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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
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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.

Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
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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 created it's sterilization program and the Supreme Court case that made sterilization legal.

Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
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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
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
September 25, 2007

Indiana enforced a eugenic law that allowed institutions to sterilize the "mentally defective" until 1974. One woman sterilized by court order in 1971 is speaking up and telling her story.

Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
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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. In the final installment of the series, Mary Hartnett reports on how in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies may be a new kind of eugenics.

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