While Skye, Scott and Word are doing a great job on blogging about the Spector CYA move I figured I would move onto a story not widely reported due to all the other news. That story would be Hillary Clinton comparing Margaret Sanger to Thomas Jefferson. No, not a apple to apple type comparison, but more of a I respect Sanger the same as I respect Jefferson….they both had flaws.
First…some background.
On March 27th of this year Hillary Clinton accepted a Planned Parenthood award called the Margaret Sanger Award. So named because Sanger is the founder of the group, originally called the American Birth Control League. She had this to say about it’s founder:
Now, I have to tell you that it was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision … And when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn, taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her.
Now….for those who know Sanger’s history, the statement above should shock you. As it did to Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry who said the following during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on April 22nd:
Your remarks last month, when you called Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, a person whom you enormously admire, were stunning to me. Margaret Sanger clearly embraced bigotry and racism. She advocated for the elimination of the disabled, the downtrodden and the black child. In one of her writings, she said, “Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.” I don’t believe these ideologies have a place in our pluralistic society. And you went on to say that you will use American foreign policy in your position to further reproductive rights, which includes abortion, across the globe.
Madame Secretary, I don’t believe we should use American foreign policy to export abortion. This will undermine, in my view, our foreign relations in many areas throughout the world, including Latin America and Africa and among Muslim peoples. Promoting the international abortion industry is an imposition of our own woundedness upon others. Abortion has caused tremendous grief in this society, and its export I believe will be seen as a form of neocolonialism that is paternalistic and elitist and an assault on the dignity especially of the poor and vulnerable. I believe women deserve better, women throughout the world deserve better.
Her answer:
Well, Congressman, let me say with respect to your comments about Margaret Sanger, you know, I admire Thomas Jefferson. I admire his words and his leadership and I deplore his unrepentant slaveholding. I admire Margaret Sanger being a pioneer in trying to empower women to have some control over their bodies and I deplore statements that you have referenced. That is the way we often are when we look at flawed human beings. There are things that we admire and things we deplore.
But Thomas Jefferson didn’t make it his life’s work to promote slavery and actually opposed slavery:
As for Jefferson, he opposed slavery–as both John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln argued in their own times. The primary principle that animated his political thought, his vision, is the “self-evident” truth “that all men are created equal.” The fact that he continued to own slaves until his death in 1826 is in many ways a contradiction of his political vision. It can be attributed partly to the selfishness described by Jefferson himself in his Notes on the State of Virginia, that “no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him.” It can also be partly attributed to Jefferson’s prudential judgment that a gradual emancipation combined with colonization would be preferable to the immediate emancipation of millions of free blacks into a virulently racist society.
Margaret Sanger on the other hand DID make it her life’s work to promote eugenics. The VISION that promoted the weeding out of the “undesirables” in the human race. Hitler used the eugenics theory to justify his master race theory and ultimately ended with the Holocaust
Some quotes from the “great” Sanger:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” [speaking about the poor and immigrants]
Pivot of Civilization
“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. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…” Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble – Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College: Massachusetts.
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
“Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child,”
Birth Control Review, April 1932
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review
“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
“The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
More here.
Which brings me to this great interview of Angela Franks, author of Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility
Margaret Sanger is the model from which progressives are molded from….and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are prime examples of a progressive.
And after today they are now in complete control of this country with the super majority they have long desired.
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its my opinion that chelsey clinton has bad hair, doesn’t mena i want the girl dead. classy hillary, keepin it classy. right there it shows that planned parenthood has so many branches in the ghetto for a reason.
And if Margaret Sanger’s ideology had been acted upon in one instance, Madame Secretary may well have been the POTUS. Since Obama is at least in part belonging to the race Sanger wished exterminated.
It amazes me how Obama is pro-abortion as is Clinton. That goes beyond pro-choice. When you do as Curt wrote, export the abortion industry, you are not offering choice, you are implicating your sovereignty over reproductive “rights”…
In Obama’s case, it reminds me that Hitler was part Jewish too. Lucky for Hillary she can work for him, proving that she is not racist in her desire to spread abortion throughout the world! {sarcasm}
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. That’s a direct quote from Margaret Sanger, Hillary Clinton’s role model and hero. I suspect many (Hillary at least pretending to be one of the ignorant), are totally unaware that the early feminists, as in the Susan B Anthony types, were totally against abortion.
For any who choose to stay in denial and think that our abortion obsessed culture is going to end up any differently than the Holocaust, well, you’ve already missed the beginning. I suggest you peruse Wesley Smith’s blog for some eye openers as to how far down the slippery slope we’ve already slid. Even once prestigious medical journals are now on board.
The blind spot is simply jaw dropping, but then, I often write that many in this day and age can’t recognize evil. How can any country (at least one that calls itself civilized), kill 50 million babies, the majority of them black, and AT LEAST not make the connection that we already went down this wrong and iniquitous path with slavery (both Roe v Wade and Dread Scott were won based on non personhood).
Earlier this month, after Hillary’s visit to Our Lady of Guadalupe visit coinciding with her Sanger award. Congressman Chris Smith wrote a scathing piece which was only covered by Catholic Media (surprise!).
For any, like Hillary who asked “who painted it” and was told by the Bishop, “Ahh, that would be God”, not familiar with the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the cultural irony is stunning. Not only did it result in the largest Christian conversion on planet earth (9 million), it came after a much accepted practice of chopping off heads on top of pyramids. The only difference between their human sacrifice and ours with abortion is that we do our killing in the womb. To date, not only has science been unable to explain away this miracle, it continues to become more fascinating with the advancement of technology.
Curt thanks for this great and important post. It was fascinating (and most telling), to watch the response of Hillary; not even a hint of conscience after Fortenberry’s potent words. Notice how she’s all about ‘choice’, until it comes to the most vulnerable. Yeah, “choice and equality”, isn’t that the left mantra? Gee, who could know it when we kill 4000 babies a day, 300,000 a year by Planned Parenthood alone, which is largely government funded. If the abortions aren’t bad enough, the cover up of sexual abuse (which the press can’t get enough of if it’s a Catholic Priest from 40 years ago), goes largely ignored.
I don’t have the exact numbers of the daily US abortions done on sentient babies, so I will be conservative and estimate at least one fourth, which would approximate 1000 a day. The reality is, these fetuses (many of whom could sustain life outside the womb), are ripped apart, limb by limb.
Now compare that outrage to the current outrage that the US water boarded 3, yes, ONLY 3, or our enemies. I’m no fan of torture, only making the point of the hypocrisy in this land of “equality and choice.”
We Americans best be warned that abortion is coming back to bite, big time. At least know, the end game was never about “choice for women.” We have and continue co operate in one of the greatest evils of mankind; of which the consequences will be enormous.
What amazes me (although I guess it shouldn’t) is the number of women who will defend their right to murder infants like a drowning person clings to a floating tree branch, yet have absolutely no knowledge of the eugenics movement and it’s ideological foundations. They do not want to hear it either (think fingers in ears, “LA LA LA LALALA”). I am repeatedly impressed by the brainwashing prowess of the left to have ingrained a sense of entitlement to infanticide within the psyches of so many. It is horrible enough to see women value their convenience and “right” to behave irresponsibly more than the life of a child. When you are aware that the whole scheme is another version of the final solution without the expense of building camps or “showers” or ovens, it makes you wonder how human kind made it this far. The Germans would have been impressed. They never thought of charging the Jews train fare for the ride to the camps…