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In the early 20th century, Teddy Roosevelt was giving speeches about “race suicide,” which was a eugenics-linked theory.

And he spoke of the responsibility of white people to marry and then have lots of children, because otherwise, this thinking went, they were committing “race suicide.”

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the movement mainly included white supremacists who, pointing to declining white birth rates, believed that legalized abortion would mean “race suicide” for white Protestants.

As the Pine Bluff News reported then, another nearby school district had also failed “on account of too much ‘race suicide’ in the vicinity,” which presumably meant a low birth rate among whites.

Speaking to the National Congress of Mothers in 1905, he warned of "race suicide" and implored women deemed white to have as many babies as possible.