Eugenics

When i first heard about Eugenics i thought what the heck is that? I bet there are a lot more people who are thinking the same thing right about now too. But after reading and researching about it a little, i found out that Eugenics pretty much means people should control what their kids will look like, all the way from the color of eyes to the color of their hair. Eugenic origins first started after the Civil War. America was pretty racist and anti- minority during that time, and Eugenics reflected on that.  It was a pretty crazy time for everyone. People started moving and losing jobs so one brilliant man proposed the survival of the fittest, but there was a problem with that and the problem was that the "rich were having a problem with reproduction, and the "poor" people were in a baby boom! So since the more wealthy people had the money to do things with that's where eugenics helped them out a lot.

      The word Eugenics was brought up by a man very into science, Francis Galton. In 1883, this is how they could take over genetics and control what kids looked like, kind of like what we now call segregation. This is where medicine came in and really impacted the study of Eugenics because they needed the different medicanes. This is also where pedigrees came in, so they could look at family history of people to help them have a better understanding  of things. 

     Eugenic's first major challenge was made in 1915 by Thomas Hurt Morgan. He showed Genetic mutation outside of inheritance involving the finding of birth of a fruit fly with white eyes coming from a family of red- eyed flies. He had said that this showed that major genetic changes occurred outside of inheritance and that the concept of eugenics based on genetic inheritance being severely flawed. Seeing the results of the fruit fly gave him an idea of what all this was about. 

      To this day, it is a horrible movement that has inflicted massive human rights violations of millions and millions of people. There are many things engaged in eugenicists involving violations of privacy, attacks on people's reputations, violations of the right to life, to found a family, to freedom from discrimination are all classified as violations of human right today. It is a thing hated by many people, but  then again there are people out there that like it. 

     In my opinion, i think that Eugenics is a very wrong thing. It's not the right thing at all in my eyes.  Let your offspring come out the way they are supposed to. God has people come out the way they are supposed to for a reason. I know people would like to choose the way that their kids come out, but i think they should come out naturally the way they're supposed to come out, not the way you choose for them to come out.