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Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
September 25, 2007
Indiana apologized for more than 2,500 Hoosiers on April 12, 2007. Since that apology, a lot of ethicists and historians have been taking a second look at the eugenic sterilization process. In part three of a five part series WFYI's Mary Hartnett takes a look at how the process worked and why the program finally ended.
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
September 25, 2007
Eugenics supporters believed they could improve society with sterilization and other progressive...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
September 25, 2007
In the second installment of the five part series WFYI's Mary Hartnett explores how the state...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
September 25, 2007
Indiana enforced a eugenic law that allowed institutions to sterilize the "mentally defective"...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
September 25, 2007
These days, a lot ethicists, scientists and sociologists say we are in a new eugenics era....
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