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By Margaret Sanger

January 6, 2011 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

There are awards given in Margaret Sanger’s name, for all her very fine work to exterminate undesirables encourage “reproductive freedom.” A quote I stumbled upon from the lady herself:

The American socialist Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood and is still a feminist and liberal icon. On black people and immigrants in general, these were “human weeds” and “reckless breeders,” “spawning human beings who never should have been born.” She believed in the sterilization of the mentally ill, in “racial purification” and the elimination of those she labelled the “feeble-minded.” She was aware, however, that her racism might cause a few problems and warned that, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population” because it might provoke “their more rebellious members.”

Now tell me–if her life’s work had been in chemistry or engineering or math, there’s a snowball’s chance in hell she’d be held up as an icon today. But no, her life’s work was birth control and abortion, and so, the abortion distortion means we are meant to put aside her racism and generally abhorrent views, or contextualize them–she was living in a eugenic age, so we should tolerate her views–etc., etc., etc. Enough of the excuses–hers is not a byline you’d want in your paper today, and we shouldn’t give or accept awards in her name. More to the point, her racism was not a side view, it was intimately connected to her life’s work. Despicable.

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  1. Melissa says

    January 6, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Snowball’s chance in hell–what a great saying! I’ll have to remember that one.

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  2. Kristina says

    January 11, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    I’m pretty sure that last quote by Sanger is taken out of context. If I recall that letter is about her fears that the black population would get the false idea that they were trying to do just that.

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