Posted on 10/08/2018 9:23:32 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
I don’t think most of the women you are referring to have actually had a child.
December 10, 1939
Dr. C. J. Gamble
255 Adams Street
Milton, Mass
Dear Doctor Gamble:
It's good to know that you are recovering. I also am stepping up and have felt much better the past week.
Miss Delp was here for Thanksgiving and I am more than delighted to learn that she was able to get $250.00 from the California Birth Control organization plus the $600.00 from the Federation. That's good; she is a go-getter and a live wire, very tactful and charming as well. I think that my pick of her has been justified, even though she is a little higher priced than the ordinary. She has been working on the article to be written by Miriam de Ford (Mrs. Maynard Shipley). They were good enough to send me a rough draft for comments and suggestions, and the important suggestion that I made was not to include Miss Delp's actual name in the article, because of the fact that her sister is married to one of the high spots in the Farm Security Department and if the enemy started to work on her name they might make it difficult along the line; otherwise I think the article is good.
As to my sending suggestions to the Federation: I think it is really unfair for me to do so. I am too far away to have the personal contact of the different reactions and it only holds up any definite project to have the pros and cons battered about which makes for more chaos and confusion.
There is only one thing that I would like to be in touch with and that is the Negro Project of the South which, if the execution of the details remain in Miss Rose's hands, my suggestions will not be confusing because she knows the way my mind works.
Miss Rose sent me a copy of your letter of December 5th and I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full time Negro physician. It seems to me from my experience where I have been 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 which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. 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 among the colored people. 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 ministers 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 to any of their more rebellious members.
I agree with you that Miss Rose has done a remarkable job in thinking thru and planning the Project but she has worked on it for sometime. As soon as I knew there was the possibility of getting any money I put her at work drafting the plan for Mr. Lackner. She is excellent at just such a job. She hangs on to details, weaves and corrulates them into the design. I shall never cease to have the utmost admiration and regard for her ability, and so far I have not seen anyone in the Federation who could take her place.
I am constantly delighted at the thought that you are getting better and now we must pray for Mrs. Timme who is seriously ill at the Doctors' Hospital in New York. My regards to your Sarah and to yourself.
Sincerely yours,Br> MS/mh Margaret Sanger
It’s not true that Margaret Sanger advocated abortion.
She advocated contraception, but was highly aware of the dangers and consequences of abortion.
https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=232534.xml
“I also assert that the responsibility for these abortions and the illness, misery and deaths that come in their train lies at the door of a government whose authority has been stretched beyond the limits of the people’s intention and which, in its puritanical blindness, insists upon suffering and death from ignorance, rather than life and happiness from knowledge and prevention.”
“Women are more religious than men, and so women are slightly less pro-choice than men,” she continued.
My observation has been that women are MUCH more willing to kill their children than the men are. And they vote that way too. So I’m talking Democrats.
Thank God for conservative women like my Mrs.
This was always about two things: Releasing men from the responsibility for the child and culling blacks. They could care less about the woman.
“The ministers 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 to any of their more rebellious members.”
This could be interpreted as trying to dispel a false rumor.
Oh — kay.
That was something that I read defending Sanger - that we’d entirely flipped the meaning of that paragraph. I had only seen the short version and was wondering about the complete context, which, in this case, doesn’t make it clearer.
It could still be an intent to do away with blacks through abortion and birth control.
Bump
DUH!!
The most consistent supporter of abortion have AlWAYs been young men!!! That’s been consistent in every poll taken. But the media keeps lying about that
After WWI, she said couples should have to be genetically ranked and licensed to have children. After WWII she said there should be a law prohibiting childbearing for 10 years --- like losing 2 generations (WWI and WWII) wasn't enough.
To her credit she did not campaign for abortion. She thought segregation and sterilization were the preferred ways to control the 'reckless breeders'.
Wikipedia removed the racist aspects of her bio. That doesn't surprise you, does it?
No.
But there are a lot of people defending this person and, if I have to engage, I want to make absolutely sure I’m accurate. I don’t want any misinterpretations.
Trying to prevent false rumors is one thing, while concealing genocidal intent is entirely another.
If that's not enough to prove intent, then you have to go for the bigger context: Sanger's political and professional colleagues and allies --- the people whose articles she solicited for Birth Control Review, who sponsored her talks, who subsidized The Negro Project and her clinic in Harlem --- who supported her masthead banner goal of "more children from the fit, less from the unfit."
Why were her millionaire friends avid to address the "Negro Problem" by contraception, sterilization and segregation rather than --- say ---education, employment, and ownership of productive capital?
Why did she switch her advocacy back and forth from voluntary to coercive means, depending on who she was talking to?
Sanger was not a solo operator, but part of a whole social-political network, and in all those decades (roughly 1915 - 1966) she never saw fit to distance herself from any of her racist eugenicist allies, not even those affiliated with German National Socialism.
Sanger invited Hitler's top racial advisor, Eugen Fischer, to lecture in the United States while her colleague, Lothrop Stoddard, went to Germany to meet Hitler. Stoddard, while associated with Sanger, wrote "The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy."
Sanger' magazine published articles by Ernst Rudin, the infamous Nazi race specialist. That may be enough context to elucidate the direct quote, "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 to any of their more rebellious members." Sanger is routinely portrayed by Planned Parenthood's allies as having a humanitarian concern for Jewish slum mothers like Sadie Sachs. They fail to mention that Sanger actively supported the anti-Semitic immigration restrictions keeping Jews out of the United States. Sanger even opposed maternity clinics which would have given Sadie Sachs and others like her the help she needed to bring her child safely into the world.
Sanger was opposed to every measure--- whether public program or private philanthropy --- which would help the poor survive. She opposed private and Church-funded charities as tyrannical, while at the same time demanding compulsory birth control, sterilization, exclusion and segregation for disfavored social and racial groups.
It's quite clear what she stood for, and whom she stood against.
Thank you!
The pro-life movement is doing nothing to secure for those fathers the legal right to protect their daughters and sons between conception and birth.
Pursuing that legal right for fathers would go against the Women Are Victims And Men Are Villains By Default ideology that is hobbling the pro-life movement.
The majority of supporters of abortion are women.
Well said.
You’re right.
Millions of abortions, signed for by women, prove that there have been millions of women without the mythical maternal instinct.
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