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SurgeGuy2.0, Again you make assertions without supportive links. And your comment on Sanger is
simply misleading anti-abortion propaganda, commonly repeated here by conservative trolls as you.

Da Kine 17, What Margaret Sanger Really Said About Eugenics and Race

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Sanger’s stated mission was to empower women to make their own reproductive choices. She did focus her efforts on minority communities, because that was where, due to poverty and limited access to health care, women were especially vulnerable to the effects of unplanned pregnancy. As she framed it, birth control was the fundamental women’s rights issue. “Enforced motherhood,” she wrote in 1914 .. https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=420004.xml , “is the most complete denial of a woman’s right to life and liberty.”

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In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. made clear that he agreed that Sanger’s life’s work was anything but inhumane. In 1966, when King received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award in Human Rights, he praised her contributions to the black community. “There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts,” he said .. http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/family-planning-special-and-urgent-concern . “…Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision.”

As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay .. http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,988152,00.html .. for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a heartfelt belief than a political ploy to broaden birth control’s appeal. But even speaking the language of eugenics could be insidious. Steinem writes:

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[Sanger] adopted the mainstream eugenics language of the day, partly as a tactic, since many eugenicists opposed birth control on the grounds that the educated would use it more. Though her own work was directed toward voluntary birth control and public health programs, her use of eugenics language probably helped justify sterilization abuse. Her misjudgments should cause us to wonder what parallel errors we are making now and to question any tactics that fail to embody the ends we hope to achieve.

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