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George Bernard Shaw and Murder by the State, Marriage, and Eugenics

Filed under 1910, abolition of private property, applied biology, Artificial Selection, breeding horses or cattle, Britain, capital punishiment, compulsory marriage, crypto-eugenics, dissolution of marriage, dysgenic breeding, education, Eugenics Education Society, Evolution, George Bernard Shaw, laws of heredity, legislative eugenics, lethal chamber, marriage, monogamy, morality, negative eugenics, race betterment, sexual selection, socialism, superman

The following article was found in the March 4th edition of The Daily Express in 1910. Reproduced under Fair Use Provisions. If anyone has any corrections they would like to post to the text (which was hard to read) please pass them along. Images of the most readable text are at the end of this …

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George William Hunter’s “Civic Biology” — the Eugenics Textbook at the Heart of the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’

Filed under 1914, American Eugenics, American Indian, applied biology, Artificial Selection, Biological Laws, birth defects, Blond Hair, Blue Eyes, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, Caucasian, Charity, Charles Davenport, China, Civic Biology, civilization, Clarence Darrow, criminals, Darwinism, defectives, definition of eugenics, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, eugenics, eugenics as a science, euthenics, Evolution, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, George William Hunter, German Eugenics, Germany, hereditary cripples, Holocaust, hygiene, individual freedom, inferior people, Inherit the Wind, insane asylums, Intermarriage, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, lethal chamber, man as animal, marriage, Mongolian (yellow race), Natural selection, Nazis, negative eugenics, Parasitism, quote collections, race, scientific racism, scientific world view, Scopes Monkey Trial, sentimentalism, social body, The Jukes, The Kallikaks

The so-called ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ was a media sensation at the time, but how it actually went down was shamelessly skewed afterwards to make it seem that the evolutionists were humble seekers of truth and those who stood against them ignorant, religious bigots. This viewpoint was perpetuated effectively through movies on the trial such as …

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Clarence Gamble–the problem is that people WANT many children!

Filed under 1977, 1978, abortion, American Eugenics, birth control, birth rate, Clarence Gamble, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, family (the institution of), family planning, family size, fertility control, population control, Year

“Family Planning” is often advocated for on the grounds that many people do not want many children, but the truth is the opposite–at least, until the propaganda is brought to bear on them. The need for this propaganda was recognized early, as this quote illustrates. Richard B. Gamble writes in the foreword (1977) of the …

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Josef Mengele and creating a human super-race, as though you were breeding horses

Filed under 1985, 1986, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, concentration camps, Darwinism, eugenics quote of the day, Evolution, genetic engineering, Genetics, German Eugenics, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, Jewish race, Josef Mengele, Nazis, planned evolution, Polish race, pseudo-science, scientific racism, Year

As quoted in Mengele: The Complete Story by Gerald L. Posner and John Ware (1986) on page 43: … [Josef] Mengele’s main aim, as interpreted by Dr. Puzyna, the inmate anthropologist, was wholly unscientific: I found Mengele a picture of what can only be described as a maniac. He turned the truth on its head. …

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Gordon Rattray Taylor: “The Biological Time Bomb” — the remaking of society via eugenics, family planning, and education

Filed under 1968, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, artificial insemination, Artificial Selection, Aryan, birth control, birth rate, breeders, Britain, Catholics, China, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, Darwinism, death rate, defectives, degeneration, democracy, Einstein, eugenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family (the institution of), family planning, family size, fertility control, Fit and Unfit, Fred Hoyle, gay marriage, genetic counseling, Genetics, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, Gordon Rattray Taylor, H.J. Muller, heredity clinic, Hitler, homosexuality, individual freedom, Kingsley Davis, laws of heredity, Lyndon Johnson, Malthus, monogamy, National Academy of Science, Nazis, negative eugenics, Ordensburgen, over-population, planned evolution, Plato, population control, population explosion, positive eugenics, Progressives, public school, Rand Corporation, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade, science, Scientific Management, scientific world view, sterilization, United Nations, Year

Gordon Rattray Taylor’s 1968 book, The Biological Time Bomb, was referenced in the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling as providing insight on future developments in America. Taylor’s book was released at a time when the term ‘eugenics’ had not yet fallen out of favor. Though he does not explicitly endorse many of the things …

