Posted on 09/01/2009 8:05:50 AM PDT by DFG
AUBURN, Calif. -- This town in the Sierra Nevada foothills accepted the gift of a 28-acre plot from the estate of Nobel laureate William B. Shockley in March. The mostly forested land was to become a community park named after the famous physicist -- co-inventor of the transistor -- and his late wife.
Then the local newspaper pointed out that Mr. Shockley, who died in 1989, was a proponent of eugenics, a widely discredited movement most prominent in the 1920s and '30s that held that intelligence was racially linked -- and that called for sterilizing some Americans who were deemed socially and intellectually unfit.
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OK, if its a problem, I’ll take the land.
And so did many democrats at that time IE the very foundation of planned parenthood.
Eugenics is the purpose behind abortion. Odds are the writer is a supporter of abortion though.
This means they will be shutting down Planned Parenthood, right? I mean, Margaret Sanger was a big believer in eugenics too ...

And so many democrats still do. Maybe Missus clinton will return her Margaret Sanger Award and renounce Planned Parenthood. Heh. Fat chance.
Blacks make up about 12% of the US population yet have close to 40% off ALL abortions.
But blacks vote 90%+ for liberal democrats anyways... :-(
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