Planned Parenthood - Early History - 1

Planned Parenthood- Early History - 1
cinops be gone Sunday, Aug. 17. 2008
Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism is classic analysis of American politics. Here is a enlightening and tragic section on Abortion, p.270-2

“Margaret Sanger, whose American Birth Control League became PLANNED PARENTHOOD, was a founding mother of the birth control movement. She is today considered a liberal saint, a founder of modern feminism, and one of the leading lights of the progressive pantheon. Gloria Feldt of Planned Parenthood proclaims, “I stand by Margaret Sanger’s side,” leading “the organization that carries on Sanger’s legacy.”

Planned Parenthood’s first black president, Faye Wattleton – Ms. Magazine’s “Woman of the Year” in 1989 – said she was proud to be “walking in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger.” Planned Parenthood gives out annual Maggie Awards to individuals and organizations who advance Sanger’s cause. Recipients are a Who’s Who of liberal icons, from the novelist John Irving to the producers of NBC’s “West Wing.” What Singer’s liberal admirers are eager to downplay is that she was a thoroughgoing racist who subscribed completely to the views of E.A. Ross and other “raceologists.” Indeed, she made many of them seem tame.

Sanger was born into a poor family of eleven children in Corning, New York, in 1879. In 1902 she received her degree as a registered nurse. In 1911 she moved to New York City, where fell in with the transatlantic bohemian avant-garde of the burgeoning fascist movement. “Our living-room,” she wrote in her autobiography, “became a gathering place where liberals, anarchists, Socialist and I.W.W.’s could meet.” A member of the Women’s Committee of the New York Socialist Party, she participated in all the usual protests and demonstrations. In 1912 she started writing what amounted to a sex-advice for the New York Call, dubbed “What Every Girl Should Know.” The overriding theme of her columns was the importance contraception.

A disciple of the anarchist Emma Goldman – another eugenicist – Sanger became the nation’s first “birth control martyr” when she was arrested for handing out condoms in 1917. In order to escape a subsequent arrest for violating obscenity laws, she went to England, where she fell under the thrall of Havelock Ellis, a sex theorist and ardent advocate of forced sterilization. She also had an affair with H.G. Wells, the self-avowed champion of “liberal fascism.” Her marriage fell apart early and one her children – whom she admitted to neglecting – died of pneumonia at age four…. Admitting she was not a “fit person for love or home or children or anything which needs attention or consideration.”

Under the banner of “reproductive freedom,” Sanger subscribed to nearly all of the eugenic views discussed above. She sought to ban reproduction of the unfit and regulate reproduction for everybody else. She scoffed at the soft approach of the “positive” eugenicists, deriding it a mere “cradle competition” between the fit and unfit. “More children from the fit, less from the unfit – that is the chief issue of birth-control,” she frankly wrote in her 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization. (The book featured an introduction by Wells, in which he proclaimed. “We want fewer and better children …. And we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms or inferior children that you inflict on us.” Two civilizations were at war: that of progress and that which sought a world “swamped by the indiscriminate torrent of progeny.” to be continued
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.