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WHEREAS, the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger who wanted "to Create a Race of Thoroughbreds" (Masthead, Birth Control Review, December 1921) supported the eugenic sterilization of the so-called "unfit" as can be seen from her writings:

Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the Eugenic educator. . .the unbalance between the birth rate of the "unfit" and the "fit" admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization. . .The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review (October 1921): 5; and

WHEREAS, Margaret Sanger fashioned a "Baby Code" after President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery to implement her eugenic policies by proposing a eugenics law, the purpose of which was: to prevent the overproduction of babies by the "unfit" in order to reduce the "burden" of public relief and charity; to require that marriage licenses gave permission only for a common household, but not permission to have children; to require married couples to apply to the government for "permits" to have children, and only issue child permits to eugenically acceptable couples. (Baby Code, rough draft, March 6, 1934, Margaret Sanger Collection, Library of Congress.); and

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WHEREAS, eugenic advocates held that "superior" people should have children, and that "inferior" people should not have children as can be seen by the following:

The eugenicist, again, comes to birth control with a racial viewpoint. He sees in it an important aid towards controlling and improving the type and quality of the human stock. He looks at birth control, in its wider sense, to prevent the propagation of the physically and mentally unfit...the eugenicist also favors a certain type of birth release. Certain classes of the population he would even encourage to increased fertility. . .

It is [on] this biological basis that I believe the birth control clinics of the future will be organized. In connection with the birth control center there will also be a eugenic department, and both of these will, perhaps, be only a part of a more general "marriage advice station". . . . In such a center the racial aspect of reproduction could be stressed.

Hannah Stone, M.D., "The Birth Control Clinic", May 1929, Eugenics, vol. 2, no. 5 (May 1929): 11; and

DEL. MARSHALL

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WHEREAS, eugenic advocate Harry Laughlin, who evaluated Carrie Buck as worthy of sterilization claimed of her family that "[T]hese people belong to the shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of anti-social whites in the South." (Allan Chase, The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of Scientific Racism, 313.), also outlined his eugenic racial views at the 1914 National Eugenics Conference as follows:

To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs is the slogan of eugenics. The compulsory sterilization of certain degenerates is therefore designed as a eugenical agency complementary to the segregation of the socially unfit classes and to the control of the immigration of those who carry defective germ plasm. . . .

. . .it is assumed that the lowest ten percent of the human stock are so meagerly endowed by nature that their perpetuation would constitute a social menace. . . .

In addition to this body of persons, there is another group of persons who, though themselves normal, constitute a breeding stock which continually produces defectives; they are so interwoven in kinship with the lower levels that they are totally unfitted for parenthood. . . .

The sex of the persons sterilized is an important eugenical factor. . . .

The unprotected females of the socially unfit classes bear, in human society, a place comparable to that of the females of mongrel strains of domestic animals. . . .

Harry Laughlin (superintendent, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Springs Harbor, Long Island, New York), "Calculations on the Working out of a Proposed Program of Sterilization", in Proceedings of the First National Conference on Race Betterment, January 8-12, 1914, Battle Creek, Michigan, published by the Race Betterment Foundation, ed. Emily F. Robbins, no copyright, excerpts, 478-94; and

WHEREAS, eugenic advocate Harry Laughlin wrote a model sterilization law that inspired the 1933 compulsory sterilization law of Nazi Germany to sterilize so-called "undesirables," including political enemies; and

DEL. PARRISH

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