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?