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Margaret Sanger’s Choices
By Valerie Jane | April 30, 2008
In my research it has become clear that Margaret Sanger did not believe in "Choice". On the Women’s History section of about.com they have an article that Sanger wrote in February 23, 1924 in Woman Citizen volume 8. This article is an example of how much choice she really wanted people to have. Here are the highlights:
We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families.
This alternative is abortion……To force poor mothers to resort to this dangerous and healthiest method of curtailing their families is cruel, wicked, and heartless, and it is often the mothers who care most about the welfare of their children who are willing to undergo any pain or risk to prevent the coming of infants for whom they cannot properly care.
There are definite reasons when and why parents should not have children, which will be conceded by most thoughtful people.
First — Children should not be born when either parent has an inheritable disease, such as insanity, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, or syphilis.
Second — When the mother is suffering from tuberculosis, kidney disease, heart disease, or pelvic deformity.
Third — When either parent has gonorrhea. This disease in the mother is the cause of 90 percent of blindness in newborn babies.
Fourth — When children already born are not normal, even though both parents are in good physical and mental condition.
Fifth — Not until the woman is twenty-three years old and the man twenty-five.
Sixth — Not until the previous baby is at least three years old…….
Seventh — Children should not be born to parents whose economic circumstances do not guarantee enough to provide the children with the necessities of life….
Eighth — A woman should not bear children when exhausted from labor. This especially applies to women who marry after spending several years in industrial or commercial life. Conception should not take place until she is in good health and has overcome her fatigue.
Ninth — Not for two years after marriage should a couple undertake the great responsibility of becoming parents….
It kinda sounds like the Planned Parenthood of today, doesn’t it? What is so sad is that this method of "family" has happened and has only brought about more divorce, more sadness and more children growing up without parents. I do think that Sanger truly believed that birth control would have reduced the number of abortions too. Sounded good - but as history has shown, birth control only turned women into nothing but sex object and abortions are being used in place of birth control because it just doesn’t work like she thought.
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June 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Good article, Valerie. Planned Parenthood and their founder Margaret Sanger never did care about “choice”, not at all.