Pros And Cons Of Eugenics

Next, to promote eugenics several tactics were used to attract couples into “eugenic marriages” and to have the most children possible. In fact, some families were even rewarded and honored for showing strong eugenic ideas. In this case we can the mention the “fitter Family Contest” which was basically competitions to determine the best eugenically fit family. Although these contests displayed the “pride and beauty” of these families, their main aim was to encourage more people and families to become “eugenic families”. It started in Topeka, Kansas in 1920 at the State Fair and throughout the 1920’s it spread to several other States with the support of the American Eugenics Society's Committee on Popular Education. The selection and the ranking
In fact, a lot of controversy revolves around this subject. As many as there were proponents to encourage the eugenics movement, there were also opponents who did not agree with the idea or the methods used; as Natalia Gerodetti says in her paper “eugenicists were not a homogeneous group with few endorsing euthanasia and some opposing sterilization.” In fact, some of the methods applied in negative eugenics are considered unethical, methods such the marriage laws or more brutal ones as involuntary sterilization and euthanasia. As said in the article “What is immoral about eugenics?”: “The main reason for this presumption is that so much horror, misery, and mayhem have been carried out in the name of eugenics in the 20th century that no person with any moral sense could think
In fact, this allowed the debate and recognition of many universal laws to protect citizens of the world from injustice and many other social repressions. It is through the Declarations of Human Rights that social and moral norms became laws. The rights regarding issues about eugenics that were included in the Declarations of Human Rights were: the right to life and the reproductive rights. The statement of the right to life was that “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life” ; the statement to the reproductive rights was “The majority of parents desire to have the knowledge and the means a plan their families; that the opportunities to decide the number and spacing of children is a basic human