Hispanic eugenics are a positive eugenics based around the political purification of a people, developed in Spain during the interwar period and put into practice in the Spanish Civil War, eventually being made into political policy in Francoist Spain.
Campos's translated text went on to say, "it was very difficult to racialize the Spanish population biologically because of the mixture that had been produced historically.
Because Catholicism was opposed to negative eugenics, the only way to fight the degradation was through repression of abortion, euthanasia and contraception.
Antes que te cases was published by Nájera in 1946, with one part saying, "Racial decadence is the result of many things but the most important is conjugal unhappiness in the most prosperous and happy of homes.
Such difference emerges from the anatomical surface of each man and woman, and it goes to the deepest, darkest roots of life, to the home of the cells.
[3] Doctors in Francoist Spain had two roles: to be moral protectors of Spanish reproduction and to provide science based medical services.
When medical doctors in the Second Republic and early Francoist period defended birth control, it was on the eugenics grounds that it protected the health of both women and children, especially as it related to the spread of genetic disease and the spread of tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases.
"[4] The Franco government found an ally in their anti-abortion beliefs and practices in the Roman Catholic Church.
[9] Those within the Catholic Church wrote in support of the law, with Father Jaime Pujiula, Professor of the Colegio Máximo de San Ignacio de Sarriá and member of the Royal Academies of Sciences of Madrid and Medicine of Barcelona[9] saying, "The fruit that is lost criminally would be perhaps the most robust man, the healthiest, the most intelligent to raise the same society or to renew it or print new directions and directions."
Further attempts to dislodge midwives from the birthing process included accusing them of witchcraft and quackery, trying to make them appear unscientific.
This was all part of a medical and eugenic science driven effort to reduce the number of abortions in Spain.