i just posted this on FB
Founder of Planned Parenthood (PP now integrated with GS).
thought you might want to know this....
Margaret Sanger, the alcoholic and Demerol addict, who spawned the International Planned Parenthood Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes.
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“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…” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
correction. i just posted this on GS FB page.
First, Ms. Sanger is correct. Even the most cursory objective review of the evidence supports a link between genetics - individual and racial - and what are generally considered serious social ills - crime, dependency, drug use, low intelligence, destructive voting patterns and family breakdown.
Second, there is clear evidence as well that the family and community milieu in which a child is raised will also affect these measures, and that the combination of “nature” and “nurture” are strongly additive, and that BOTH are passed down generationally.
People from both sides of the abortion debate and related debates may rage against the validity and significance of the evidence I refer to above, but I'd suggest they are not thinking impartially, and need to go back and review it again.
Ms. Sanger has proposed and put into place a mechanism for selectively “culling the herd,” and has done so with the stated purpose of improving the herd's vital qualities over succeeding generations. An understanding of animal breeding, coupled with a broad societal view of the problem, suggests that the wisdom of her method has probably gone some distance towards its goal: although things have gone markedly downhill anyway, one might hate to imagine the society that we would now live in if THESE specific millions of offspring had been allowed to join the herd since Roe v Wade.
It is not to be overlooked, in a society that says it values freedom, that Ms. Sanger's mechanism employs a form of selective breeding that is engaged in voluntarily, not compulsorily, by the mother. From the standpoint of Ms. Sanger's detractors, it is also not to be overlooked that the developing child is not a voluntary participant - and there's the rub.