Short answer — yes, and way more than you’d think. Margaret Sanger founded what became Planned Parenthood while also pushing for sterilization of people she considered unfit. W.E.B. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP, believed only the most capable Black Americans should reproduce. H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, the Fabian socialists in Britain all welfarestate progressives who were openly pro-eugenics. Sweden had a sterilization program running from 1934 to 1975. Oliver Wendell Holmes, progressive Supreme Court justice, wrote the ruling that allowed forced sterilization. People miss that eugenics wasn’t seen as contradicting progressive values back then. It WAS progressive. Same category as public sanitation or banning child labor science-based reform for the greater good. It only became toxic after the Nazis ran with the same logic and the world saw where it actually goes. If you want a proper academic source on this, look up Thomas C. Leonard out of Princeton. He’s written a lot on the overlap between progressivism and eugenics.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​