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The unabridged Margaret Sanger
Below are some quotations by Margaret Sanger writing in the Birth Control Review, published over the period 1917-1940 by the American Birth Control League (ABCL), forerunner of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). This organization, founded by Sanger, currently operates the largest chain of abortion clinics in the United States, and has performed more than two million abortions since 1972.
Gloria Feldt, currently the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America has stated: "I can’t think of anyone who has made a greater contribution to the lives of women, children and families – of all races – than Margaret Sanger. You have to look at [her] life to see she had a desire to help the poor and the downtrodden of any race" (Phoenix Gazette, 12 September 1991).
Sanger on eugenics:
"Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race ..." (Margaret Sanger. "Morality and Birth Control." Birth Control Review, Volume II, Numbers 2 and 3 (February-March 1918), page 14.)
"Eugenics aims to secure better babies." (Margaret Sanger. "Medical Journalists Advocate Birth Control." Birth Control Review, Volume II, Number 10 (October 1918), page 4.)
"…we need not more of the fit, but fewer of the unfit….Is it not time to protect ourselves and our children and our children’s children? The propagation of the degenerate, the imbecile, the feeble-minded, should be prevented." (Margaret Sanger. "Birth Control) Past, Present and Future." Birth Control Review, Volume V, Number 8 (August 1921), page 19.)
"Today Eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems ... As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the "unfit" and the "fit," admittedly the greatest present menace to the human race.…the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective...Birth Control is not advanced as a panacea by which past and present evils of dysgenic breeding can be magically eliminated. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupidly cruel sentimentalism." (Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, Volume V, Number 10 (October 1921), page 5.)
"Of course birth control itself is a eugenical measure. Birth control is no negative philosophy concerned solely with the number of children brought into this world. It is not merely a question of population. Primarily it is the instrument of liberation and of human development. Birth control for the individual, for the nation and for the world. We are fighting for the children of the present generation. We are fighting for the children, the women and the men of the next generation. We want a race of thoroughbreds." (Quotes from Margaret Sanger’s book Pivot of Civilization. Birth Control Review, Volume VI, Number 10 (October 1922), page 253.
This is the first in a series of quotes by Margaret Sanger on various topics.
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The unabridged Margaret Sanger
These quotes by Margaret Sanger appeared in the Birth Control Review (BCR), published over the period 1917-1940. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Sanger on sterilization
“There is only one reply to a request for a higher birth rate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take off the burdens of the insane and feebleminded from your backs. Sterilization for these is the remedy.” (“The Function of Sterilization.” Birth Control Review, Volume X, Number 10 (October 1926), page 299.)
“…give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (The Function of Sterilization.” BCR, Volume XVI, Number 4 (April 1932), pages 107 and 108.)
“The American public is taxed, heavily taxed, to maintain an increasing race of morons, which threatens the very foundations of our civilization.
“It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus ... to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized.... In this way the moron and the diseased would have no posterity to inherit their unhappy condition. The number of the feebleminded would decrease and a heavy burden would be lifted from the shoulders of the fit. Such a bonus would be a wise and profitable investment.... It would be the salvation of American civilization.” ("The Function of Sterilization.” BCR, Volume X, Number 10 (October 1926), page 299.)
“It is already evident that ... the defective, delinquent and dependent classes are multiplying with reckless irresponsibility.... Any intelligent analyst must admit that today there are too many of the wrong kind of people in our world, and too few of the right kind. "
“The first great need of modern society is the encouragement of Birth Control education among potential parents of those poorer strata of society .... It goes without saying that... parenthood should be forbidden to the insane, the feeble-minded, the epileptic and to all those suffering from transmissible diseases. Modern methods of sterilization make this possible without the infliction of undue hardships or unhappiness.” (“The Need for Birth Control.” BCR, Volume XII, Number 8 (August 1928), page 228.)
This is the second in a four part series of quotes by Margaret Sanger on various topics.
