Planned Parenthood Founder:
Exposed as Racist?

Book explores eugenics' origins

The author of last year's The Unfit: A history of a Bad Idea, Carlson says that "liberals, left-wing ideologues, social reformers, people of good intentions, scholars, and totally innocent scientists all contributed to the eugenics movement" — not just a few malevolent scientists. (Black does note that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was "a bigot if not a racist" who associated with eugenicists.) "Evil movements try to pick legitimate science to bolster their fanaticism," Carlson adds.

MARGARET SANGER

A Register of Her Papers In the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division Research Department

"A Plan for Peace"
By Margaret Sanger

April 1932

     First, put into action President Wilson's fourteen points, upon which terms Germany and Austria surrendered to the Allies in 1918.

     Second, have congress set up a special department for the study of population problems and appoint a Parliament of Population, the directors representing the various branches of science:  this body to direct and control the population through the birth rates and immigration, and to direct its distribution over the country according to national needs consistent with taste, fitness and interest of the individuals.

     The main objects of the Population Congress would be:

a.  to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population.

b.  to increase the population slowly by keeping the birth rate at its present level of fifteen per thousand, decreasing the death rate below its present mark of 11 per thousand.

c  to keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.

d.  to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

e.  to insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.

f.  to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

g.  to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

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