eugenocide

alternative eugenicide

1. uncountableThe elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.

   Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide.

   1994, Richard Sobsey, Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities, →ISBN, page 115

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   Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.

   1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286

   It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide."

   1971, The Scriblerian - Volumes 4-5, page 99