PART 1
I see that you perfer to slander Margaret Sanger with this old anti-choice lie (repeating the misrepresentations of what others say she said and did as opposed to what she actually said and did). Here is what she actually said (and in some cases actually did NOT say)....
FROM Margaret Sanger/PPP
Published Statements That Distort or Misquote Margaret Sanger
Through the years, a number of alleged Sanger quotations, or allegations about her, have surfaced with regularity in anti-family planning publications. The following are samples of especially pernicious distortions, misattributions, or outright lies that Margaret Sanger's enemies continue to circulate.
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit that is the chief issue in birth control."
A quotation falsely attributed to Margaret Sanger, this statement was made by the editors of American Medicine in a review of an article by Sanger. The editorial from which this appeared, as well as Sanger's article, "Why Not Birth Control Clinics in America?" (1919b), were reprinted side-by-side in the May 1919 Birth Control Review.
"The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly."
Another quotation falsely attributed to Margaret Sanger, this was actually written for the June 1932 issue of The Birth Control Review by W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Taken out of the context of his discussion about the effects of birth control on the balance between quality-of-life considerations and race-survival issues for African-Americans, Dubois' language seems insensitive by today's standards.
"Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race."
This fabricated quotation, falsely attributed to Sanger, was concocted in the late 1980s. The alleged source is the April 1933 Birth Control Review (Sanger ceased editing the Review in 1929). That issue contains no article or letter by Sanger.
"To create a race of thoroughbreds. . ."
This remark, again attributed originally to Sanger, was made by Dr. Edward A. Kempf and has been cited out of context and with distorted meaning. Dr. Kempf, a progressive physician, was actually arguing for state endowment of maternal and infant care clinics. In her book The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger quoted Dr. Kempf's argument about how environment may improve human excellence:
Society must make life worth the living and the refining for the individual by conditioning him to love and to seek the love-object in a manner that reflects a constructive effect upon his fellow-men and by giving him suitable opportunities. The virility of the automatic apparatus is destroyed by excessive gormandizing or hunger, by excessive wealth or poverty, by excessive work or idleness, by sexual abuse or intolerant prudishness. The noblest and most difficult art of all is the raising of human thoroughbreds (1969).
It was in this spirit that Sanger used the phrase, "Birth Control: To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds," as a banner on the November 1921 issue of the Birth Control Review. (Differing slogans on the theme of voluntary family planning sometimes appeared under the title of The Review, e.g., "Dedicated to the Cause of Voluntary Motherhood," January 1928.)
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
This statement is taken out of context from Margaret Sanger's Woman and the New Race (1920). Sanger was making an ironic comment not a prescriptive one about the horrifying rate of infant mortality among large families of early 20th-century urban America. The statement, as grim as the conditions that prompted Sanger to make it, accompanied this chart, illustrating the infant death rate in 1920:
Deaths During First Year
1st born children 23%
2nd born children 20%
3rd born children 21%
4th born children 23%
5th born children 26%
6th born children 29%
7th born children 31%
8th born children 33%
9th born children 35%
10th born children 41%
11th born children 51%
12th born children 60%
"We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
Sanger was aware of African-American concerns, passionately argued by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s, that birth control was a threat to the survival of the black race. This statement, which acknowledges those fears, is taken from a letter to Clarence J. Gamble, M.D., a champion of the birth control movement. In that letter, Sanger describes her strategy to allay such apprehensions. A larger portion of the letter makes Sanger's meaning clear:
It seems to me from my experience . . . in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table. . . . They do not do this with the white people, and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results. . . . His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County's white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us. The minister's work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. 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 (1939).
"As early as 1914 Margaret Sanger was promoting abortion, not for white middle-class women, but against 'inferior races' black people, poor people, Slavs, Latins, and Hebrews were 'human weeds'."
This allegation about Margaret Sanger appears in an anonymous flyer, "Facts About Planned Parenthood," that is circulated by anti-family planning activists. Margaret Sanger, who passionately believed in a woman's right to control her body, never "promoted" abortion because it was illegal and dangerous throughout her lifetime. She urged women to use contraceptives so that they would not be at risk for the dangers of illegal, back-alley abortion. Sanger never described any ethnic community as an 'inferior race' or as 'human weeds.' In her lifetime, Sanger won the respect of international figures of all races, including the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mahatma Gandhi; Shidzue Kato, the foremost family planning advocate in Japan; and Lady Dhanvanthi Rama Rau of India all of whom were sensitive to issues of race.
"The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy"
This is the title of a book falsely attributed to Sanger. It was written by Lothrop Stoddard and reviewed by Havelock Ellis in the October 1920 issue of The Birth Control Review. Its general topic, the international politics of race relations in the first decades of the century, is one in which Sanger was not involved. Her interest, insofar as she allowed a review of Stoddard's book to be published in The Birth Control Review, was in the overall health and quality of life of all races and not in tensions between them. Ellis's review was critical of the Stoddard book and of distinctions based on race or ethnicity alone.
