Some claims about Margaret Sanger that need being looked into: Links 1 for July 12, 2023

18 Replies to “Some claims about Margaret Sanger that need being looked into: Links 1 for July 12, 2023”

1. ‘Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality” by Selwyn Duke – August 17, 2010
   https://thenewamerican.com/engineering-oblivion-eugenics-the-remaking-of-man-and-unmaking-of-morality/

   Gates Foundation Pushing Dangerous Contraceptives on Black Populations
   by William F. Jasper – October 24, 2013
   https://thenewamerican.com/gates-foundation-pushing-dangerous-contraceptives-on-black-populations/

   • Sanger was indeed a Eugenicist. And it should be noted, the Nazis were in touch with many Southern States as a result of their Eugenics programmes. And learnt from them.

     Here in the UK, the Fabian Society, a core part of early Labour were also Eugenicists, with the likes of HG Wells and Bernard Show extolling it. Wells particularly egregious on this matter

     https://answersingenesis.org/sanctity-of-life/eugenics/hg-wells-darwins-disciple-and-eugenicist-extraordinaire/

     • Thank you. Somehow this all has to become common knowledge.

2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
   Hitler, The Ku Klux Klan, and Margaret Sanger
   Planned Parenthood clinics have followed along the same lines as its racist founder.

   April 10, 2019 9:25 am
   Hitler, The Ku Klux Klan, and Margaret Sanger
   My response concerns Ray Miller-Still’s recent pro-abortion article, which articulates how women of color and poor women are in need of clinics like Planned Parenthood to provide abortions for them. Planned Parenthood was founded by the late Margaret Sanger. Sanger began the movement by speaking to many groups, including the wives of Ku Klux Klan group members, who were also organized for white supremacy. There is access to much, rather interesting, uncovered information about her and her organization which began circa 1921. I can barely touch on the topic of Margaret Sanger, and will only be able to touch upon it here.

   Margaret Sanger got in tight with the Ku Klux Klan circles, and cozied up to more like them. The following quote from the book “Killer Angel” discovers who some of the other friends in her new movement were:

   “In April of 1933, The [Birth Control] Review [Margaret Sanger’s magazine], published a shocking article entitled “Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need”. It was written by Margaret’s close friend and advisor, Ernst Rudin, who was then serving as Hitler’s Director of Genetic Sterilization and had earlier taken a role in the establishment in the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. Later in June of that same year, [The Birth Control Review] published an article by Leon Whitney entitled, “Selective Sterilization”, which adamantly praised and defended The Third Reich’s pre-holocaust race purification programs.”

   (Killer Angel, a biography of Planned Parenthood’s Founder, Margaret Sanger, p. 71-72).

   Sanger openly advocated for eugenics. In her book, “The Pivot of Civilization”, she says, “Eugenics suggests the reestablishment of the balance between the ‘fit’ and the ‘unfit.’ The birth-rate among the … finer stocks of humanity is to be increased by awakening among the ‘fit’ the realization of the dangers of a lessened birth-rate in proportion to the reckless breeding of the ‘unfit.’ (The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger, Ch. VIII, paragraph 12.) . From this type of writing, she became dubbed by the awareness concerning her advocacy, which hailed as “More children from the fit, less from the unfit.”

   Ms. Sanger backed up that mentality of wanting some kind of a bigoted supreme race in much of what she said and did, and it becomes more clear the more one studies her. Take her stance voting rights: “We can all vote, even the mentally arrested. And so it is no surprise to find that the moron’s vote is as good as the vote of the genius. The outlook is not a cheerful one.”

   Margaret Sanger used deception and propaganda to fool the black population into believing that she and her movement were working toward helping them, although her talk about them was disconcerting and of a racist bent.

   On the Sanger [Blacks] Project, she said, “The most successful educational approach to the [blacks] is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the [black] population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to their more rebellious members.” (Gordon, Woman’s Body Woman’s Right, p.332
   The above quote speaks of Margaret Sanger’s desires, wishes, or maybe just irresponsible, cruel, passing thoughts about eliminating a whole people. Many who have long studied her believe that she meant those words “to exterminate” as describing a plan she had. However, some mysteriously say she did not mean it that way when she spoke the word “exterminate.” At the very least it is highly suspect as to why she would ever choose a word like “exterminate” for communicating what was on her mind about a whole race of people for any reason! It seems to her pro-abortion cohorts that no speech is off limits, and every horrid sounding blurb was just an accidental gaffe, no matter how incredulous, extremely racist and hateful it sounds. Contrariwise, in reference to black people having diverse opinions or in parting from what she wishes for, she boldly calls those potential opinions “rebellious,” giving the impression that they, as blacks, are not allowed to exercise freedom of thought.

