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Not only did eugenics foresee an improved human race, it also was appealing to Social Democrats, who were beginning to see that Sweden's welfare state would be costly and wanted to limit the number of people who would have to be supported, the newspaper said.
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No big deal. When I was in law school in Oregon in the mid '70s, the Oregon Board of Social Control [I kid you not] was still on the statute books although I don't think they had sterilized anyone for a while. Eugenics, widespread sufferage, prohibition, central banking, the direct election of Senators were all popular causes promoted by US progressives at the turn of the century. DCF "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. writing for the majority and upholding eugenic sterilization in Buck v. Bell. http://www.findlaw.com/data/us/274/200.html BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble Minded. 274 U.S. 200 (1927) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNAQrT4VO4r4sgSPhAQF7vwQAhcKeYbFQCDce8glt7PIyaccm5ij7eEtE x8B9fvDbbFMEFDltUpTRd/DCzQa6tYAcQCXrBGC+idp9vVAqnjW7De8DeGWOPweU JMpbW+fHAWDSe+eeQ4qP3lJpwUFTpbKxMf5iA1fYAwUAW/cS0nr19Or5POXx/QpW OzoqGL/HP7c= =9va5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----