Eugenics: Man versus God “The most merciful thing a family does to one of its young members is to kill him. » - Margaret Sanger, “Woman and the New Race” Seven - blond-footed, blue-eyed, swastika-wearing superhumans walking in perfect Aryan rhythm, bred to be smarter, stronger, superior. This is a typical image when people hear the word eugenics, but there are two distinct branches: negative eugenics, which seeks to eliminate undesirables and degenerates from society, and positive eugenics, which seeks to promote positive hereditary traits within society. In this essay, I will examine both sides of the eugenics argument in order to find a conclusion. Margaret Sanger, a controversial birth control activist and negative proponent of eugenics, expressed her views in her book "Woman and the New Race", which was all too common in a war-ravaged world, where rationing and bombing were commonplace and an astonishing 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized, some as young as 10, after their state deemed them mentally or socially disabled. It began with Francis Galton who, in 1869, proposed that procreation between upper-class men and wealthy women could lead to a superior race. This led to the creation of the American Eugenics Society in 1926, a society that wanted restricted access to immigrants of inferior genetic makeup in America as well as the right to sterilize the insane, retarded, and epileptics in the country. This was in an effort to advance humanity and improve the gene pool by preventing poorly endowed people (genetically speaking) from continuing to blight the world. In vitro fertilization makes positive use of eugenics. One of the middle school teachers took on the role of domestic worker and was a devoted reader until her death in 1983. This, the opposition to sterilization would say, shows that even those considered "weak in spirit” can actually be productive members of society and should not lose their rights to an arbitrary line drawn by the “best” in society. It was also this case, at least in part, that led to the acceptable sterilization of thousands of people. Americans and an estimated 350,000 people in Nazi Germany in 1933. While there are certainly positive uses of eugenics in today's society, including healthy children and a shrinking population over the time, which would require fewer resources from the planet, the negative results seem to counterbalance. the form of forced sterilization, human rights violations and general abuse of power that could lead to a new threat comparable to that of Nazi Germany.