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Planned Parenthood and the Soviet Model
On Margaret Sanger, Stalinist Russia, and Democrats and their Holy Grail.
“[W]e could well take example from Russia,” advised Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, “where birth control instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the government.”
My, how far modern liberal Democrats have progressed.
Sanger, Planned Parenthood matron and racial-eugenicist, who ran a “Negro Project,” who spoke to a KKK rally in 1926, who wished to rid America of its “human weeds” and “morons” and “imbeciles,” and who wanted birth control for “race improvement,” had just returned from a pilgrimage to Stalin’s Russia. Like many Potemkin progressives, she went there to soak in the glorious triumphs of the communist motherland. Each progressive dupe had a particular interest; John Dewey, for instance, hailed the Bolsheviks’ “Great Experiment” in public education. Sanger marveled at Lenin’s and Stalin’s wondrous advancements for women.
And so, in the June 1935 edition of her flagship publication, Birth Control Review, in an article titled, “Birth Control in Russia,” Sanger concluded:
Theoretically, there are no obstacles to birth control in Russia. It is accepted … on the grounds of health and human right…. [W]e could well take example from Russia, where there are no legal restrictions, no religious condemnation, and where birth control instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the government.
I could quote more, including this jaw-dropping prediction: “All the officials with whom I discussed the matter stated that as soon as the economic and social plans of Soviet Russia are realized, neither abortions nor contraception will be necessary or desired. A functioning Communistic society will assure the happiness of every child, and will assume the full responsibility for its welfare and education.”
Now there, ladies and gentleman, is progressive utopianism, an absolute faith in central planners. Contrary to the Planned Parenthood founder’s optimism, abortions skyrocketed to seven million annually in the USSR.
Looks like Margaret Sanger was wrong on that one. Talk about being duped.
What struck me in recently re-reading this article is how Democrats in America have arrived at Sanger’s ideal, where Planned Parenthood’s services have become, in their mind, “part of the regular welfare service of the government” — just like good old Stalinist Russia.
Consider the hysterical response by Democrats to completely legitimate Republican attempts — amid record deficits and debt levels — to cut taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood:
“The dangerous, ideological cuts to Planned Parenthood that passed the House are never, never, never going to pass the Senate,” vowed Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), echoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who told House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) that there’s no chance defunding would pass the Senate. Indeed, how could there be? Democrats have a majority there.
Reid said Republicans had placed a “bull’s eye on women in America,” preventing them from getting “health services they need.”
Democrats are united in their vitriol: “The real reason that the right-wing extremists in Congress orchestrated this outrageous government shutdown is to try and defund Planned Parenthood as part of their ideological assault on women’s health care,” said Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO).
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calmly explained, “This is a war on women. They’re trying to inject their politics and their religion into local family planning.”
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) insisted that defunding efforts were “nothing more than an opportunity for the right wing in the House to sock it to women.”
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Ryan| 4.15.11 @ 8:18AM
wow...that's almost ALL of the conspiracy theories rolled into one.
Wayne | 4.15.11 @ 12:19PM
Of course we know their has never been a conspiracy in the history of the world.
gypsy| 4.15.11 @ 1:45PM
Its not a conspiracy if its done blatantly in broad daylight and on nationwide news broadcasting coast to coast. The simple fact is that Banned Parenthood is a billion dollar a year corporation with its claws sunk it our paychecks. They're a fat bloated pig with its evil snout in the public trough, sucking up corporate welfare year after bloody year. In this respect, they're no damned different than the crooked bastards on Wall Street, or Government Motors or ADM.
NO MORE SUBSIDIES
NO MORE BAILOUTS
NO MORE CORPORATE WELFARE
Jack| 4.16.11 @ 4:09PM
Or the teachers and the Universities who keep taking truckloads of cash in the form of grants and puke out under educated robotons.
Teaghan| 4.15.11 @ 8:15AM
Sanger, the angel of death. And all that screaming last week about "women's health"
Since when is ripping a baby out of a mother's womb, "health"? Give me a break.
Dollface| 4.15.11 @ 8:35AM
The democrats are only following the Constitution which is living and breathing among us. Didn't the Supreme Court find a clause in it that said "Neither the Congress, nor the several States, shall interfere with a woman's right to have an abortion."?
