Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress
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Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress was a eugenics organization founded by Marie Stopes.[1]
Founding
"The Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress was founded at the Hotel Cecil on August 16, 1921 , Mr. H. V. Roe being elected honorary secretary and Dr. Marie Stopes president, with a distinguished committee and list of vice-presidents."[2]
Tenants
Two of the tenants for Marie Stopes' Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress:
- “The haphazard production of children by ignorant, coerced, or diseased mothers is profoundly detrimental to the race.”
- “Many men and women should be prevented from procreating children at all, because of their individual ill-health, or the diseased and degenerate nature of the offspring that they may be expected to produce.”