Volume 44, Number 16 · October 23, 1997

Eugenics, Anyone?

By William Pfaff

Until recently it has been, not a secret, but a fact kept carefully closeted, that the countries that consider themselves the most advanced and civilized had for many years been sterilizing 'undesirable' people, or taking their children away from them, in order to improve the 'race.' This was going on in the United States until 1973.



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