The sexual revolution and abortion (2)

By Ann Farmer   |   26 November 2025

This is the eleventh of a twelve-part series beginning with Eugenics and the true history of the Abortion Campaign (1).

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, after a high-powered campaign, the New Labour government introduced the Teenage Pregnancy Unit, with significant help from “family planning” bodies¹ — which, in contrast to organisations helping pregnant and new mothers, receive generous taxpayer funding,² despite functioning as a taxpayer prevention programme. These closely linked organisations³ focussed on preventing births rather than encouraging male responsibility, and their “solution” only made the problem worse, with enormous rises in sexually transmitted diseases. One senior official in the Government’s Health Protection Agency stated: “It is girls we are worried about — because we do see higher rates of STIs in girls than boys. They start to have sex earlier and have partners who are much older. These older men tend to have multiple partners.”⁴ Few connected the official “teen pregnancy” drive, especially in poor areas,⁵ with the organised rape of young girls by much older men, a decades-long, countrywide scandal facilitated by state-sanctioned sex education and abortion.⁶

Despite Government quality inspectors finding that abortion providers ignored safeguarding issues when dealing with underage girls,⁷ public officials failed to intervene, fearing accusations of racism,⁸ and a recent media inquiry found the abuse has continued unabated.⁹ The official approach to preventing abortions and ‘unintended pregnancies’ is to provide long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)¹⁰; however, such methods are not easily reversible: IUDs and contraceptive implants must be removed by health professionals, but despite this, LARC is also the official approach to repeat abortion.¹¹ Interestingly, research has found that “post-abortive women who use long-acting contraceptives like the IUD or Depo-Provera are nearly twice as likely to have a repeat abortion than women who use no birth control at all”¹²; regardless, this failed “solution” to repeat abortion is backed up by yet more abortion, the official “backstop” of the Sexual Revolution. Historically, the sterilisation campaign failed, but legalising abortion has fulfilled the aim of population control by providing de facto sterilisation as the solution to abortion, for economic reasons, to ever-younger, vulnerable girls.¹³

The invention of the “intended pregnancy” led to the “unintended pregnancy”; abstinence was regarded as impossible because it was believed that poor people especially “could not help themselves” — an approach driven by eugenics disguised as “family planning”. In the 1960s, the Eugenics Society adopted a policy of “crypto eugenics”, working through “family planning” to curb the “unfit” poor: under its Secretary C P Blacker, the Society gave up trying to encourage the better off to have more children, and concentrated on contracepting the poor.¹⁴ But with eugenics concerns resurfacing, in 2020, abortion provider Marie Stopes International — which has enjoyed support from the sex industry¹⁵ but also British taxpayers¹⁶ — became MSI Reproductive Choices; in 1989, the Eugenics Society became the Galton Institute; and when Galton became problematical,¹⁷ in 2021 it was renamed the Adelphi Genetics Forum¹⁸ — while continuing to supply birth control to poor Africans.¹⁹

Population control abroad can be justified by “family planning” at home, and here in the UK, eugenics is alive and killing: from the 1950s onwards, mental institutions were closed, and patients released into “the community”²⁰; compulsory abortions and sterilisations followed, together with the withdrawal of medical treatment from the mentally incapacitated, all by order of the Orwellian-sounding Court of Protection.²¹ For the mentally challenged, “freedom” led to eugenics. 

Eugenicists saw man as ‘”just another animal”, and while right-wing eugenicists wanted animal breeding methods applied to “lesser evolved’ humans”,²² left-wing eugenicists were keen on human “re-wilding”, promoting sexual “freedom” underpinned by fertility control to reduce costs to the welfare state they also championed. The latter approach triumphed, but thanks to the Sexual Revolution it has delivered remarkably similar outcomes: while the “serial mating” and “chaotic lifestyles” of the poor prompt complaints about burdening the welfare state, the media lauds the “colourful love lives” of “celebrities”, with the latest partner seen as the most successful — as G K Chesterton would say, not so much “the survival of the fittest” as “the survival of the fiercest”.

The wider family now picks up the pieces of families broken by sexual “freedom”, but the Galton Institute found that the extended family is an important factor in women deciding whether to have additional children, suggesting that the broken family is a crucial component of eugenics population control.²³

Feminists would suggest that historically, women only had children because there was no birth control; according to this flawed narrative, it was men who wanted children, forcing them upon their helpless, trapped partners. However, sexual libertarians like H G Wells complained that it was men who were trapped in a position of servitude to their wives and children, working to support the family while their wives lived in idle luxury.²⁴ Wells aimed at “nationalizing” the female sex, making all women available to all men, with family allowances as the “maternal wage” paid to single mothers — although initially he was careful not to be too open about his “open conspiracy”.²⁵ Wells’ theories reflected his personal life, having affairs with (among others) Margaret Sanger²⁶; much later he admitted that, “to the very great dismay of the strategists and tacticians of the Fabian Society, and to the immense embarrassment of the Labour Party societies, I began to blurt out these ideas and attempt to sexualise socialism.”²⁷

The feminist mantra “a woman’s right to choose” sounds empowering, but for the neediest pregnant women, there is increasingly only one “choice”, as abortion advocates try to criminalise last-minute offers of help — help that abortion providers do not provide.²⁸ There is no right to a child, only the right to get rid of one, allowing reluctant fathers to avoid supporting their partners and children and enabling society to avoid supporting the unsupported by offering the insupportable. 

