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:

   Eugenics -- at its core -- is based on the state making reproductive decisions for others. Indiana's law basically does the same thing, limiting a woman's reproductive autonomy, he is tying eugenics to particular reproductive technologies -- here abortion -- instead of recognizing that eugenic laws robbed women of their ability to make their own reproductive decisions -- the state decided for them.

2. A.E. Samaan:

   Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word eugenics was said only once.

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. Alexandra Minna Stern:

   It's important to know that America was profoundly shaped by the Eugenics Movement. ... The legacies continue to play out and the lessons have not been learned.

5. 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,’.