Tag: eugenics

• The Rise of Congenital Syphilis | Baby News (and History)

  

  Shorts (scroll for article) Introduction Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by a bacterium (Treponema pallidum), passed via painless round sores called chancres on the genitals or the mouth. Syphilis chancres can easily go unnoticed and even without treatment they go away, but the person is still infected. The disease has latent periods but…

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  June 14, 2024

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• Netherlands Compulsory Contraception Then and Now | Baby News

  

  In the 1960s and 70s, the Danish government forced IUDs on Greenlandic women and girls against their will and they are now speaking out. This has highlighted more recent legislation in the Netherlands which effectively forced contraception on vulnerable women. Since the Compulsory Mental Health Act (Wvggz) in 2020, Dutch courts have ordered at least…

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  April 23, 2024

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