Abortion campaign pioneers argued that unwanted pregnancies led to unwanted children and miserable mothers, even citing child cruelty as evidence of maternal regret; but however difficult their circumstances, most mothers do not regret their children,²⁹ and the reality of post-abortion trauma also contradicts such claims.³⁰

The “reluctant mother” narrative is also challenged by the growth of the hugely profitable assisted reproduction industry³¹; however, separating childbearing from the sex act has led to the commodification of children, especially when it involves surrogacy. It has introduced “eugenics-by-choice”, with the abortion of disabled fetuses, the rejection of “imperfect” embryos and over a million embryos stored in frozen limbo.³² Some men — including infertility doctors — have sired large numbers of children, raising the danger of accidental incest³³; and, as seen, Julian Huxley mused that breeding from among “fit” family members might be made compulsory, “with a prompt resort to the lethal chamber for any undesirable results.” 

Population controllers were closely involved in the development of “reprodtech”,³⁴ and far from increasing “overpopulation”, the “fertility industry” functions more as an infertility industry as women believe they can delay childbearing until middle age,³⁵ at which point, given low success rates,³⁶ they may forego motherhood altogether. With constant warnings about the “danger” of “unplanned pregnancy”, sub-fertile women needlessly suppress their fertility³⁷; already, many UK women are childless at 30.³⁸ Overall, “reprodtech” represents another “success story” for population control. 

Meanwhile 10 million babies have been legally aborted in the UK,³⁹ although, with adequate support, they could have been raised by their own mothers, or adopted by infertile couples; at the same time, the number of older children “in care” has risen to unprecedented heights — even higher than the numbers of jailed criminals.⁴⁰ Legalising abortion, far from solving the problem of the “unwanted child” has merely succeeded in increasing their number, while the Sexual Revolution has reduced the number of intact families available to care for its casualties. 

Sexually transmitted diseases, with their sterilising potential, have also increased,⁴¹ and “sexual diversity” is on the rise; decades ago population controllers saw potential in encouraging this development,⁴² and sexual preference is now treated as immutable, like race,⁴³ with critics described as “phobic” or accused of “hate crime”.⁴⁴ The sudden growth of “transgender” young people, fuelled by social media and peer pressure, has been accompanied by warnings of suicide if children are not allowed “trans treatment”.⁴⁵ With increasing numbers being irreversibly sterilised by surgery and hormones,⁴⁶ this represents a brilliant new success for population control, delivered by the Sexual Revolution. And whereas George Orwell, in 1984, depicted history being mechanically disposed of down a “memory hole”, as in the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution, children are now so indoctrinated in the “trans” ideology that any contrary view is deeply upsetting; if this is allowed to continue, all historical material may be excluded from schools in the interests of health and safety, thus conveniently erasing all memories of life as it was lived the day before yesterday.⁴⁷

The Sexual Revolution also delivers eugenics, for while disabled babies are aborted up to birth,⁴⁸ the mentally unstable may be driven to suicide. Suicides have indeed risen, especially among males, although from 1981 younger female suicides saw the largest increase,⁴⁹ and it is perhaps no coincidence that abortion can lead directly to suicide.⁵⁰ Meanwhile, despite warnings that young people prevented from “transitioning” will commit suicide, those who have “transitioned” are at greater risk.⁵¹ Suicide is still considered worth preventing,⁵² but in 1901, sexual revolutionary H G Wells believed that suicide could be good for the “race”, claiming his “New Republic” would “regard the modest suicide of incurably melancholy, or diseased or helpless persons as a high and courageous act of duty rather than a crime.”⁵³ Suicide was decriminalised in 1961, and since then family break-up and the decline in Christianity have helped to damage mental health.⁵⁴ As Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who described many Nazi concentration camp suicides, observed in his classic Man’s Search for Meaning, people need meaning and purpose, or in difficult times they may lose the will to live.⁵⁵

And if that other libertarian priority — “the right to die” — is legalised, it can “take care” of those about whom nobody cares: in Canada, “assisted dying” has been allowed for the lonely, elderly and poor, and in an echo of Nazi Germany, there are plans to extend it to the mentally ill.⁵⁶ 

The “final freedom” — freedom from life itself — is a fitting headstone to the idea of “sexual freedom” as a liberating influence on humanity; instead, it has led to people being enslaved to their own desires, while the weakest are offered the “final solution” of death. 

This series will conclude next month with The sexual revolution and abortion (3).

