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Dear Friends
I have enclosed some materials I researched, and I am appending a footnote.
I have copies of much of the original materials. And as hard as it is
to believe, it is true. One of the main reasons I am so strongly opposed
to abortion is because it is built on racial hatred.
When talking to many whites in rural areas, the reason they most often
say they are for it has nothing to do with women's rights. It is because
they say, " I would rather pay for an abortion than for welfare." Their
misconception is that there are more city blacks on welfare than rural
whites, which is untrue. Their attitude betrays their racist motivations.
Please feel free to make copies of enclosed articles and distribute them
freely to any and all concerned. It is not copyrighted.
Abortion - A Liberal Cause?
Abortion has been numbered among the liberal causes of modern politics.
Abortion is identified with women's rights just as the Civil Rights Movement
was identified with equal rights for African Americans and other minorities.
But is abortion really a liberal cause? A careful examination of the history
of the abortion rights movement would shock even the most ardent defender
of a woman's right to choose. The founders of the movement were in fact
racists who despised the poor and who were searching for a way to prevent
colored races from reproducing. Rather than defending the rights of the
poorest of the poor, which is the tradition of liberalism, the founders
advocated abortion as a means of eliminating the poor; especially Blacks,
Jews, Slavs, and Italians. And rather than desiring to help the poor through
welfare programs, they wanted to eliminate all charities and government
aid. Today, most liberals would be shocked to know of this racist heritage.
Not only is the founding of the abortion rights movement anti-liberal,
but it may have been an attempt to promote racial genocide.
The modern day abortion rights movement began as the American Birth Control
League in 1921. Among its founding board members were Margaret Sanger,
Lothrup Stoddard, and C. C. Little. The latter two people were known for
their racist views, but Margaret Sanger continually shows up in the company
of other racists. In fact, she was the guest speaker at a Ku Klux Klan
rally in Silverlake, N. J. in 1926.1 Not only did she
not disassociate herself from these racist views, her own writings leave
little doubt as to her sympathies. In implementing a plan called the "Negro
Project," that was designed to sterilize Blacks and reduce the number
of Black children being born in the south, Sanger wrote:
"(we propose to) 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."
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Sanger also viewed welfare as a detriment to society because it increased
the number of poor blacks and foreigners. "Organized charity (modern welfare)
is the symptom of a malignant social disease
increasing numbers
of defectives, delinquents, and dependents. My criticism, therefore, is
not directed at the 'failure' of philanthropy, but rather at its success."3
The urban poor, and their increasing numbers, she called, "an ever widening
margin of biological waste."4 Welfare, she believed,
encouraged the breeding of the poor, or "human waste," as she called them.
She feared that welfare would encourage the urban poor to give birth to
those "stocks that are the most detrimental to the future of the race
"5
Therefore, she believed the government should actively encourage the sterilization
of those who are unfit to propagate the race, using as her motto: "More
(children) from the fit, less from the unfit."6
No modern day liberal would dare question the need for some form of government
aid to the poor. But Margaret Sanger wanted more for the privileged and
less for the poor. How did someone who was so obviously biased and lacking
in compassion become the heroine of today's liberals? It is a strange
reversal of political direction. It is as if the Democratic Party suddenly
turned around and supported David Duke for Supreme Court Justice.
Margaret Sanger also continued to advocate for her racial prejudices
in her magazine, Birth Control Review. In six successive issues of that
magazine, she advocated limiting the racial quotas of immigration of "Slavs,
Hebrews, and Latins,"7 because of their lower intelligence!
Although Ms. Sanger was the editor of the magazine, she shared its pages
with the racist co-founders of the American Birth Control League. Board
member Lothrup Stoddard wrote the racist book The Rising Tide of Color
Against White World- Supremacy 8, which was reviewed
favorably in Birth Control Review.9 Co- founder
and board member, C. C. Little, was president of the Third Race Betterment
Conference. He advocated preserving the purity of "Yankee stock" through
limiting the births of non-Whites.10
Margaret Sanger was also strongly anti-Semitic. She started a similar
birth control organization with a man named Henry Pratt Fairchild, who
wrote The Melting Pot Mistake, in which he accused "the Jews" of
diluting the true American stock.11 In his book, Race
and Nationality, (1947), Fairchild blamed anti-Semitism and the holocaust
in part on "the Jews."12
Finally, Margaret Sanger and her organization began to be primary sponsors
of eugenics during her lifetime. But because she had associated herself
with Adolph Hitler, praising him for his racial politics of eugenics,
she changed the name of American Birth Control League to Planned
Parenthood during WWII in order to disguise her racist past.13
Today, her organization, Planned Parenthood, is still in the forefront
of advocating abortion as a means of eliminating the unwanted and "unfit."
Not only does the organization perform thousands abortions each year,
it also receives 100's of millions of tax dollars each year through Federal
and State Governments.14 And rather than being in the
forefront of a woman's right to choose, International Planned Parenthood
is a primary advocate for the Chinese Government's policy of forcing women
to have abortions against their will, and it also advocates for the sterilization
of Third World non-Whites across the globe.15 It seems
that PP is "pro-choice" when trying to impress the U.S. media, but anti-choice
in the actual implementation of its world-wide agenda.
But has Planned Parenthood changed? It is significant to note that Planned
Parenthood has never distanced itself from the vision and ideology of
its founder. Successive presidents of the organization have praised her
work, including Faye Wattleton, who said, "As we celebrate the 100th birthday
of Margaret Sanger, our courageous leader
we should be very proud
of what we are and what our mission is. It is a very grand mission
abortion is only the tip of the iceberg."16
One can only wonder how abortion rights came to be adopted by liberals
in the Democratic Party, or any other party. It is difficult to image
how it came to be identified with other liberal causes. Through a slick
media campaign and effective sloganeering, Planned Parenthood painted
abortion as a compassionate and caring alternative to childbirth. Their
motivation however may be altogether different. It seems that abortion
still today, rather than being seen as a way of helping the poor and minorities,
is considered the easiest solution for our economic problems:
Don't help the poor - just eliminate them.
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Footnotes:
- Emily Taft Douglas, Margaret Sanger; Pioneer of the Future, Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, N.Y., 1970, p. 192.
- Margaret Sanger, letter to Clarence Gamble, Oct. 19,1939. - Sanger
manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
- Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, Brentano's, N.Y., 1922,
p. 108.
- Ibid. p.134.
- Ibid. pp. 116-117.
- Ibid. p.104 & 179.
- Birth Control Review article "Racial Quotas in Immigration," Margaret
Sanger, editor, Aug. 1920, pp. 9-10. Article continues in next 5 issues.
- Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth
Control in America, Grossman, N.Y., 1976, p. 283.
- Birth Control Review, Margaret Sanger, editor, Oct. 1920.
- Gordon, Woman's Body, p. 283.
- Fairchild, The Melting Pot Mistake, 1926, pp. 212 ff.
- Fairchild, Race and Nationality, 1947, pp. 137-161, esp. p. 147.
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- Gordon, Woman's Body, p. 347.
- Based on 1984 figures compiled by the Alan Guttmacher Institute,
Issues in Brief, 4:1 (March 1984).
- Planned Parenthood Review, 5:1 (winter 1984/85) & 2:4 (winter
1982), p. 16. Report of the Working Group on the Promotion of Family
Planning as a Basic Human Right, International Planned Parenthood
Federation, London, 1984, pp. 21-23.
- Faye Wattleton, president Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
speech, February 5, 1979.
Addendum
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