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Thanks, Christy! I have turned to you for strength and honesty, for years. In the 1990s, I set out to change the way we understand our own work, and wrote about nonviolence.  And following Kathie, I set out to change the way we understand our opponents, and wrote about eugenics.  It was my intention to spark two complementary changes in the pro-life movement. Not done yet. Eugenics, in its history, has never been identified with the right or the left.  The easiest example of that swerviness comes up in the fight over Hitler’s attitude toward abortion.  Did he mandate it, like a pro-abort?  Yes.  Did he prohibit it, like a pro-lifer?  Also yes.  Which was he?  A eugenicist.  Eugenics started on the right among imperialists, but was quickly adopted by the Fabian left, then by the American right (KKK and the sterilizers), then by the left (abortionists).  It’s an attitude toward human reproduction, and can appear on the left or the...