Impeach Don't Wait| 4.15.11 @ 10:09PM
... nor the abortionist's right to force Christians (oh heck--everyone!) to pay for it.
AntiPatriarchy| 4.16.11 @ 2:12AM
I am forced to pay for killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan and I don't believe that is morally right. I am forced to pay for Goldman Sachs' right to exist and I don't think that is morally right. I am forced to pay for kids in religious indoctrination centers--excuse me, 'schools', and I don't think that is morally right. The only way any of this is "right' is politically.
Patrick| 4.16.11 @ 4:54PM
I have issues with the wars as well (mostly having to do with methodology and efficiency), however that at least is constitutional, provided Congress passes it.
I agree that Goldman Sach's should have been left to die.
As for parochial schools, they provide services that are generally superior to those of public schools. This is little different from home-schooling. Of course, these "indoctrination centers" would never have been built had it not been for the indoctrination foisted upon us within public schools. Of course, since you are a proponent of a strict matriarchal atheistic orthodoxy, you wish to play your own political advantage to the fullest.
AntiPatriarchy| 4.17.11 @ 5:19AM
To assume matriarchy as the only alternative to patriarchy demonstrates the limitation of binary thinking. To presume only an atheist would resist funding religious 'education' is to misconstrue the establishment clause. To imagine-- oh, wait, have you an imagination?
cowgirl| 4.17.11 @ 9:22AM
Then talk to the bus driver in the White House Obama - he took $999,494 in campaign contributions in 2008 from Goldman Sachs.
Dollface| 4.18.11 @ 12:49AM
I forgot that part.
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 9:41AM
Abortion is a heinous crime. Period. End of that discussion. But there is an upside to this issue.
Since the inception of Roe v Wade in 1973, over 50,000,000 abortions have been performed. The majority of those abortions have been on women who would vote liberal and raise their children liberal. Thus what has been dubbed "The Roe Effect". Liberals are killing themselves thus lowering their affect in the voting booth. Let's face it, I would bet that that 18 out of the 19 Dugar Kids will vote conservative all their life. I can't think of one liberal who has more than one kid. God works in mysterious ways.
Pete| 4.15.11 @ 10:56AM
Which is why illegal immigration is so important to them....
AntiPatriarchy| 4.17.11 @ 5:34AM
And how important was it to Bush?
cowgirl| 4.17.11 @ 7:54PM
About as important as it is to Obama who wants to make them all citizens so he can get re-elected.
Seek| 4.15.11 @ 12:10PM
A few things:
First, "end of discussion" is a nice way of saying "shut up." It has a nice totalitarian ring to it. No thanks.
Second, where did you get your data alleging that people who abort are mostly "liberals" and thus sow the seeds of their own political destruction. Liberals certainly seemed in abundance in the 2006 and 2008 elections, to my regret.
Finally, about the last thing Americans, liberal or conservative, should be doing is emulating that creepy Duggar family, with their quiverfull of 19 (or is it 20?) interchangable children.
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 12:48PM
When you volunteer your time working in a pregnancy crisis center, then you can have an opinion about the crime of abortion and the effects it has on women. I am sure, based on your response, that you know nothing, zilch, zero about abortion. And please don't post to my reply that you had one. I won't buy it. I have been around too many women who have had abortions.
Google the Topic "Roe Effect". Lots of data. Matter of fact, in the book Freakanomics a whole chapter was devoted to it. Do research. Volunteer your time - educated yourself.
I never said anything about emulating the Duggar family (please comprehend before making a comment), I just said that there is a high possibility that at least 18 out of their 19 children will vote conservatively and that liberals do not produce enough children. Get a grip.
Paterfamilias| 4.15.11 @ 1:41PM
Working in a crisis pregnancy center gives you a great deal of experience with crisis pregnancy centers, and absolutely no experience with abortion except what you may read in your own propaganda.
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 1:55PM
Really? Wow. I am impressed with your mind reading. You have experienced what I have experienced. Impressive. Why are you wasting your time on this board posting - you should be out discovering something great for all mankind with your impressive powers.
