Posted on 08/11/2007 7:32:42 PM PDT by monomaniac
By Elizabeth O'Brien
WASHINGTON, DC, August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The third largest U.S. newsweekly published a highly skewed historical account of Margaret Sanger, entirely omitting the racist motivation behind her vehement commitment to birth control, abortion and sterilization.
U.S.News & World Report, a rival of Time magazine and Newsweek, published an article on Sunday entitled, "The Passions Behind the Pill, helping women in poverty is what drove the development of the oral contraceptive." The story makes no hint of the fact that Margaret Sanger was a rabid racist who wanted the complete eradication of the black population. Rather it portrays the heroic struggle of a woman seeking to empower female victims of social circumstance.
The article begins by referring to the fact that Sanger was born into a penniless family of 11 children, and as a result, she felt a special calling "to help poor women have fewer children to be brought up." It speaks of the resistance she received during the early 1900's when she was accused of "obscenity" for mailing pamphlets on birth control. It also sardonically notes that she was "rewarded" for her efforts by 30 days in jail for spreading information about contraceptives.
The article also fails to mention the fact that this warrior for women's so-called rights was also connected with the Nazi fascist regime with which she shared her ideas on eugenics in the 1930's. In fact, she changed her organization's original name from the Birth Control League to Planned Parenthood in order to better maintain the illusion that her goals were much more family "friendly" than the publicly condemned Nazi policies.
Rooted in the philosophy of sexual liberation and Social Darwinism, Sanger viewed the physically and mentally handicapped, illiterates and poor people as hereditarily "tainted" people who must be removed from society. In addition, referring to the black communities in the Southern United States as a "dysgenic horror", she also believed that black people were subhuman and must be eradicated.
In the "Negro Project" of 1939, for example, Sanger encouraged black ministers to propagate birth control in their own communities-in essence, to unknowingly wipe out their own people. She is quoted as saying, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the Minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their rebellious members."
Through this movement of massive deceit and manipulation, clinics that provided the pill and offered family "planning" information spread rapidly throughout the American black communities.
The U.S.News story describes some of the social and political hurdles that Sanger overcame, including the Pope's condemnation of contraception in the 1960's. The article further states, "Because the pill's popularity coincided with the beginnings of the feminist movement, it became a symbol of the sexual revolution."
Quoting historian Elizabeth Watkins, the articles continues, the "pill alone didn't cause the sexual revolution, but…it did cause a contraception revolution." It then goes on to describe the pill's great impact that "forever changed the lives of American women."
Finally, the article concludes without any mention of the fact that as foundress of the world's largest eugenics movement, Sanger advocated not only the widespread use of contraception, but also the legalization of abortion and sterilization in order to wipe out those who were considered "unfit" for normal human society. In this way, by participating in the deception that has surrounded Sanger and her movement for decades, the article omits any reference to the main ideology that fueled her life's career.
Read the U.S.News & World Report story on Margaret Sanger:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070805/13pill.htm
LifeSiteNews Special report: The Inherent Racism of Population Control
http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf
Current Medical Euthanasia and Eugenic Abortion Practices Echo Nazi Past
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03100208.html
Wasn’t this recently posted?
It's amazing how little people really know about history.
The irony here is that the pill is doing much more to help eradicate the elites than it is to eradicate poor people. To a great extent, upper middle & upper class white people have stopped reproducing.
I read the article, and the word “eugenics” was not in it, nor any mention of race. Sanger was just idolized as a pioneer supporter of birth control.
At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.
Sanger’s other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as “scientific” and “humanitarian.” And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America’s human “breeding stock” and purging America’s “bad strains.” These “strains” included the “shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South.”
Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as “unfit,” a plan she said would be the “salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike 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 Sanger considered “unfit” cannot be easily refuted.
Read more at http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
Yes it was. Looks like they corrected the errors in the original article and also removed the photoshopped photo.
I wouldn’t believe anything this so called “news” site prints.
Given the abortion rate among blacks, what it has done is to stifle the growth of the black population in America. More that that, it has destroyed the traditonal black family, which was the desired norm among blacks in 1950 but is not today.
Didn’t someone post an old pic of her with the Klan a year or so ago?
Or anything monospamiac posts.
She is quoted as saying, “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the Minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their rebellious members.”
Didn’t Martin Luther King get an award from Planned Parenthood?
Thanks! Bet you don’t see THAT pic floating around on MSM.
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