In 1948, Joe Vincent Meigs, one of the most influential—and notorious—figures in endometriosis, told the American College of Surgeons that endometriosis would lead to the decline of the white race. The New York Times ran an article the night of his eugenics-tinged October 20 speech, its headline blaring “SOCIAL ILL IS LAID TO ENDOMETRIOSIS: Women’s ailment restricting the propagation of intelligent class.”238 The article explained Meigs’s view that because the disease was so prevalent among educated white women who delayed marriage and childbearing until they became totally infertile, it was
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what in the actual fuck
