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Eugenics Movement in the United States
A 2014 poster for an event about the ethics of modern eugenics.

A 2014 poster for an event about the ethics of modern eugenics.

This poster announces a reading and panel discussion of “The Other Side of Reproductive Rights: The Untold Story and Ethics of Modern Eugenics” at the University of Utah College of Law on February 28, 2014. The poster and the talk are examples of contemporary manifestations of the eugenics debate. Eugenics is not just a nineteenth and twentieth-century phenomenon; there are still real consequences of the practice in the twenty-first century.

Citation Information
S.J. Quinney College of Law Comm, “The Other Side of Reproductive Rights: The Untold Story and Ethics of Modern Eugenics,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/317c228eb36a09b390f994ed04978f2c.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of Utah - James E. Faust Law Library via Mountain West Digital Library.

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A 2014 poster for an event about the ethics of modern eugenics.

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