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Strange role models

April 13, 2009 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Those old school feminists choose strange role models: 

‘We want fewer and better children . . . and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us.’

That ghastly message appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger’s 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization.In a little-noticed incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced that she is “really in awe” of Sanger. “The 20th-century reproductive-rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race,” Clinton declaimed upon receiving an award from the organization that Sanger founded, Planned Parenthood.

I have to wonder why we don’t highlight these sorts of “women’s rights advocates” more often. Certainly does serve the pro-life cause well because Sanger is a very, er, conflicted mentor at best. And either Clinton doesn’t know all she stood for (unlikely) or she really does agree with her. In which case, I’d agree with the author of the article linked to–this certainly does “puncture the fiction that [Clinton] is a moderate.”

(cross-posted to The Shotgun)

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  1. Marauder says

    April 13, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    I’m in awe of Margaret Sanger too. I’m in awe that someone so blatantly advocating eugenics could get a mainstream following that continues to this day. She didn’t just want there to be birth control so nice Mrs. Johnson wouldn’t have to have a nineteenth child that she couldn’t feed. She wanted there to be birth control because she thought some people were too inferior to have children.

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