Confronting a society too sympathetic to the needy, the downtrodden, the outcast, too willing to lend aid and assistance to the enfeebled offspring of unfit parents, still, #MargaretSanger #persisted.
Always she pressed the case of desirable and worthy self-concern, rejection of the morality of care for the less fortunate, and brotherhood of man.
"We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.
The main objects of the #PopulationCongress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of #sterilization and #segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, ...
or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."
Our dysgenicity increases, our population grows, our rejection of programmatic demands of reduced fecundity mounts, but #MargaretSanger, who loathed the misfortunate? #stillshepersisted!
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