Rachel Wilson
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Why do you think he thought that?
Because he was a eugenicist who loved the idea of millions of abortions a year.
Wells, the War of the Worlds guy, was a eugenicist.
You should have Jay Dyer on to tell you about H.G.
I brought you his book.
I love the War of the Worlds.
He wrote some great fiction, but he was a diehard Malthusian.
These people really believed.
It was actually a very popular thing that we're talking like right after Darwinism.
We're talking about just before the Nazis.
We're talking about the Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation.
It was very popular position to be in favor of social hygiene, as they called it, which was, you know, anybody with birth defects shouldn't be able to reproduce.
Anybody of the lower races or inferior mentally, any of those kind of people shouldn't reproduce because we want, you know, a cleaner, better human race going forward.
So feminism was instrumental in that.
That's actually where the birth control pill came from as well.
Margaret Sanger, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation, and a lot of Nazi scientists are the ones who started synthesizing human hormones to make birth control pills.