Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled!
Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. - Margaret Higgins Sanger

Harry Clay Sharp

Eugenics doctor that sterilized inmates.
Harry Clay Sharp
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Render every male sterile who passes its portals, whether it be an almshouse, insane asylum, institute for the feeble minded, reformatory or prison.
Harry Clay Sharp Begins Illegal Casteration and Vasectomies on Prisoners
Holding the common belief of eugenics that anyone in prison is bad Sharp begins in 1899 using vasectomy on inmates (prior to this he was castrating them). This was an illegal practice prior to 1907 when Indiana became the first state to pass a law of compulsory sterilization.
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