   Planned Parenthood clinics have followed along the same lines as Margaret Sanger, who openly wanted to eliminate the lineage of those people who found themselves in vulnerable situations, especially poor and black women, and to work toward a type of supreme race. Planned Parenthood organization is the enemy of this great and diverse country, a country of many into one, and of the freedoms that we as Americans stand for. Margaret Sanger’s experiment must end if we are to go together, all of us, into the future strong and free.

   Mary Anne Dion

   https://www.courierherald.com/letters/hitler-the-ku-klux-klan-and-margaret-sanger/

3. MARGARET SANGER, STERILIZATION, AND THE SWASTIKA
   Mike Richmond

   “To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation [concentration camps] or sterilization”, advocated the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger in April 1932 (“A Plan For Peace”, Birth Control Review; see ‘appendix’ for this full unabridged seminal article). Which country pioneered forced sterilization in the 20th century, Germany or the United States of America? The German program began in January 1934, but the U.S. state of Indiana passed a forced sterilization law (for mental defectives) in 1907 (when Adolf Hitler was 18 years old). Before the German program began, at least seventeen U.S. states (including California) had ‘forced sterilization’ laws. Before 1930 there were 200-600 forced sterilizations per year (in the U.S.A.) but in the 1930s the rate jumped to 2,000-4,000 per year. (1)

   Who ‘Inspired’ the architects of the German Sterilization law?

   “The leaders in the German sterilization movement state repeatedly that their legislation was formulated after careful study of the California experiment as reported by Mr. Gosney and Dr. [Paul] Popenoe. It would have been impossible, they say, to understake such a venture involving some 1 million people without drawing heavily upon previous experience elsewhere.” (2) Who is Dr. Paul Popenoe? He was a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement and wrote (1933) the article ‘Eugenic Sterilization’ in the journal (BCR) that Margaret Sanger started. How many Americans did Dr. Popenoe estimate should be subjected to sterilization? Between five million and ten million Americans. “The situation [in the U.S.A] will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results.” (3)

   Who is Ernst Rudin?

   Ernst Rudin was director of the foremost German eugenics research institute (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy, in Munich, Germany). “On June 2, 1933, [German] Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick announced the formation of an Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy …. to plan the course of Nazi racial policy. The committee brought together the elite of Nazi racial theory: Alfred Ploetz, ….. Ernst Rudin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Munich;….” (4) On July 14, 1933 this committee’s recommendations were made law, the sterilization law (“Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring”); the start date for exercising the law was 1 Jan 1934. What was Ernst Rudin’s opinion of Adolf Hitler and eugenics (‘racial hygiene’)?:

   Academic William H. Tucker (The Science and Politics of Racial Research, 1994, University of Illinois Press) tells us about Ernst Rudin (p. 121):

   In an address to the German Society for Rassenhygiene [Race-hygiene] Ernst Rudin, a professor of psychiatry who was one of the organization’s original members and now its head, recalled the early, fruitless days when the racial hygienists had labored in vain to alert the public to special value of the Nordic race as “culture creators” and the danger of “unnatural” attempts to preserve the health of heredity defectives. Now Rassenhygiene [Race-hygiene] was finally receiving the attention it deserved, and Rudin virtually slavered over the man whose efforts produced this change: “The significance of Rassenhygiene did not become evident to all aware Germans until the political activity of Adolf Hitler and only through his work has our 30 year long dream of translating Rassen- hygiene into action finally become a reality.” Terming it a “duty of honor” (Ehrenpflicht) for the society to aid in implementing Hitler’s program, Rudin proclaimed, “We can hardly express our efforts more plainly or appropriately than in the words of the Fuhrer: ‘Whoever is not physically or mentally fit must not pass on his defects to his children. The state must take care that only the fit produce children. Conversely, it must be regarded as reprehensible to withhold healthy children from the state.’ (E. Rudin, “Aufgaben and Ziele der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Rassenhygiene,” Archiv Fur Rassen- und Gesellschafts- biologie 28 (1934): 228-29)

   Who is author William H. Tucker? He is an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Tucker is apparently somewhat left of center politically, since he complains about the ‘Reagan slash and burn spending cuts.’