Teaghan| 4.15.11 @ 12:16PM
Will have to disagree with you . I know many conservative women who are very much in favor of "a woman's right to choose". Many. My adult daughter being one of them. A product of 2 liberal universties.
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 12:50PM
Your daughters are no longer conservative if they support a women's right to choose. They attended liberal universities and became liberals, which supports my theory - liberals love abortion.
Paterfamilias| 4.15.11 @ 1:45PM
Wrong.
Liberals love freedom. So do Conservatives. It's religious fundie moonbats who want to regulate everyone's sex life instead of getting one of their own, who are interested in outlawing abortion. Those wonderful folks who want to force rape victims to bear the rapist's child. Real nice folks, no?
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 1:56PM
So the child of a rape victim is less than that of one conceived by two 15 years old having sex in the bleachers? Wow. Another liberal playing God.
AntiPatriarchy| 4.16.11 @ 2:07AM
Liberals don't want to 'play God, they want to let the people involved make their own choice. You on the other hand want your god to make my choices.
cowgirl| 4.16.11 @ 9:06PM
Liberals do want to play God. The only choice they give to people is to murder unborn children. Other than that you want to control want type of house I live in, what car I drive, how much energy on use, what food to each, what medical treatment I can and cannot receive, control my retirement, take my money and spend it on things I disagree with, make me sent my children to the public schools that they want them to go to, the list is long and distinguished of what liberals what to control. My GOD doesn't want to control those things - HE wants me to respect life that he created. You don't get it.
AntiPatriarchy| 4.17.11 @ 5:29AM
Laughable that you do not see your own words. Live in whatever house you like, though I do hope it is well built. Your Hummer DOES pollute my air so I would encourage you to drive something smaller. When has anyone ever limited how much energy you use? Eat as you wish though I hope the FDA is strong enough to make sure you won't get E. Coli or salmonella from it. I would like you to get all the medical treatment you need without fear of bankruptcy. I hope some day you can retire, but if Wall Street steals your money again you may not be able to. And as I stated I must PAY for things I don't believe in so why shouldn't you? If you think your god created that life you respect you must be a victim of Abstinence Only programs-- which I do not believe in yet must pay to fund. YOU don't get it.
cowgirl| 4.17.11 @ 9:28AM
Your posting just proved my point that Liberals do want to control everything. You believe that if the government doesn't control what I eat I will get food poisoning. You want me to drive a smaller car so you don't get exposed to pollution. You want the government to cover my medical costs which means they control what medical procedures I may receive. There is no freedom in anything that you posted. Liberalism is a mental illness.
Merlin| 4.17.11 @ 8:32PM
Spend money like there is no tomorrow and you end up with none of these wonderful thing government does. 13 trillion divided by 3 billion is how much debt per person?
Two arguments here. Legal abortion is one thing. My being forced to pay for it is another.
Would some liberal tell me why you hyperventilate over capital punishment and cannot stand the slightest restriction or non-funding of abortion? Seems to be a serious mental disconnect there.
joe| 4.18.11 @ 5:32PM
AntiPatriarchy.
Let's look at the scientific facts - no religion here.
Biology 101 shows that a fetus is a living human. it is human because it has all of the DNA/genes of a human. It is scientifically alive because it posses: (1) cells, (2) Organization, (3) Consumes Energy, (4) homeostatis, (5) growth, and (6) reproduction.
Thus, since the fetus is a living human, you are making the argument that a woman has to right to "choose" to terminate a human that has commited no crime and cannot speak for itself.
I can not believe that anyone who understands what i have just provided above can support abortion. that said, i do see a lot of females who still believe the old 1970's BS that planned parenthood spreads... it is just a clump of cells. while many women believe that because they do not know any better, it is an old, outdated and invalid agruement in the 21st century
cowgirl| 4.15.11 @ 1:58PM
Liberals hate God because they want to be God.
Jack| 4.16.11 @ 4:14PM
Thank you cowgirl! You have managed to put in words my thoughts exactly. Keep on Keeping on.
Margie| 4.16.11 @ 5:46PM
Seconded.
cowgirl,
Never fear. You are on God's side.
