Margaret Sanger is credited with helping to found Planned Parenthood. In fact, it was over 100 years ago – on Oct. 16, 1916 – that Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States. She was an advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a highly vocal eugenics enthusiast. If you don’t know what that word means: It is the study of, or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).
Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as “unfit,” a plan she said would be the “salvation of American civilization.: And she also spoke of those who were “irresponsible and reckless,” among whom she included those ” whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.” She further contended that “there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.” That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of people groups Sanger considered “unfit” cannot be easily refuted.
While Planned Parenthood’s current apologists try to put some distance between the eugenics and birth control movements, history definitively says otherwise. The eugenic theme figured prominently in the Birth Control Review, which Sanger founded. She published such articles as “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics”, “The Eugenic Conscience”, “The purpose of Eugenics”, “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics”, “Birth Control: The True Eugenics”, and many others.
Her first handbook published for adolescents entitled, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, featured a jarring afterword: It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them.
Planned Parenthood of course spins the foregoing in another direction and tries to portray her as a saint. So, a case appeared before the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas actually had the courage to say out loud what most avoid at all costs. He was responding to an unsigned opinion, whereby the justices let stand a lower court opinion that invalidated part of an Indiana law that said the state can ban abortions solely motivated by the race, sex or disability of the fetus. “Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th Century eugenic movement,”
Judge Thomas was quick to point out that this would fit right into Sanger’s Eugenics dream. “This law and other laws like it promote a State’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics,” Thomas later added that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was “particularly open about the fact that birth control could be used for eugenic purposes.” He wrote, “The Constitution itself is silent on abortion,” and added in a concurring opinion 15 pages discussing the history of eugenics. No other justice, including Thomas’s four fellow conservatives joined him. And of course, on the left liberal justices (since deceased) Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor made their position clear, saying that they would have blocked the entire Indiana law.
Duhhh . . . We could expect no less from these staunch liberals…
It seems obvious to me that Judge Thomas fears that Planned Parenthood was conceived to achieve something Hitler wanted to achieve, the master race. Get rid of all the low IQ misfits, disabled, African Americans, and Jews and make the world a better place through eugenics. Make no mistake she was outspoken about religious groups and others who opposed her too. I wonder should this line of thinking prevail who will decide who is fit and unfit to live. Planned Parenthood is making big money on every single child it kills. It seems they would be inclined to just kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out. Sick and disgusting .
George Washington once said, “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” Killing a defenseless baby in the womb will not get you very far and is as far from being civilized as the furthermost object in our Universe.
Psalm 139:13
“For you created my inner being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”