Margaret Sanger And The Eugenics Movement

Margaret Sanger. journalist, women's activist and founder of planned parenthood— is known for all of those things. Held to a very high standard and well spoken of for her words on the issue of women's rights and birth control, there are on the contrary very dark and sinister actions of this American pioneer. Although she was helpful to American women in the most minuscule of ways, she was also a racial supremacist and eugenicist. Margaret Sanger, born September 14, 1897 in Corning, New York, was one of eleven children parented by Michael and Anna Higgins. Her poverty stricken family of Irish American's is the product of a drunken politician, her father Michael Higgins. Sanger's mother Anna had 18 pregnancies only having 11 of those
She wanted all "feeble minded" people forcibly sterilized & sent off to an island somewhere away from the general population. This woman was evil to the core. Yet some insist on scrubbing her image & touting her as some hero because of birth control. What is the eugenics movement? The eugenics movement began in the U.S. in the late 19th century. However, unlike in Britain, eugenicists in the U.S. focused on efforts to stop the transmission of negative or “undesirable” traits from generation to generation. In response to these ideas, some US leaders, private citizens, and corporations started funding eugenic studies. This lead to the 1911 establishment of The Eugenics Records Office (ERO) in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The ERO spent time tracking family histories and concluded that people deemed to be unfit more often came from families that were poor, low in social standing, immigrant, and/or minority. Further, ERO researchers “demonstrated” that the undesirable traits in these families, such as pauperism, were due to genetics, and not lack of resources. (KnowEugenics.org). Margaret references eugenics often in her writings. “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics” (June 1920), “The Eugenic Conscience” (February 1921), “The Purpose of Eugenics” (December 1924), “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics” (July 1925) and “Birth Control: The True Eugenics” (August 1928). Margaret Sanger's (Birth Control
That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can commit.” (Mike Wallace interview 1957). Not at all concerned about women's health as Planned Parenthood claims, but about the diseased or mentally retarded, they can't be humans, delinquents and prisoners.. How can someone be a delinquent and a prisoner before they are even born? The only thing predetermined before birth is your race. The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds,"( Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 pg. 2). "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." (Birth Control Review, May 1919, pg. 12) "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, referring to minorities and immigrants (Pivot of civilization). Women and children's health and well being is not the focus or fulcrum point of planned parenthood. Even if we are to say this is not done for one specific ethnic group, it is still malevolent and utterly disgusting that a person could possibly think it is rectifiable to exterminate a group of people, whether that be the mentally ill, the diseased, or the minorities in