What you have experienced here is something I do daily.
The conservatives who are really Libertarian Lefties. Their views are shared with the Left, which makes them Leftists.
God bless you.
Clint| 4.17.11 @ 2:37PM
Doug Wead:
"As a Christian, I have been amused at the willingness of our power brokers to conveniently embrace presidential candidates who have had four marriages or have been bitter opponents to our own people facing nomination in the Senate or who flip flop on the issues just in time for Iowa, all because the candidate will do a radio show or appear at a university or a political briefing fundraiser.
Well, Ron Paul is the real deal. Raised as a Lutheran, (now attending a Baptist church in Lake Jackson) he puts his Christian faith into practice. He has always been pro life, always been married to the same wife and always been the nation's premier advocate for liberty.
As we see our liberties being stripped away by the courts and by government agencies and by presidential fiat, we need to speak carefully and truthfully about those few men and women in Washington who have the integrity to defy the temptations of power. Ron Paul is just such a man.
We should cherish his independence from the corruption and partisanship of Washington, D.C. and instead of distorting his positions on the issues we should celebrate his courage to speak the truth."
Doug Wead is a presidential historian, New York Times bestselling author and advisor to two presidents. He served as special assistant to the president in the George Herbert Walker Bush White House. In 1979 he co-founded Mercy Corps and the International Charity Awards.
Mimi| 4.17.11 @ 8:44AM
Thanks Cowgirl...I KNOW you are blessed. The Mind that gets the LIFE thing right.... is the wisest! I PITY the Liberals....they are truly POOR beyond belief!!!
Ronald Frayer | 4.15.11 @ 2:33PM
Paterfamilias
No they don't - thats why they try to deny freedom through abortion - denying the right to live liberty etc - that why they deny us Second Amendement rights at every turn - thats why they dny us freedom of speech with "hate speech codes" and the lie of the "Fairness Doctrine" - thats why they want to confiscate throuhg taxes to deny us economic liberty .
Its sad you don't even know what your political indoctrination has done to you.
The fallacy of the false anaolgy and false accusations. The two are not related as you in the way you imply. In fact if people applied Christian morality there would be no infanticide.
LACE| 4.15.11 @ 3:04PM
Perhaps before you raise your pen or open your mouth you might want to find out about abortions and the various methods and what you are advocating:
Suction Curettage Method – A blind procedure performed by the doctor using a knife, he cuts up the child in the womb and then a vacuum sucks out all the parts. This can result in injury to the woman as the doctor can perforate the uterus. Also, he may not have gotten everything and it results in more problems
Saline Solution Injection – This method introduces a high concentration of saline or salt into the womb and the child is “burned” alive and the body is aborted producing a red looking body frequently named a “candy apple baby”.
The third and final method is preformed in the last trimester of the pregnancy. It is the opposite of a hysterectomy. The stomach is opened and the baby’s cord is cut and the doctor submerges the child back into the amitotic fluid and he is drowned. These are viable human beings and this can be done up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy.
Now to address your issue 0f rape. Any woman who is raped needs/must go to the hospital for her own personal health and safety. During the examination the hospital staff performs what is known as the "Washing In". This effectively kills the sperm and by the way it is acceptable to religions including Catholics. Therefore, your rape issue holds no water...another false tale told to lure women to stay away from the hospital and to push an agenda that is anti everything.
Now that we have taken a look at the physical nature of abortion, let's check out another aspect. I wonder if you could tell me when the spirit of a person that causes the body to be animated until it departs...when is it infused into the body and we must assume it is by the Creator because this is His territory? Now, if you do not believe in God you don't care, but you will when you pass over. The Ten Commandments which is God's laws passed down to Moses clearly states "Thou Shalt Not Kill" so is abortion an exception? I hope you have your answers ready when you have to account for yourself. Just remember all of your actions and even your inactions will be reviewed. So if you put your trust in people like Margaret Sanger whose true goal was to get rid of those deemed unwanted. Then you have chosen them and their abortion is "right" rhetoric, but you now know what it is they do to the innocents within the womb.
The Bruce| 4.15.11 @ 5:47PM
Regulate everyone's sex life? I seriously doubt.