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Elaine Freeman in “The ‘God’ Committee”: infanticide and euthanasia logically flow from arguments for aborting children with birth defects

Filed under 1972, abortion, Action T4 Program, American Eugenics, amniocentesis, Andre Hellegers, birth defects, Contraception, defectives, Down Syndrome, Elaine Freeman, euthanasia, genetic counseling, Genetics, German, infanticide, life unworthy of life, meningomyelocele, mongolism, Nazis, New York Times, Papal Commission on birth control, sanctity of life, spina bifida, The God Committee, Year

Elaine Freeman, The ‘God’ Committee, published May 21, 1972, in the New York Times [excerpt] [Opening vignette by Freeman] The baby is a mongoloid born with duodenal atresia, an intestinal obstruction. The parents, professional people in Maryland, refuse permission for the surgery that will enable the infant to survive, deciding that it would be unfair …

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Eugenics and Family Planning Associated Together from the Beginning, Family Planning and Population Control Likewise

Filed under 1949, abortion, ASHG, compulsory abortion, compulsory education, compulsory marriage, compulsory sterilization, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, family size, Fit and Unfit, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, H.J. Muller, individual freedom, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, Natural selection, over-population, Progressives, quote collections, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade

One of the ‘pioneers’ of ‘family planning,’ Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also an avowed eugenicist and advocate for population control. That is, like many advocates of ‘family planning,’ out of one side of their mouth they talk about a “woman’s right to choose” while on the other side they say, “but …

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Letter by Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Davenport: Society should not permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.

Filed under 1913, American Eugenics, applied biology, Artificial Selection, birth defects, breeders, Charles Davenport, Darwinism, duty, dysgenic breeding, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, family size, Fit and Unfit, insane asylums, laws of heredity, man as animal, moral perverts, Natural selection, Progressive Era, rational selection, sentimentalism, Theodore Roosevelt

From The Outlook, January 3rd letter of 1913 [Source] My dear Mr. Davenport: I am greatly interested in the two memoirs you have sent me. They are very instructive, and, from the standpoint of our country, very ominous. You say that those people are not themselves responsible, that it is “society” that is responsible. I …

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Man is an Animal: Charles Galton Darwin in The Next Million Years

Filed under 1952, Artificial Selection, Biological Laws, Charles Galton Darwin, Darwinism, Laws of Nature, man as animal, Natural selection, over-population, population control, rational selection

Charles Galton Darwin, in his book, The Next Million Years: From the Epilogue Anyone who disagrees with my forecast must try to get beyond a vague optimism, which merely expresses the confidence that “something will turn up.” In particular he must find a really solid reason which shows how the threat of over-population will be …

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The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

Filed under 1914, 1915, 1916, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1968, 1972, abortion, After-birth abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, ASHG, birth control, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, Down Syndrome, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, Elaine Freeman, eugenics, euthanasia, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, feeble-minded, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Frederick Osborn, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, Germany, H.J. Muller, Harrison Brown, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, hereditary cripples, heredity clinic, Holocaust, human weeds, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, Lee R. Dice, Madison Grant, medical genetics, medical killing, meningomyelocele, mental defectives, mongolism, morality, Natural selection, Nazis, New York Times, planned evolution, quote collections, race, rational selection, sanctity of life, science, sentimentalism, social body, spina bifida, sterilization, The God Committee, The Passing of the Great Race, Year

Charity requires us to believe that most contemporary genetic counselors are not at all motivated by considerations that we would term ‘eugenic.’ However, the founders of the field left no doubt about their motivations, stating them plainly and explicitly, and characterizing them as definitely constituting eugenics. The following material raises more than reasonable doubt that …

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George Bernard Shaw and Murder by the State, Marriage, and Eugenics

Clarence Gamble–the problem is that people WANT many children!

Josef Mengele and creating a human super-race, as though you were breeding horses

Gordon Rattray Taylor: “The Biological Time Bomb” — the remaking of society via eugenics, family planning, and education

Elaine Freeman in “The ‘God’ Committee”: infanticide and euthanasia logically flow from arguments for aborting children with birth defects

Eugenics and Family Planning Associated Together from the Beginning, Family Planning and Population Control Likewise

Letter by Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Davenport: Society should not permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.

Man is an Animal: Charles Galton Darwin in The Next Million Years

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