ABORTION

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Sanger...I've only read a brief summary of her life/cause but from what little I've read, admirable woman and well ahead of the times. And STILL the right message all these decades later.

I was hoping her unwavering stance on eugenics would bring you comfort. Seriously . . . I really did.

Ironically, Sanger's message is the same position used against the illegal aliens residing in the US.

And those who use it are deemed racist or xenophobes.

Who knew?

Huh. Now why would that be comforting to me....? Because I'm feeble minded and shouldn't have reproduced when I was 15 anyway?

You make me think, Tiki, when my stay at home brain has sometimes gotten lazy. Thank you....seriously, although I confess to sometimes NOT being able to follow your train of thought.


As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the "unfit" and the "fit", admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit though less fertile parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webe...238946.xml

While it's completely politically incorrect, I agree that reproduction of the masses (welfare baby after welfare baby) is not beneficial to society and I agree with her stance on it with regards to pushing birth control and education (making it widely available to everyone, actually). However, I think many of the very people that keep popping out baby after baby, those living in poverty, the "uneducated" etc., we can and ought to do more to make b/c even more readily available to these folks. I mean...I have (as an adult) the resources, brain capacity, transportation, money and everything else I need to go get a prescription for birth control. For those that don't have that "stuff", I think b/c should be literally available "where they are". Whether it's in the welfare offices, available OTC with something like a food stamp (we'll call it a b/c stamp) etc.

All that said, eugenics was twisted and perverted by the Nazi regime (and others) to the extent of murdering individuals in an effort to create some superior race so in that regards, I don't think I'll be putting an "I eugenics" bumper sticker on my car in the very near future or anything.