CONTROL is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation. It's an examination of how science can be twisted into dark ideologies and how an. In 2020, new techniques in genetics and gene editing put discussions about improving the 'quality' of the population, by selecting embryos for intelligence, at the centre of the British government. It's called Control: The dark history and troubling present of eugenics. We live in a time where forced sterilisation of women is current - including in immigration detention centres in the USA - and where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the most populous countries on Earth. For just over a century, we have referred to this age-old crafting by biological design with a word which became poisonous: eugenics.The ideas underlying eugenics are not merely historical. Others have imposed control over populations with rules about who can marry, who can procreate and who can live. Throughout history, people have sought to improve themselves - and society - by eliminating disease, or enhancing desirable qualities in their children.
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