Posted on 03/08/2009 12:04:01 PM PDT by wagglebee
Angela Franks, author and Ph.D. of theology, linked the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, to the eugenics movement of the first half of the 20th century, while arguing that elements of eugenics - which attempts to improve the quality of the gene pool through selective fertility - are still present in today's organization.
"We know Margaret Sanger because she established an institution and gave eugenics staying power inside an institution," Franks said.
Franks lectured on "Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood: The Eugenics Connection" Wednesday night in DeBartolo Hall. According to Franks, Sanger, who is popularly known for her efforts to provide women with contraception, was also a prominent figure in the eugenics movement, which saw overpopulation as a problem on the horizon.
"Sanger is a eugenicist," she said. "Basically she believed that birth control limits the bad genes and she saw it helping to keep the unfit from reproducing. The eugenic worldview doesn't say that all people are created equally."
In linking Sanger to the eugenics movement, Franks made numerous other claims.
"She said her work was nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit and preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defective," Franks said.
Franks also gave her perspective on Sanger's motivations - which she saw not only as unproductive but harmful.
"Sanger believed in a sexual license," she said. "She really believed that if women could live like her and have multiple lovers and no children, they could have freedom."
Franks gave her view on Sanger's philosophy of feminism.
"Sanger believes women are oppressed by their own bodies," she said. "She talks about sex servitude. What she means is that women have a reproductive system, which tends toward women are oppressed by their fertility."
"You get this ease, this ability to dehumanize the people she finds inconvenient," Franks continued.
But Franks also made a distinction between what she views as Sanger's extremism and Planned Parenthood's current organization.
"I'm not going to be silly and say Planned Parenthood workers know about this history," Franks said. "They're certainly not conscious eugenicists. But I do think that the eugenic attitude that Margaret Sanger had has trickled down today."
To support her claim that Planned Parenthood supports modern day eugenicists, Franks pointed to the international organization's financial support of China's efforts to control its booming population.
She also noted that the poor are the major recipients of subsidized abortions from Planned Parenthood. Presumably, Frank believes Planned Parenthood is motivated to limit birth rates among the poor to fulfill a eugenic mission.
Giving her view on abortion, Sanger said, "the death toll is staggering. Birthrates of African Americans have remained steady, while Hispanics have been rising. They've been targeted."
Franks also responded to an argument of Planned Parenthood advocates who believe that helping to provide abortions to the poor will lower the amount of public money spent on welfare programs.
According to Franks, this argument is not true because of upward mobility. Americans born into poverty, she said, have a chance to become productive, taxpaying citizens.
Sanger also offered some insight to the anti-abortion movement.
"It's important to understand that Planned Parenthood advocates for abortion," she said. "If you have Planned Parenthood in your state, you have the premier lobbyist for abortion."
And this is STILL what the culture of death believes.
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This author is mixing Franks’ and Sangers’ in direct quotes. Extremely bad reporting.
I would rather read Franks’ work and skip this confused reporter’s review of it. Franks’ work sounds like important writing despite the muddled review.
I agree, but it’s a college (Notre Dame) newspaper, so the writing isn’t the best.
Glad to see some more evidence for a truth I’ve been shocking pro-deathers with for years; Sanger was a eugenics nut but feminists have been brainwashed to praise her as their savior.
Ping!!
And their world of childless bitter career women on testosterone is paving the way for Europistan.
“”We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population” by Margaret Louise Sanger.
Do a Goggle search on “Margaret Sanger and Hitler.” You will she that her ideas lead to the gas chambers. The same language the Nazis used, is also used by Planned Parenthood, who by they way have stopped suggest adoption as a choice because they make more money selling baby parts, which can bring them thousands for each abortion.
At a March,1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.
This is why I don't understand feminism. Because this above is its ultimate goal. I always try and ask pro-choicers WHY abortion is so important. They never can get deeper than "our bodies - our rights" BS. But wanting to separate sex from procreation does NOT help girls and women. It hurts them.
Having kids when you can not provide for them isn’t ethical which is why birth control is important.
However abortion should not be used as a form of birth control.
Margaret Sanger would have advocated the abortion of Barack Obama as a sub-human.
While old Maggie was more overtly racist than today’s Planned (de)Parenthood, PP is more brutal today than she was back then.
Mostly, during her days of using black church leaders (ironically) to further eugenicists’ goals, she advocated the prevention of pregnancy for the undesired races. PP advocates and performs actually killings.
Yes there is a reason that PP locates in primarily minority neighborhoods and it isn’t just for the lower rents!
Once, and only once, I went to a Planned Parenthood clinic because I wanted an STD test and my insurance wouldn’t cover it.
Putting aside the fact a man is not well received in those places, that the nurses seriously seem to enjoy making the test as painful as possible and the fact they seemed to want to blame me personally for a bunch of unwanted pregnancies...
That place was decidedly full of minority women. There’s no doubt in my mind there is still a concerted effort by someone behind the scenes to abort black children.
If I were spending the kind of bucks it cost to send my kid to Notre Dame, I’d expect much better writing than that!
His parents should cut him off.
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Then they came for the Communists
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Go pray in front of a Planned Parenthood Clinic this week! Prayer will shut the killing houses down.
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