Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Eugenics Current Event

Who: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
What: Advocated practices such as eugenics
Where: United States
When: December 1921
Why: "Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the Eugenic educator … the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit’ is 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."
Link: Eugenics Article

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