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Nov 17, 2022 · In 1994, William Gates Snr. would continue his eugenicist efforts by helping to establish the William H. Gates Foundation [9], a new “philanthropic” brainchild. The organization, like Planned Parenthood, would begin by ‘improving’ reproductive and child health in developing countries.
- History of Eugenics
- The Negro Project
- “Abortion Is Racism”
- The Urgency of Population Issues
- Decreasing Population Through Better Health Care?
- “Innovating to Zero”
The Eugenics Movement was a potent political force in early 20th century America. However, its membership was of a much different ilk compared to Hitler and the jack-booted soldiers of the Third Reich. As Ross Douthat wrote in the New York Times, One of the original members of this crusade was Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Her unw...
Sanger’s most successful endeavor toward this goal was what she called “The Negro Project.” In order for The Negro Project to succeed, Sanger emphasized the need to have influential black leaders and, especially, ministers, educated in the goals of the birth control movement.
Backed by funding from the wealthy Rockefeller Foundation, The Negro Project was a success. Sanger lost control of The Negro Project to other members of her Federation before her vision was completely achieved. However, current statistics attest to the lingering success of her strategy. Clearly, accordingto African-American pro-life leader, Dr. Alv...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated billions to the cause of improving global health, largely by sponsoring vaccine and agricultural programs in Third World countries. In an interview on the PBS program NOW with Bill Moyes (May 9, 2003), Moyes asked Gates how, given his background at Microsoft, he came to this champion this particular...
As did Sanger, Gates believes in the eugenist Thomas Malthus’s idea that the sustainability of the world’s resources is completely dependent upon maintaining population control. Ironically, Gates believes that improving health care, primarily through vaccinations, will accomplish this. Gates emphasizes vaccination programs as the best means of comb...
Population control is also central to the issue of climate change, another of Gates’s passionate causes. In a talk titled, Innovating to Zero, presented at the 2010 Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference, Gates proposed a goal of achieving zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050. He explained his mathematical formula by which tha...
Bill Gates while working there, and they married in 1994. They divorced in 2021 but continue to run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together.2 Establishing the Gates Foundation in 2000 with the stated goal of improving child health in Third World countries,3 the foundation has since expanded its mission to global proportions in
Eugenicists justified eliminating the “unfit” by citing the betterment of society. The idea of creating “better citizens” is called eugenics and became popular in the 1880s. Eugenic ideas were embraced by scientists, politicians, feminists, and many others, including Alexander Graham Bell, Woodrow Wilson, Victoria Woodhull, and Thomas ...
May 8, 2019 · Journalist Daniel Okrent says that the eugenics movement — a junk science that stemmed from the belief that certain races and ethnicities were morally and genetically superior to others —...
- Terry Gross
Jul 20, 2022 · Eugenicists wanted to prevent these people from having children. Protecting the so-called “feebleminded”, the constitutionally weak and the socially “unfit” was deemed detrimental to the future of the race. Finally, eugenics promised a solution to social problems as varied as crime, alcoholism, and poverty.
Jun 1, 2011 · Eugenics, a dark offshoot of the science of genetics, was an early 20th century movement that sought to prevent social ills by seeing that those who...
