North Carolina & Planned Parenthood's Eugenic Roots

On Monday North Carolina put up a cast aluminum roadside marker remembering poor people, mental patients and prisoners who were sterilized against their will by state officials. (NC remembering victims of sterilization program) Between 1933 & 1973 more than 7,600 people were sterilized by "choice or coercion" under the state's so-called eugenics program.

While I applaud their admitting what they did was wrong, it is what they have failed to acknowledge that is just as interesting. The huge role Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger played in promoting eugenics. But then that isn't surprizing since those same tactics are still underlying PPs current business model.

For more on how Sanger's eugenics program still operates check out the info found here. The National Black Pro-Life Union & L.E.A.R.N. (Life Education And Resource Network) Northeast - Black Genocide also have more info on the Eugenics/abortion connection.

I find it interesting that NC ended the eugenics program the same year Roe v Wade & Doe v Bolton legalized the abortion alternative that is now being used to the program intended to keep thousands of people considered mentally disabled or otherwise genetically inferior from having children. Now with Pre-natal testing we can eliminate those same people before there is even a need, as Sanger would say, to sterilize them.

Sadly, in 1927 the US Supreme Court said in Buck v. Bell that states could involuntarily sterilize those they deamed inferior. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in the 1927 ruling: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Even worse, that ruling has never been overturned. (U.S. eugenics legacy: Ruling on Buck sterilization still stands)

Expressing his concerns about how we will handle the ethical questions of possible genetic "improvements" to humanity, University of Maryland historian Steven Selden said: "We're going to revisit all the ethical conundrums that were inherent in the eugenics movement as we move forward."

He is right. we are heading down the same road. In a way I was surprized the USA Today printed an article about Paul Lombardo & his efforts to publicize the terrible history of eugenics. Again because of the Sanger/PP link which USA Today failed to mention in the article. But, I suppose that the editors felt it was safe for USA Today to do so since that link is regularly swept under the rug.

In October 2008, Lombardo published Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell that looked at the history of Buck v Bell. He was named a 2009 Georgia Author of the Year for that book. He is also working on 100 Years of Eugenics: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Project. Last February Lombardo traveled to Rome to speak about the danger of eugenics at the Vatican.

These days, eugenics may be sanitized under other names, but it is still the same evil. & we need to realize that it is a part of the agenda of the "culture of death". & it is being promoted stealthily in the name of health.