In late 2020, reports of forced sterilization at the Irwin County Detention center in Ocilla, Georgia emerged. Hysterectomies were given to migrant women without informed consent.
The Surpreme Court never overruled Buck v. Bell, despite acknowledging the right to reproduce in the constitution. Forced sterilization is still legal.
"‘They Wanted to Take My Womb Out’: Survivor of Medical Abuse in ICE Jail Deported After Speaking Out," 2020, Democracy Now!
Beyond forced sterilization, eugenics now presents as genetics, communicating itself as legitimate science. From embryo selection to genetic counseling, eugenics targets 21st century parents. This effort includes CRISPR, which "stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats" (Questions and Answers about CRISPR).
"The ethical dilemma of designer babies | Paul Knoepfler," 2017 (Recorded Oct. 2015), TED
America's legacy of eugenics is far from over. No one knows how this dark chapter of American history will end, but we do history has repeated itself.