Margaret Sanger, the women’s rights activist
and founder of Planned Parenthood—the largest
abortion provider in America—is a hero to
the modern Left.
Hillary Clinton told supporters in 2009 that
she was “in awe of [Sanger].”
In 2014, Barack Obama in an address to Planned
Parenthood praised Sanger’s legacy as the
“core principle [that] has guided everything
all of you do.”
Meanwhile, conservatives have criticized Sanger
for decades.
Why?
Here’s what the Left isn’t telling you
about her.
Margaret Sanger co-founded the American Birth
Control League in 1921 – the group which
eventually became Planned Parenthood.
The League included among its founding aims
the “sterilization of the insane and feeble-minded.”
Sanger believed that “the most urgent problem
today is how to limit and discourage the
over-fertility of the mentally and physically
defective.”
Sanger’s co-founders included the man who
pioneered Aryan supremacy theory, Georges
Lapouge.
Other supporters were the anti-Semitic novelist
Johann Ferch; American Eugenics Society president
Clarence Little; and Lothrop Stoddard, an
avowed white supremacist who promoted laws
against interracial marriage.
And Sanger supported many of their abhorrent
views, too.
She thought eugenics would liberate women
by developing a “cleaner race.”
She wrote: “Birth control is not contraception
indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced.
It means the release and cultivation of the
better racial elements in our society, and
the gradual suppression, elimination, and
eventual extirpation of defective stocks—those
human weeds which threaten the blooming of
the finest flowers of American civilization.”
In a press release signed by Sanger, the Birth
Control League championed forced sterilization
of Americans, declaring that: “there are
hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of
individuals in this country who have not the
moral responsibility to care for children
. . . These people should be sterilized.”
Sanger wanted to block immigration of “feeble-minded”
foreigners with “loathsome diseases” in
order to protect America’s fragile gene
pool.
She even spoke before the Ku Klux Klan, warning
them that America must “keep the doors of
Immigration closed” to undesirables.
Was Margaret Sanger a racist?
Consider her beliefs about Australia’s Aborigines
people, whom she considered compulsive rapists
and “the lowest known species of the human
family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee
in brain development.”
Today’s Planned Parenthood may “denounce”
her support for eugenics.
Yet the group still calls its racist founder
a “hero” and venerates her with their
highest honor: the Margaret Sanger Award.
If modern Progressives held Sanger to their
own standards, they’d rightly renounce her
as a bigot and a racist.
I’m Hayden Ludwig.
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