“Lumping her in with Hitler and Mao might need some mass murder evidence.”
How many children were murdered by abortion? 100+ million.
“How many children were murdered by abortion? 100+ million.”
You’d have a point if you can find Sanger promoting abortion. From what I’ve seen she didn’t. She mentions abortion in a 1914 pamphlet “Family Limitation” and within a year complains “No one doubts my views on the subject. Mainly because I have so strenuously attacked the abortionists & the Government for creating them.”
It’s fairly easy to find Sanger arguing that legalizing contraceptives, something she did campaign for, would stop women from seeking abortions. An odd argument for an abortion fan, unless she wasn’t one.
That idea that Sanger promoted abortion appears to be an “everbody knows” claim for which no one can actually produce the evidence.
NYU has a collection of Sanger papers. This is what they have to say about people who attempt to enlist Sanger on either side of the abortion issue:
“From our unique vantage point we have observed that many who write with confidence about Sanger are insecure and confused when assessing her views on this most heated of all culture war issues.
“Some reproductive rights proponents seem uncomfortable with Sanger’s often strong language condemning the practice of abortion. Others suggest that she had to be circumspect because of widespread public disapproval of abortion and the potential for legal trouble (abortion did not become legal until seven years after her death).
“Those on the other side of the debate, who charge Sanger with instigating a holocaust of the unborn, struggle to explain passages in her writings that appear to echo their own sentiments; some have gone so far as to suggest that Sanger orchestrated a masterful subterfuge— nary a seam detected in her sheep’s clothing.”
“Once again the failure to read widely and try to understand Sanger within the context of her time has exposed the historical myopia of Sanger’s critics as well as some of her admirers. Even more maddening is the common practice of making broad assumptions about Sanger’s position on abortion based on a single quotation, such as her declaration in the first issue of the Woman Rebel that women have “The Right to destroy,” or her later comment that she had “always condemned abortion as dangerous and inhuman.” Sanger’s views on abortion, like her views on other issues surrounding sexual expression and reproductive control, were complex and impossible to pigeonhole. “
You can find plenty of her comments here:
https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/articles/ms_abortion/