How Eugenics Lives Today

Genesis View: Humans are special among all other living things, created in the image of God. Every person has value; deserves to be respected/protected; created with an equal right to life. Humans are products of genetic combination & mutation (nothing special). Our worth is not inherent, but determined by society. Any person found burdensome on the collective does not have a right to life. Some lives are worth less than others. Eugenist View:

“Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.” “Birth Control is the greatest and most truly eugenic method. It has been seen by the clearest and most forward thinking eugenicists as the most constructive and necessary means of racial health.” “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922

“Eugenics shows us that we are paying for and submitting to an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all. That our wealth is being diverted from the progress of human civilization…” “Our eyes should be opened to the terrific cost to the community of this dead weight of human waste.” “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922

“The most urgent problem today is how to limit the fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it chooses to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that results from our stupid sentimentalism.” “Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” 1921

“Eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough solution to racial, political and social problems. Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general and prudent practice must lead…ultimately to a cleaner race.” “"Morality and Birth Control" 1918

Sanger’s Magazine “Birth Control: To create a race of thoroughbreds.”

“As long as blacks and Hispanics demonstrate ‘a good quality gene pool’– as long as they ‘act white and think white’–they are esteemed equally with Aryans. As long as they are, as Sanger said, ‘the best of their race,’ then they can be counted as valuable citizens.” By the same token, "individual whites" who show "dysgenic traits" must also have their fertility "curbed right along with the other ‘inferiors and undesirables.’" “Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood’s Founder”

Harlem, NYC 1929

“An experimental clinic…one established for the benefit of the colored people."

“We should hire three or four black ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds and engaging personalities. The most successful approach to their population is through a religious appeal.” We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it should occur to their more rebellious members.” Letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, planning “the Negro Project”

On the poor, minority, and immigrant populations: “Human weeds” “Reckless breeders” “Spawning... human beings who never should have been born" “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922

Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. The serious charge that can be brought against modern "benevolence" is that is encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression... “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922

…It [charity] encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fertility of others; which brings with it, a dead weight of human waste.” “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922

“It now remains for the U.S. government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means. “The Function of Sterilization” From her address to the Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College, 1926

“…In this way, the moron and the diseased would have no posterity to inherit their unhappy condition. The number of the feeble-minded would decrease and a heavy burden would be lifted from the shoulders of the fit.” “The Function of Sterilization” From her address to the Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College, 1926

Birth control clinics, or bureaus, should be established "in which men and women will be taught the science of parenthood and of breeding…to breed out of the race the scourges of transmissible disease, mental defect, poverty, lawlessness, crime … since these classes would be decreasing in number instead of breeding like weeds." "We Must Breed a Race of Thoroughbreds“ 1929

Sanger on abortion: “While there are cases where the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed each year are a disgrace to civilization.” “Woman and the New Race”

Sanger on abortion: "[In 1916] we explained what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way no matter how early it was performed, it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, because life had not yet begun." “Margaret Sanger, an Autobiography” 1938

“The intent of Sanger’s Negro Project is firmly intact. Between 70 and 80% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in low income, high minority communities. Nearly 40% of all African-American pregnancies end in induced abortion. There is more access to birth control than ever before and the huge disparity in poverty rates between whites and blacks continues. Fatherlessness and poverty are rampant. Unintended pregnancy rates continue to rise. Ryan Bomberger, The Radiance Project

“…Today, the same mouthpieces for Planned Parenthood are claiming “lack of access” while black women access abortion clinics at 5 times the rate of white women. This is by design. Abortion kills more black Americans (363,705) than all other causes of death combined (285,522). In NYC, home of Planned Parenthood, more black babies are aborted than born alive.” Ryan Bomberger, The Radiance Project