Eugenics: The Legacy

By: Andrew Cedrone, Katerina Pappas, Sharrise Vittus,

Caroline Dixon, and Ellliot Holden

How does race affect people's lives?

• Superiority between races

• Privileges for some

• Unfair Education

• Economic opportunities

• Poverty

Poverty Rate: 1972 to 2007

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What are the moral questions around genetics that are still questioned today?

• Designer babies • Creating life

• Stem-cell research

• Cloning

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Did kids in the suburbs do better on the IQ tests? Why? 

• Evidence that  IQ can be lowered depending on test taking environment.

• City schools have lower expectations for students, teachers get paid less.

• Few  scientists today believe that intelligence is static

 

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How has the attitude towards immigrants changed?

 • Get worse working

conditions and education (lowest class level)

• Favored immigrants from West Europe but cut off immigrants from Asia and Africa

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How did  abortion go from being accepted to becoming such a controversial issue?

• Because America went from having the highest birthrates to the lowest, many eugenicists discouraged woman from having abortions. 

How do eugenicists and religion shape people's values and beliefs? 

 

• All in all, directs science in  what is "right" and "wrong"

morally.

How do we as members of a society decide which differences matter and which do not?

• We as a society set a standard (a "model Citizen") for people to match. Anyone above or below this standard is seen as different.

• We also tend to set ourselves as the standard and compare everyone to our self. 

How do these decisions shape our ideas about what it means to be a human being in the 21st

century?

• We believe anyone different from a "model citizen" is different. 

• A "model citizen" blends into society in both the way they look and the way they act. 

What are the positive and negative aspects of abortion?  

• Can't Afford to support child

• Mother physically incapable of giving birth (age, medical conditions, etc.)

• Rape

• Severe physiological effects including depression, anxiety, and suicide.

• Selective abortion (eugenics)

• A human life is being eliminated