In The Not-So-Distant Past - In The Not So Distant Future

Many believe Eugenics is a science-fiction concept. Others think it died with Nazi Germany. The truth is, the Nazi's got the concept from England (and America) and it has lived on to current times under many different names and hidden agendas (The founder of planned parenthood (Margaret Sanger) was a eugenicist, for example.)

By the early 20th century, most U.S. states had eugenics programs, and more than 30 enacted laws mandating surgical sterilization for certain individuals. It is estimated that as many as 100,000 people were sterilized in the country before the practice was discredited (moved underground and distributed through "voluntary" mechanisms, like birth-control, abortion, or not voluntarily through side-effects of many common medications and personal "care"products.).

Some recent news on the subject has come to light in North Carolina. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized more than 7,600 individuals in the name of "improving" the state's human stock. By the time the program was halted, the majority of those neutered were young, black, poor women. SOme of them have come forward. Read more here.

It's also amazing to me that in spite of being raped, this woman had her child who went on to be such an important blessing of love and support for her throughout her life. Makes you think...