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          bounties for women on welfare.     mothers could be implanted         available to the impoverished

          The measure, Senate Bill 6379,     with Norplant for free and         young women who produce our
          sponsored by Senator Scott         perhaps receive increased          criminals is very likely the most
          Barr, would pay $10,000 to         welfare benefits as a reward.      important crime-prevention

          a woman if she agreed to be        He apparently failed to realize    measure adopted in this
          neutered after her first child,    that this was one of the first     country in the last 25 years.
          and $5,000 if she agreed           elements of the coercive
          after the second child.  The       Chinese population program         In short, eugenics and racism
          bill would also give $500 to       that features mandatory            are very much alive today,

          men who got neutered after         sterilization and forced           working closely together
          fathering a welfare child.16       abortions even in the ninth        against minority races and the
                                             month of pregnancy.                lower classes.

          In a classic example of racist
          eugenics, deputy editorial page    As one more example, Anthony       Final Thoughts
          editor Donald Kimelman of the      Bouza, a former Minneapolis
          Philadelphia Inquirer stated in    Police Chief and columnist for     The idea of negative eugenics,
          an article ominously entitled      the Minneapolis Star Tribune,      or preventing “lesser” people

          “Poverty and Norplant: Can         wrote a Mother’s Day editorial     from reproducing, is sadly
          Contraception Reduce the           with the incredibly oxymoronic     still at play in modern society,
          Underclass?”:                      title “A Mother’s Day Wish:        intimately connected with true

                                             Make Abortion Available to         racism.
          As we read these two stories       All Women.”  He described the
          [about Norplant and black          “at risk” population as “poor,     We are witnessing the growth
          poverty], we asked ourselves:      Black and Indian,” and said        of a branch of positive
          Dare we mention them in the        that their offspring are “marked   eugenics that might be called

          same breath?  To do so might       for failure.”  Then he went on     “self-directed evolution.”  This
          be considered deplorably           to say:                            mania has lost sight of who
          insensitive, perhaps raising                                          we truly are as human beings,

          the specter of eugenics.  But      When abortions are illegal,        and of God’s plan for our lives.
          it would be worse to avoid         poor women deliver and keep        We are by now all familiar
          drawing the logical conclusion     their babies.  Then they plunk     with transgenderism — but
          that foolproof contraception       them in front of a TV set,         it has gone far beyond that,
          could be invaluable in breaking    watch them get abused and          from trans-racialism, trans-

          the cycle of inner city poverty    conditioned to violence by         speciesism and transablism, to
          ― one of America’s greatest        parades of males, and expose       the strangest phenomenon of
          challenges.                        them to all the factors the        all, transhumanism. But those

                                             criminologists describe as the     are subjects for another article.
          Kimelman continued by              precursors to a life of crime….
          suggesting that welfare            Making abortions freely



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