By Ryan Haedge
Part 2 of 2
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”   Margaret Sanger – Women and the New Race
I hope that got your attention!
Last month, I began a series debunking the progressive propaganda that Christians are conducting a “War on Women”.  In direct aim of this false accusation is the issue of Abortion and Contraception.  Enter Margaret Sanger…
I suspect many of you have never heard of Margaret Sanger, or if you had, you probably struggled to remember where you had heard of her.  Yet everyone has heard of Adolph Hitler.  I know what you might be thinking… “certainly he isn’t going to try and compare this woman with such an innocent name with the most evil man in modern history?”  Well, yes I am.  I contend to you that there are but two differences of significance between these two people: 1. They are of the opposite sex and 2. Hitler had an army.
Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler both believed in eugenics and desired the same goal of a “clean” human race.  However, their methods of achieving their goals were different.  Hitler used a bullet, Sanger a pill.
In 1921 Sanger founded the American Birth Control League.  Over the next 2 decades the ABCL significantly increased it’s membership, but realized that their name was causing an issue for too many women who saw the word “control” and were afraid it sounded a bit too harsh.  So in 1942 the ABCL was given a new, more pleasant sounding name “Planned Parenthood”.
As many of you know, Planned Parenthood is an organization that is partially funded by the US government, which in 2009 totaled about $360,000,000 (yes, that is $360 Million) dollars from taxpayers like you and me.  And, of course, much of this money is going towards the abortion of healthy, innocent children who have not been given a choice!
Consider if the US Government was sending the same amount of money to the Nazi party or better yet, to the Ku Klux Klan to continue to fund and promote the extermination of all inferior races.  Well, with our continued support of Planned Parenthood, we technically are!
Still don’t believe me?  Let me share a few quotes of Margaret Sanger as she was founding what would eventually become Planned Parenthood.  And as you read these quotes, consider that her dream is being actualized today and funded by you and me.
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

  • Commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 10, 1939

 
“The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.”

  • Alice Groff, “The Marriage Bed”, The Woman Rebel,I No. 5, p.39 (edited by Margaret Sanger)

 
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”

  • Women and the New Race Ch 18, “The Goal”

 
“Our ‘overhead’ expense in segregating the delinquent, the defective and the dependent, in prisons, asylums and permanent homes, our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrate our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism. No industrial corporation could maintain its existence upon such a foundation.”

  • Women and the New Race Ch 12, “Woman and the Future”

 
“If plants, and live stock as well, require space and air, sunlight and love, chlldren need them even more. The only real wealth of our country lies in the men and women of the next generation. A farmer would rather produce a thousand thoroughbreds than a million runts.
How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds… Such homes cannot be gardens in any sense of the word.”

  • “The Meaning of Radio Birth Control”, April 1924, p. 111

 
“Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.”

  • “Morality and Birth Control”, February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.

 
Has eugenics had an impact on your life?  The teachings of eugenics are far reaching still being taught today.  Chances are, you have contributed to this un-Godly teaching- whether knowingly or not.  They are interwoven so deeply into our society that it can become difficult to separate yourself from.
I will have more to say next month, but for now – just ask that you pray!  I ask that you look at all humans as God’s children, not as “weeds” that need to be plucked from the garden.  We do not need contraception to be a moral society, we need God’s word to be  put into practice.