In 1919, a popular female public figure stated that she believed in sterilizing the “growing stream of the unfit” so that they ceased to produce and the world would evolve into “a race of thoroughbreds.” The government, the woman taught, should “apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to the grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” She concluded that “dysgenic groups” should be given “their choice of segregation or sterilization.”

The woman was Margaret Sanger, and she founded what is today one of the most powerful eradicators of so-called “unfit” people groups in the world: Planned Parenthood.