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This touches on the very beginning of eugenics back in the 1920. Eugenics is a very controversial and hot topic in todays world.

Despite how people feel about eugenics whether it be that it is morally wrong or unnecessary they United States will always be faced with this issue of how to regulate it. For many years people have tried to eugenics under wraps so nothing can be done with it, but as we all know there are loop holes and where there is a will there is a way, and people have found ways around them and thus gotten genetic engineering regulated. *Unfortunately the group who wrote it chose to not reveal an author sadly so hard for a bibliography.

In the 1970's Virginia decided to repeal the law of involuntary sterilization. The people who had volunteered prior to 1970 were undedicated and very poor. The victims were never compensated for their time or for what they underwent. Despite the fact that the United States does not widely acknowledge eugenics people are still pushing for the "perfect" human being.

Very sad story of a forced sterilization on a young girl in the 1960's. North Carolina decided to do this without her consent. They did this to hundreds of men, women, and children.

In order for a scientist in genetic engineering to end sufferings from children and adults they would have to continuously breed out the non-desired trait. Meaning this would take many years of a long and tedious process. In other words if you wanted the odds at 0.01 you would need to breed the trait out through 90 generations. To have a one in one million chance it would take 900 generations. That is not the desired time the scientist were hoping for as well as the population. This book is 136 pages so i did only give an exert from a paragraph that really stuck out to me.

This youtube video interview is basically questioning the ethical decision to allow girls to take gardasil vaccine, and who will be held responsible and liable for problems associated with the vaccine.

This article gives us a look at the number of people in the state of Oregon who underwent forced sterilization. This law was not repealed until 1983