The Fertility of the Unfit by W. A. (William Allan) Chapple
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the unfit.
9. The proportion of the unfit to the fit is in consequence annually increasing. 10. The _future_ of society demands that compulsory sterilization of the unfit should be adopted. 11. No method ever tried or suggested offers the advantages of simplicity, safety, effectiveness, and popularity, promised by tubo-ligature. 12. The State must protect itself against the collateral danger of artificial sterilization of its best stock. The highest interest of Society and of the individual urgently requires that the size of families be controlled. The moral restraint of Malthus (delayed marriage) and post-nuptial intermittent restraint are the only safe and rational methods, that our civilization can possibly encourage, or physiology endorse. These methods must of necessity be peculiar to the best class of people. For the worst class of people, induced sterility, or prohibited fertility, is an absolute necessity, if Society and civilization must endure. Now what are likely to be the results of, first, the moral methods, and, second, the surgical method of our curtailment. |
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