Back then, a large percentage of "liberals" believed in eugenics and worse. One of the few good things resulting from Hitler's madness was that he made that crap unfashionable.
Jim Devine On Dec 21, 2012 11:48 AM, "Louis Proyect" <[email protected]> wrote: > Political support was also growing outside the South. The motivation for > this can be seen in the different attitudes toward birth control held by > the two Roosevelts (distant cousins) who have been President. In 1905 > Theodore Roosevelt, a Progressive Republican, alarmed feminists by > blasting birth control as "criminal against the race." Almost exactly > forty years later, in March of 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, a liberal > Democrat, expressed a far different view, though one with the same goal > in mind. The historian Christopher Thorne described it this way: > > Subjects to do with breeding and race seem, indeed, to > have held a certain fascination for the President... > Roosevelt felt it in order to talk, jokingly, of dealing > with Puerto Rico's excessive birth rate by employing, > in his own words, "the methods which Hitler used > effectively." He said to Charles Taussig and William > Hassett, as the former recorded it, "that it is all very > simple and painless. You have people pass through a > narrow passage and then there is a brrrrr of an electrical > apparatus. They stay there for twenty seconds and from > then on they are sterile."[29] > > full: http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pphistry.txt > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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