Francois Lafitte
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Lafitte, Prof. FrancoisSocial Policy and Administration, Univ. of Birmingham, EdgbastonEugenics Society Fellow 1943-2002 Council 1963-1966Adopted son of Havelock Ellis q.v.; Chmn., British Pregnancy AdvisoryService 1968-88; University of Birmingham, Professor of Social Policy andAdministration (1959-1980); Council of ES 1966Personal:3 Aug 1913-2002; son of Francoise Lafitte (aka Francois Cyon) andJohn Collier, became adopted son of Havelock Ellis; (see Havelock Ellis q.v.);Population Policies Committee 1939; Chmn. of PEP Research groups on healthservices 1943-46, housing policy 1948-51 (see Elmhirst); subscriber toFamily Planning Association Ltd. articles of incorporation 1966 (see Denmanq.v., Pyke q.v.); Chairman: Birmingham Pregnancy Advisory Service 1968(Times 17 June 1971, p. 2) which was connected with the Calthorpe NursingHome, an abortion clinic. (see M. Cole q.v.) term was 1959-1980 acc. To GNLObit 2002); Chmn., British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trust & BritishPregnancy Advisory Service Ltd. 1968-30 July 1988, thus connected withMerseyside Nursing Home and four other abortion clinics. (see RaymondGoodman q.v.)Publications:- with R. Titmuss q.v., "Eugenics and Poverty", Eugenics Review, JA,106-112, 1942- The Internment of Aliens. 1940 (repr. 1988); 1942-58 was leader writer onsocial issues for Times of London,thus influential in shaping post war social policy; Britain's Way to SocialSecurity. 1945; Family Planning in the Sixties. 1964; Socially DeprivedFamilies in Britain. 1970; and contributed to Eugenics Review- For Lane Commission:"Written Evidence"; "Abortion in Britain Today." (New Society, 14 December1972. Chap 4, para 77 of Lane Report); "helpful suggestions" given toInstitute for Social Studies in Medical Care for Vol. 3 of Lane Report;"Personal Communication.", reference for Vol. 3, Lane ReportSource: ER 1943, 1963-66, CH, WSW 1990, Lane Report, ER , ER Index, Obit,
GNL 12/2002; http://www.cercles.com/n11/deakin.pdf Quotes:"Whenever the law tries to suppress both abortion and contraception, theeffect appears to be to swell the abortion rate. Thus in France, with aboutthe same population as Britain, the minimum estimate of the number of abortions is 250,000 a year, against our figure of just over 100,000 (IPPFMedical Bulletin 6, 4, Aug 1972) ... Italy is estimated to have as manyabortions as births (The Guardian, 7 Oct 1971); ... most Latin Americancountries one abortion for every two to five pregnancies. ("Abortion: aWorld Survey" IPPF News 216, March 1972)", from Family Planning January1973(by 1990 the British rate of abortion had reached this "Latin American"rate)"Charity" begins abroad:Claimed that "Increasingly the commercial sector is having to make its moneyby attracting foreign women, like the 30,000 who came last year." p 81,Family Planning 1973 (the BPAS was receiving clients from the UlsterPregnancy Advisory Association and from France at the time this statementwas made.)Sterilisation:" BPAS charged 105 British pounds for a man and 300 British pounds for awoman in Feb. 1992 (from Parents, Feb. 1992)Lafitte's Dream:Hunting Down the English:"for eugenicists ... our broad strategy must be, bygeneral measures to encourage healthy parenthood in all classes, and byspecific measures, to hunt out individuals who are undesirable as parents... (by) ... personal casework ... (The job of hunting out to be done by)... social workers and doctors ... trained in ... human heredity ... whenmore is known", from "Family Allowances and Eugenics" by Lafitte in ER July1941, p. 69-70Good Germans Needed in 1941:When German aliens were interned at the start of World War II, Lafittecomplained that "2,000 people (from some of whom the Eugenics Review wouldhave welcomed contributions) were herded into a derelict rat-infested ...factory ... we shall have need of good Germans" (from a review of TheInternment of Aliens. 1940 by Richard Titmuss q.v., ER Jan. 1941, p. 136)Background:Lafitte's Dream Come Truefrom Diane Munday, BPAS PR person: "I emphasize the stupidity of thesuggestion that BPAS should provide the full range of alternatives toabortion. BPAS is unashamedly an Abortion and Fertility Control providingservice." (quoted by Jill Knight in Hansard 13 Dec. 1979 according to ALDUNewsletter No. 6, 1980. Lafitte was BPAS chairman at this time.)Background:F
rancois Lafitte’s mother came from Maubege, France. She went to London and became associated with John Collier in a free love relationshipwhich was disastrous for her. After her association with John Collier endedshe married Serge Cyon, who claimed to be a Russian exile.Cyon is a famous name in Russia and France but no one has investigatedthe relationship between Serge and Elias Cyon, if any</p>