243 Alexander Graham Bell

Glenn Kessler, "Herman Cain's Rewriting of Birth-Control History," Washington Post, Fact Checker blog, November 1, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/herman-cains-rewriting-of-birth-control-history/2011/10/31/gIQAr53uaM_blog.html.

244 Margaret Sanger

Ibid.

245 remain celibates or have no children or only one or two

Harry Bruinius, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (New York: Knopf, 2006), pp. 19091.

246 "To a.s.sist the race toward the elimination of the unfit"

Lori Robertson, "Cain's False Attack on Planned Parenthood," FactCheck.org, November 1, 2011, http://factcheck.org/2011/11/cains-false-attack-on-planned-parenthood/.

247 "More children from the fit, less from the unfit"

Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (New York: Knopf, 1985), p. 90.

248 "mixed-race individuals, single mothers with many children"

Nicole Pasulka, "Forced Sterilization for Transgender People in Sweden," Mother Jones, January 25, 2012.

249 From 1972

Ibid.

250 could officially change his or her gender identification

Nicole Pasulka, "Sweden Moves to End Forced Sterilization of Transgender People," Mother Jones, February 24, 2012.

251 "However, the Stockholm Administrative Court"

Rebecca Nelson, "Transgender People in Sweden No Longer Face Forced Sterilization," Time, January 14, 2013.

252 "Sixteen other European countries"

Ibid.; Zack Ford, "Sweden Ends Forced Sterilization of Transgender People," Think Progress, January 11, 2013, http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/01/11/1434121/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-of-transgender-people/; Pasulka, "Forced Sterilization for Transgender People in Sweden."

253, 254 apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy

Natalia Antelava, "Uzbekistan Carrying Out Forced Sterilisations, Say Women," Guardian, April 20, 2012.

255 allegations by escaped activist Chen Guangcheng

Ashley Hayes, "Activists Allege Forced Abortions, Sterilizations in China," CNN, April 30, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/asia/china-forced-abortions/index.html.

256 paid a bonus for each person who is sterilized

Gethin Chamberlain, "UK Aid Helps to Fund Forced Sterilisation of India's Poor," Guardian, April 14, 2012.

257 already completed the full genomes of fifty animal and plant species

"The Dragon's DNA," Economist.

258 But China's princ.i.p.al focus seems to be

Tam, "Scientists Seek to Unravel the Mystery of IQ."

259 China's National Gene Bank in Shenzhen

"China Establishes National Gene Bank in Shenzhen," Xinhua News Agency.

260 which genes are involved in determining intelligence