eugenically

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But the test also takes society right into the brave new world of genetic screening, raising the specter of eugenically minded parents throwing out embryo after embryo in search of the "perfect" child.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others will say we need an international ban lest we find ourselves taking orders from the next Saddam Hussein's eugenically brewed army.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now it is perfectly true that this aversion may have acted eugenically; and so had a certain ultimate confirmation and basis in the laws of procreation.

From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

While some euthenic measures are eugenically evils, even if necessary ones, it must not be inferred that all euthenic measures are dysgenic.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

The following year, Galton again read a paper before the Society, suggesting the award of certificates of quality to the eugenically fit.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul