The "I *Heart* Eugenics" Thread

[alexamenos]

Originally Posted by jacktruth

Planned Parenthood was started from the Eugenics movement.

yeah--Margeret Sanger was a big time eugenicist. The imperative for birth control, in her view, was to stop all the darkies and dummies from breeding so much.

In her defense, she wasn't quite the goosestepper that most progressives were in this regard -- she didn't want the state to force breeding limits on blacks and the republican rank and file...she just thought that her eugenicist cause could be furthered simply by making birth control free and easy to obtain amongst the undesirable elements of society...

...kinda like Planned Parenthood does now by coincidence.

anyhooo...the earlier point of this thread is that the good liberals in our midst have no basis for complaining against the use of abortion as means of weeding out girls and/or colored folks so long as the act is carried out at the behest of the not-mommy in question.

So anybody up for making abortion free -- or better yet -- for incentivizing abortion amongst latinos? Jews? Nuggets fans?

[Mavdog]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

anyhooo...the earlier point of this thread is that the good liberals in our midst have no basis for complaining against the use of abortion as means of weeding out girls and/or colored folks so long as the act is carried out at the behest of the not-mommy in question.

So anybody up for making abortion free -- or better yet -- for incentivizing abortion amongst latinos? Jews? Nuggets fans?

the decision to abort is made by the mother for a variety of reasons.

those may be valid in the eyes of the rest of us, or may be selfish or nonsensical.

yet it should be a decision made only by the mother.

point being that the state should have no role in this, either in preventing or mandating an abortion.