"Birth control and abortion are turning out to be great eugenic advances of our time. If they had been advanced for eugenic reasons, it would have retarded or stopped their acceptance."
— Eugenics

January 1, 1970

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Frederick Osborn (1889-1981), American Eugenics Society (AES) speech, 1974, quoted in Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (2005), Angela Franks, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina, ch.2, Eugenics as the Control of Births, pp. 65, 83., Citing, Frederick Osborn, "Notes on 'Paradigms or Public Relations: The Case of Social Biology,'" 2, 1/25/74, from FO papers, Notes on "Paradigms" folder. (see Franks, p. 270, n. 2, & p. 273, n. 105). [http://books.google.com/b