Notes

1. The Labour government installed Alison Hadley, a key figure from the youth-oriented Brook organisation, as Programme Manager in its Teenage Pregnancy Unit, responsible for policy on contraception and sexual health advice services for young people, including ‘emergency contraception’ and abortion (Catholic Herald, 20 December 2002), and the TPU internet website directed young people to the Brook web site. The ‘Teenagers and Young People’ website linked directly to the Brook Centres, the Family Planning Association, Marie Stopes International and BPAS. http://dfes.gov.uk/teenagepregnancy/ ↩︎
2. The Department of Health refused several appeals for help from LIFE (LIFE News, Issue No. 37, Autumn 2001, p. 2); the pro-life charity (No. 1128355), which has an annual income of £3,616,196 (at 2022), states: “Life is a UK Pregnancy support charity: Creating a world where no one faces pregnancy or pregnancy loss alone. Through our services, we help more than 45,000 people each year to meet pregnancy or pregnancy loss with courage and dignity so they can flourish. Our services include a freephone Helpline, housing and community support, free practical support, and crafting educational content”. https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4044363 The Government subsidises the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) which, while a registered charity (No. 289145), charges for abortions and also carries out NHS abortions, with an annual income of £39,679,000. https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/results/page/1/delta/20/keywords/BPAS
   Also a registered charity (no. 265543), abortion provider MSI Reproductive Choices UK (formerly Marie Stopes International), with an income of £290,629,000, also receives generous government funding. https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/results/page/1/delta/20/keywords/MSI+reproductive+choices+uk ↩︎
3. Education for Choice, a registered Charity “dedicated to enabling young people to make informed choices about pregnancy and abortion”, featured on its website the Brook clinics, Marie Stopes International and BPAS as sources of help “if you think you’re pregnant”; http://www.efc.org.uk accessed at November 2, 2005. EfC shared its address (2-12 Pentonville Road, London N1) with ‘Abortion Rights’ (formerly two organisations, ALRA and NAC), Voice for Choice and the Family Planning Association (noted from literature). ↩︎
4. Dr Kevin Fenton, Daily Mail, 30 September 2003. ↩︎
5. Angela Phillips, a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy, commented that compared to France and Holland, “[o]nly four out of 10 teenage pregnancies end in abortion in this country, compared with six out of 10 on the continent”, although, in contrast to “more affluent” areas, “most of the high birth-rate areas, where the teenage pregnancy strategy has focused energy and money, rates of unprotected sex are stable and the teenage birth rate is going down.” She claimed that the Unit had made progress where it was able to “get on with the job of implementing change, unimpeded by political interference and a hostile press” (“It is time we adults grew up: We now know that comprehensive sex education cuts teenage pregnancy rates. It should be compulsory”, Guardian, July 1, 2005). “Comprehensive” means that it includes abortion information, the aim being to encourage abortions in less “affluent” areas. ↩︎
6. “Multiple witnesses told the Inquiry that perpetrators did not use contraception, placing victims at obvious risk; pregnancies were expected to be (and in many cases were) terminated, though some victims and survivors went on to bear the children of their perpetrator(s).” In the early 2000s a spike in teenage pregnancy was “seen as relevant only to the health or economic wellbeing of the children involved” and no measures of any significance were put in place to investigate the issue.
    https://gript.ie/telford-how-pc-culture-prolonged-the-sex-abuse-of-british-girls/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_17_2022_13_19_COPY_01) ↩︎
7. “[O]ne of the most concerning findings of the horrific CQC report into the Marie Stopes clinic in Maidstone, Kent, concerned abortions carried out on children. The report says: “In the period January – April 2016, across all MSI clinics, 230 children less than 16 years of age were seen but no safeguarding referrals were made. Thirteen children under 16 years of age were treated at the Maidstone clinic.’ Inspectors raised concerns that staff were obtaining consent from children without proper qualifications, and counselling was often done over the phone, with the counsellor having no way of knowing they were speaking to a child. Clinic staff also explicitly discouraged parental involvement, the report said. One told inspectors: ‘The trouble is parents might not react as you think and might be disappointed’ and ‘Parents get upset, we don’t involve them.’” Brook, a sexual health charity for the young, which is widely promoted in schools, declared: “Brook believes the best way to protect young people who are sexually active is to reaffirm their right to access confidential sexual health services whilst empowering and supporting professionals to make an effective assessment as to whether they are at risk of harm or exploitation.” (‘MSI clinics ‘didn’t involve parents’, SPUC January 25, 2019).
   https://www.spuc.org.uk/news/blog/2019/january/could-14-year-old-amy-barlow-really-have-an-abortion-without-her-parents-knowing?utm_source=SPUC+News+List&utm_campaign=91fc4b3a30-news190114_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_826f492851-91fc4b3a30-148123137&mc_cid=91fc4b3a30&mc_eid=c2228029a3 ↩︎
8. However, the perpetrators were distinguished by religion and background rather than ethnicity. In July 2022 the Telford report stated that child sexual exploitation “still exists today, and is prevalent across the country as a whole.” The inquiry’s chair, Tom Crowther QC, “said that ‘obvious signs’ of exploitation were ignored, such as teenage pregnancies and disappearances, as children were labelled as prostitutes or blamed for their ‘lifestyles,’ and perpetrators went free”; he noted: ‘“Teachers and youth workers were advised not to report child sexual exploitation. Offenders were emboldened, and exploitation continued for years in the absence of a coordinated response.” https://savebritain.org/thousands-of-girls-in-english-town-groomed-by-asian-rape-gangs-as-police-kept-quiet-to-avoid-racism/ ↩︎
9. A TV investigation revealed that “Senior Rotherham councillors ‘knew and stayed silent’ about town’s grooming gangs scandal”; an ‘exclusive in-depth study’ by GB News found “[s]ome councillors claimed that they did not speak up about abuse after 2005 briefing due to pressure from police, but another claims that police ‘said nothing’ at meeting’.” (Charlie Peters, GB News, February 9, 2023). https://www.gbnews.uk/news/revealed-senior-rotherham-councillors-knew-and-stayed-silent-about-towns-grooming-gangs-scandal-exclusive-in-depth-investigation/439769 ↩︎
