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People trained by the ERO were charged with collecting
statistics in their working areas. With these data, the ERO aimed

to prevent those it deemed unsuitable from marrying and hav-
ing children. In 1924, the ERO drew up a sterilization bill which
recommended that people regarded as committing the "crime"
of being sick be sterilized.
To both reason and conscience, it is unacceptable for people
to be sterilized against their will. Those with genetic defects,
sicknesses of various kinds, and physical or mental handicaps
should be treated with affection and compassion. In societies
where religious moral values prevail, such people are protected,
and their needs met in the best way possible. It is nothing short
of barbarity to seek to forcibly sterilize or eliminate those
described as having "criminal tendencies" by the proponents of
the barbarity of eugenics. Such people can be educated with the
requisite cultural programmes and made useful members of

The alleged scientific basis of eugenics is the theory of
evolution. A poster in which eugenicists stress the link
between eugenics and evolution.