This is how the Eugenics Society conceived of its funding for the IPPF. Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Harvard University Press, 2008), p. 163
The population control movement is eugenics put into action. This has never been a secret. As far back as 1921, for example, in “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda,” Margaret Sanger wrote:The doctrine of Birth Control is now passing through the stage of ridicule, prejudice and misunderstanding. A few years ago this new weapon of civilization and freedom was condemned as immoral, destructive, obscene. Gradually the criticisms are lessening-–understanding is taking the place of misunderstanding. The eugenic and civilizational value of Birth Control is becoming apparent to the enlightened and the intelligent.
In the limited space of the present paper, I have time only to touch upon some of the fundamental convictions that form the basis of our Birth Control propaganda, and which, as I think you must agree, indicate that the campaign for Birth Control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics.
Through William N. Grigg’s recent excellent article (and history lesson) I was alerted to the importance of another anti-natalist scholar – Kingsley Davis. Grigg points out that one of Davis’ seminal papers for Science magazine in 1967 had advocated that “the social structure and economy must be changed before a deliberate reduction in the birthrate can be achieved,” while urging “governments to subsidize voluntary abortion and sterilization and restructure their tax systems to discourage both marriage and childbirth.”
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The Birth Control Solution
What if there were a solution to many of the global problems that confront us, from climate change to poverty to civil wars? There is, but it is starved of resources. It’s called family planning, and it has been a victim of America’s religious wars.
Partly for that reason, the world’s population just raced past the seven billion mark this week, at least according to the fuzzy calculations of United Nations demographers. It took humans hundreds of thousands of years, until the year 1804, to reach the first billion. It took another 123 years to reach two billion, in 1927. Since then, we’ve been passing these milestones like billboards along a highway. The latest billion took just a dozen years.
In 1999, the United Nations’ best projection was that the world wouldn’t pass seven billion until 2013, but we reached it two years early. Likewise, in 1999, the U.N. estimated that the world population in 2050 would be 8.9 billion, but now it projects 9.3 billion.
What’s the impact of overpopulation? One is that youth bulges in rapidly growing countries like Afghanistan and Yemen makes them more prone to conflict and terrorism. Booming populations also contribute to global poverty and make it impossible to protect virgin forests or fend off climate change. Some studies have suggested that a simple way to reduce carbon emissions in the year 2100 is to curb population growth today.
So are you against the right to abortions? Or do you just want people to have fewer abortions?
In any case, we still are not facing a shortage of black people, but we are facing a shortage of educated black people, revolutionary black people...how do we fix that? If more black kids had proper sex education, if more black girls weren't getting pregnant because they think usign birth control means you're a ho, if more black girls weren't getting pregnant because they want a baby to love them....if more black families weren't being destroyed jail time...I can keep going. All these issues seem way more urgent than attacks on Planned Parenthood.
Lincoln may have been a racist, but that doesn't mean freeing the slaves was a bad idea. Whatever the intent, planned parenthood is a good idea.
but targeting blacks in their community and sterilizing them is a bad idea... wouldn't you agree?
no stupid, that's called convenient quality customer service!
Second Anon is HILARIOUS.
Obviously forced and/or uninformed sterilization is terrible. Do I think that's what happens at every Planned Parenthood clinic? Of course not. We know it's not true since there are plenty of out of wedlock births in the black community, right?
KKK-style lynchings cannot be dismissed on this site as relatively rare events and then turn around get worked up about this. Like lynching, one time is too many but I would agree with DV that bad dietary practices in our community, bad attitudes toward education in our community, and bad attitudes toward health in our community are bigger threats.
lol, here's EXACTLY the type of ignorant, backward madness being promoted by the so-called blackest - all the while pretending to promote something shiningly upright and worthy of emulation.
Less Black babies = less daddyless welfare thugs
Prevention > Incarceration, right?
I have two kids. If I had three, none of them are going to private school. It's that simple.
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