Posted on 04/05/2009 3:37:57 PM PDT by IbJensen
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a speech to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Awards Gala, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she admires "Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision." Secretary Clinton said she is "really in awe of" Sanger for Sanger's early work in Brooklyn, New York, "taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions."
Immediately following a trip to Mexico's Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the pro-life movement, Mrs. Clinton travelled to Texas on March 28, where she was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award by Planned Parenthood.
She told the abortion movement representatives assembled there, "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."
The sexual revolution brought about in part by Sanger's promotion of contraception and abortion, Mrs. Clinton said, has "ushered in demographic and social changes that have brought us closer to gender equality than at any time."
Despite this, she said that the work of Planned Parenthood and the movement inspired by Sanger "is not done." Linking birth control and women's "empowerment," she said, "women and girls are still the majority of the world's poor, unschooled, unhealthy, and underfed."
"This is and has been for many years a matter of personal and professional importance to me, and I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women's rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this administration."
Mrs. Clinton's heroine, however, received quite different a treatment in a speech in Congress by Representative Chris Smith, who said on March 31, that Sanger was a racist eugenicist.
Addressing Mrs. Clinton, Smith said, "Are you kidding? In 'awe'' of Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, 'Eugenics … is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems'. And who also said in 1922, 'The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it'?"
To Mrs. Clinton's assertion that Margaret Sanger's work has been "transformational," Smith responded, "Mr. Speaker, transformational, yes. But not for the better if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, a person of color, vulnerable, or among the many so-called undesirables who Sanger would exclude and exterminate from the human race."
Comparing the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the abortion movement, Rep. Smith said that the former "has for five centuries brought a message of hope, faith, peace, reconciliation and protection for the weakest, most vulnerable among us."
"On the other hand, each year, Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood kills approximately 300,000 unborn baby girls and boys in their abortion clinics scattered throughout the United States."
Highlighting the racist nature of eugenics, Smith further quoted Sanger, who said in 1939, "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social service backgrounds and with engaging personalities ... We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
Mrs. Clinton has regained the confidence of the abortion movement in the US, after her attempts during the lead-up to the presidential race to present herself as a moderate on the issue. Support for her campaign to take the Democrat nomination wavered among hard-core abortion supporters when she called abortion a "tragedy."
Read the full text of Rep. Smith's speech in Congress: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2009_docs/Smithspeech.pdf
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This makes me physically ill. Read Margaret Sanger’s own words in her autobiography. She was evil.
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"The Negro Project conspiracy theory is an alleged eugenics program. The project, according to proponents of the theory, supposedly aims to reduce or eliminate the black population through use of abortion.[1]This has been disputed by Planned Parenthood[2] and by the Margaret Sanger Papers Project[3]. Further evidence against this conspiracy theory comes from the fact that Sanger, while a vocal and active proponent of birth control and family planning, was opposed to abortion.[4]"
Herr Schickelgruber was also a fan of euphemisms like 'Final Solution'. I'm sure he'd approve of "reproductive rights".
Herr Hussein must be proud of Hillary Rotten Clinton.
I’m sure, she is awed by the great individual choice by Judas Isacariot. Yet she would be very alien to “Blessed art thou among women!”
“I just hope Hillary and her old windbag hags don’t murder the child that God sends with the cure for cancer....”
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Tragically, it probably already has happened. The cure for cancer and perhaps viruses like HIV may have been thwarted by these monsters aborting the gifted people.
Hillary and all the other feminazis at PP should be wearing a red arm band with a swastika.
Abortion.....NOT IN MY NAME!!!!
As the wife of our first black president, she should be horrified that Margaret Sanger hated blacks and wanted to murder all their children before they were even born.
Amazing. You are not a racist if you advocate a program of killing black and brown people in the womb. Clinton returns to a trip from Mexico and all but says, “there are too many of those brown people and I admire Margaret Sanger’s attempts to kill them off.”
Mrs. C should consider carefully how God views the shedding of innocent blood.
Can anybody explain to me how the death of an innocent brings forth gender equality? I seem to have not caught on to points B through Y in regards to the logic explaining just how that works.
A word of advice
Don't look directly at Medussa. One of her six heads keeps you mesmerized. Two go for your back pockets, two go for your front pockets, and one bites you in the @$$.
it is far better to remain silent and have people think you may be supid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!! If you are unable to accept the truth, please don’t make light of those who are able to do so!!!
Yeah Hillary, kill those “sub-human” blacks and jews. as the despicable Margaret Sanger refered to them.
A “little racism” and a desire for genocide are a bit different.
Wonder if she feels the same way about the former Reichs Chancellor and the merry band of eugenicists he had working out of the T4 program? I mean, he was an admirer of Sanger and the eugenicists from the U.S [patterned some of his eugenics laws after theirs], too.
I think, or at least hope you posted to the wrong person. I am pretty sure you are not defending Hillary, and I went a lot farther than just making light of her.
The soft genocide of abortion. Ms. Sanger smiles from amidst the flames.
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