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The Mexican state of Veracruz enacts the only eugenics law passed in a Catholic country.
Date: 1932
Laws/legislation/policy
Global South
Eugenics movement
Religion
As eugenics laws are passed around the world, most Catholic countries speak out against the trend, naming it as an attempt to interfere with "God's creation."
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