Sources for “The Racist Origins and Eugenicist Structure of U.S. Family-Planning Policy”

by Daniel Patrick Moloney

Part 1: Forcing the Poor to Stop Having Children
Part 2: The Racist Origins of U.S. Family-Planning Policy

The main article includes several extensive quotations from the Senate Finance Committee hearings of 1971-1972. Below are links to the major discussions of family planning in those hearings, including some not quoted in the article. These hearings are not otherwise available online, but are posted here so that interested readers can see for themselves the context in which the current U.S. family planning policy was originated.

1. Summary of Social Security Amendments of 1972 as approved by the Conferees
See pp. 24 and 33;

2. George Welch: Area Resources Improvement Council, Benton Harbor, Michigan
See especially pp. 1322-1325 (proposal for mandatory birth control);

3. Clarence Mitchell, Direcotor of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
See especially pp. 2221-4 (exchange with Chairman Long on his colorful descriptions of lazy welfare recipients) and pp. 2228-2230 (exchange with Senator Fannin on the problem of excessive birth);

4. Florida State Representative Richard S. Hodes, testifying on behalf of the National Legislative Conference
Relevant passages pp. 2259-2260 (Florida’s welfare support for birth control programs);

5. Testimony of Edwin Daily, M.D., and the summary of the report of New York’s in-hospital family planning program

6. California State Representative Anthony C. Beilenson’s Summary of SB 796, the California Welfare Reform Act of 1971
See p. 2817 (California’s welfare support for birth control programs).

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