'Bad genes' and civil rights at odds, Many policy-makers seek to curb births of those with disabilities even as U.S. and UN seek to protect them NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

• Published in: Newsday
• Main Author: ANDREW J. IMPARATO AND ANNE C. SOMMERS
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 22.05.2007
• Edition: Combined editions

Although eugenics was eventually dismissed as "junk science," it didn't happen before states authorized more than 60,000 forcible sterilizations and segregated, institutionalized and denied marriage and parental rights to those deemed "genetically unfit." Though society may...