Sanger himself became famous for his eugenics views. He believed that he was trying to "help the competition to eliminate the incompetent". As a eugenicist, he considered women's duty to themselves as a duty to the state. According to his idea, the reproductive functions of the female sex best determine the favorable time and conditions - that is, when the child should be born. He linked eugenics to a strict immigration policy on a racial basis, and advocated free access to birth control methods, complete family planning autonomy for the "sane" and mandatory segregation or sterilization of the "severely retarded". “We protect the unborn from their own inadequacy,” the founder of Planned Parenthood testified.
And Teddy Roosevelt, former US president, wrote in 1913: "It is not the business of society to allow cripples to further reproduce their species." Even before his presidency, in 1907, Woodrow Wilson began supporting the mandatory sterilization of people with Down syndrome, and four years later, as governor, he signed a bill on mandatory sterilization.
In the background of the political aspirations, the earlier and further-thought-out discoveries of scientific life were also there, writes Zoltán Lomnici junior on the basic law blog.
In the 19th century, the world-famous British scientist Charles Darwin made the important statement that species are perfected as a result of natural selection - this is one of the basic tenets of the theory of evolution, which is widely spread and accepted around the world - and this theory greatly influenced the eugenicists. This could be interpreted on the one hand by the so-called in terms of positive eugenics (in particular, the reproduction of the perfect must be promoted), at the same time, the so-called also in the form of negative eugenics, which propagated the birth restriction of persons suffering from certain genetic damage through the education of women. As did Planned Parenthood.
Until 1931, sterilization laws were passed in twenty-six states of the United States, according to which the feeble-minded and those suffering from certain mental illnesses could be made sterile - not paradoxically, but really contradictory: by their own will.
In addition, sterilization laws were passed in Sweden and Denmark. In Hitler's Third Reich, from 1933, the mandatory sterilization law was quickly enacted, followed shortly thereafter by the complete ban on marriage with genetically damaged individuals.
The connection with Nazism later largely determined the future fate of eugenics as a trend, so in recent decades it has become an increasingly unacceptable sociopolitical view. However, there were states where this process took place more slowly: in Sweden, for example, from 1934 until the mid-1970s, a sterilization law was in force, according to which mentally disabled people could be sterilized without consent.
Today, "racial hygiene", the birth control of people considered less suitable, is no longer itself, but at the same time, the unprecedented population of the Earth is a lively concern of the world's economic and intellectual elite. However, the issue of reproduction and over-reproduction is also related to the question of race (for example, in the relationship between blacks and whites), and to the fact that high fertility is characteristic today for the most part in less developed parts of the world. A few years ago
the British newspaper Times wrote that the American Bill Gates held a secret meeting with other billionaires, where they sought and raised solutions to the "overpopulation problem" in the presence of businessmen Michael Bloomberg and György Soros, among others.
Gates saw that the rapidly growing population is indeed a problem for developing countries, and if this continues, it may also mean that these children cannot be properly fed, vaccinated or educated (translating his words: both physical, both to enable them to live a full life in a spiritual sense). Although it has spread, especially on social media, there is no clear evidence that Bill Gates himself supports eugenics. And when he raised the issue of population growth, Gates said he supported access to health care and birth control.
However, the racism that fuels eugenics continues to live on today, and unfortunately, it also receives significant international support in the form of NGO networks. In practice, some movements and trends that operate with a distinctly anti-white edge and are committed to minorities in principle as "human rights" allow the awareness of instinctive distance or even hatred. The BLM movement, which began its journey overseas and is also active in Europe, specifically distinguishes between people (blacks and whites) based on skin color, and allows the extension of prejudices fueling racism to several social groups (see anti-Trump riots) - also developing reflexes that, of course, are not necessarily associated with physical violence and aggression. It would also make white people aware that it no longer makes sense to fight against such a "new America", and if this approach becomes generally accepted at public policy levels, then over time - by definition - it will be able to permeate the spirit of population, reproductive health and social policies and state practice as well.
Source: Constitution blog / hirado.hu
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