The general program of the eugenicist is clear—it is to improve the race by inducing young people to make a more reasonable selection of marriage mates; to fall in love intelligently. It also includes the control by the state of the propagation of the mentally incompetent. It does not imply the destruction of the unfit either before or after birth.
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.
Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.
Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
We can win a war in 100 days but we can't teach our people how to avoid unwanted pregnancy.
When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.
I don't worry too much about sex education in the schools. If the kids learn it like they do everything else, they won't know how.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
I advocate family planning, but I have never stood for forcible sterilisation.
