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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...
6 days ago · Eugenics was a global movement of bio-politics; a scientific movement centered on heredity, statistics and a particular definition of human progress; a political movement for racial and...
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...
Mar 2, 2024 · From the first decade of the 20th century until well after World War II, the “new science” of eugenics was a constant topic in the Journal, as it was in medical journals all over the United ...
1 Definition. 2 Purpose. 3 History. 3.1 Pre-Galton eugenics. 3.2 Galton's theory. 3.3 1890s–1945. 3.4 Stigmatization of eugenics in the post-Nazi years. 4 Controversies. 4.1 Diseases vs. traits. 4.2 Ethical re-evaluation. 4.3 Slippery slope. 4.4 Genetic diversity. 4.5 Heterozygous recessive traits. 5 Notes. 6 References. 7 External links. 8 Credits
The American eugenics movement was a model for the compulsory sterilization implemented by the Nazis after they took power in Germany in 1933. The movement waned in America only following World War II when the US public became aware of the full extent of the Nazi Aryan racial superiority program.