10. The aim set out in the Government’s Sexual health improvement framework, published 15 March 2013, was to reduce “unintended pregnancies among all women of fertile age”; the claim was that according to the evidence, greater access to contraception, including LARC, can reduce rates of “unintended pregnancies and abortions” in all ages, therefore the aim was for local authorities to offer “rapid and easy access to appropriate sexual health services”, including contraception and Long-acting Reversible Contraception (LARC). The framework also aimed to offer “counselling to all women who request an abortion so they can discuss the options and choices available with a trained counsellor”. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sexual-health-improvement-framework-published Presumably the “options and choices” are to accept contraception or long-acting contraception, not help to have a baby. LARC was also supposed to address “missed opportunities for the provision of contraception along the maternity, abortion and early pregnancy loss pathways”. In 2016, responding to Parliamentary Questions from abortion advocate Baroness Gould of Potternewton (Labour) on governmental action on promoting “postpartum contraception in maternity care contracts”, Lord Prior of Brampton (Con.), Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department of Health stated: “The Government’s Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England sets out the need to increase access to all methods of contraception including long acting (LARC) methods and that better support is needed to access contraception after childbirth. Local authorities are mandated to provide access to the full range of contraception services and should work with clinical commissioning groups to ensure that contraception is discussed and all methods of contraception, including LARC, are accessible as part of the post-natal maternity pathway. Further guidance will be available in Public Health England’s Missed Opportunities in Pregnancy report. This addresses the missed opportunities for the provision of contraception along the maternity, abortion and early pregnancy loss pathways” (Parliamentary Questions HL7651-2-3, Hansard, April 13, 2016). 
    http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Lords/2016-04-13/HL7651 ↩︎
11. In June 2015, responding to a Parliamentary Question posed by Fiona Bruce MP (Con.) about Government action on “the potential risk to health of undergoing repeat abortions; and if he will take steps to reduce the number of repeat abortions”, Jane Ellison MP (Con.), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, stated: “Clinical guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists sets out the risks associated with abortions and repeat abortions. The guidance highlights that women should be informed that abortion is a safe procedure for which major complications and mortality are rare at all gestations if delivered to the standards set out in the guidance. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that increased uptake of long acting reversible contraception should reduce unintended pregnancy rates and prevent significant numbers of repeat abortions. Any woman having an abortion by a provider commissioned by the National Health Service should be given advice about contraception before they leave the clinic” (Parliamentary Question asked June 15, 2015, answered June 23, 2015 (UIN 2373)).
    https://members.parliament.uk/member/3958/writtenquestions?page=43#expand-381159 
    If abortion is perfectly safe, logically therefore there should be no limits to the number any woman can have, but even so, the Government recommended that LARC be offered to reduce the number. Later, research showed that one method of LARC increased the risk of contracting HIV: in a study led by a Michigan State University researcher, published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, Depo-Provera was shown to increase a woman’s risk of contracting HIV by 1.4: “The study found that women who take depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), sold as Depo-Provera, have an average of 18% higher levels of lead in their blood compared to those who are not taking it.” In 2020, over half the 36.7 million people with HIV lived in eastern or southern Africa — those areas where Western agencies promote Depo-Provera. While the precise outcomes of raised lead levels in the blood is not known, it “can negatively affect all organ systems, even in adults” (Nancy Flanders, LiveAction, November 20, 2020). https://www.liveaction.org/news/study-depo-provera-hazardous-womens-health/?_hsmi=100679535&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8XxzMdbPNcAi9dSS1BVQ1CigpwIQAjtwIJCJUtKVtwvNhnZtycuG2yJoT8z28_rxAnnDu7GH5Iw3MoPfERfvxzPlIdCA ↩︎
12. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/women-who-use-iuds-and-larcs-more-likely-to-have-multiple-abortions-new-stu?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=58d010ab3e-LifeSiteNews_com_Intl_Headlines_06_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0caba610ac-58d010ab3e-397386287 ↩︎
13. It has even been proposed that 12-year-olds should routinely be given contraceptive implants: when a prominent British population control advocate proposed this policy, he was promptly echoed, for explicitly economic reasons, by the Government’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). Professor John Guillebaud, Director of London’s Margaret Pyke centre and co-chair of the Optimum Population Trust, proposed that girls of 12 be fitted with contraceptive implants (Daily Telegraph, February 3, 1999); the OPT campaigned for a “sustainable” UK population of between 20 and 30 million, and when England’s population increased to over 50 million, Guillebaud said this “reinforce[d] the case for a national population policy”, citing world issues: “On an overpopulated planet where crucial resources like oil are being used up fast, the estimates show that our population growth is out of control. … Our Government can no longer go on turning a blind eye to the UK’s population problem” (Optimum Population Trust, Press release, http://www.optimumpopulation.org accessed at August 25, 2005); a news release timed to coincide with World Population Day demanded: “Stop at two children to halt climate change” (Ibid, July 11, 2006). Despite the fact that ‘voluntary’ and ‘family planning’ do not apply to 12-year-olds, NICE said the NHS would save money on pregnancies and abortions with methods including intra-uterine devices and progestogen implants that slowly release hormones under the skin, preventing egg and sperm meeting but also acting as early abortifacients by preventing newly-fertilized eggs implanting in the womb. Chair of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV, abortion supporter Baroness Gould urged the Government to monitor contraceptive provision by Primary Care Trusts (BBC News, http://www.news.bbc.co.uk accessed at October 26, 2005). ↩︎
