In a manner relating to or based on eugenic principles; with respect to hereditary improvement or genetic selection.
From eugenic plus the adverbial suffix -ally, forming an adverb that describes how something is done according to eugenic ideas or methods.
When historians read phrases like 'eugenically motivated' in old documents, they're reading some of the darkest chapters of 20th-century history—it's become almost a code word for systematic discrimination disguised as science.
Eugenic practices were applied disproportionately to women—forced sterilizations, reproductive surveillance, and criminalization of 'unfit' motherhood were justified eugenically. Women were not agents but objects of eugenic programs.
Avoid. If historical analysis required, center the denied agency and autonomy of women and marginalized groups.
["on genetic grounds (neutral)","in the name of genetic improvement (critical framing)"]
Disabled women and women of color have led intersectional reproductive justice work that explicitly rejects eugenical thinking and asserts full bodily autonomy.
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