Republicans and President Donald Trump have instituted their new version of a eugenics program by cutting Medicaid and foreign aid programs. The original American eugenics program of the early 1900s ...

Founded in 1921, Society for Science & the Public's mission is to advance public understanding and appreciation of scienceamong people of all ages through publications and educational programs. A ...

Advocates for people who were sterilized in Virginia under the misguided science of eugenics are seeking compensation for surviving victims in the upcoming session of the General Assembly, with more ...

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long Island and the ...

Two weeks ago, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that, for the purposes of its Wrongful Death of a Minor statute, frozen embryos are children. The move has largely been covered as an “IVF ban”—but ...

California has created a compensation fund for victims of state-sponsored, non-consensual sterilization, which happened in prisons for decades. But as the deadline looms, many who lost organs aren’t ...

California has created a compensation fund for victims of state-sponsored, non-consensual sterilization, which happened in prisons for decades. But as the deadline looms, many who lost organs aren’t ...

A quote from birth control advocate and sometime eugenicist Margaret Sanger has been making the rounds on the internet for many years. Viral posts claim she once wrote: "We do not want the word to go ...

I provided written and oral comments to the Colorado Medical Board on Aug. 17 on the draft rules concerning whether medication abortion reversal is an acceptable practice in Colorado. The draft rules ...

The University of Puget Sound will remove the name of a former professor and eugenicist from the college’s museum of natural history. On May 12, the university’s board of trustees unanimously approved ...