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Family Planning NSW

Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1926

    Eugenic and racial-hygiene advocacy in the organization's early history

    The organization operated under racial-hygiene and eugenic ideas that were influential in parts of interwar reform culture. Lillie Goodisson supported selective breeding and campaigned unsuccessfully for segregation and sterilization of people then classified as mentally deficient, as well as premarital health examinations. These positions are now discredited and ethically condemned.

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