14. The Society commissioned opinion polls in the early 1960s, after which it discussed the advisability of a name-change. In 1963 it registered as a charity and propaganda work ceased (although the Eugenics Review was not replaced by the Journal of Biosocial Science until 1968). Thereafter, the Society’s influence increased, in line with the new policy of “crypto eugenics” mooted in 1957 by C P Blacker, who said this approach was proving successful for the American Eugenics Society (A S Parkes, “Aims and Activities of the Eugenics Society”, Eugenics Review, 1968, in O’ Keefe, KS, Eugenics or Democracy (Braemar: Humanae Vitae House (n.d.)), p. 29); in 1960 it was officially adopted: “The Society’s activities in crypto eugenics should be pursued vigorously, and, specifically…the Society should increase its monetary support of the FPA and the IPPF and should make contact with the Society for the Study for Human Biology, which already has a strong and active membership, to find out if any relevant projects are contemplated with which the Eugenics Society could assist” (Ibid). The Eugenics Society subsidised the FPA (£100 (1946)); £100 (1947)); £50 (1949)); £300 (1957-59)), the IPPF (£750 (1952); £140 (1953)); £500 (1954-55); £500 (1959-60); £1,000 (1960) and the Society for Human Biology (£300 (1960–62) (‘Summary of chief Grants made by The Eugenics Society since 1945’ (Eugenics Society File: SA/EUG). The FPA was steered towards supporting abortion in the 1960s and 1970s, and the IPPF has included abortion provision under innocuous-sounding schemes for ‘reproductive health’. Soloway mentions the replacement of the Eugenics Review by the Journal of Biosocial Science and describes supporters of eugenics in the 1950s and 1960s as “crypto eugenicists, intimidated by the times in which they lived”, but fails to mention that this was an agreed policy; he also fails to mention that eugenicists diverted their efforts into domestic and worldwide population control (Soloway, R., Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain (Chapel Hill/London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 356). Leathard describes how the FPA’s reluctance to embrace abortion was overturned, transforming it from a volunteer-based organisation to one focussing on comprehensive fertility control (see: Leathard, A., The Fight for Family Planning (London: Macmillan, 1980)). ↩︎
15. Abortion giant Marie Stopes, which claims to serve women and girls, received £7.5million from the pornography sector.
    https://www.spuc.org.uk/News/ID/384405/Abortion-giant-Marie-Stopes-which-claims-to-serve-women-and-girls-received-75million-from-porn-tycoon?utm_source=SPUC+News+List&utm_campaign=026df47e9e-news190520_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_826f492851-026df47e9e-148123137&mc_cid=026df47e9e&mc_eid=c2228029a3 ↩︎
16. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2020-10-13.102665.h&s=abortion ↩︎
17. The Christian Institute reported: “University College London (UCL) has apologised for its ‘fundamental role’ in the development of eugenic beliefs and practices. Following an independent inquiry into the history of eugenics at UCL, the institution expressed ‘deep regret’ for ‘legitimising’ the harmful ideology. Eugenicists associated with UCL include Sir Francis Galton — who coined the term ‘eugenics’ and funded its first Chair of Eugenics — and former student Marie Stopes” (“UCL apologises for promoting eugenics”, 15 January 2021). https://www.christian.org.uk/news/ucl-apologises-for-promoting-eugenics/?e150121 ↩︎
18. https://adelphigenetics.org/about/ ↩︎
19. The traditional priorities and preoccupations of the Eugenics Society/Galton Institute have been continued in the Adelphi Genetic Forum’s Adelphi Review, for example, their door-to-door “family planning” outreach programme to thousands of impoverished Kenyans (CHASE Africa, ‘CHASE Africa progress report to the Artemis Trust 1 January – 30 June 2022’, August 2022, Adelphi Review, Issue 2, Winter 2022-2023, pp. 18-21). https://adelphigenetics.org/publications/ In the same issue, G K Chesterton was referenced as an opponent of eugenics (Ibid, p 12), and at the AGF annual conference in 2022, Ms Elaine Riddick of the Rebecca Project for Justice, sterilised after giving birth after being raped at age 13, told her story (“Liberation from Eugenics: A Black Woman’s Perspective”, The Adelphi Genetics Forum Annual Conference “Living with the Eugenic Past”, 5 October 2022 (at the Royal Society) (Ibid pp 4-14)); Ms Riddick was described thus: “As Ms Riddick considers all life precious, we also learnt that she works against euthanasia, assisted suicide, and any form of coercion for abortion, giving talks on these topics all over America” (Ibid, pp 6–7). ↩︎
20. See: Means, R; Smith, R, Community Care: Policy and Practice (2nd ed.), (London: Macmillan Press, 1998). https://adelphigenetics.org/publications/archive/ ↩︎
21. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-52372315
    https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/11/judge-forces-mentally-disabled-woman-to-be-fitted-with-contraceptive-device-after-she-became-pregnant/ https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Doctors-set-to-perform-abortion-on-Christian-family-s-disabled-daughter?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10967536_daily%20news%2014%20october&dm_i=16DQ,6J2LS,POL8O7,PXXMO,1 ↩︎
22. Despite his distaste for Nazi anti-Semitism, Sir Arnold Wilson was enthusiastic for measures against the “unfit” in Germany, Italy and Russia, countries “sparing no effort to prevent the birth of the unfit, by every method known to science”; this included sterilisation and segregation: “Germans believe in good breeding in human beings as firmly as we have practiced it in producing race-horses and cattle”. He criticised those who mocked their approach, claiming: “Great Britain has about four times as much feeblemindedness as the northern part of Europe and the kindred nations of Central Europe” (Wilson, Sir A, Walks and Talks Abroad: The Diary of a Member of Parliament in 1934-6 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936), p. xiv). ↩︎
23. Referring to her work in the Gambia in a lecture on evolutionary human behavioural science, Dr Rebecca Sear “focused upon the effect of mothers on child survival”, which had shown “significant cooperative breeding effects in terms of matrilineal grand-parental support” (Dr Geoffrey Vevers (Ed.), report of a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, Summer 2011 (The Galton Institute Newsletter, Winter 2011, pp. 2–3). ↩︎
