Review of back issues of Reader's Digest magazine (Jan. 1970) - Felony to distribute birth control information (Eugenicist crusaders vow to eliminate the "mentally defective" and "handicapped misfits") - Ep. 17

Poor people travel through a hurricane to get birth control at a eugenics clinic.

17th episode of Review of back issues of Reader's Digest magazine. I'm starting with January, 1970 and working forward from there. There's lots of interesting content in these older issues of RD. This program reviews that content and I share my thoughts and opinions.

Quote from page 80, "... They came because what the clinic was was offering publicly for the first time in Louisiana was more important to them than the storm's hazards: the chance to gain a measure of control over their lives by regulating the size of their families."

The foregoing quote is from the featured Reader's Digest article, "Birth-Control Success Story No. 1: A quiet miracle wrought by a Louisiana doctor promises to set a pattern for the conquest of unbridled population growth," written by Arthur Gordon.

The doctor's name was Joseph Diehl Beasley. Also mentioned in the article is a Jewish doctor named Alan Frank Guttmacher who was the president of the Planned Parenthood World Population Organization and the vice president of the American Eugenics Society.

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