Minimum Wages Had a Eugenic Intent
All this talk of a $15 national minimum wage prompted me to revisit the standard textbook on economics of the US Progressive Era. Principles of Economics, by Frank W. Taussig (1917) is a pretty interesting book overall and it does hold up in general as an elucidation of then-existing knowledge and pedagogy. There is one section, however, where […]
IVF Modernizes Ancient Eugenic Practices Of ‘Selective Breeding’
If states enforced restrictions on IVF, embryos would no longer be commodities that society can do with as it pleases. The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent and right decision to deem embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) as people sparked concern from fertility facilities regarding the future of IVF. This concern resulted in Alabama rushing […]