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The unabridged Margaret Sanger
These quotes are all by Margaret Sanger, founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). They appeared in Birth Control Review (BCR), published from 1917-1940.
"Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of to-day arises. She no longer pleads. She no longer implores. She no longer petitions. She is here to assert herself, to take back those rights which were formerly hers and hers alone. If she must break the law to establish her right to voluntary motherhood, then the law shall be broken." ("Shall We Break This Law?" BCR, Volume I, Number 2 (February 1917), p. 4.)
"The church has been powerless and the champions of worn out moral creeds find themselves trying in vain to force all women to become mothers against their wills." ("Birth Control or Abortion?" BCR, Volume II, Number 11 (November 1918), p. 3.)
"Today the chief warfare against Birth Control is waged by the Roman Catholic clergy and their allies...the church has occupied itself with the problem of imposing abstinence upon its priesthood...it is not surprising that such a class of professional celibates should be physically sensitive to the implications of the idea of contraception. Taught to look upon all expressions of physical love as sinful, it is but natural that these men should combat a school of thought so diametrically opposed to their own..."
"`The Catholic scheme of ethics, on the contrary, demands strict obedience to the laws and prohibitions that have been codified by authority. That authority declares in no uncertain terms that all positive methods of this nature (contraception) are immoral and forbidden.’" ("The Fight Against Birth Control." BCR, Volume VIII, Number 9 (September 1924), pp. 245 to 248.)
"Public opinion in America, I fear, is too willing to condone in the officials of the Roman Catholic Church what it condemns in the Ku Klux Klan." ("The Fight Against Birth Control." BCR, Volume VIII, Number 9 (September 1924), pp. 245 to 248.)
"Let American women learn to open their minds to their great problems and their inexhaustible powers. Look deep and courageously for true causes, even though to look straight and unflinchingly may mean the readjustment and even the abandonment of old beliefs and prejudices inherited from traditional morality and religious convictions. They may only temporarily refuse to face the great world problem which presses in upon the consciousness of all the women of all nations. They cannot permanently refuse to consider it, for inevitably, slowly but certainly, step by step, the problem of Birth Control is invading the human mind of this twentieth century. Sooner or later the women of America must make their momentous decision whether they shall carry on the torch of humanity, or lead the world into the bottomless pit of bad breeding." ("Editorials." BCR, Volume IX, Number 3 (March 1925), p. 68.)
This is the third in a four part series of quotes by Margaret Sanger on various topics.
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The unabridged Margaret Sanger
These quotes are all by Margaret Sanger, founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Margaret Sanger on Racism
"The question of race betterment is one of immediate concern, and I am glad to say that the United States Government has already taken certain steps to control the quality of our population through the drastic immigration laws. There is a quota restriction by which only so many people from each country are allowed to enter our shores each month. It is the latest method adopted by our government to solve the population problem. Most people are convinced that this policy is right, and agree that we should slow down on the number as well as the kind of immigrants coming here. But while we close our gates to the so-called "undesirables" from other countries, we make no attempt to discourage or cut down the rapid multiplication of the unfit and undesirable at home. In fact, through our archaic and inhuman laws against Birth Control information the breeding of defectives and insane becomes a necessity. These types are being multiplied with breakneck rapidity and increasing far out of proportion to the normal and intelligent classes." (Margaret Sanger. "The Function of Sterilization." Birth Control Review, Volume X, Number 10 (October 1926), page 299.)
"...To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws…. To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring…. To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with transmissible diseases who voluntarily consent to sterilization…. To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization." (Margaret Sanger. "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, Volume XVI, Number 4 (April 1932), pages 107 and 108.)
"In the early history of the race, so-called "natural law" reigned undisturbed. Under its pitiless and unsympathetic iron rule, only the strongest, most courageous could live and become progenitors of the race. The weak died early or were killed. Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness and other lofty and worthy sentiments, which interfere with the law of natural selection. We are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates." (Margaret Sanger. "Birth Control and Women’s Health." Birth Control Review, Volume I, Number 12 (December 1917), page 7.)