For Further Reading
Chesler, Ellen. (1992). Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon & Schuster
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Valenza, Charles. (1985) "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, 17(1) (January/February), 44-46.
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Consider that Martin Luther King supported Sanger's policies, a very STRANGE thing to do if she were really the arch racist/eugenist that this article paints her to be.
Martin Luther King on Sanger
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Hitler followed Sanger's "policies" (were the NAZIS "pro-choice/pro-birth control)?
What is hilarious about this comparison is that Nazis were dead set AGAINST abortion AND birth-control (just like most anti-choicers). They burned Margaret Sanger's books (very strange behavior on their part if she were really a Nazi sympathizer as most anti-choicers like to claim)
From Die Nacht der Scheiterhaufen: 10 May 1933--Greatness and Tragedy of the German Mind
In May, 1933, the Nazi party decreed that any book, "which acts subversively on our future or strikes at the root of German thought, the German home and the driving forces of our people..." was to be burnt. Students carrying banners toured the streets, rifling libraries, synagogues, and private homes. Works of philosophers, rationalists, poets, and internationally acclaimed authors, which had until then formed part of universal studies, were thrown into the flames. Some of the authors targeted in the book burning campaign are listed below. (see PDF file, page 4 for list)[...]
The list of books burnt includes works by German and non-German Jews, by the American womens rights activist Margaret Sanger and by one Magnus Hirschfeld for his sympathetic studies of homosexuality.
Nazis viewed women as having only one important function, that of perpetual baby factory (when they weren't worshipping at the shrine of Nazi male superiority in their spare time after changing nappies). To that end they outlawed both birth control and abortion which became a capital crimes (punishable by death):
From The Pink Triangle
The Nazis saw the two issues as one. Indeed, on October 26, 1934 a special department on abortion and homosexuality was set up in the Berlin Gestapo under SS Captain Joseph Meisinger. Two years later, on October 26, 1936, the Federal Security Office for Combatting Abortion and Homosexuality --- the infamous Subsection IIs of the Gestapo --- was organized by Heinrich Himmler in order to "purify the German people and regulate their sexual behavior by rooting out *sociosexual saboteurs*".
Dealing with sociosexual saboteurs (or homosexuality and abortion) the way other subsections dealt with political dissenters, freemasons, etc., IIs fell under control of the Gestapo's political department (or Department II).
From THIS SITE. If this one doesn't work on your server the same info can be found in the following SITE and is also quoted HERE
Just how women were treated in Nazi Germany can be seen in this excerpt from
Nazi Attitudes Toward Women :
More here from Hitler's Minister of Propaganda German Women by Joseph Goebbels
The Nazis believed that a woman's place was in the home. The purpose of women was to produce babies, bring up children and to care for their home and husband. In the words of the famous Nazi slogan, women were to be confined to Kinder, Kirche, Kuche - children, church and kitchen. They were not allowed to take part in government, the law or education.
At the same time all married women doctors and civil servants and most married women teachers were sacked. They were banned from law courts as judges. lawyers and even as jurors. In Hitler's opinion, "women cannot think logically, or reason objectively, since they are ruled only by emotions". Married women were supposed to have children, not jobs. Childless women were called traitors and mothers of large families were given a medal. (NOTE: This award was satirically called the "Order of the Rabbit" behind Hitler's back)
Did Hitler ever advocate abortion? Yes, when it was part of a campaign to exterminate all the "subhumans" (the "untermenschen"--Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, "coloreds", etc.). However, the Nazis usually didn't bother with abortion, but either killed the reproductive adults (pregnant and otherwise) outright or just worked them to death. After all, it was so much cheaper and cost effective than trying to mount "population reductions" by sterilization and abortion.
Should you also visit the sites of white racists like Christian Identity, Stormfront, White Power World Wide you will find that one reason that they idealize Hitler is his attitude toward women, abortion, and birth control (they call him "real progressive in the true nature of women's rights"!).
Of course you may perfer to believe what others say she said as opposed to what she actually did say. The only people "hoodwinked" here are going to be those who believe the half-truths put out a one of her archenemies, the Catholic Church, whose policies on birth-control and abortion she has challenged oh, so successfully==>
IOW "Hoodwinked" = "Sour Grapes"
But then that's exactly the kind of tactic I would exprect from an the organization that didn't stop it's prelates
from lying to people about the effectiveness condoms in its campaign against birth control (and HERE)and protected a multitude of sexual predators in its ranks for decades. Why tell the whole truth when one can simply selectively "quote" an opponent (to which they have lost big time) in such a way as to paint the worst possible picture, eh!? If you can't beat 'em, quote-mine'em instead.
is where is this coming to? If you would please, Voegelin, give more information, we can discuss more of this interesting topic. Thanks, and god bless!
