How do you feel about Planned Parenthood? What are your thoughts on immigration? While doing some research on a totally unrelated subject :O ... I ran across this and thought it worth sharing. MARGARET SANGER - THE Mother of Planned Parenthood was an advocate of - EUGENICS (The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.) Eugenics achieved by birth control AND immigration policies. Sangers 1920 book, Women and the New Race, endorsed eugenics. As part of her efforts to promote birth control, Sanger found common cause with proponents of eugenics, believing that they both sought to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, which aims to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing the reproduction of those who were considered unfit. Sangers eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, and compulsory segregation or sterilization for the profoundly retarded. In her book The Pivot of Civilization, she advocated coercion to prevent the undeniably feeble-minded from procreating. Although Sanger supported negative eugenics, she asserted that eugenics alone was not sufficient, and that birth control was essential to achieve her goals. In contrast with eugenicist William Robinson, who advocated euthanasia for the unfit, Sanger wrote, we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding. Similarly, Sanger denounced the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program. In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain in the hands of able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment. Sanger also supported restrictive immigration policies. In A Plan for Peace, a 1932 essay, she proposed a congressional department to address population problems. She also recommended that immigration exclude those whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, and that sterilization and segregation be applied to those with incurable, hereditary disabilities.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:21:39 +0000
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