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The WANTED Children Are the Problem (Cordelia Scaife May)

Filed under 1974, abortion, Catholics, compulsory abortion, Contraception, every child a wanted child, family planning, family size, John D Rockefeller 3rd, Kingsley Davis, over-population, population control, Ravenholt, Year

Source: Donald T. Critchlow in Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America. (Oxford University Press, 1999). Pages 186-187. Italics his, bold ours. The letters he cites he references are: Mrs. Cordelia Scaife May to John D. Rockefeller 3rd, November 7, 1974, John D. Rockefeller 3rd Papers (unprocessed), RA Mrs. Cordelia …

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Separating Sex from Reproduction, the School, and the State

Filed under 1968, abortion, Aldous Huxley, applied biology, artificial insemination, Bible, Biological Laws, compulsory education, Contraception, dissolution of marriage, education, eugenics quote of the day, every child a wanted child, family (the institution of), Fit and Unfit, gay marriage, genetic engineering, Gordon Rattray Taylor, homosexuality, Kingsley Davis, legislative eugenics, population control, population explosion, public school, right to reproduce, sanctity of life, sterilization, the State, Year

“The family is already being eroded by the intervention of school and state, and [the separation of sex from reproduction] might be its coup de grace.” G. Taylor, 1968

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Gordon Rattray Taylor: “The Biological Time Bomb” — the remaking of society via eugenics, family planning, and education

Filed under 1968, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, artificial insemination, Artificial Selection, Aryan, birth control, birth rate, breeders, Britain, Catholics, China, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, Darwinism, death rate, defectives, degeneration, democracy, Einstein, eugenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family (the institution of), family planning, family size, fertility control, Fit and Unfit, Fred Hoyle, gay marriage, genetic counseling, Genetics, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, Gordon Rattray Taylor, H.J. Muller, heredity clinic, Hitler, homosexuality, individual freedom, Kingsley Davis, laws of heredity, Lyndon Johnson, Malthus, monogamy, National Academy of Science, Nazis, negative eugenics, Ordensburgen, over-population, planned evolution, Plato, population control, population explosion, positive eugenics, Progressives, public school, Rand Corporation, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade, science, Scientific Management, scientific world view, sterilization, United Nations, Year

Gordon Rattray Taylor’s 1968 book, The Biological Time Bomb, was referenced in the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling as providing insight on future developments in America. Taylor’s book was released at a time when the term ‘eugenics’ had not yet fallen out of favor. Though he does not explicitly endorse many of the things …

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Category: Kingsley Davis

The WANTED Children Are the Problem (Cordelia Scaife May)

Separating Sex from Reproduction, the School, and the State

Gordon Rattray Taylor: “The Biological Time Bomb” — the remaking of society via eugenics, family planning, and education

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