March 2021 – Article 2:
The New York Times has labeled Margaret Sanger “a feminist icon and reproductive rights pioneer.”
Planned Parenthood calls its founder a “woman of heroic accomplishments,” while sheepishly admitting “like all heroes she was also complex and imperfect.”
Time magazine once included her in a list of the “20 most influential Americans of all time.”
Imperfect? How easily abortion supporters rewrite and ignore history.
Eugenicist Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was way beyond imperfect. She was evil. She was an unabashed racist and ardent eugenicist, honored by the Ku Klux Klan, and admired by Adolph Hitler.
Friends and associates of Sanger accepted awards from Nazi-controlled universities, visited with Hitler and Himmler, and boasted that the forced sterilization programs they had instituted in America were used as models by the Nazis.
There is no question that she deserves the lion’s share of blame for laying the groundwork to promote abortion—which has killed more than 63 million innocent children—as acceptable.
Eugenics Underlying Motivation
After opening her first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY, in 1916, she established The American Birth Control League in 1921. The organization changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942.
From the beginning, she was a staunch advocate of eugenics: the idea of creating a so-called better society by limiting—or even preventing—certain groups of people from having children.
In her 1922 book “Pivot of Civilization” she supported eliminating the “weeds…overrunning the human garden;” the segregation of “morons, misfits, and the maladjusted;” and the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.”
Writing In her autobiography, she called for the “gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extinction of defective stocks—those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
Sanger often said that “the most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infants is to kill it,” and that “all our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class.”
She left no doubt who the weeds were: black people, other minorities, and the disabled.
Eugenics In The Black Community
In 1939, Sanger and her associate Clarence Gamble made an infamous proposal called “Birth Control and the Negro,” which asserted that “the poorer areas, particularly in the South…are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations.”
She claimed her plan would “ease the financial load of caring for with public funds…children destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family, and ultimately to the nation.”
To avoid controversy, Sanger urged Gamble to enlist the help of spiritual leaders to justify their deadly work, writing, “We do not want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Eugenics Continues Today
That game plan lives today with church leaders like Raphael Warnock, U.S. Senator and pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Warnock is a strong supporter of abortion and claims there is no contradiction in supporting abortion and practicing his Christian faith.
His stance on abortion is in clear contradiction to what the Bible says about the value of human life and when it begins. Genesis 1:26-27 says we’re created in God’s image. Psalm 139:13-16 says “You (God) saw my unformed body.” Jeremiah 1:5 states “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”
How has the plan to limit the number of black births been carried out? A total of 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are located in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, with 45 percent of those within walking distance.
Georgia’s abortion rate in the black community reflects this reality. African-American women constitute 35 percent of the number of females in the state, but account for 63 percent of all abortions.
In 2019, 19,277 black children were killed by abortion, an increase of 3,709 over the previous year. By contrast, 6,290 white women intentionally ended their child’s life, an increase of 576 over 2018.
To put that horrific number of black children who have been aborted into perspective, the State Farm Arena holds 16,600 for basketball games and about 21,000 for concerts.
Our nation is engaged in a heated debate about equality. At the same time, Margaret Sanger’s diabolical legacy of racial bigotry marches on. You can’t have equality for all while unashamedly turning a blind eye to denying the Personhood of so many black children.
Stand up and be counted, pro-life supporters. Encourage your church, social groups, and friends to speak out against black genocide in Georgia and our nation.
Sources: stream.org; usatoday.com; nytimes.com; wsj.com; plannedparenthood.org; oasis.state.ga.us.
By Wayne DuBois
Georgia Right to Life
Media Relations Advisor
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Submitted by Gen Wilson on Wed, 03/2021