Do me a favor, go to Google Images and type in abortion. Then ask youself who's rights are really being violated. If your answer isn't the unborn child, you're a sick murderous satist.
The Bruce| 4.15.11 @ 5:47PM
Sorry, "sadist."
Cincinnatius| 4.15.11 @ 7:38PM
"Liberals love freedom?" YGBSM! From what planet do you hail? I am flabbergasted by your statements and amazed at your ability to delude yourself. The truth is: Liberals hate liberty as they are unable to think for themselves but love an arbiter who will tell them when everything is OK and its even better if the means of their support is stolen from people who can take care of themselves...and others.
Paul from Brooklyn| 4.17.11 @ 2:29PM
Yes, Rape, the reason for 0.00001% of abortions. Give me a break. You don't even realize that you support murder. You don't even get the point that you support the murder of defensless children by their own parents while the children are still inside the womb of one of those parents. You still believe it's about, "freedom" or "liberty" or some other nonsensical notion that Sanger and her Angels of Death shoved down your throat. Wake up, fool.
C. Smith| 4.15.11 @ 10:10AM
... Tonight, as the cause of the innocent among us went again unheard, we all remain complicit in that euphemism called "a woman's right to choose." For a less sanitized rendition, go to Google, click Images, and enter the word "abortion"....
http://the-day-of-the-lord.blo.....u-say.html
The Bruce| 4.15.11 @ 5:50PM
Didn't realize you beat me to it (see above).
Petronius| 4.15.11 @ 10:34AM
What's missing here is the unstated Prime Objective of Liberalism as a religion: fornication without consequence. Ergo the mere suggestion that all people behave as civilized human beings seems preposterous to the wanton.
Tradcon| 4.15.11 @ 10:56AM
Are all these Dems telling us that "woman health services" are not included in the monstrous healthcare law? or Medicaid and Medicare DON'T cover those services already? Really? PP is the ONLY place for woman to receive health services? Who the he// believes that? Why don't the Repubs call them on this? I know, I know, rhetorical question............
AntiPatriarchy| 4.16.11 @ 2:05AM
PP was the only place I could go as a 17 year old.
Paul from Brooklyn| 4.17.11 @ 2:33PM
Find forgiveness in The Lord. Go...I beg of you. For the sake of your soul, your sanity, your future.....get to Church. Get it off your chest in an honest way and get on with your life. Then, when enough time has gone by that you can really feel that you've been forgiven...get out there and support the cause of the unborn. God Bless You.
AntiPatriarchy| 4.23.11 @ 1:52PM
Ignoramus, I went there to get CONTRACEPTION so I would not get pregnant. SEE? Truth is PP PREVENTS unplanned pregnancies.
KyMouse| 4.15.11 @ 11:33AM
If you didn't catch Mark Steyn's excellent article "Earthquake Demographics" in National Review, look for it at www.steynonline.com. It's a must read about the dangers of the birth dearth, with an object lesson from Japan.
Russia is among the many nations that have seen the error of aborting millions of their citizens and have begun offering financial incentives, even medals, to couples who will have (or adopt) babies. I wonder what Sanger would think of that.
Margie| 4.16.11 @ 5:50PM
Wow, KYMouse, that's good to hear. I pray for the Russian people.
Bill Diebold| 4.15.11 @ 11:35AM
...there could be a point made for infantcide, if all these baby butchering liberals that are so enthralled with killing the very innocent had to be aborted themselves before they could advocate butchering the innocent multitudes.
It would be appropriate to pierce a hole in their skulls and evacuate their brains (or whatever goo occupies that cavity) would be a just price.
This is probably what their savior Ms. Sanger said about eliminating the "human weeds, morons and imbeciles. After all these traits are the essential building blocks of a liberal. One only needs to review the sewage pile; pelosi, reed, boxer, brak hussein el bummer, et.al.
dc| 4.15.11 @ 11:58AM
The three pillars of modern liberalism: baby-killing, statism, and anti-Americanism. All related, of course, but I doubt any intellectually honest liberal (I know, I'm assuming facts not in evidence) would deny any of these pillars.
