The Deterpose Of The Progressive Movement, By Mark A. Largent

Mark A. Largent is the author this article about the eugenics sterilization in Oregon from 1909 to 1983. He stated the cause for the eugenics idea and he stated how Oregon passed a eugenics based idea into law. His thesis statement is, “From 1917 to 1983, Oregon's prison and mental health authorities sterilized about 2,500 people, including 217 sterilizations after 1967,” and it is found this at the end of the article in the conclusion. Eugenics is the idea of, “Applying knowledge from evolutionary biology and genetics to human reproduction, advocates of eugenics attempted to direct human evolution to create a safer, saner, and more productive society. Mark A. Largent was being very specific about the fact that eugenics was even a real thing that really happened with the progressive movement in the early 1900’s Mark A. Largent said about the progressives, “They placed a premium on the greater good of the community at the expense of individual human rights, justifying their actions on the basis of the benefit to future generations.” This is where the
This sounds very similar to another movement in a different country that tried this same thing and the author mentions them in his article. The other movement was the National Socialist movement that happened in Germany otherwise known as the Nazi’s. He does say that, “....no American official publicly called for either euthanasia or genocide on the basis of eugenics, as was done in Nazi Germany.” Instead he says that the the support was for the sterilization of undesirable people instead of just the killing of them. Even though the this article is about the eugenics movement in Oregon and the United States the author also states that the eugenics movement was also found in almost every other industrialized country. Really almost every country had a eugenics movement, but the Nazi’s were the ones that took it to another