#2. Such parents swell the pathetic ranks of the unemployed. Feeble-mindedness perpetuates itself from the ranks of those who are blandly indifferent to their racial responsibilities. And it is largely this type of humanity we are now drawing upon to populate our world for the generations to come. In this orgy of multiplying and replenishing the earth, this type is pari passu multiplying and perpetuating those direst evils in which we must, if civilization is to survive, extirpate by the very roots.
Only quality people should be allowed to live in Sanger’s opinion. Progressivism and eugenics always seem to go hand in hand. It’s a short walk from sterilizing people because they are disabled, to sterilizing people because you don’t like their culture… or opinions. The United States was the first country to undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics. The most recent occurred from 2006 to 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program in two female correctional facilities. It has since been banned.
