Planned Parenthood Unveiled

THE ROOTS OF LEGALIZED ABORTION IN THE U.S.

 

One Woman’s Dream

 

The roots of legalized abortion in the U.S. can be traced back to one woman, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.  That organization is linked to its founder and carries on her dream today.  Dr. Alan Guttmacher, the second president of the organization, has said, “We are merely walking down the path Mrs. Sanger carved out for us”.  Another president, Faye Wattleton, has said she was proud to be walking in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger.  Pamela Maraldo, another president says, “Today, Planned Parenthood proudly carries on the courageous tradition of Margaret Sanger”.  (Planned Parenthood Federation of America Service Report, p. 3)

 

So, it is obvious that to understand Planned Parenthood, we must discover the tradition of Margaret Sanger.  She was the sixth child of Michael and Anne Higgins.  Michael had marched through the south under General Sherman, but his socialist ideas and activities later in life caused the family to live a life described by Margaret as “joyless and filled with drudgery and fear”.  (O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991. Pg. 9).  She left home as quickly as possible and soon became involved in radical politics, feminism, and promiscuity.  She attended college for less than a year and dropped out.  She tried teaching kindergarten, and nursing but didn’t stick with either.  She met William Sanger, a young architect with a promising career and they were married.  They had three children and moved into Manhattan.  She joined the Socialist Party and helped organize several strikes and labor protests.  She started writing for the Party newspaper.  She began attending Mabel Dodge’s meetings for radicals.  When Margaret’s turn came to share, free love and sensuality were her themes. Her lifestyle reflected her rhetoric and William gave up on the marriage.

 

Margaret then spent her energies publishing The Woman Rebel where she denounced marriage as “a degenerated institution”, capitalism as “indecent exploitation, modesty as “obscene prudery”.  (Logan & de Tilati. Morality and the Village Elite, St. Regis, 1949, p.63) Other articles promoted political assassinations.  She was served with a subpoena indicting her on three counts of breaking federal law.  She decided to flee to England.  She farmed out her children and in one last stick in the eye, she published and distributed an article entitled “Family Limitations” which promoted contraception using very dangerous techniques. (Gray, Margaret Sanger, Merek, 1979, p. 280)

 

Upon arriving in England, she joined radical groups including eugenicists who believed that for survival of civilization, the physically unfit, the poor, the spiritually diseased, the racially inferior, and the mentally incompetent had to be eliminated.  Her bed became the meeting place for the Fabian upper-crust.  (Chase, The Legacy of Malthus, Knopf, 1977, p. 81) She met Havelock Ellis, the grandfather of the Bohemian sexual revolution.  For Margaret, the sexual revolution met eugenics in Havelock Ellis.  Ellis also helped Margaret package her rhetoric and writings in a more acceptable form.  Her old line anarchism, socialism, and pro-abortion stances were to give way to eugenics.  She left England for the U.S. and immediately began a campaign to defend her position and get the charges against her dropped.  She was successful.  She held a tour promoting her eugenic ideals and opened a clinic in New York City in an area populated with Slavs, Latins, Italians, and Jews—which according to Sanger were all “dysgenic and diseased races” that needed to have their “reckless breeding” curbed.  The clinic was closed down in two weeks and Margaret was in jail for thirty days.  Upon release, she started publishing The Birth Control Review.  Her time in jail convinced her to change her approach.  She began by including articles by well known people like Pearl Buck and H. G. Wells.  Money poured in.  Her name became a household word.  Her fame was secure.  She wrote The Pivot of Civilization promoting eugenics.  She openly called for the elimination of “human weeds”, the elimination of charity, the sterilization of “genetically inferior races” and for the segregation of “morons, misfits, and the maladjusted”.(Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, Brentano’s, 1922, p.88)

 

At this time she met and married J. Noah Slee, a lubricant millionaire.  She set out to spend his fortune on her career and cause.  She campaigned successfully to win over the medical community.  She was given millions by the Rockefellers, Fords, and Mellons.  She had to spend considerable funds to purge her reputation because of her eugenic connections with those who had put together Nazi Germany’s race purification program.  She had openly endorsed the euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, and infanticide programs of the Third Reich.  Articles in The Birth Control Review mirrored Hitler’s racist rhetoric.  She even commissioned Dr. Ernst Rudin, the director of the Nazi Medical Experimentation program, to write for the Review.

 

To restore her image, she changed the name of her organization to “Planned Parenthood” and tried to cover her real ideals in language that promoted “patriotism and family values”. (Ballard, For God and Country, Blackpools, 1977, p.88) But under the slick labels is a diehard racist.  She hated charity because, “it is the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents”.  Her alternative to charity was to “eliminate the stocks”.   Her theme was, “More children from the fit, less from the unfit”.  In 1939, she designed the “Negro Project”.  Why?  She said, “The mass of Negroes, particularly in the south, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among Whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit”.(Gordan, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right, Penquin, 1974)  She even went so far as to hire black ministers to promote the project.  The entire operation was a ruse to get blacks to participate in their own elimination.

 

In 1934, she recommended that the U.S. government launch a health-care reform plan that would include “parenthood permits”.  The permits would only be issued to those couples “deemed eugenically fit by public officials”. The  permits would only be good for one child.  In China, Planned Parenthood helped the government launch a brutal one-child-per-couple policy.  There have been over one million forced abortions, mandatory sterilizations, and infanticides since then.  Planned Parenthood says it has been a model of efficiency. (Mosher, Broken Earth, Free Press, 1983)  Did you know your tax dollars went to abort Chinese children?

 

To this day, the thrust of Planned Parenthood’s work is to devise new plans to penetrate Black, Hispanic, and ethnic communities with its message of eugenic racism.  Planned Parenthood’s crusade to eliminate all those “dysgenic stocks” that Margaret Sanger believed were a “dead weight of human waste” and a “menace to the race” has resulted in a wholesale slaughter.  It is public knowledge that minority children are being aborted at twice the proportional rate of the majority.  Planned Parenthood is the recipient of millions of dollars of tax money. You and I are paying for their racist eugenics and “following in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger”.  That will help you sleep better tonight.