Eugenics, Which Had Started Long

As An Advocate Of Birth Control I Wish ... To Point Out That The Unbalance Between The Birth Rate Of The 'unfit' And The 'fit,' Admittedly The Greatest Present Menace To Civilization, Can Never Be Rectified By The Inauguration Of A Cradle Competition Between These Two Classes. In This Matter, The Example Of The Inferior Classes, The Fertility Of The Feeble-minded, The Mentally Defective, The Poverty-stricken Classes, Should Not Be Held Up For Emulation.... On The Contrary, The Most Urgent Problem Today Is How To Limit And Discourage The Over-fertility Of The Mentally And Physically Defective.

Eugenics, Which Had Started Long Before My Time, Had Once Been Defined As Including Free Love And Prevention Of Conception... Recently It Had Cropped Up Again In The Form Of Selective Breeding.

Woman Must Have Her Freedom, The Fundamental Freedom Of Choosing Whether Or Not She Will Be A Mother And How Many Children She Will Have. Regardless Of What Man's Attitude May Be, That Problem Is Hers - And Before It Can Be His, It Is Hers Alone.

We Should Not Minimize The Great Outstanding Service Of Eugenics For Critical And Diagnostic Investigations. It Demonstrates ... That Uncontrolled Fertility Is Universally Correlated With Disease, Poverty, Overcrowding And The Transmission Of Hereditable Traits.

On The Contrary, The Most Urgent Problem Today Is How To Limit And Discourage The Over-fertility Of The Mentally And Physically Defective.