The point, of course, is for the elite, our self-appointed ruling class, to define persons in and out of the human race (and therefore, mark them for extermination) at their whim. Thus, statism is essential. Once the enough of the people who oppose statism are killed, either before, during or after birth, then the glorious age of international socialism can arrive, whereby U.S. sovereignty is renounced and subjected to some sort of world governance body.
Go ahead, troll leftists, refute any of the above--you can't. Just admit these are your goals. Then if you don't mind, let the rest of us know how you plan to achieve them.
Thank God for the Second Amendment.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 4.15.11 @ 12:41PM
You know an intellectually honest liberal?
Merlin| 4.17.11 @ 8:42PM
Yes, call it retroactive abortion and all is cool. So, do we need a retro-bort panel or is it a parents right to choose?
Tradcon| 4.15.11 @ 12:08PM
So it does come down to abortion. Period.
Bill Diebold| 4.15.11 @ 12:11PM
...Amen to you Mr. dc and the 2nd amendment.
as always,
vigilant, cocked and locked.
CalMark| 4.15.11 @ 12:38PM
Yes, how wondrous were Papa Stalin's works! Three generations of his "Contraceptive Workers' Paradise" yielded a society where birthrate is an order of magnitude too small for "replacement."
Paradise, indeed, if you like abandoned buildings, undermanned industry, and declining societies. But then, that's EXACTLY what utopian eugenicists like ol' Margie Sanger dig, so "mission accomplished!"
P.S. Interesting, but hardly surprising, that Sanger was a fan of both K.K.K. and Stalin. Handy for use against Lefties who start ranting about conservatives being Klansmen...
The Bruce| 4.15.11 @ 5:57PM
Very true. The Fabian Socialists were absolute fans of eugenics to rid the world of what they considered the "less useful, inferior races."
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 4.15.11 @ 12:40PM
"Protect the guilty.. Kill the innocent."
Sam Levi| 4.15.11 @ 2:32PM
Leave the moral implications out of the abortion argument for just a moment and look at the real issue. Why should I, a person that has never sired a child, nor will be, have to pay for someone else's abortion? Why am I responsible for the health of any woman other than my wife? That is the true economic heart of the matter.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 4.15.11 @ 2:38PM
And the Freedom issue also, Sam Levi. If I don't believe in something, and I'm forced to support it, then I can't possibly be free.
DRed| 4.15.11 @ 3:32PM
So any government that collects taxes is a tyranny.
Skippy| 4.15.11 @ 5:30PM
If they will jail you if you don't pay, and shoot you if you try to escape, then yes.
Any Govt. that collects taxes at the point of a gun is a tyranny.
DRed| 4.15.11 @ 8:07PM
Therefore we've all been living under the boot of the tyrant since at least the whiskey rebellion (1791, for those of you scoring at home). Who knew?
RCV| 4.16.11 @ 1:01PM
Good thing that we had Madison, Hamilton and Washington as founders, and not Skippy, or the government would have run out of money and fallen in 1792.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 4.17.11 @ 2:43PM
I don't bother with silly trivial insignificant matters of unimportance like Madison, Hamilton, and Washington's ideal of liberty through America as a Republic based on the Constitution and founded on Christianity when sanctimoniously pontificating as both a constitutional scholar and expert on real Christian love as to why America is and should be an unconstitutional democracy defined as tyranny by Madison, Hamilton, Washington among others and ensuring abortion, homosexuality, false witness bearing, and neighbor coveteousness among the destruction of the Ten Commandments in America on liberalism matters.
Impeach Don't Wait| 4.15.11 @ 10:28PM
Bingo. Democrats do not belong in power in the U.S.
(End of issue.)
RCV| 4.15.11 @ 6:23PM
Whatever one thinks about Margaret Sanger, and there is much in her muddled thinking on a lot of issues to be critical of, we should at least be honest in our portrayal of her. First, she ardently opposed abortion, as opposed to contraception:
"To each group we explained what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun." On another ocassion she said, "I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization."
Secondly, while she was certainly a nutty and dangerous eugenicist, it's a little misleading to say that she "addressed a Ku Klux Klan rally". She gave a gave a lecture on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey, an experience she called "one of the wierdest in my life." She was happy to lecture on birth control to anyone.
