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To: Squawk 8888
And she would be appalled at what PP is doing. She was vehemently anti-abortion and had nothing but vitriol for doctors who performed them.

Is that sarcasm or have you slipped on the ice and bashed your head on the concrete?

27 posted on 12/17/2013 8:22:48 PM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: USS Alaska
She has consistently gone on the record opposing abortion, believing that it can only be justified if the pregnancy is endangering the mother's life, e.g. ectopic pregnancies etc.

Sanger's family planning advocacy always focused on contraception, rather than abortion. 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. Sanger was opposed to abortions, both because they were dangerous for the mother in the early 20th century 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."

Historian Rodger Streitmatter concluded that Sanger's opposition to abortion stemmed from concerns for the dangers to the mother, rather than moral concerns. 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." 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."

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30 posted on 12/17/2013 8:59:30 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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