Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Chilling reading on eugenics and family planning

I stumbled upon this Google Books version of Margaret Sanger's The Pivot of Civilization, in which she lays out her case for "family planning" as a way to implement eugenics on a broad scale. She's the founder of Planned Parenthood and writes some really scary stuff about eugenics. (Check out chapter four on "The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded," for example.) It's frightening to realize how much of her vision has come to reality with legalized abortion. And, if proposed health care reform includes subsidies for family planning, her vision will be even more true. It's scary stuff.

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