[Morgana]

It's true! Margaret was EOE with her hate! She hated everyone!

[Secret Agent Man]

I just love how she thinks that her explanation somehow makes Margaret Sanger and abortion more palatable.

Some things are so stupid only an intellectual will believe them.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

[CharlesOConnell]

A distinction without a difference

Racial Prejudice and Population Control

	"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of." - United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in Emily Bazelon, "The Place of Women on the Court", The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009
"In particular, we are able to demonstrate that family planning services in the United States were provided more frequently whenever there were black Americans in the population. In other words, there is a strong inferential case to be made that reactions to the racial composition of the population have influenced decisions to provide family planning services. … This fact [, that contraception dispensaries tend to be located in predominantly minority areas, not in poor white ones,] gives apparent substance to charges that such programs are designed not simply to assist the poor, but to control the growth of the black population. " - Kammeyer, Yetman et al, "Family Planning Services and Distribution of Black Americans," in Population Studies: Selected Essays and Research (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975.) p. 475.
	"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the 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." - Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 10, 1939 (Smith College, Sanger Collection)
"Population control is too important to entrust to some right-wing, pro-life types. Take the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants: Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide. I'd set up a[n abortion] clinic in Mexico for free if I could. Maybe one in Calexico would help. The survival of our society could be at stake.…The Aid to Families With Dependent Children program is the worst boondoggle ever created. When a sullen black woman can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us it's time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles having babies for welfare is the only industry the people have." - Dr. Edward Allred (multi-millionaire, former owner of Family Planning Associates, once upon a time the largest independent abortion clinic chain), quoted in "Doctor's Abortion Practice Lucrative," The San Diego Union, 10/12/80, pp. A-3, 17.
		"In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there [Poland and Russia] had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to actually be encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population.  …  We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health.  …  It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions ['clinics'] and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics." - Adolf Hitler, Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941-42.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How true.

[Bon mots]

[Yaelle]

So even well, able bodies blacks needed killin, but just the disabled whites. She’s still racist.

[Sherman Logan]

The eugenicists of the early 20th get, to some extent, an unjustified rap. They are tarred with the crimes of the Nazis. This is to somewhat unfair, for a couple of reasons.
1. Nazi racial ideas weren’t really (or at least entirely) based on eugenics. Two of the groups they were most eager to wipe out, Jews and Poles, precisely because they were afraid those groups weren’t really inferior, and therefore were a threat.
2. Sanger and other eugenicists of the early 20th had no particular reason to think that trying to limit breeding of children that could not be supported by their parents would lead to 12M people exterminated in Europe. Only in hindsight is there an obvious chain of ideas leading to this result.

If there is ANY hereditary component to intelligence and competence, then it is really difficult to argue logically against the central idea of eugenics. Present scientific evidence is that intelligence is somewhere around 60% inherited. Claims that there is no hereditary component have zero evidence, only assertions based on ideology.

The central idea of eugenics is that if those with high intelligence have few children, and those with low intelligence have many children, over time the average intelligence of the human race will go down. To which the most common response is, “Shut up, because Hitler!”

It is indisputable that in our society there is an inverse relationship between success in life and number of children. Jews, for instance, are in America in the process of breeding themselves out of existence due to a low birthrate (and intermarriage).

That Hitler (or Sanger) believed something does not make it in and of itself untrue. Neither does the fact that evil things were done in the name of a cause.

Now people of good will can have varying opinions on what, if anything, can or should be done to address this issue. But that it’s an issue and a crisis is to my mind indisputable, even if nobody wants to admit it.

[Rummyfan]

I will never deny that Margaret Sanger was connected to the eugenics movement, what they (abortion opponents) never bothered to say is that eugenicists also wanted to limit the birth rate of poor white people and disabled people. It wasn’t just Black people; it was a whole lot of people they deem to be unfit.”

That makes her okay then! Whew, what a relief!

[rarestia]

Has science evolved to the point that they can help us jump to different universes or dimensions? This world is getting to the point of being completely unpalatable.

[Slyfox]

Sanger called it “stemming the brown tide.”

[Diago]

Great Washington Times article on Margaret Sanger:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/grossu-margaret-sanger-eugenicist/