Born in 1879 to Irish parents who immigrated to the United States during the Irish Potato Famine, Margaret Sanger was one of eleven children. The experience apparently taught her nothing about how to be a human being.
If one is looking for an example of a eugenicist extraordinaire, look no further.
On January 17th, 1932, Sanger penned a speech entitled “My Way To Peace” in which she laid out her plan for the improvement of the human race, to achieve her version of “peace in our time” as it were. In it she suggests that Congress set up a special department “…to direct and control the population through Birth rates and immigration, and direct its distribution over the country according to national needs consistent with the taste, fitness and interest of the individuals.”
In the speech, she had some very specific proposals which, taken together, clearly describe her feelings. The purpose of the department would be:
(a) to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of our population.
(b) to increase the population slowly by keeping the birth rate at its present level of fifteen, decreasing the death rate below its present mark of 11.
(c) keep the doors of Immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feeble-minded, idiots, morons, insane, syphiletic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred from entrance by the Immigration Laws of 1924.
(d) apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
(e) to insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feeble-minded parents, the government would pension all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
(f) the whole dysgenic population would have its choice of segregation or sterilization.
(g) there would be farm lands and homesteads where these segregated persons would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.
Essentially she is advocating slavery for those people whom she considers beneath her. And their forced sterilization. These are risible goals.
Strangely, this acknowledged founder of the American birth control movement actually spoke against abortion itself as a practice. From Wikipedia (original references available from the link):
Flyers she distributed to women exhorted them in all capitals: “Do not kill, do not take life, but prevent.” Sanger’s patients were told “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 it was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.”
Ironic? It is beyond ironic that the person most directly responsible for our ongoing genocide, our “rolling genocide” as writer Hugh Reynolds calls it today in American Thinker, actually didn’t start out looking to kill babies in the womb, let alone after they were born as our modern radical leftists are now proposing. But the abortion business proved to be too lucrative to resist for the industry she created:
These modern racial exterminators cannot totally eliminate the black population — and they do not want to — because this would eliminate their major revenue source. So they must maintain enough of a core population to keep the “unwanted pregnancies” flowing into their eugenic clinics to be stripped of their motherhood, harvested for “spare parts, and “weeded out” of the human family.
Abortionists have killed an estimated 18.3 million black children since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision made it legal in 1973. This is three times the number of Jews killed by Hitler during WWII. And this number is itself dwarfed by the total number of abortions in this country alone, 63 million and climbing daily.
If a person becomes convinced that the way to improve humanity is to get rid of the bits they don’t think are worthy, why stop at such a low number? Clearly, the truly worthy are only a tiny fraction of the human population. Perhaps only about 25 million would be the right number to have.
Sanger’s mother actually had 18 pregnancies in 22 years, only 11 of which were successful. She died at age 49. One has to wonder if this experience soured daughter Margaret altogether on the entire concept of children. After all, it is rumored that she stared down her father, over her mothers’s coffin, and accused him of indirectly killing his wife.
9 replies on “Margaret Higgins Sanger, Monster”
Everybody in the nation needs to read about this!
Agreed, but they won’t.
I would like to request your permission to copy this and use it on social media?
Of course you may. And now I have to hope that I did enough research to get all the facts right!
Thank you!
If they would only do a little research, they would be horrified at whose banner they are carrying. But they don’t look that deep. They stop at how an issue makes them feel, then act on that.
Although I can understand the pain and sense of loss that she must have felt in losing her mother at such a young age, (even if 49 was considered a relatively decent lifespan at the time), it does not absolve her from her later actions. She became the spawn of Satan.
I lost my mother when she was 43. I certainly never blamed my father for it.
I wonder how much the extremely high death-by-childbirth rates might have affected the attitude of men towards women? It could be hard to become deeply attached to someone you expect to die early.
Everyone sees things differently. If she viewed her mother as a ‘baby factory’, I can understand her blaming her father. I don’t agree with it, but I can understand it.
Regarding mens’ attitudes toward women back then, there are several things to pick from. If you marry for love, I don’t think it matters – you will become attached. But if you marry because ‘it’s time’, or you just want to produce progeny, then yes, attachment would not be strong, if even present.