I’m Michael Hichborn, and this is the American
Life League Report.
The federal government already funnels hundreds
of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood
every year, so it should come as no surprise
when it funnels your money to celebrate its
founder.
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
recently opened a new, federally funded exhibit
that
according to the museum's curator, "celebrates
women who have challenged and changed America
over the past century."
Included in the list is notorious liberal
feminist Margaret Sanger.
The National Portrait Gallery website provides
a brief description of Sanger, describing
a concerned crusader who fought “with the
courage of a wounded tiger” for the promotion
of birth control.
What the Smithsonian exhibit fails to mention,
however, is that Margaret Sanger founded the
largest abortion chain in the country, now
known as Planned Parenthood. But the exhibit
also fails to explain the racist ideology
behind Sanger’s promotion of birth control.
Many people don’t really know what eugenics
is. Eugenics is defined as
“belief in the possibility of improving
the qualities of the human species by discouraging
reproduction by persons having genetic defects
or presumed to have inheritable, undesirable
traits.”
Essentially, eugenics is the creation of a
“master race” by controlling who has children
and who doesn’t.
An article appearing in the January 31, 1922
edition of the New York Times bore the headline,
“Mrs. Sanger Says Superman Is the Aim of
Birth Control.”
If creating a race of supermen is the goal,
who did Sanger believe had genetic defects
or undesirable traits that stood in the way?
In his book, “Birth Control: Facts and Responsibilities”,
Adolf Meyer quoted an essay Sanger wrote in
1925 entitled, “The Need of Birth Control…
in America.”
[Margaret Sanger] Birth Control is not merely
an individual problem; it is not merely a
national question, it concerns the whole wide
world, the ultimate destiny of the human race.
In his last book, Mr. H.G. Wells speaks of
the meaningless, aimless lives which cram
this world of ours, hordes of people who are
born, who live, yet who have done absolutely
nothing to advance the race one iota.
Their lives are hopeless repetitions. All
that they have said has been said before;
all that they have done has been done better
before. Such human weeds clog up the path,
drain up the energies and the resources of
this little earth. We must clear the way for
a better world; we must cultivate our garden."
[Micheal] In 1922, Sanger wrote a book entitled
The Pivot of Civilization. In it is a chapter
called "The Cruelty of Charity,” where she
blasts programs that provide "medical and
nursing facilities to slum mothers" as "insidiously
injurious."
In the same book, Sanger called for the cessation
of charity, for the segregation of morons,
misfits, and themaladjusted, and for the sterilization
of genetically inferior races. She also argued
that organized attempts to help the poor was
the “surest sign that our civilization has
bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating defectives,
delinquents, and dependents."
The “Birth Control Review” was Sanger’s
official publication for the American Birth
Control League, and in 1932, she outlined
her 'Plan for Peace.'
[Margaret Sanger] The main objectives of the
Population Congress would be:
To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization
and segregation to that grade of population
whose progeny is already tainted. To give
certain dysgenic groups in our population
their choice of segregation or sterilization,
and to apportion farm lands and homesteads
for these segregated persons where they would
be taught to work under competent instructors
for the period of their entire lives.
[Micheal] Sanger’s admiration for the eugenics
programs of Nazi Germany were well known at
the time.
In 1933, the “Birth Control Review” published
'Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need' by
Ernst Rudin, who was Hitler's director of
genetic sterilization and a founder of the
Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene.
In her praise for the eugenics programs in
Germany, Sanger called for the implementation
of such programs in the United States, specifically
targeting African-Americans. The following
editorial was published in a 1932 issue of
the Birth Control Review.
[Margaret Sanger] The Negro problem is one
of the most complicated and important confronting
America. Whatever the ultimate answer may
be, such an attitude brings to light the function
of birth control as a necessary agency in
its solution.
The present submerged condition of the Negro
is due in large part to the high fertility
of the race under disastrously adverse circumstances.
Thus the question arises to what extent birth
control has had a eugenic effect upon the
Negro race.
[Michael] If any question should remain about
Sanger’s racist agenda, a 1939 letter she
wrote to Dr. Clarence Gamble should remove
all doubt.
[Margaret Sanger] We should hire three or
four colored ministers, preferably with social-service
backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.
The most successful educational approach to
the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the word to go out that we want
to exterminate the Negro population. And the
minister is the man who can straighten out
that idea if it ever occurs to any of their
more rebellious members.
[Michael] Can there be any wonder why Planned
Parenthood opens its facilities in poor, inner-city
neighborhoods populated by minorities? Can
there be any doubt that Sanger’s philosophy
of creating a pure race is what fuels Planned
Parenthood’s support of embryonic stem cell
research?
Margaret Sanger was a racist. She’s responsible
for the millions of babies that have been
ethnically cleansed from our country, and
should NOT be celebrated by the tax-payer
funded Smithsonian. Please visit the website
and contact the Smithsonian, demanding that
materials on Sanger be removed from the exhibit.
For American Life League, I’m Michael Hichborn.
