More children from the fit, less from the unfit - that is the chief issue in birth control.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The statement promotes the idea that birth control should favor the physically and mentally fit over the unfit.
- In plain terms
- Control births so that fit people have more kids than unfit people.
- What can you take from it?
- Birth control is framed as a tool for selective reproduction.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who decides what constitutes 'fit' or 'unfit'?
- What safeguards prevent abuse of such policies?
Another view
It relies on subjective and discriminatory criteria of 'fit' and 'unfit'.
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