Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took a stick to the moral sanctum of women’s abortion rights when he wrote a legal opinion in May that tied abortion to eugenics, the ideology and activity aimed at eliminating supposedly unwanted inherited characteristics in human beings.  In return, progressive historians and pundits are calling Thomas’ integrity into question by claiming that eugenics, unlike abortion rights, is all about the evils of state control over private individual decisions. Eugenics, however, is really about hatred of the human condition and the utopian perfection of the species according to elite preferences.  Distorting our society’s picture of eugenics in the 21st century is a dangerous tactic that progressives will soon regret. Historian Alexandra Minna Stern complained in Newsweek that Thomas’ well-argued and extensively researched document is “a smear tactic to associate abortion with the most heinous abuses of the 20th...(Read Full Article)