Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire
The founder of Planned Parenthood would have considered many Americans unworthy of life
By Arina Grossu – – Monday, May 5, 2014
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Recent articles have reported on an unearthed video from 1947 of Margaret Sanger demanding “no more babies” for 10 years in developing countries. A couple of years ago, Margaret Sanger was named one of Time magazine’s “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time.” Given her enduring influence, it’s worth considering what the woman who founded Planned Parenthood contributed to the eugenics movement.
Sanger shaped the eugenics movement in America and beyond in the 1930s and 1940s. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”
She even presented at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. She recounted this event in her autobiography: “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” (Margaret Sanger, “An Autobiography,” Page 366). That she generated enthusiasm among some of America’s leading racists says something about the content and tone of her remarks.
In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).
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James, individuals at all points along the political/ideological spectrum are equally charmed by the siren song of so-called population control. Progressive statists. Wealthy capitalists. Bleeding heart liberals. “Fiscal” conservatives. Even many self-described “Attila the Hun” conservatives for whom social issues supposedly loom large are remarkably susceptible to being persuaded that certain subgroups of their nation’s population or of the global population should be prevented from growing in number or proportion in favor of other, more preferable types of people (who typically are contracepting themselves into extinction). This amounts to a moral crater that looms quite large, with the USA shamefully leading the way in many ways. The only current antidote to this social poison, it turns out, is the one, holy, catholic (universal) and apostolic faith. Those who may be only thinly informed about this issue can find themselves leaning favorably toward the arguments of the modern eugenicists. Such people should take a deep breath, think about it, and reject their horrid, soul-corrupting ideas. The teachings and magisterium of mother church will enlighten anyone in need of moral education on this score. Don’t fall into the eugenicists’ trap!
But it provides good guilt free cover to kill children that inconvenience or lives or careers.