A Free Race Cannot Be Born Of

No Woman Shall Have The Legal Right To Bear A Child Without A Permit For Parenthood.

Every Single Case Of Inherited Defect, Every Malformed Child, Every Congenitally Tainted Human Being Brought Into This World Is Of Infinite Importance To That Poor Individual; But It Is Of Scarcely Less Importance To The Rest Of Us And To All Of Our Children Who Must Pay In One Way Or Another For These Biological And Racial Mistakes.

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.

Hordes Of People [are] Born, Who Live, Yet Who Have Done Absolutely Nothing To Advance The Race One Iota. Their Lives Are Hopeless Repetitions… Such Human Weeds Clog Up The Path, Drain Up The Energies And The Resources Of This Little Earth. We Must Clear The Way For A Better World; We Must Cultivate Our Garden.

The Undeniably Feeble-minded Should, Indeed, Not Only Be Discouraged But Prevented From Propagating Their Kind.