Jive Bomber| 4.17.11 @ 2:38PM
So Miss Sanger only spoke to part of the KKK? Whew, for a minute there I thought she might have supported Klan beliefs on race and....Oh, that's right - she did. ( AND...I always get a chuckle out of liberals and their moral equivocating. )
Good grief, Sanger's beliefs regarding the value of life, race, and intellect, were the sign of a crackpot, not a hero for the ages. Why anyone would respect a weird and dangerous person such as she is best left up to that admirers' therapist.
Real Christian Virtue| 4.17.11 @ 7:11PM
I don't bother with silly sanctimonious inconsistencies like Sanger's ardent antiabortionism while sanctimoniously supporting abortion under tyranny as a democracy on sanctimonious constitutional scholar slash sanctimonious real Christian love expert matters.
Ernie| 4.15.11 @ 11:51PM
More and more these days I find myself grateful that I probably won't live long enough to witness our demise... then the prospect of Obama being reelected enters my mind.
Dee See| 4.16.11 @ 12:30AM
BTW ---while we're on to the century-long
capstone-Bankster EUGENICS agenda
WHY is there no capital crimes law against
the wilful, deliberate contamination of food,
water, air and meds for the purposes of social
engineering (i.e. sterilization, dumb down etc.)
---and EUGENICS (stealth extermination)?
Surely this should get the death penalty.
HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012.
IT IS COMING------------------------------------------
Ben | 4.16.11 @ 3:51AM
Excellent post – I have nothing more to add (which is unusual).
WickedDickie--Virginia| 4.16.11 @ 8:39AM
I am livid with rage that the socialist criminal and heretic Pelosi is still being referred to as a lifelong Roman Catholic. It is appalling that anyone still defends abortion on any grounds.
FTM| 4.16.11 @ 11:09AM
Once again Republicans are, "screwing the pooch" in regards to abortion on demand. Republicans ought to be increasing the funding for abortion on demand.
Case in point, say what you want about President Lyndon Johnson and his "War on Poverty" but the man was a genius. Shame the taxpayer into funding a national effort that would end in nothing but an expanded voting base for the Democrat party. Use the same strategy to shame the Republican party and social and fiscal conservitives of whatever political stripe into silence.
If the Republicans were smart they would increase funding for abortion on demand. Consider, people, women, of which political mindset are more or less likely to make use of abortion on demand? Conservitives would proliferate and liberals would kill themselves off. This looks like a "no-brainer" to me.
K962| 4.16.11 @ 2:19PM
Why are Liberals so afraid of showing expectant mothers sonograms? Because the potential mother will see a living moving being inside the womb! Liberal hate the thought of it!
Gordon W.| 4.16.11 @ 3:29PM
I like how almost all the comments have to do with personal opinions, instead of rational arguments made with facts. First the federal government doesn't fund abortion, except for rape and incest pursuant to the Hyde amendment. Second the statement in the article saying the right to privacy wasn't an enumerated right is correct, but has little to do with whether it is worth while. The 14th amendment wasn't originally given with the Bill of rights and most likely was never wanted. Why was the 9th amendment put in the constitution if we don't have "other" rights beyond what was originally laid down. That argument is basically poor and the Texas government had such a hard time articulating an argument in Lawrence v. Texas: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000.....2/argument
Any way planned parenthood is a preventative measure against unwanted pregnancies, offering contraception and other counseling. Reducing the amount of money the government has to spend in the long run. If you think it is to prevent extra kids running around; you are right. Hopefully that device isn't abortion.
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.17.11 @ 3:11AM
Try this recent amspec article:
http://spectator.org/blog/2011.....s-about-ab
1/3 of PP's 1+ billion dollar budget comes from taxpayers. Hyde amendment be damned. If they spend that much money in a year how do they manage to keep 1/3 of it from directly or indirectly funding abortion? Gee, I bet they have separate accounts and everything...
Heather| 5.8.11 @ 10:00PM
You know what numbers I would like to see? The number of unplanned pregnancies that PP has prevented, the number of STD's that they have treated and prevented from spreading, the number of teenagers that they have informed about sexual awareness. Then I would like to see that number next to the number of abortions they have performed. Why is it that all the good PP does is being overshadowed?
