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Man Who Wants Full Abortion Ban In Louisiana Once Advocated Sterilizing Poor Women

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samgak4/25/2011 7:35:23 pm PDT

Sterilizing poor women is a little to Nazi-lite for comfort, but what’s the problem with providing incentives for smart, educated women to have more children? Intelligence is at least partly genetically inherited, is it not? It’s not even necessarily a racial issue because this is true within races, e.g. comparing smart and stupid whites. Long-term, society cannot afford to be indifferent to a decline in average intelligence. If this decline is not occurring (the Flynn effect has been called into question) then fine, but if it is then it is a legitimate subject for public policy. It is so backwards that eugenics has become a dirty word to both left and right alike, as if the mere mention of it should stop the conversation dead.