Sorry I’ve been a bit MIA lately. I just finished preparing for a 20-30 minute presentation on the pro-euthanasia movement that I am giving tomorrow morning. Really, the past two weeks researching and organizing that have been such fun.
Anyway, today I heard a really interesting and informative lecture from Dr. Angela Franks about Margaret Sanger, the eugenicist. Dr. Franks is the author of Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility. You may know that Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League — which evolved into the lovely organization we know today as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America — but many people are unaware (or in denial) of Sanger’s extensive involvement in the eugenics movement.
If you are at all interested, I encourage you to check out this 1-page fact sheet published by Planned Parenthood Hurts Girls, an organization Dr. Franks helped to create. The fact sheet is called “The Truth About Margaret Sanger” and features gems from Sanger’s speeches and writings such as,
“The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective.”
and another,
“All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class.”
Really, those are just the tip of Sanger’s eugenic iceberg. If you go to MargaretSanger.net, Dr. Franz has documented numerous other quotes from Sanger with the same elitist, bigoted attitude.
The quote that stood out most to me this afternoon was regarding human horticulture:
“Birth Control is not merely an individual problem; it is not merely a national question, it concerns the whole wide world, the ultimate destiny of the human race. In his last book, Mr. [H.G.] Wells speaks of the meaningless, aimless lives which cram this world of ours, hordes of people who are born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions. All that they have said has been said before; all that they have done has been done better before. Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden” (emphasis mine).
So, tell me. You really think Planned Parenthood is meant to help women?
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Ah, the kindness and love shown by progressives so always so heart warming.
So it’s not about women “controlling their bodies” or “equality” or “reproductive justice.” It’s all about ensuring that the working class does not overpopulate.
Planned Parenthood hasn’t done much to go beyond its original roots, has it? I mean, discounted abortions for the poor? The fact that their young clients and black clients are far out of proportion with their representation in the population?
Oh, but Bridget, it was about women controlling their own bodies! Controlling them through forced sterilization, IUDs implanted without their knowledge or consent… wait, I guess you’re right.
As for Planned Parenthood, I learned the other day that those “discounted abortions” bring in a third of PPFA’s yearly income. But no, they don’t have a vested interest in the legality of abortion.
Well, Sanger fits right in with current Democrats. Racist to the core. Not that they’d admit it, but it’s not hard to see that the only thing they care about is the color of a person’s skin, not who the actual person inside is.
Actually Mom, and you know how I hate to defend Sanger and the Planned Parenthood crowd, there’s no evidence that Sanger herself was a racist. She was very anti-poor people — many of whom were black — and a lot of her friends were definitely racist, but there’s really no evidence she thought minorities were inferior because of their skin color.
However, her actions obviously justified a lot of racism - breeding out the unfit, etc.
Isn’t it odd how so much of the “choice” rhetoric so quickly turns into forcing women to do certain things? No one in the Chinese government thinks that abortions are really wrong, so they force women to get them for their own good (or the good of existing children, or of society - i.e. the same rationale used to legitimitise abortion today).
Sick. Just sick. Is it one of those things where an abortion will cost them $300, but they will charge $500 and “discount” it to $300 for poor women? Who knows….
Abortion, though, is really cheap. Consider that the patient rarely needs anaesthesia; it takes about 10 minutes; and the chances of getting sued over it are negligible.
Planned Parenthood, our tax dollars at work.
It is sad, sick, and stunning to read Sanger’s words and to reflect on how her spirit seems to be alive still today. Her torch has been passed to a new generation that seeks to control the unwashed masses. The twisted extremes some that seek power will go to in order to achieve it is frightening!
Hey Tieki, why haven’t I seen you around my blog recently? Forgot about me?
Bridget - you’re exactly right, as usual. Another interesting tidbit I learned, women getting abortions are usually not allowed to know the name of their abortionist. I mean, in the facilities of Tiller the Killer, it’s probably obvious, but in the Planned Parenthood facilities and others that specialize in doing 40+ abortions a day, those women aren’t told the name of the individual who will be responsible for not only killing their child, but likely causing severe damage to their psychological and/or physical health. How’s that for the “private decision of the woman and her physician” those pro-aborts are always touting?
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Sam — Yes, it is incredibly frustrating how many tax dollars - at the federal, state, and local levels - are going to fund groups like Planned Parenthood. Even more frustrating, mainstream America really has no idea! Call me an idealist, but I like to think that if mainstream America really knew what Planned Parenthood’s agenda is and what PP does to achieve it, they would be far less likely to sit quietly as our tax dollars fund this genocide.
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Hi John! Don’t take it personally at all.
I’ve been incredibly busy studying in DC for the past 6 weeks, hence the sporadic posting and complete lack of commenting. In other words, it’s not you — it’s me. 
However, I’m headed back up to upstate NY today and I’m way better at procrastinating when it’s just regular school work rather than pro-life research, so I should get back to regular blogging/commenting in the next couple weeks.
How the heck is that a medical decision? If such is the basis of Roe, could a state forbid the performance of an abortion where the woman does not know the name of her child-killer and have his CV? That would not pose an undue burden on her “right to bear or beget a child,” but, of course, would stop the abortion industry in its tracks.
Let’s stop fighting about parental notification and start going for informed consent. Hee hee hee.