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"No one who is in favor of eugenics should be allowed to reproduce." -- snippet of crowd chatter behind & around the main characters in a scene from Miracles of Science by Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs, p. 162 (the line is not actually part of the story; the scene has a lot of randomness between strangers suddenly audible to the protagonist -- stuff like "Do the rivets make my carapace look too gaudy?" and "You have to hear Rashid's latest symphony in person", random fragments of other people's conversations)
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On the one hand I appreciate the joke you're making (and I have a canned rant about how difficult our society makes it for women to be electively sterilized), but on the other... I have seen people defend the forced sterilization of Black and Latina women, and/or say that we should be given incentives to be sterilized. I've had more than one person tell me personally that since I'm a Black woman society would be better off if I didn't have children.(Obviously you don't agree with those bigots -- I bring this up because those discussions are part of the concept of eugenics as practiced and praised in the US.)