SANGER'S VIEW OF AMERICA "Borderline cases" - "a greater menace" = 39.2% "Morons" - Sterilize and Segregate = 47.3% "Thoroughbreds" - Allowed to Reproduce = 13.5%

On immigration and parenthood:

“Anybody in this vast country is at perfect liberty to become a father or a mother! You may be diseased, you may be a mental defective, a moron, a pauper, a habitual criminal; you may be insane, irresponsible, with no knowledge of the laws of health, hygiene, or common decency; yet you may bring not merely one child into these United States. You are encouraged to bring a dozen. . . . I, for one, believe that it is high time to recognize that if it is not right to import into our country individuals from whom we must later protect ourselves, it is even more imperative to protect ourselves and to protect American society today and tomorrow from the procreation of such individuals within our gates” (Ibid., p. 27-2.


On human horticulture:

“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, who die, 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” (Ibid., p. 47-4.

Margaret Sanger, as others such as Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, university presidents and faculty, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, important people from all walks of life, embraced eugenics as a benefit for the human race. Smearing Sanger for beliefs embraced by a multitude at the time does nothing to discredit Planned Parenthood.


About.com: http://hnn.us/articles/1662.html

"In her direct assistance to one half of the human race, Margaret Sanger offered to women their inalienable rights and their individual power, a power not to be manipulated by federal, state, or municipal laws -- the power to bring into the world her children only when it was right for the mother and for the child, the power truly to better the race. As Sanger says, "Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment."
Accepting the science of the time that claimed sterilization saved the feebleminded, who were not capable of parenting, from themselves and from a life of institutional confinement, it seemed only common sense to Margaret Sanger to approve an operation that had no effects on the individual's life other than to prevent conception. Yet Margaret Sanger had a problem--as Justice Holmes did not--with sterilization as compulsory and with "the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question?" she asked. "

This just in...

Planned Parenthood: helping people who cannot afford services elsewhere.

Margaret Sanger: still dead.

There's too many people on the earth right. It's too bad we just can't cull some of the undesireables. I say we start by closing prisons like China Lake and executing the inmates within.

This thread has got to be one of the most pathetic attempts I've ever seen to slander PP. My family was very poor when I was young. I have only one sibling and THAT is because my mother had access to a PP clinic.

Could you please elucidate on that.

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Are we still playing the Hitler card here lol?

This is a ridiculous syllogistic association fallacy.

Sanger, a birth-control advocate, believed in eugenics
Hitler believed in eugenics.
Therefore, pro-choicers (PP) are Nazis?

Are vegetarians evil Nazis as well? After all, Hitler was one too.