The Project Eugenics report by New Disabled South documents what it describes as a systemic and coordinated rollback of disability rights in the United States, framed through three strategies: dismantling legal protections and accessibility infrastructure, punishing disabled individuals through criminalization and benefit cuts, and dehumanizing them via eugenic-based misinformation. The report highlights specific federal actions, such as the elimination of DEI programs, significant staffing cuts to civil rights enforcement agencies, and the imposition of Medicaid work requirements, which collectively make disabled lives more precarious and surveilled. By tracing these policies across sectors like healthcare, education, and immigration, the authors argue that the current governing logic treats disability as a "burden" or "threat" rather than a lived reality deserving of dignity, effectively reviving historical regimes of exclusion and institutionalization.

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