24. H. G. Wells, lauded as a feminist, frankly summed up the progressive vision in his idea for redressing the balance between the sexes: women’s work, women’s sexual freedom and birth control. One of his heroines begs forgiveness for treating her husband as her servant when it should have been the other way round: “Don’t please make me…one of those little parasitic, parroting wives… Don’t forget a woman isn’t a man” (Wells, H G, Marriage (London: no publisher, 1912/1933), pp. 297–298). Wells wanted to sweep away all religious rules but feared that sexual liberty would lead to disorder and overpopulation, hence his draconian approach to human freedom, supposedly enhanced by his Utopias, in which women were to transfer their love from babies to men, without endangering the race or increasing the population. He claimed the “spreading knowledge of birth-control” seemed to “justify” his “contention that love was now to be taken more lightly than it had been in the past. It was to be refreshment and invigoration, as set out quite plainly in my Modern Utopia” (Wells, H G, Experiment in Autobiography: Discourse and Conclusions of a very ordinary brain (since 1866), Vol. II (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934), p. 436). ↩︎
25. Wells privately admitted that Anticipations was ‘“designed to undermine and destroy the monarch, monogamy and respectability”’ although he thought it advisable to “go quietly” at first; Arthur Conan Doyle detested the book (Coren, M., The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H. G. Wells (London: Bloomsbury, 1994), pp 67–68). Publicly and much later, he admitted that his 1906 plea for family endowments was “advocating…what is plainly a correlative of the break-up of the family.” While acknowledging that “fatherly influence and…eugenics” should be considered when paying family allowances to mothers, in ‘Socialism and the Middle Classes’, Wells stated that the institution of marriage was “no more permanent than competitive industrialism”, although his “Socialism and the Family” was “more discreet” (H G Wells, Papers read to the Fabian Society, October 1906, Industrial Review, 1906, in Wells, H. G., Experiment in Autobiography: Discourse and Conclusions of a very ordinary brain (since 1866), Vol. II (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934), pp 478–479). The “paradox” of socialism (as he saw it) was in emphasising economic collectivism but sexual individualism (Ibid, p 470). ↩︎
26.  https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/articles/passionate_friends/ 
    Sanger was also involved with sexologist Havelock Ellis; see: Sanger, M., The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger (1938). Wells made secret visits to prostitutes, and his “openness” to other races disguised a less high-minded reality: according to suppressed material from his autobiography, published much later (H G Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography (G P Wells, Ed) (London: Faber & Faber, 1984), he “[o]ccasionally…did resort to professionals, but these incidents were very limited in number. There were always younger women about” (Smith, D C, H G Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1986), p 197); visiting President Roosevelt in 1906, Wells asked to be taken to a ‘“gay house”’: “This was before the moral purgation of Washington. ‘White or Coon?’ [the cabdriver] said. It seemed to me that I ought to experience the local colour at its intensest. ‘Coon,’ said I” (Wells, H G, H G Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography (G P Wells (Ed.) (London: Faber & Faber, 1984), pp 64–65). These reminiscences were not published in 1934 mainly because “a number of people who were still living…were bound to be affected very seriously by a public analysis of the rôles they played in my life” (Ibid, p. 52). ↩︎
27. Wells, H G, Experiment in Autobiography: Discourse and Conclusions of a very ordinary brain (since 1866), Vol. II (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934), pp. 476–477). This led “the wolves to howl after Wells’ scalp”, but he responded: “[T]o say it is my dictum that the ultimate goal of socialism is free love is an outrageous lie” (Daily Express, September 19, 1906, in Smith, D. C., H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1986), pp., 208–209). ↩︎
28. https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=bed173cc9adfcad1e0e442a35&id=a2298a8935&e=35144f3765
    https://righttolife.org.uk/news/single-mum-takes-council-to-european-court-over-ban-on-supporting-women-facing-crisis-pregnancies-outside-abortion-clinic ↩︎
29. Anthony McCarthy, ‘Childbearing, abortion and regret: a response to Kate Greasley’, Springer, 19 January 2023. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11017-023-09611-9?sharing_token=cW_whu231dTp4AYFaVnB8ve4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY7i2teIhfqx1lI-k-CjoSsbyJxxJ3s7XtNfgsn-kXF8UxZyYSO_86hoAU1tZ4Matz3uoAq8jPosD9OyQqimQ9IoD60OmDzjQupnuwI2mi6x2G1IMl2kfy1GjkL8iWLkOqg= ↩︎
30. The Elliot Institute reported that post abortion, “suicide rates” were six times higher, and that “65 percent of women suffer trauma symptoms after abortion” (Mary Zwicker, “Over 60% of abortions are coerced in some way: peer-reviewed study”, Lifesitenews, February 10, 2023). https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/over-60-of-abortions-are-coerced-in-some-way-peer-reviewed-study/?utm_source=daily-world-2023-02-11&utm_medium=email ↩︎
31. https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/fertility-becomes-a-global-money-spinner/13181 ↩︎
32. In 2021, the UK extended the legal length of time for storing frozen embryos from 10 to 55 years (David McLoone, “UK: Frozen embryos storage time limit to increase to 55 years”, Lifesitenews, 9 September 2021; 
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-frozen-embryos-storage-time-limit-to-increase-to-55-years/ in the US, an IVF baby born in 2020 was artificially conceived 27 years previously, although a new study showed that the cancer risk was higher in children born from frozen embryos (Jean Mondoro, Lifesitenews, September 6, 2022). https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-study-shows-cancer-risk-higher-in-children-born-from-frozen-embryo-transfers/?utm_source=daily-canada-2022-09-07&utm_medium=email In the US, it was reported that the “[n]ation’s fertility clinics struggle with a growing number of abandoned embryos”, posing a “dilemma over what to do with embryos cast aside, and who should assume ownership of them”. The director of the Infertility Center of St Louis, Dr Sherman Silber, said: “Frozen embryos take up very little space… You could put a whole city in a lab”; however, “while the embryos are small, the liquid nitrogen tanks in which they’re housed aren’t. …a number of clinics are running out of room for the tanks and are outsourcing storage of abandoned embryos to companies like Reprotech, a national storage firm he calls “a mini-storage facility for embryos” (Mary Pflum, NBC News, 12 August 2019). https://www.nbcnews.com/health/features/nation-s-fertility-clinics-struggle-growing-number-abandoned-embryos-n1040806 ↩︎
