The Menaces of society
Eugenicists believed degenerate traits tainted society through the reproduction of the lowest classes. In addition, they were believed to be financial burdens to society, by overcrowding prisons and hospitals and living off welfare. To stop this spreading, the solution to pass laws allowing compulsory sterilization, giving state governments the responsibility to sterilize citizens deemed harmful to society.
the feebleminded
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The Poor"Even this will not be sufficient because I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them" |