Eugenicists

• Eugenicists that the ‘genetically unfit’ should not breed as to not spread unfit genes
• This led to policies like the compulsory sterilisation of ‘defectives’ which included criminals
• 1927 the supreme court rules that it was legal to compulsory sterilised the ‘unfit’
• Other Eugenic policies have included forced abortions and restrictions on the right to marry.