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The Emergency Problem Of Segregation And Sterilization Must Be Faced Immediately. Every Feeble-minded Girl Or Woman Of The Hereditary Type, Especially Of The Moron Class, Should Be Segregated During The Reproductive Periodwe Prefer The Policy Of Immediate Sterilization, Of Making Sure That Parenthood Is Absolutely Prohibited To The Feeble-minded.

Our Failure To Segregate Morons Who Are Increasing And Multiplying . . . Demonstrates Our Foolhardy And Extravagant Sentimentalism.

Apply A Stern And Rigid Policy Of Sterilization And Segregation To That Grade Of Population Whose Progeny Is Already Tainted, Or Whose Inheritance Is Such That Objectionable Traits May Be Transmitted To Offspring.

We Are Paying For And Even Submitting To The Dictates Of An Ever Increasing, Unceasingly Spawning Class Of Human Beings Who Never Should Have Been Born At All-that The Wealth Of Individuals And Of State Is Being Diverted From The Development And The Progress Of Human Expression And Civilization.

As Often As I Have Witnessed The Miracle [birth], Held The Perfect Creature With Its Tiny Hands And Feet, Each Time I Have Felt As Though I Were Entering A Cathedral With Prayer In My Heart.