CoffeeSaint said:
She wanted to breed a superior "race"--what does it take to be "racist"? Thinking specific qualities inherent in a race are superior seems racist to me.
She didn't write the story.
You lie down with dogs--you get up with fleas. Ms. Sanger was in a den overwrought with fleas and not ONCE did she condemn her cronies. As the editor of her magazine that never claimed objectivity--she PROMOTED the hatred. She is therefore culpable.
She was an elitist. She promoted the idea that the "feebleminded" and the "degenerate" should be sterilized, because she believed that "morons" would breed more "morons." Reading her writing makes one feel slightly dirty.
And again...isn't racism just elitism based on racial superiority? Sounds like Sanger to me!
It still has little to do with Planned Parenthood. It has nothing to do with the modern pro-choice movement, or any modern argument for, or against, abortion.
http//www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf
PG.48
International Planned Parenthood continues to act as a leader of the population control
movement and to exert great worldwide influence. Planned Parenthood publicists have
attempted to gradually downplay Sanger’s eugenics ideology in an attempt to preserve,
what Planned Parenthood today calls the “unassailable reputation of PPFA and the
contemporary family planning movement.”176
For instance, Faye Wattleton, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
(PPFA) from 1978 to 1992, claimed that, “No one can really interpret what Sanger meant
because she’s dead.”177 Yet, the organization has gone to great lengths to memorialize
Sanger’s name with PPFA by
naming its most prestigious award after Margaret Sanger,
naming its
last major fundraising drive in 1996 “Maggie’s Millions,” placing a photo
album devoted to her life on its website,178 and
writing on its website in glowing terms
about Sanger’s “visionary accomplishments as a social reformer” and her “outreach to the
African-American Community.”179
Planned Parenthood’s leaders have expressed their devotion to Sanger. Alan Guttmacher,
who immediately succeeded Sanger as President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, exclaimed that
“We are merely walking down the path that Mrs. Sanger carved
out for us.”180 Margaret Sanger’s grandson, Alexander C. Sanger, the current chairman
of the International Planned Parenthood Council, proclaimed while in charge of Planned
Parenthood of New York City in 1991, “Right now, we have three clinics in this city and
I want ten more. We currently have a small storefront office in central Harlem, and it is
my first priority to see if we can transform that into a clinic... With all her success,
my
grandmother left some unfinished business, and I intend to finish it.