Samizdat History

Reason magazine has an article on the Progressive romance with eugenics.

In one of the great accomplishments of Disinformatsiya, the elite left has convinced people that the eugenics movement was a product of nasty old conservatives, rather than scientific, religion-hating Progressive movement.

The only group to defend Carrie "The Generations of Imbeciles are Enough!" Buck against the Progressivism of 8 of the 9 Supreme Court justice, including liberal giant Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was the Knights of Columbus.

You can draw a straight line from the Catholic anti-eugenics activism of the 1930s to the Catholic anti-abortion activism of the 1970s.

You can draw an equally straight line from the liberal/progressive eugenics activism of the 1930s to the liberal abortion activism of the 1970s.