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To: Lorianne; wagglebee; metmom; GodGunsGuts
Go ahead. Be big. I'm not doing your research here.

I did my research and I provided my quotations already.

Go ahead. If it backs up what you say it says about abortion, then quote it.

Everybody else has successfully busted you on Sanger's infanticide solution, so I won't pile on there.

C'mon. Let's have the quote.

63 posted on 12/06/2009 7:39:10 PM PST by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: Agamemnon

If Sanger advocated for abortion, Planned Parenthood would have a quote from their Patron Saint advocating it. They don’t. They can’t because she never advocated for abortion in any of her writings or published speeches. This they do not want you to know.

Nor did she advocate infanticide.

You and others are making the same mistake liberals often make, taking things out of context.

Sanger held repugnant views, but there is no reason to attribute to her things which she did not say/advocate. The things that are on record that she did say and advocate are bad enough.

It only hurts the pro-Life cause to overreach by misattributing views and speculating on motives for expediency. Her on-record racial eugenics views and advocacy of involuntary sterilization are enough to discredit her.

Don’t abstract your enemies beyond utility.

As for her contemporaries, it is important to take into account one’s time. We should do this not to justify, but to put historical figures in context. For example, I consider Thomas Jefferson a great man to be admired. His moral failings on the issue of slavery should be viewed in context of his day, not ours. Yet many people discredit him entirely, indeed the entire founding of our great country, based on the fact that the evil of slavery existed and was practiced by some of our Founding Fathers. This, I believe, is a mistake.

In Sanger’s contaception advocacy days, women routinely died or were maimed from abortions as the techniques involed were quite crude and unsanitary. She was a nurse and witnessed this first hand. That is what prompted her to seek a means of pre-empting such butchery.

She discusses abortion vs contraception at length in her writings:

http://www.bartleby.com/1013/10.html


64 posted on 12/06/2009 8:13:04 PM PST by Lorianne
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