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A Plan for Peace
MARGARET SANGER
(founder of Planned Parenthood)
Summary of address before the New Historical
Society, January 17th, New York City
First, put into action President Wilson's fourteen points,
upon which terms Germany and Austria surrendered to the Allies in 1918.
Second, have Congress set up a special department for the
study of population problems and appoint a Parliament of Population, the directors
representing the various branches of science: this body to direct and control the
population through birth rates and immigration, and to direct its distribution over the
country according to national needs consistent with taste, fitness and interest of the
individuals.
The main object of the Population Congress would be:
a. to raise the level and increase the intelligence of
the population.
b. to increase the population slowly by keeping the
birth rate at its present level of fifteen per thousand, decreasing the death rate below
its present mark of 11 per thousand.
c. to keep the doors of immigration closed to the
entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of
the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal,
professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.
d. to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization
and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose
inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
e. to insure the country against future burdens of
maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning
all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
f. to give certain dysgenic groups in our population
their choice of segregation or sterilization.
g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these
segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the
period of their entire lives.
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