OBAMAGENICS: The Holmes-Holdren Reproductive Services Act

Lee Cary reports:

ObamaGenics wouldn’t be a blue jeans clothing line featuring Mrs. Obama but a bold, new progressive initiative and a descendent of the 20th Century American eugenics movement – the subject of Edwin Black’s book “War Against The Weak.”
Eugenics was, according to Paul A. Lombardo, author of “Three Generations of Imbeciles,” “entirely consistent with the even larger social movement that was key underpinning of eugenic activities: Progressivism.” (p. 17)

The eugenics movement marshaled support from agencies in 32 states where laws passed concerning the “socially inadequate.” The goal: Purge society of the “unfit.” The tool: Forced sterilizations that numbered about 60,000 between the adoption of the first state eugenics law (Indiana, 1907) and the repeal of the last law (N. Carolina, 2003).

California alone tallied 20,000 sterilizations between 1909 and 1979. But the California count hasn’t stopped. In July 2013, The Center for Investigative Reporting’s website revealed that “Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals.”

The sterilized included the “feebleminded, paupers, criminals, epileptics, the insane, the congenitally weak, people predisposed to specific diseases, the deformed, the blind and the deaf.” (Black, p. 43)

Eugenics officials gathered endorsements and financial support from many early 20th Century celebrity-status persons and foundations, including Alexander Graham Bell, Junior League founder Mary W, Harriman Rumsey (William Averell Harriman’s sister, and daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman), Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, economist Irving Fisher, and former President Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1913, wrote to a leading eugenicist that, “…society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind…Some day, we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty, of the good citizen of the right type, is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.” (Black, p.99)

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