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Mike Wallace Interview With Margaret Sanger Surfaces After Death
Life News ^ | 4/8/12 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 04/09/2012 11:28:00 AM PDT by Nachum

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To: RobbyS

My mother joined the Pro-Life battle very early on. Even before Roe v. Wade when it was largely being fought on the state level. And she was quite adamant in telling us that quite a few Rockefeller Republicans out there were fully on-board with this. “Abort, Don’t Support” was their line of thinking.

At the time she also encountered quite a few Pro-Life Democrats. Those have largely disappeared.


21 posted on 04/09/2012 12:28:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Rightly Biased

This is what Wikipedia says about her views on abortion, for what it’s worth. The statements they quote make it sound like she opposed it mostly. Perhaps she had an “evolving” position on it? I would have to assume that when she founded Planned Parenthood, abortion was illegal so she probably wasn’t openly advocating for it. I don’t know if PP would’ve been facilitating “back alley” abortions at that time or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

Abortion

Sanger’s family planning advocacy always focused on contraception, rather than abortion.[95][note 10] It was not until the mid 1960s, after Sanger’s death, that the reproductive rights movement expanded its scope to include abortion rights as well as contraception.[note 11] Sanger was opposed to abortions, both because they were dangerous for the mother, and because she believed that life should not be terminated after conception. In her book Woman and the New Race, she wrote, “while there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.”[98]

Historian Rodger Streitmatter concluded that Sanger’s opposition to abortion stemmed from concerns for the dangers to the mother, rather than moral concerns.[99] However, in her 1938 autobiography, Sanger noted that her opposition to abortion was based on the taking of life: “[In 1916] we explained what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way — it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.”[100] And in her book Family Limitation, Sanger wrote that “no one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.”[101]


22 posted on 04/09/2012 12:31:55 PM PDT by JediJones (The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
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To: wagglebee

She’s called herself a “born humanitarian”, while at the same time continuously touching and scratching her face and neck. Even she knows that’s a lie.


23 posted on 04/09/2012 12:33:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: uptoolate

-—At the 2:56 mark in the video, she states that the greatest sin in the world, to her, is bringing children into the world, who are diseased...”-—

She also stumbled over Wallace’s curveball: “Is murder a sin?”

The hesitation was noticeable. Perhaps she anticipated the next logical question.

Mike should have said, “OK, let’s flip all the cards*, Are you the devil?”

*”What’s My Line” reference.


24 posted on 04/09/2012 12:33:45 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: MeganC

http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm";

Good resource. Thanks.


25 posted on 04/09/2012 12:36:26 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Nachum

That is bizarre.


26 posted on 04/09/2012 12:40:44 PM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: dsc

You’re welcome. Nothing beats Truth when battling ignorance.


27 posted on 04/09/2012 12:41:57 PM PDT by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: Lorianne

“Sanger did not support abortion...”

Ummmmmm, ok. Care to explain how a person who advocated for the weeding out of undesirables & who once said the kindest thing a large family can do to its youngest member is kill it is not advocating for abortion???


28 posted on 04/09/2012 12:44:43 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: Nachum

A quote from Sanger, found at:
http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/margaret-sanger-abortion-is-dangerous-and-vicious.html
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“The real alternative to birth control is abortion,” wrote Dean Inge, [Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London]. It is an alternative that I cannot too strongly condemn. Although abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious. [Emphasis added] I bring up the subject here only because some ill-informed persons have the notion that when we speak of birth control we include abortion as a method. We certainly do not. Abortion destroys the already fertilized ovum or the embryo; contraception, as I have carefully explained, prevents the fertilizing of the ovum by keeping the male cells away. Thus it prevents the beginning of life. [Source: Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control Advances: A Reply to the Pope,” 1931, Margaret Sanger Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College MSM S71-243.]
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The fact remains that, even though Sanger may have not embraced abortion on demand, she was an early eugenicist and advocate of ‘birth control— which now, as often as not, includes abortifacients. The organization she founded and which we are now dealing with, is her legacy.


