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To: Mrs. Don-o

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.


29 posted on 10/09/2018 9:09:54 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray
Sanger had a visible leadership role in the pre-WWII eugenics movement, which was explicitly racist, openly networked with British-Darwinist and Nazi eugenicists (the former were as racially elitist as the latter), and tactically willing to use "choice" rhetoric to cover coercive policy preferences.

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?

32 posted on 10/09/2018 9:45:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Romans 12:9 - "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.")
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