"The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through religious appeal. We do not want 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." (Margaret Sanger. "Letter to Clarence Gamble." Oct. 19, 1939.)
This is the last in a four-part series of quotations by Margaret Sanger on various topics. A list of nearly 2,000 quotations from Birth Control Review can be found on HLI's web page
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Planned Parenthood WATCH
A Monthly Update on Public Enemy No. 1
Eugenics Is the Foundation of PP's Entire Agenda
by Michael Chapman
Human Life International recently
caught Planned Parenthood applying the racist and eugenicist policies of its founder Margaret Sanger in Akron, Ohio. The group had distributed bags filled with "safe sex" propaganda and a coupon redeemable for a dozen condoms and a $5 McDonald's gift certificate in minority neighborhoods. Targeting blacks and other minorities for birth control has long been a practice of Planned Parenthood, originally named the American Birth Control League. Once exposed by HLI, Planned Parenthood lied to the media, claiming, "Margaret Sanger was not a racist or a eugenicist." But Sanger's views, which Planned Parenthood has never rejected because it has never rejected Sanger, tell a different story as the quotes below prove. (HLI urges its supporters to use these quotes to spread the facts about Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, in letters to newspaper editors, TV stations, school board meetings and public forums. For more quotes call HLI, 540-635-7884, or visit our website, www.hli.org.)
"Birth control: to create a race of thoroughbreds."
—Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, November 1921, (vol. V, no. 11); p.2.
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit—that is the chief aim of birth control."
—Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, May 1919 (vol. III, no. 5); p.12.
"The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want 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."
—Margaret Sanger, in a letter to Clarence Gamble, 19 October 1939.
"Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. …"
—Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment." Birth Control Review, February 1919, (vol. III, no. 2); p. 11.
"Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. … Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never have been born."
—Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, p.279.
"Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness …. We
are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates."
—Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Women's Health." Birth Control Review, December 1917, (vol. I, no. 12); p. 7.
"It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means."
—Margaret Sanger, "The Function of Sterilization." Birth Control Review, October 1926, (vol. X, no. 10); p. 299.
"I visited hospitals in this city, and found them lacking in the simple and most ordinary article of decency. No soap, no cod-liver oil …. This has given rise to skin trouble, and the poor little waifs are a sad, miserable lot. It would be a great kindness to let them die outright, I believe."
—Margaret Sanger. "Women in Germany." Birth Control Review, January 1921, (vol. V, no. 1); p. 9.
"Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race..."
—Margaret Sanger, "Morality and Birth Control." Birth Control Review, February-March 1918, (vol. II, nos. 2 and 3); p. 14.
Michael Chapman is the Publications Manager at HLI.
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No single organization has done more to contribute to the modern-day breakdown of society than the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its sister organization, the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Ever since it was established more than 75 years ago, PP has poured billions of dollars (including a substantial portion of taxpayer money) into the promotion of abortion, contraception, sex education and sterilization around the world.
As a direct result of massive, well-orchestrated public relations campaigns, PP has managed to ride above much of the controversy surrounding its evil agenda. Many people who disagree with Planned Parenthood's mission are unaware of the organization's rather objectionable methods and rhetoric. For example:
Action outside the law, or even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change. (The Human Right to Family Planning, 1984)
A Planned Parenthood newspaper ad stated: We ... have spent the better part of this century supporting and fighting for everyone's freedom to make their own decisions about having children. Without government interference. Yet PP has never criticized China for its brutal one- child policy. On the contrary, PP fought to restore US funding to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), which has committed millions of dollars to the Chinese program since 1980.
