EUGENICS 2 the leaders of the progressive movement in britain also supported negative eugenics.the people who had founded the london school of economics,sidney and beatrice webb,were also leaders of the fabian society - the fabian society later went on to establish the labour party as early as 1909,the fabians,led by the webbs,said,what we as eugenicists have got to do is to scrap the old poor law with its indiscriminate relief of the destitute as such and replace it by an intelligent policy of so altering the social environment as to discourage or prevent the multiplication of those irrevocably below the national minimum of fitness. in 1930,a fabian leader,archibald church,introduced a bill for eugenic sterilization
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