33. https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/massive-families-of-donor-conceived-persons-are-just-one-consequence-of-unregulated-sperm-industry/?utm_source=daily-usa-2023-03-04&utm_medium=email ↩︎
34. Like abortion, reproductive technology has been infused with eugenics from its beginnings; its pioneer, Professor Robert Edwards, a Eugenics Society member, emphasised parents’ moral responsibility not to have disabled children (Edwards, R., Steptoe, P., A Matter of Life: The Story of a Medical Breakthrough (London: Hutchinson, 1980), p. 143); Edwards expressed sympathy for the law remaining “tactfully impotent” regarding the non-treatment of disabled newborns (Edwards, R., Life Before Birth: Reflections on the Embryo Debate (London: Hutchinson, 1989), p 126). His work on infertility was predicated on population concerns and eliminating handicap, although he frankly admitted that the “main snag” to pursuing this work was “a scarcity of research materials: in this case, human eggs” — a problem solved by his “test tube baby” work which provided him with the requisite “material” from would-be mothers (Ibid, p 5). The first assisted conception depended on eugenic abortion, as Edwards pointed out: “I told [the prospective parents] how, if pregnancy occurred, we could in any case find out about any serious abnormality – and if we did discover such an abnormality this would be dealt with by induced abortion (Daily Mail, 5 July 1999). ↩︎
35. “In 2021, a review of IVF clinics concluded that the industry exaggerated the success rate of IVF, often guaranteeing women a baby when only 20% of IVF cycles in Britain lead to a live birth” (SPUC, “IVF whistleblower says patients were ‘misled’ about success rate”, 18 May 2023). https://www.spuc.org.uk/Article/385457/IVF-whistleblower-says-patients-were-misled-about-success-rate?utm_source=SPUC+News+List&utm_campaign=e34386942e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_27_03_55_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_826f492851-e34386942e-148123137 ↩︎
36. This includes freezing women’s eggs https://email.breakpoint.org/e3t/Ctc/2K+113/cCDWX04/VWM_5n3j0xbBW5crDKm4lX1rTW13cSCp4VJ-2GN39GZBV2-MJQV1-WJV7CgLPTW43KyLh7W__SkW4F_pRc936LLzW3_QQhM3csp7mW1vyTM823QMzHW2yP31k8vKBkXW2RM2k74nhbgnW3qYtYM4L0_m_W62FgHB4MGSn3W8rDW093gxdLqW5bMstF3fPxy_W3K2hsg6yHtHMN62bkR6G4qPJW4myBMC1k1lxsW67f-rf94HTrrW2D8Tl18yjWVyW3SZd5l3H9VxKW70ZVzs76BJfdW8PCjcP7PG5pZ3gLW1 Of 54,000 women having “treatment” in 2018, “the average birth rate per embryo transferred for all IVF patients was 23 per cent”. However, the rate used to be even worse, and as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority records, the number of complaints has increased with the increase in procedures. https://www.hfea.gov.uk/media/2716/the-state-of-the-fertility-sector-2017-2018-final-accessibility-checked.pdf ↩︎
37. Portia Berry-Kilby, “The poverty of ‘choice’: We should all be concerned that women are avoiding motherhood”, The Critic, 16 February 2023. https://thecritic.co.uk/the-poverty-of-choice/ ↩︎
38. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/04/almost-half-women-turned-30-last-year-childless-ons-finds/ ↩︎
39. 27 April 2022 marked 54 years since the 1967 Abortion Act came into operation, and according to official statistics, by the end of 2020, 9,601,778 abortions had been carried out; SPUC estimated that by April 2022 the number had reached 9,898,425 (SPUC, 27 April 2022). https://mailchi.mp/spuc.org.uk/54-years-since-abortion-act-1967-came-into-force?e=c2228029a ↩︎
40. “Number of children in state care hits 100,000 for the first time amid police fears over violent families and teens getting sucked into crime”, Daily Mail, 6 November 2020.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8923081/Number-children-state-care-hits-100-000-time.html
    In a Parliamentary debate on local government, it was noted that in 2017/18, the overall costs of children’s social care in England and Wales reached nearly £8.8 billion, increasing by 4.3 per cent (almost £370 million) in one year. https://local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/LGA%20briefing%20-%20General%20debate%20on%20spending%20on%20children%27s%20services%20WEB.pdf 
    According to the latest available data, at the end of June 2019, the UK prison population was approximately 87,941 (79,453 in England and Wales, 7,004 in Scotland and 1,484 in Northern Ireland). https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04334/ ↩︎
41. https://www.cdc.gov/std/infertility/default.htm https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/infertility/causes/ ↩︎
42. One population control supporter advocated encouraging homosexuality and proposed: “Confine childbearing to only a limited number of adults” and “Stock certificate-type permits for children” (Frederick S. Jaffé, ‘Activities Relevant to the Study of Population Policy for the U.S.,’ Memorandum to Bernard Berelson, 11 March 1969, in Riches, V., Sex & Social Engineering (Milton Keynes, Bucks.: Family & Youth Concern, 1986), pp 14–15). “Berelson obviously took these proposals seriously, for he included many of them, and even more radical ones, in a chilling speech entitled Beyond Family Planning at the Population Conference in Dacca in 1969” (Grant, G, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, 2000), p 82). ↩︎
43. https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/how-gay-rights-activism-enabled-the-insanity-of-the-transgender-movement/?utm_source=daily-world-2023-04-18&utm_medium=email
    Commentator Edwin Benson noted that the “so-called LGBTQ community has spent the last generation successfully grafting itself onto the remnants of the Civil Rights Movement. However, there is a critical difference that often goes unspoken. Those of Black, Latino and American-Indian heritage belong to those groups by birth”, whereas those in the LGBTQ movement are “there by choice. The popular belief among many is that these people were ‘born that way.’ However, there is no scientific basis for that assumption” (Benson, E., “Refuting the Arguments that Promote Drag Queen Story Hours”, Tradition, Family, Property, 24 February 2023). https://www.tfp.org/refuting-the-arguments-that-promote-drag-queen-story-hours/?PKG=TFPE3036 ↩︎
44. https://www.transactual.org.uk/transphobia https://www.stophateuk.org/about-hate-crime/ https://gript.ie/players-referees-and-parents-furious-at-lgfa-decision-to-include-biological-males-in-ladies-football/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_17_2022_13_19_COPY_01) ↩︎