In 1969, PPFA's then-president Alan Guttmacher commented on population control programs, predicting the possibility that eventually coercion may become necessary. The same year, Frederick Jaffe, head of PPFA's research division, wrote a memo titled Examples of Proposed Measures to Reduce US Fertility, which included: compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies ... payments to encourage abortion and compulsory sterilization for those who have already had two or more children.
And consider the following quotations, taken from the writings of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. Her philosophies still guide the organization today.
More children from the fit, less from the unfit that is the chief issue of birth control. (May 1919 issue of Birth Control News)
The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. (Woman and the New Race, 1920)
To create a race of thoroughbreds. (motto from the December 1921 issue)
Organized charity is the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents. Maternal care given to poor women is the most insidiously injurious philanthropy. The growth of the working class should be regulated, as they are benign imbeciles, who encourage the defective and diseased elements of humanity in their reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning. We must eliminate human weeds, segregate morons, misfits, and the maladjusted and sterilize the genetically inferior races. (The Pivot of Civilization, 1922)
Give the dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. (April 1932 issue of Birth Control News)
The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea is it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. (private letter to Clarence Gamble, 1939)
To gain an understanding of the institutional outlook of Planned Parenthood, we need look no further than two documents known as Humanist Manifesto I (1933) and Humanist Manifesto II (1973). The second one was signed by 114 civic leaders from around the world, including Alan Guttmacher. Margaret Sanger received the Humanist of the Year award before her death in 1966, and Faye Wattleton, also president of PPFA, received the award in 1986.
The award, as given out by the American Humanist Association, goes to the individual that AHA believes has done the most that year to spread the Humanist philosophy. In her acceptance speech, Wattleton noted that your organization and mine have so much in common. And what do they share? Humanist Manifesto II repudiates any belief in God (dismissed as traditional theism ), calling such belief an unproved and outmoded faith. They affirm the right to birth control, abortion, and divorce. In truly progressive fashion, it includes the right to die with dignity, euthanasia, and the right to suicide. There is no objective right and wrong in the Humanist world.
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Pro-Infanticide Quotes from the Birth Control Review
H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making. "Needless Waste of Little Lives." Birth Control Review, Volume I, Number 2 (February 1917), page 13.
"In the early history of the race, so-called "natural law" reigned undisturbed. Under its pitiless and unsympathetic iron rule, only the strongest, most courageous could live and become progenitors of the race. The weak died early or were killed. Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness and other lofty and worthy sentiments, which interfere with the law of natural selection. We are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates.
Margaret Sanger. "Birth Control and Women's Health." Birth Control Review, Volume I, Number 12 (December 1917), page 7.
1920
"... the people with the less searching and relentless elimination of the weaker infants is at a disadvantage. The proper moral to draw from this is not to relax our efforts to prolong life, but to apply the principles of eugenics to reproduction."
Edward A. Ross. "The Growth of Population." Birth Control Review, Volume IV, Number 3 (March 1920), page 5.
"The old Greeks and Romans put to death the babies they did not want as soon as they were born. We of the present day are inclined to feel superior because we are guilty of no such inhuman practice. But, let us be honest and look facts in the face ) is our method which makes it a crime to destroy the new born babe, but permits it to be exposed to malnutrition, disease and the drudgery of our factory system more humane or less? Which is to be preferred, a quick death at birth or slow torture through a life time? Which is easier for the child? For the mother? Neither method is desirable; but if I had to choose between the two, I should have no hesitancy in choosing the ancient system."
Ellen A. Kennan. "Drab Monotony." Birth Control Review, Volume IV, Number 8 (August 1920), page 7.
"Perhaps they thought there was less suffering involved in doing away with unlikely specimens early in life rather than allowing then to drag out a maimed and marred existence."
)Mary Knoblauch. "In the Bishop Museum, Honolulu." Birth Control Review, Volume IV, Number 8 (August 1920), page 16.
"These poor creatures [children of poor parents] arouse so much pity that there is nothing one can wish them, ) in their own interests be it understood ) but a speedy death."
