You'd be the one forgetting the quote within the context of the greater body of Sanger's work to exterminate the 'undesirables' in society, Masterdickmuncher. Originally Posted by I B HankeringYou brought no fact to the discussion. You posted a misleading partial quote. You chopped the last of the quote because it proved you wrong. And I didn't misrepresent anything by editing quotes. Like you.
The greater body of her work was to help women make informed decisions about reproduction and to get services to the poorer people.
And no where does it say she wanted to exterminate anyone. What a stupid thing to say. Show anything by her that proposes killing anyone. Abortion done according to existing laws doesn't kill any one.
She was a birth control advocate. She never advocated forced sterilization.
Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919: We who advocate Birth Control, on the other hand, lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. The eugenist also believes that a woman should bear as many healthy children as possible as a duty to the state. …
We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother.
Byrd: Planned Parenthood has a long history of condemning racism and opposes discrimination in all forms. Margaret Sanger worked for social and racial justice at a time when segregation was the law of the land. She was invited by African American leaders to help provide health care to women in the African American community and her work was praised by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For all her positive work, Margaret Sanger made statements some 80 years ago that were wrong then and are wrong now. Those statements have no bearing on the high quality health care Planned Parenthood provides today