45. https://gript.ie/brianna-ghey-and-the-lefts-modern-martyrdom/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_17_2022_13_19_COPY_01) ↩︎
46. See: Shrier, A., Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze (Swift Press, 2021). https://voiceofthefamily.com/the-goal-of-education-the-harm-transgender-ideology-is-doing-to-young-people-and-society/ ↩︎
47. Speaking anonymously, a 14-year-old schoolgirl attending a state secondary school in South-East England revealed to a daily newspaper the current situation in her school: “It feels like trans is all anyone talks about. The library has a section devoted to LGBTQQIA+ books and there is a display for Pride in the school entrance, with rainbow flags and words and terms such as ‘non-binary‘, ‘polysexual’, ‘demiboy’, ‘demigirl’ and ‘pansexual’. These words come up in lessons, too” (“What it’s really like to be a pupil today as trans hysteria grips our schools: One 14-year-old reveals girls wearing breast binders in class, teachers claiming Lady Macbeth was non-binary and ‘transphobes’ threatened with strangulation”, Daily Mail, 8 February 2023). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11729001/What-like-pupil-today-trans-hysteria-grips-schools-One-14-year-old-girl-speaks-out.html ↩︎
48. Bizarrely, summarising their decision to reject a legal challenge against abortion law on the grounds of discrimination, brought by Heidi Crowter, who has Down’s syndrome, Lord Justice Underhill, Lady Justice Thirlwall and Lord Justice Peter Jackson “said the act did not interfere with the rights of the ‘living disabled'”. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/25/heidi-crowter-woman-downs-syndrome-loses-court-of-appeal-abortion-law-case ↩︎
49. “In 2011, the WHO published research illustrating that experiencing or witnessing abuse was one of the most consistent factors behind suicide attempts in teenage girls. Women who are abused physically or sexually, whether as a child or as an adult, are eighteen times more likely to attempt suicide than those who have not suffered such abuse” (Joseph Pearce, “Rescuing Our Maidens From the Culture of Death”, The Imaginative Conservative, 24 April 2023 (first published February 2016). https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/04/rescuing-maidens-culture-death-joseph-pearce.html?utm_source=The+Imaginative+Conservative+Newsletter&utm_campaign=557bed502c-Weekly+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c8d563f42-557bed502c-132501741&mc_cid=557bed502c&mc_eid=637d0b3401
    In 2021, 5,583 suicides were registered in England and Wales — a rate of 10.7 deaths per 100,000 people – but “while this was statistically significantly higher than the 2020 rate of 10.0 deaths per 100,000 people, it was consistent with the pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic rates in 2019 and 2018.” Approximately “three-quarters of suicides were males (4,129 deaths; 74.0%), consistent with long-term trends, and equivalent to 16.0 deaths per 100,000, the rate for females was 5.5 deaths per 100,000. Among females, the age-specific suicide rate was highest in those aged 45 to 49 years (7.8 deaths per 100,000), while among males it was highest in those aged 50 to 54 years (22.7 deaths per 100,000).” However: “Females aged 24 years or under have seen the largest increase in the suicide rate since our time series began in 1981” (Office for National Statistics, ‘Suicides in England and Wales: 2021 registrations: Registered deaths in England and Wales from suicide analysed by sex, age, area of usual residence of the deceased, and suicide method’, September 6, 2022).  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2021registrations 
    However, the rising rate of male suicide has not prompted a “moral panic”, even though as one commentator noted regarding the modern tendency to treat all males as dangerous threats, and “masculinity” as “toxic”, “[t]he suicide rate for boys aged 15 to 19 has more than doubled over the past decade” (Gus Carter, “Boys in a bind: Today’s sexual politics is damaging young men”, The Spectator, 18 March 2023, pp. 22–23). ↩︎
50. As well as the finding that “65% of women suffer trauma symptoms after abortion”, a report from the Elliot Institute, “Forced Abortion in America”, revealed that over 60% of abortions were coerced in some respect; the peer-reviewed study found “high levels of pressure” when women “were in the process of contemplating abortion”; the report also stated that “suicide rates 6 times higher after abortion” and that “65% of women suffer trauma symptoms after abortion” (Mary Zwicker, “Over 60% of abortions are coerced in some way: peer-reviewed study”, Lifesitenews, 10 February 2023). https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/over-60-of-abortions-are-coerced-in-some-way-peer-reviewed-study/?utm_source=daily-world-2023-02-11&utm_medium=email file:///C:/Users/annfa/Downloads/ForcedAbortions.pdf ↩︎
51. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tucker-debunks-claim-that-transgender-surgery-prevents-suicide-19-times-more-likely-to-kill-themselves/ In a tragic footnote to the history of “trans” ideology, the subject of an abusive experiment to “change” a boy into a girl eventually committed suicide; see: See: Colapinto, J., As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001/2006). ↩︎
52. Suicide prevention organisation the Samaritans warns against careless reporting of such incidents because of the risk of “contagion”. https://www.samaritans.org/about-samaritans/media-guidelines/ ↩︎
53. Wells, H. G., Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought (London: Chapman & Hall, 1901), pp. 300–301. ↩︎
54. Michael Cook, ‘Gimme that old time religion: did it protect Americans from deaths of despair?’ Mercatornet, 18 January 2023.https://mercatornet.com/does-religion-protect-americans-from-deaths-of-despair/82681/ ↩︎
55. Frankl, V., Man’s Search For Meaning (1946) (originally entitled Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager — “A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp“). ↩︎
56. The plan to extend assisted suicide to the mentally ill in Canada, where people can wait a whole year to see a psychiatrist but need only wait two weeks to be euthanised, https://righttolife.org.uk/news/canada-a-year-to-see-a-psychiatrist-but-only-two-weeks-for-euthanasia —was put on hold following a backlash, but “is still on track to become law in 2024, unless an election is held beforehand, which would cause the legislation to lapse.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-to-push-back-euthanasia-expansion-until-2024-after-public-outcry/?utm_source=daily-canada-2023-02-03&utm_medium=email
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-group-blasts-new-canadian-govt-report-recommending-euthanasia-for-kids-mentally-ill/?utm_source=daily-world-2023-02-18&utm_medium=email ↩︎