Nei. prom To:

JOSHUA LEDERBERG aia

a ~~ Kleatr

MAY 4 1972

re your correspondence with Goodlin

I fully understand your repugnance about
opening the AJHG to correspondence about infanti-
cide. I keep in mind that the society was founded
in reaction against the Eugenics group, to retain
£2 a forum for expert scientific ddiscussion.

Cif *

He did ask mel 1 cohld add to the documentation
about xnank Nazi infanticide and the role of gene-
ticists therein. I ama little hard put to res-
pond to this precise formulation., I did send
him some clips on euthanasga from the Fest and
Grunberger books on Nazi Germany.

I did not wish to provoke him by also sending
the attached, which is just to you. It really is
no argument pro or con abortion, but by the same
token infanticide, that the Nazis had made some
use of it.

Sincerely,

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
. School of Medicine
x —= Stanford University
\ Stanford, California 94305