Thursday, March 3, 2016

Eugenics:

Who: Irving Fisher
What: Abortion
Where: USA
When:1920s and 30s
Why: In 90 percent of cases, a positive test for down syndrome leads to an abortion. It is hard to imagine that more expansive knowledge won’t lead to similar forms of prenatal selection on an ever-more-significant scale. 


Affirmative Action:
Who: Gratz vs Bollinger
What: issues in education and employment
Where: USA
When: 1865-1877
Why: Affirmative action is a subject of controversy. Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination,

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