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In MARGARET SANGER'S 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger attacked organized charity as counterproductive and dangerous because it helped save and extend the lives of poor people, thereby increasing their capacity to procreate: “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant…. We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” “The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.” In the same book, Sanger also called for the closure of maternity centers that served the prenatal and childbirth needs of poor women. By Sanger’s reckoning, such entities “would facilitate the function of maternity among the very classes in which the absolute necessity is to discourage it,” thereby contributing to a “very definite deterioration in the human stock.https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/margaret-sanger/