Posted on 02/22/2005 1:45:09 PM PST by rface
Dear Editor,:
Nearly 35 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was honored with Planned Parenthood’s "Margaret Sanger Award," named after the courageous woman who, in 1916, opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City and founded the Planned Parenthood movement. King was recognized for his strong support of family planning.
The words of King still have a great impact on our cause today: "There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess."
King stated that the civil rights movement he led and the birth-control movement that Margaret Sanger led were similar. "There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist - a nonviolent resister. The years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions."
Planned Parenthood continues to carry on the mission reaffirmed by Martin Luther King Jr. to provide safe, affordable family planning methods to all.
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Dr. John Higdon
(address removed - but available at the link)
Columbia, Missouri 65202
Here ya go:
http://blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
If this is true, and the quote attributed to King is legitimate ... well, blech!
So would it be a stretch to say that Martin Luther King aided and abetted an organization based upon committing genocide?
I don't think she founded Planned Parenthood - she started the American Eugenics Society I believe and after the defeat of Hitler then they changed their name to Planned Parenthood...
Too weird.
BUMP.
Before I believe this I'd like to see this quote in a credible source not just in a letter. If you find anything, will you ping?
Well MLK, Jr. tried to make up for it by jumping into bed with every white woman he could - especially the married ones.
They gave Dr. King an award named after a woman who once said "Sterilization or segregation" in response to her views on African Americans.
I think that might depend on what you mean by "family planning"--remember that abortion was not legal when King spoke. He could have meant "family planning" as education and/or birth control for women so that a woman wouldn't get pregnant again and again. Planned Parenthood is obviously strongly in favor of abortion, but just to say "family planning" in the 1960s might not have meant that.
well, the author is flashing his credentials (Dr.) on this letter......
He received the award in 1966. A Google turns up hits on his acceptance speech, but the text is gone from the PP website.
That's possible. But the quote (whether correctly attributed or not) seems to me to have the connotation of "too many black people!"
Note that they did not use the title "Reverend" for MLK. I think the family planning he supported was of the educational and contraceptive type...not the abortion type. And I have to think that MLK was ignorant of Sanger's history if he accepted an award with her name on it.
In 1966, Planned Parenthood® Federation of America inaugurated the PPFA Margaret Sanger Award to honor the woman who founded America's family planning movement. The PPFA Margaret Sanger Award is given annually to individuals of distinction in recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights.
In its first year, the award was bestowed upon four men:
Dr. Carl G. Hartman,
General William H. Draper Jr.,
President Lyndon Baines Johnson,
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.,
source: PlannedParenthood.org
Good point.
And Hitler also presented Ford w/an award. Altho I don't know if he accepted it as happily as King mite have this....
Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center
John F. Higdon, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University, 1972) is a Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Missouri and serves as a psychologist on the General Psychiatry Unit of the Truman VA. His interests include cognitive behavioral therapies, esoteric therapies, post traumatic stress disorder, and paranoid, borderline, and dissociative disorders. Dr. Higdon is involved with overpopulation, reproductive rights issues, freedom of choice, separation of church and state, and environmental protection.
Sanger's central goal was to limit the reproductivity of inferiors (read blacks).....And some blacks think this was (is) a great idea???
actually, King was given the award for: for "his courageous resistance to bigotry and his lifelong dedication to the advancement of social justice and human dignity." ....this is as per. planned parenthood.
And in other historical news, the inmates of Auschwitz were awarded the presigious Adolf Hitler Award, presented by Nazi Spokeman Josef Goebbells.
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