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• Tempting Choices The new frontier must not forget to ask why, who, geneticists warn Although government involvement in sterilization has ended for the most part, the chances of another movement that wants to use science to eliminate human flaws are increasing, experts say. The unraveling of the human genome opened a new world of possibilities for people who think that they can engineer a better human race. • Stirring Up Academia Researchers hop on scientific breakthroughs to promote their causes A civil-rights organization famous for tracking hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan is now watching several university professors who have suggested that weak parts of the population should be eliminated through a modern version of eugenics. • Painless and Permanent Detractors fear that many women will not be clear about the consequences of cheap new sterilization method Two North Carolina companies hope that a new method of sterilization will provide safe and cheap birth control for women around the world, but shadows from the era of eugenic sterilization have complicated the discussion. • Bedfellows in the Cause: Major backer of eugenics program also financed birth-control clinics • LEGAL: N.C. can still sterilize retarded adults
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