Dr. Barthelemy, Physician at St. Lazare, Medical Chronicle, July 1903, quoted in "Some Serious Observations Submitted to the Legislators for Meditation." Birth Control Review, Volume IV, Number 9 (September 1920), page 6.
1921
"I visited hospitals in this city, and found them lacking in the simple and most ordinary article of decency. No soap ) no cod-liver oil, no rubber sheets to protect the beds no linen to give clean bedding as required ) and even the babies must be all day in wet napkins, because of the inadequate supply for the proper change. This has given rise to skin trouble, and the poor little waifs are a sad, miserable lot. It would be a great kindness to let them die outright, I believe."
Margaret Sanger. "Women in Germany." Birth Control Review, Volume V, Number 1 (January 1921), page 9.
1925
"Far the most conservative of the propositions to regulate the stream of life at its source is Birth Control. Sterilization of the unfit is actually law in many places. And now Denmark proposes euthanasia and has introduced into its parliament, according to press dispatches, a bill which would provide that the attending physician shall have power to put painlessly to death an infant which is hopelessly deformed physically or mentally."
"Periodical Notes." Birth Control Review, Volume IX, Number 6 (June 1925), pages 183 and 184.
"... they struggle and cry for food, for air, for the right to develop; and our civilization at present has neither the courage to kill them outright quickly, cleanly, and painlessly, nor the heart and courage and ability to give them what they need."
Keikichi Ishimoto. "Japan and America." Birth Control Review, Volume IX, Number 10 (October 1925), page 289.
1926
"To be killed suddenly and then eaten, which was the fate of the Aztecs' victims, is a far less degree of suffering than is inflicted upon a child born in miserable surroundings and then tainted with venereal disease."
Bertrand Russell in "Our Contemporaries." Birth Control Review, Volume X, Number 7 (July 1926), page 233.
"When Birth Control fails to produce the kind of son desired, the next step is to give him a high-powered car and let nature correct the fault."
Lexington (Kentucky) Herald in Birth Control Review, Volume X, Number 11 (November 1926), page 344.
1933
[***] "Abortion, infanticide, and the exposure of infants were the methods accepted not only as necessary but morally justifiable. We refuse now to exert selection at so late a stage. And we have invented all sorts of moral reasons to excuse or justify our refusal."
Havelock Ellis. "Today ) An Interpretation." Birth Control Review, Volume I, Number 2 (New Series, November 1933), page 2.
1936
[***] "Chicago, March 14 ) Execution of hopelessly feebleminded children was opposed today by sociologists in many parts of the nation. The majority of the 13 experts who commented on the suggestion of Dr. S.B. Laughlin, of Williamette University, that mentally defective youngsters who constitute hopeless cases be chloroformed, expressed unqualified opposition. Five suggested birth control as a method of coping with the problem ...
Associated Press dispatch, quoted in the Birth Control Review, Volume III, Number 8 (New Series, April 1936), page 8.
"Dr. Earl E. Eubank of the University of Cincinnati commented: "The much more important question is to prevent such births by rational birth control."
"Death would probably be a good thing on the whole," said Dr. William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago. "I guess it will be done some time in the next 100 years. The big thing is to keep them from reproducing."
1917
"A portion of infant and child mortality represents, no doubt, the lingering and wasteful removal from this world of beings with inherent defects, beings who for the most part ought never to have been born and need not have been born under conditions of greater foresight.
"The plain and simple truth is that they [children] are born needlessly. There are still far too many births for our civilization to look after adequately; we are still unfit to be trusted with a rising birth rate.
"Our civilization at present has neither the courage to kill them [children] outright quickly, cleanly and painlessly, nor the heart and courage and ability to give them what they need."
Wow! That was very eye opening! Thank-you for posting that.
ReplyDeleteI am writing a paper arguing against conception control in the church, and i found these quotes very helpful!