29 posted on 04/09/2012 12:48:13 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: RobbyS
No wonder that Republican leaders only given lip service to pro-life measures while Democrats thrown themselves on their swords for the cause of abortion.

Don't use one issue. The (R)s have no true passion for conservatism. When it gets tough they always fold & why not. They get voted back in. Now with some current pressure from the Tea Party you can see why the dislike them.

30 posted on 04/09/2012 1:06:04 PM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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To: RobbyS

What every body is totally elliminating from the life of Margaret Sanger is her complete belief in Eugenics. Does everyone understand what “EUGENICS” mean? This is “EUGENICS” at it’s core. Humans must elliminate the births of all children that are not up to what they, the Eugenics crowd, deem acceptible. Does everyone understand what this means? It means that the government will be the final judge on who are allowed to be born and survive, and who will be just thrown away ie; “aborted”, in order that the correct type of humans, according to the government, can live. Hitler and the NAZIs took all of this to heart. In other words, humans will be treated like cattle, and only the good ones will survive


31 posted on 04/09/2012 1:06:16 PM PDT by gingerbread
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To: Linda Frances
Eugenics is the “applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population”. Eugenics seeks to achieve its goals through the manipulation (including by force) of human populations.

Eugenics was very popular in the early 20th century and is a form of applied “social Darwinism” wherein certain superior races are encouraged to breed and replace inferior races. Inferior races are depopulated by various means including birth control, voluntary sterilization, contraception, and abortion.

Eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Margaret H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling, and Sidney Webb. Many members of the American Progressive Movement supported eugenics, seduced by its scientific trappings and its promise of a quick end to social ills.

Eugenics most infamous proponent and practitioner was Adolf Hitler. His book, Mein Kampf, argued for eugenics. Once in power, his Nazi Party passed legislation for the sterilization of “defectives” and social “undesirables”. This was later expanded to cover whole races of “inferiors” to the Aryan model.

The excesses of the Nazis’ racial theories and practices during World War 2 (12 million people slaughtered in the Holocaust) caused supporters of eugenics to re-brand themselves. Margret Sanger was a re-branded eugenics disciple who became the champion of birth control and was a founder of Planned Parenthood.

32 posted on 04/09/2012 1:12:22 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: MasterGunner01
Ooops. I lost Margret Sanger. Change to read: “ . . . including Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells . . .”. Got to go back to editing school.
33 posted on 04/09/2012 1:17:00 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: Nachum

bttt


34 posted on 04/09/2012 1:18:15 PM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Andrew loved the battle and he knew the stakes." ~ Mark Levin 3/2/12)
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To: stockpirate
There was a picture out not too long ago showing Sanger giving speeches in front of the KKK

That picture is a well-known creation using Photoshop.

35 posted on 04/09/2012 1:18:15 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: Nachum

Mike Wallace died??

btw, FR is so slow it is getting on my nerves. What the heck happened to those brand new servers?


36 posted on 04/09/2012 5:56:25 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line)
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To: mamelukesabre

‘btw, FR is so slow it is getting on my nerves. What the heck happened to those brand new servers?’

I know. It is maddening to post or upload things now.


37 posted on 04/09/2012 6:00:16 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: surroundedbyblue

She was a racist and a eugenicist but she never advocated for abortion.


38 posted on 04/09/2012 6:43:35 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

She never advocated abortion and that line that you quoted is taken out of context. Even out of context she does not advocate abortion. She did, however, advocate for forced sterilization of the ‘unfit’


39 posted on 04/09/2012 6:46:00 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Lorianne
She was a racist and a eugenicist but she never advocated for abortion.

Oh, gee, what a relief! With attitudes like these, who needs abortionists:

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
40 posted on 04/09/2012 6:50:26 PM PDT by aruanan
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