Here's a few, there's a ton more articles if you Duckduckgo it, including academic pieces. This was a briefly a hot subject in the 90s when Stephen Jay Gould included a big chapter on it in one of his books and a movie was made about the girl in the Test case, Buck vs. Bell: Best piece: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2018/03/christian-responses-eugenics/ Text of a petition for an apology for Eugenics in UMC: https://idexposed.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/united-methodist-church-an-apology-for-support-of-eugenics/ This one overemphasizes the interest in Eastern/Southern Euro Immigrants, but the victims were overwhelmingly Rural Native Born White Americans (like Carrie Buck herself). https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=sociology_papers Carrie Buck, the test case for mandatory government sterilization, was actually a straight "B" student and a lifelong bookworm who was completely literate and numerate, hardly an "Imbecile". She was raped by a relative as a very young teen and instantly labelled an "undesireable". "Three Generations of Idiots are Enough".

While the Fundamentalist vs. Liberal battle started with Evolution/Creationism, this solidified the "Dangerous Ignorant Fundamentalist" attitude of the Progressives who have been trying to crush Believers for a long time...

Here's a few, there's a ton more articles if you Duckduckgo it, including academic pieces. This was a briefly a hot subject in the 90s when Stephen Jay Gould included a big chapter on it in one of his books and a movie was made about the girl in the Test case, Buck vs. Bell:

Best piece: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2018/03/christian-responses-eugenics/

Text of a petition for an apology for Eugenics in UMC: https://idexposed.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/united-methodist-church-an-apology-for-support-of-eugenics/

This one overemphasizes the interest in Eastern/Southern Euro Immigrants, but the victims were overwhelmingly Rural Native Born White Americans (like Carrie Buck herself). https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=sociology_papers

Carrie Buck, the test case for mandatory government sterilization, was actually a straight "B" student and a lifelong bookworm who was completely literate and numerate, hardly an "Imbecile". She was raped by a relative as a very young teen and instantly labelled an "undesireable". "Three Generations of Idiots are Enough".