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Eugenics

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Czech Republic may offer justice, compensation to thousands of sterilized Roma women 

Human rights

A new bill under consideration in the Czech Republic could compensate women who were involuntarily sterilized up to $13,000. Roma women and activist groups say reaching this stage is a huge milestone. 

Patients and staff members of Marie Stopes International (MSI) Clinic wave to Danish delegation members.

Marie Stopes International name change will ‘put a focus on the future’ of reproductive choice, CEO says

Reproductive rights
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A new book recounts the forgotten history of autism

Medicine

Uzbekistan may have program to forcibly sterilizing women for population control

Racism Is Crippling African-American Advances in Mathematics

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North Carolina Comes to Terms with History of Forced Sterilizations

Eugenics laws allowed more than thirty states to sterilize people “undeemed to breed” for nearly a century. While it is irrevocably associated with the super-race fetish and ethnic cleansing of Nazi Germany, the so-called science of eugenics is actually an American distortion of medical science. Much of the murky original research and theories of how […]

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