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
Sanger, right up there with Dr. Mengele
"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." "
Genocidal population control is very much at the center of liberalism and the Obama administration's agenda. That's what makes Notre Dame's plans to award him an honorary degree in Law all the more disgusting and obscene. Hillary shares in that shame. They show no concern for the coming demographic crash which will destroy Western civilization.
In the footsteps of Sanger, Plan Parenthood will not have completed its mission until inferior races are eradicated.
A truly stunning hypocrite; cynical elitist barbarian.
Our Lady of Guano-Loopy.
Member of the American axis of evil speaks her mind.
Makes some sense. If Sanger had been more successful, Hillary might be president today.
I wouldn’t call what Sanger preached “a little racism”. She wanted to stop “undesirables” from reproducing, and blacks were one of those she labeled as such. That’s just another form of genocide.
What it really shows is that Hillary is as racist as Sanger.
..as did Adolf Hitler!
Beethoven should've been aborted! In fairness to Margaret Sanger, she thought abortion barbaric. She wanted to eliminate blacks and other so-called "inferior races" by birth control alone.
I don’t think that Shrillary even thinks about Sanger’s racism. Like a good liberal, she simply dismisses inconvenient historical details. Sanger was all about women’s freedom don’t ya know.
Yes, but you have to admit, Planned Parenthood chose their candidate well—clinton is the embodiment of eugenics and racism...
I am really surprised by the lack of research by HRC on Sanger. Maybe her staff should get an email on Sanger’s real objectives and work? There is no excuse for such stupidity.
What an evil _itch! BOTH of them!
Sanger & Clintoon will ultimately give account for their twisted morals.
Quick, quick! Sometime tell Hillary right away that Sanger was a virtual Nazi when it came to racial purity!
This could prove to be embarrassing to HRC~
We must get her this info B4 it’s too late!!!
Jesse Jackson (remember him?) used to be pro-life and said that his mama would probably have aborted him. When he wanted to go big time, he flipped on that (just like that despicable blob, Albert Gore Junior)
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