guy who said he would unite America.
JT often talks how LBJ's War on Poverty harmed the poor, especially black families. Johnson's plan reads a eugenics program. (Source: Catholic website Magisterium.com)
Lyndon B. Johnson's 1960s family planning initiatives, part of his "War on Poverty" and Great Society programs, expanded federal funding for contraception services targeting low-income Americans, but they inflicted lasting harm on the poor by promoting a coercive "contraceptive mentality," exploiting economic vulnerabilities, and undermining family dignity—issues the Catholic Church has long critiqued as contrary to natural law and human rights.
Key Ways These Initiatives Harmed the Poor:
Targeted Exploitation of the Vulnerable: Programs like the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act and 1969 Family Planning Services Act funneled taxpayer dollars to clinics providing birth control to the economically disadvantaged, including unmarried teens and welfare recipients, often in urban poor and minority communities; this created ...