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The American Baby Code
These headlines are taken directly from a large featured
article written by Margaret Sanger in the American Weekly Magazine in 1934. This
article outlines Planned Parenthood's plan to rid the world of "inferior" human
groups
Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby
Code should be to provide for a better distribution of babies. to assist couples who wish to
prevent overproduction of offspring and thus to reduce the burden of charity and taxation
for public relief and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the
unfit.
Article 2. Birth control
clinics shall be permitted to function as services of government health departments or
under the support of charity, or as nonprofit, self-sustaining agencies subject to
inspection and control by public authorities.
Article 3. A marriage license shall in
itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to
parenthood.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal
right to bear a child, no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit
for parenthood.
Article 5. Permits for parenthood shall be
issued by government authorities to married couples upon application, providing the
parents are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed
for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and on the woman's part
no indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health.
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be
valid for more than one birth.
Article 7. Every county shall be assisted
administratively by the state in the effort to maintain a direct ratio between the county
birth rate and its index of child welfare. When the county records show an unfavorable
variation from this ratio the county shall be taxed by the State.... The revenues thus
obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial
support to birth control....
Article 8. Feeble-minded persons, habitual
congenital criminals, those afflicted with inheritable diseases, and others found
biologically unfit should be sterilized or in cases of doubt should be isolated as to
prevent the perpetuation of their afflictions by breeding.
Used with permission.
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