[freebirth]

Amazingly (not), the writer managed to never mention Margaret Sanger, the face of American eugenics and founder of Planned Parenthood! Still revered by the left. Guess she didn't PPHd associated with its roots in racial purity and the laudatory goal of relieving society from the burden of the poor and unfit overbreeding.

Other than that, it is a fascinating and disturbing look back at what we are capable of justifying in the name of science and the "common good".

[TBP]

Planned Parenthood is a leading eugenics organization.

[ifinnegan]

It was settled science.

Anyone against it was a science denier.

[CharlesOConnell]

This was about Marie Stopes.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Darksheare]

Eugenics in the early portion of the 1900’s was the Global Warming Fad of its day.
And it is still around, just named something other than “Eugenics” now.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes (her British counterpart) not only wanted to sterilize people for small, readily correctable defects (cleft lip, deformed outer ear) or preventable/treatable diseases (tuberculosis), they wanted to eliminate whole races and nations.

Asians: Inferior!

Jews: Inferior!

Blacks: Inferior!

Settled science!

(Or rather, a veterinary approach to human the human race.)

[blueplum]

other nations didn’t bother with sterilization. They just put them on an iceberg or set them out on the savannah and let nature deal with it.

[DesertRhino]

Adolph himself was inspired heavily by the American eugenics movement. He imported it wholesale and was so close to their thinking, that he literally ruined it for the postwar world.

That’s how closely associated to their thinking he was. Anyone postwar doing the same 1920s stuff would be seen as Nazi in their thinking.