The Marriage Bed Is The Most Degenerative

Birth Control Which Has Been Criticized As Negative And Destructive, Is Really The Greatest And Most Truly Eugenic Method, And Its Adoption As Part Of The Program Of Eugenics Would Immediately Give A Concrete And Realistic Power To That Science. . . As The Most Constructive And Necessary Of The Means To Racial Health.

I Accepted An Invitation To Talk To The Women's Branch Of The Ku Klux Klan.

By All Means, There Should Be No Children When Either Mother Or Father Suffers From Such Diseases As Tuberculosis, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Cancer, Epilepsy, Insanity, Drunkenness And Mental Disorders. In The Case Of The Mother, Heart Disease, Kidney Trouble And Pelvic Deformities Are Also A Serious Bar To Childbearing No More Children Should Be Born When The Parents, Though Healthy Themselves, Find That Their Children Are Physically Or Mentally Defective.

No Woman Can Call Herself Free Who Does Not Own And Control Her Body. No Woman Can Call Herself Free Until She Can Choose Consciously Whether She Will Or Will Not Be A Mother.

In Passing, We Should Here Recognize The Difficulties Presented By The Idea Of 'fit' And 'unfit.' Who Is To Decide This Question? The Grosser, The More Obvious, The Undeniably Feeble-minded Should, Indeed, Not Only Be Discouraged But Prevented From Propagating Their Kind. But Among The Writings Of The Representative Eugenists [sic], One Cannot Ignore The Distinct Middle-class Bias That Prevails.