Applied Ethics

Eugenics

1. Watch the movie Gattaca (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KruQhfvW4&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers)

2. Read the article (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/sterilizing-sick-poor-cut-welfare-costs-north-carolinas/story?id=14093458)

3. Comment on the following excerpt:

" When most programs began in the early 1930s, this usually meant those in institutions for mental illness or mental retardation, but over the decades criminals, the blind, the deaf, the disabled, alcoholics, those with epilepsy, and ultimately the rural poor on welfare would fall under the umbrella of 'unfit to procreate.' "