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.