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#MargaretSanger wanted to use birth control to restrict pregnancy only to husbands and wives approved by the government. She was pro-sterilization of the "unfit" and pro-eugenics. nyu.edu/projects/sange…
While pro-eugenics, Sanger was actually anti-abortion, “[a]lthough abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious.” nyu.edu/projects/sange…
Sanger also wrote "Birth Control will prevent abortion.... It will put an end to the tens of thousands of illegal operations to which women resort in despair. Mothers will not submit to the MURDER OF UNBORN CHILDREN when they can control conception." bit.ly/2pYSj4e
"#BirthControl will prevent prostitution. Young people will be able to marry early, knowing that they can wait to have children until they are in a position to stand the expense." Margaret Sanger was wrong about a lot of things, such as ... nyu.edu/projects/sange…
"Birth Control will thus make of the home a place of peace, harmony and love. Then man will return to it from his work with contentment and rejoicing. The woman will find in it her happiness and development; the children, well nourished and carefully educated..."
"To define #BirthControl, we say it is the conscious control of the birth-rate by scientific means that prevent the conception of human life. Prevent, remember. Prevent does not mean to interfere. It does not mean to destroy." Margaret Sanger bit.ly/2lDm9bW
"some ill-informed persons have the notion that when we speak of birth control we include abortion as a method. We certainly do not. Abortion destroys the already fertilized ovum or the embryo." Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control Advances: A Reply to the Pope."
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. There will be no killing of babies in the womb by abortion..." – Margaret Sanger
"We explained... 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" "The Function of Sterilization," Oct 1926.
"The American public is taxed, heavily taxed, to maintain an increasing race of morons, which threatens the very foundations of our civilization."
“Eugenics without Birth Control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” February 1919, The Birth Control Review).
Margaret Sanger: "There is only one reply to a request for a higher birth rate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take off the burdens of the insane and feebleminded from your backs. Sterilization for these is your remedy."
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