiana Eugenics."
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
September 25, 2007
In the second installment of the five part series WFYI's Mary Hartnett explores how the state...
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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