[wagglebee]

Your last quote is out of context and is opposite the point she was making (which was against abortion).

In what way.

There is no indication from any of her writings and speeches that she supported or advocated abortion or was making any compromise on the issue.

No, she supported programs that would prevent those she didn't want to have children from getting pregnant in the first place.

Her main thing was contraception, which she saw as eradicating poverty and the practice of abortion. (Turns out she was wrong about that).

She wanted to eradicate poverty by sterilizing the poor.

[GodGunsGuts]

And when it came to large, poor families, she apparently advocated post-natal abortion (read: murder) to keep their numbers within the limits set by her fellow evo-fanatical/ eugenicist coreligionists.

[Lorianne]

Read her quote in context and you will see what she was saying.

No, she supported programs that would prevent those she didn't want to have children from getting pregnant in the first place.

True, that's what she advocated.

She wanted to eradicate poverty by sterilizing the poor.

Her main thrust was for widely available contraception, which she saw as eliminating or greatly reducing poverty, and also for eliminating abortion and infanticide, which she felt occured out of desperation as a result of poverty. It must be remembered, contraception or even distributing information about contraceptive techniques was illegal in her day.

Sterilization was more for the 'unfit' (in her estimation). Many people of her day advocated for the same and many States enacted legislation to carry out that advocacy. Eugenics was a quite popular idea in the first half of the 20th century, before WWII.