People ask me over and over and over about Eugenics. Unfortunately, they're always meaning to say Eurythmics, which as it turns out, is about as bad as for socienty as eugenics, just in a different way.
To understand whether or not eugenics is still active today, it helps to understand where it came from. 125 years ago, a man named Francis Galton started writing about eugenics and the fear that the mentally, physcially and morally handicapped were going to become an exponential burden on society. Ironically, this was during the time that people were drinking radium, petroleum, and a host of other nasties, thinking that they fought disease and made them smarter. I believe it was after a particularly long night of drinking his choice concoction that the idea for eugenics took hold.
Sadly for the untold numbers of "defective" people throughout the early part of the 1900's, the mystery potions of radium, et al, were all the rage throughout the States, and most every place had a law supporting the sterilization of said "defectives", which was upheld by a then crazy Supreme Court.
So what happened? Two things - some really popular guy had his jaw fall off from drinking too much radium which got people to thinking "hmm, maybe we should take a closer look at what we allow to be sold as medicine"
And, WWII. After WWII, we realized that the Nazi's had taken eugenics much farther than we had, and there was a collective "that's fucked up" coming from the halls of government.
So, back to the question... Is the Eugenics Society active today? I have to answer it like this, "What the hell do you think?!?!" We have people that kill themselves because their ride has come next to a comet, we have LOTS of people that think morally right to counter the sins of abortion by planting shrapnel bombs outside women's health clinics, hell, there are even people who like the Eurythmics. My point is that there is always some sorry ass group of lead paint eating loonies that want society to be very homogeneous. Often, we call groups of those people churches, but I digress.
Clearly in this day and age when everyone is taught to "feel bad" for the handicapped, and with the money of medical lobbies lining their grubby pockets, there isn't a hope in hell of an overt Eugenics Society being more than the retarded neighbor of the Ku Klux Klan. But, they do have a chance if they are able to get the oil companies behind them.
