Synonyms for eugenics
yuˈdʒɛn ɪkseu·gen·ics

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1. eugenicsnoun

   the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)

   Antonyms:
   cacogenics, dysgenics

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eugenics

   Synonyms:
   Eugenetics

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1. Johanna Schoen:

   For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

2. A.E. Samaan:

   The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.

3. Julia Gibbons:

   But the American eugenics movement does share a goal of the majority view in this case: both seek to control a woman’s reproductive decisions, eugenics certainly lives on... but not in a woman’s decisions about her reproductive health. The shadow of the eugenics movement materializes when the state wrests those decisions from her.

4. Texas Tribune:

   It also mandates that students be taught ‘the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong,’.

5. A.E. Samaan:

   American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.