Alan Brooks| 4.17.11 @ 2:54AM
"Sanger, Planned Parenthood matron and racial-eugenicist, who ran a "Negro Project," who spoke to a KKK rally in 1926"
That was very common in those days;
Kengor, what were your ancestors thinking about blacks in 1926?
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.17.11 @ 3:12AM
Being a "racial-eugenicist" was common?
Cris Worth| 4.17.11 @ 7:24AM
There are plenty on the GOP side of the aisle who are for funding of Planned Parenthood and other nefarious goings on in the world of Margaret Sanger. Remember the Big One...Roe v. Wade, 5 of the 7 justices who voted FOR were Republican appointees.
cuban pete| 4.17.11 @ 9:04AM
True.My understanding is Ike regretted appointing Warren and Brennan.
Mimi| 4.17.11 @ 9:09AM
Chris....Yes but they were wrong. This world has had enough of this killing....most of the ABORTIONS done since 1973 have killed "BLACK" children....Why is PLANNED PARENTHOOD so close to inner cities. For GOD'S sake it is 2011 we can do better than this.!!
We have elected Pro-Life Presidents to no avail, the killing goes on. What we fail to do is revel in the JOY of LIFE, Glory in the newborn child, Faith i n men and women to rise to the occassion and KNOW that they can with God's help raise their own blessed child. Take delight in the LIFE given with GREAT gratitude. Recieve the miracle, wonder at it! Most of us have..... Why are some so afraid?
Seek| 4.18.11 @ 2:42PM
Your numbers are wrong, honey. Whites, by far, account for most abortions. At any rate, why should we whites be so concerned about black survival? Let the blacks worry about themselves. I'm a lot more concerned with white survival.
Heather| 5.8.11 @ 9:53PM
How can you say that? We are all human being--a child is a child! Why don't you ask God who he worries more for, who he favors?
Richard Baker| 4.17.11 @ 10:03AM
Since the Nazis thought Sanger was the tops, it seems ironic that she is the Patron Saint of the Abortion movement. I guess irony isn't in the liberal catechism.
shipley130| 4.17.11 @ 3:55PM
The US federal government is just like the unions. They have overstepped reasonable boundaries. Time for some dissolution talks, new elections and revamping.
Mike Rogers| 4.17.11 @ 5:27PM
"We've got some Alterin' and Abolishin' to do!"
(Herman Cain)
Mike Rogers| 4.17.11 @ 5:26PM
Let's ask the always measured Jeremiah Wright about this, eh?
Does "Social Justice" and government-granted "Rights" include preferential treatment and subsidies for the nation's most racist organization, one literally founded for, and caught on tape admitting, its primary purpose is the extermination of black babies?
Sanger was not a dupe, she was evil.
The current staff are evil, too, as they admitted that it was just fine for a donor to specifically underwrite abortions for black mothers.
Time to cast them off - let people whose conscience permits them provide the funding, voluntarily.
Same for NPR and PTV, and for the same reasons.
Koblog| 4.18.11 @ 2:40PM
Barbara Boxer sent me a triumphalist announcement that she had secured a "victory for women's health" in preserving Planned Parenthood.
I replied to her:
"What kind of 'victory for women's health' is it when Planned Parenthood kills millions of women in the womb?
Woman, you are truly sick."
electromotive | 4.20.11 @ 4:22AM
I tried to think so, but I found it was not as the same in the actual process. As you mentioned, I still have doubts, but really thank you for sharing!
Heather| 5.8.11 @ 9:48PM
I do believe that abortion happens much too often. I do believe that it is wrong to use abortion as a form of birth control, but I do think we should encourage the use of condoms, birth control pills, and other contraceptives. I do believe that we should be responsible for our actions and I would always encourage adoption over termination. But I have known women, girls, who have had abortions and I promise you that any name you can think to call them--murderer, child-killer, sinner, whore, lose, easy, cheap--will never compare to the pain and regret that they will carry with them for the rest of their life. As Christians we should be there to comfort and heal, not judge.
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 10:15PM
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