For a touch of context, this was about promoting eugenics and these were tremendously popular through the nation from the 1910s through the 30s.
Tag: eugenics
Great ProPublica piece on the very fine racists of the past who created the law criminalizing unlawful entry by immigrants that Trump and his thugs are weaponizing today. Two men spearheaded the effor
Imani Gandy has a very useful run down of Margaret Sanger’s complicated racial, sexual, and medical politics, politics that the right are simplifying and lying about in order to attack Planned P
Better keep the underclass from reproducing. Will destroy the race or something. A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible for hundreds of other inmate sterilizations, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Dr. James Heinrich also has a history of medical controversies and malpractice […]
I occasionally get the question of what the above phrase means. It was my tagline when I wrote at my own blog and it is on the rotating lines at the top of this blog. It is a quote from Herbert Hoover