planed parenthood

i’m michael hichborn, and this is the americanlife league report. the federal government already funnels hundredsof millions of dollars to planned parenthood every year, so it should come as no surprisewhen it funnels your money to celebrate its founder. the smithsonian national portrait galleryrecently opened a new, federally funded exhibit that according to the museum's curator, "celebrateswomen who have challenged and changed america over the past century." included in the list is notorious liberalfeminist margaret sanger.

the national portrait gallery website providesa brief description of sanger, describing a concerned crusader who fought “with thecourage of a wounded tiger” for the promotion of birth control. what the smithsonian exhibit fails to mention,however, is that margaret sanger founded the largest abortion chain in the country, nowknown as planned parenthood. but the exhibit also fails to explain the racist ideologybehind sanger’s promotion of birth control. many people don’t really know what eugenicsis. eugenics is defined as “belief in the possibility of improvingthe qualities of the human species by discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defectsor presumed to have inheritable, undesirable

traits.” essentially, eugenics is the creation of a“master race” by controlling who has children and who doesn’t. an article appearing in the january 31, 1922edition of the new york times bore the headline, “mrs. sanger says superman is the aim ofbirth control.” if creating a race of supermen is the goal,who did sanger believe had genetic defects or undesirable traits that stood in the way? in his book, “birth control: facts and responsibilities”,adolf meyer quoted an essay sanger wrote in 1925 entitled, “the need of birth control…in america.”

[margaret sanger] birth control is not merelyan individual problem; it is not merely a national question, it concerns the whole wideworld, the ultimate destiny of the human race. in his last book, mr. h.g. wells speaks ofthe meaningless, aimless lives which cram this world of ours, hordes of people who areborn, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. their lives are hopeless repetitions. allthat they have said has been said before; all that they have done has been done betterbefore. such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources ofthis little earth. we must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden."

[micheal] in 1922, sanger wrote a book entitledthe pivot of civilization. in it is a chapter called "the cruelty of charity,” where sheblasts programs that provide "medical and nursing facilities to slum mothers" as "insidiouslyinjurious." in the same book, sanger called for the cessationof charity, for the segregation of morons, misfits, and themaladjusted, and for the sterilizationof genetically inferior races. she also argued that organized attempts to help the poor wasthe “surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating defectives,delinquents, and dependents." the “birth control review” was sanger’sofficial publication for the american birth control league, and in 1932, she outlinedher 'plan for peace.'

[margaret sanger] the main objectives of thepopulation congress would be: to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilizationand segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted. to givecertain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization,and to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they wouldbe taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives. [micheal] sanger’s admiration for the eugenicsprograms of nazi germany were well known at the time. in 1933, the “birth control review” published'eugenic sterilization: an urgent need' by

ernst rudin, who was hitler's director ofgenetic sterilization and a founder of the nazi society for racial hygiene. in her praise for the eugenics programs ingermany, sanger called for the implementation of such programs in the united states, specificallytargeting african-americans. the following editorial was published in a 1932 issue ofthe birth control review. [margaret sanger] the negro problem is oneof the most complicated and important confronting america. whatever the ultimate answer maybe, such an attitude brings to light the function of birth control as a necessary agency inits solution. the present submerged condition of the negrois due in large part to the high fertility

of the race under disastrously adverse circumstances.thus the question arises to what extent birth control has had a eugenic effect upon thenegro race. [michael] if any question should remain aboutsanger’s racist agenda, a 1939 letter she wrote to dr. clarence gamble should removeall doubt. [margaret sanger] we should hire three orfour 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 wantto exterminate the negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten outthat idea if it ever occurs to any of their

more rebellious members. [michael] can there be any wonder why plannedparenthood opens its facilities in poor, inner-city neighborhoods populated by minorities? canthere be any doubt that sanger’s philosophy of creating a pure race is what fuels plannedparenthood’s support of embryonic stem cell research? margaret sanger was a racist. she’s responsiblefor the millions of babies that have been

ethnically cleansed from our country, andshould not be celebrated by the tax-payer funded smithsonian. please visit the websiteand contact the smithsonian, demanding that materials on sanger be removed from the exhibit.

for american life league, i’m michael hichborn.