   How many Germans were ‘force sterilized’? Most estimates are in the range of 250,000-500,000. The Germans started twenty-seven years later that the U.S. but within a few years they greatly outpaced them.

   Did Ernst Rudin advocate sterilization of Americans?

   Three months before the German ‘sterilization law’ was passed, Rudin’s “Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need” article was published in the journal (BCR) Margaret Sanger started and continued to influence until its demise in 1940.

   In addressing an American audience Rudin is much more circumspect with his choice of words:

   The following essay is concerned only with sterilization as a a voluntary practice, that is, when undertaken with the consent of the patient himself or his statutory guardians……

   But as the essay wears on, the mask begins to slip:

   My experience has led me to the conclusion that systematic and careful propaganda should be undertaken where sterilization is advisable. Such propaganda should, of course, be gradual and and should be directed in the first instance at the medical directors in institutions and schools, medical officers of health, and finally at private practitioners…..

   Margaret Sanger corresponded with Ernst Rudin and never once renounced his eugenic views.

   The Planned Parenthood connection – Who is Lothrop Stoddard?

   Margaret Sanger appointed Lothrop Stoddard as a board member of the Birth Control League (the forerunner of Planned Parenthood). What did Stoddard think about Nazi eugenics? Author Stefan Kuhl writes (5):

   When the Nazis came to power, argued Stoddard, they started to increase “both the size and the quality of the population.” They coupled initiatives designed to encourage “sound” citizens to reproduce with a “drastic curb of the defective elements.” (7) Stoddard personally witnessed how the Nazis were “weeding out the worst strains in the Germanic stock in a scientific and truly humanitarian way.”

   Lothrop Stoddard and the “Jews Problem”

   It is no secret that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis favored Jews be more subject to induced abortion and sterilization than other groups. Stefan Kuhl writes (pp. 61-62):

   He [Lothrop Stoddard] even met personally with Adolf Hitler. William L. Shirer, an American colleague who had been in Germany since 1934, complained that the Reich minister for propaganda [Joseph Goebbels] gave special preference to Stoddard because his writings on racial subject were “featured in Nazi school textbooks.”(8)

   Kuhl continues:

   Stoddard claimed in 1940 that the “Jew problem” is “already settled in principle and soon to be settled in fact by the physical elimination of the Jews themselves from the Third Reich.”

   Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, made Lothrop Stoddard a board member of the forerunner to PP (the Birth Control League). Why was the Birth Control League reconstituted as Planned Parenthood? The ‘Nazi smell’ of BCL was so bad, that some ‘cosmetics’ were required.

   High Praise from Adolf Hitler

   Margaret Sanger was a prominent proponent of eugenics and forced sterilization. Stefan Kuhl writes:

   In 1934 one of Hitler’s staff members wrote to Leon Whitney of the American Eugenics Society and asked in the name of the Fuhrer for a copy of Whitney’s recently published book, The Case for Sterilization. Whitney complied immediately, and shortly thereafter received a personal letter of thanks from Adolf Hitler. In his unpublished autobiography, Whitney reported a conversation he had with Madison Grant about the letter from the Fuhrer. Because he thought Grant might be interested in Hitler’s letter he showed it to him during their next meeting. Grant only smiled, reached for a folder on his desk, and gave Whitney a letter from Hitler to read. In this, Hitler thanked Grant for writing The Passing of the Great Race and said that “the book was his Bible.” Whitney concluded that, following Hitler’s actions, one could believe it. (unpublished autobiography of Leon F. Whitney, written in 1971, Whitney Papers, APS, 204-5) (6)

   Sanger’s Siren Song of Sterilization

   This article started with a Sanger quote, “to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” To assure yourself that this is NOT an ‘out of context quote’, read the full article (A Plan For Peace) in the ‘appendix’. Although Margaret Sanger may have been unaware of it, one possible side-effect of an induced abortion is sterility. If only 4% of women undergoing an induced abortion suffer sterility as a side-effect, then the U.S. has had over one million sterilizations (from induced abortion alone), easily topping the Nazi ‘record’.

   (1) The Surgical Solution, Philip R. Reilly
   (2) Legal and Medical Aspects of Eugenic Sterilization in Germany, American Sociological Review, Marie E. Kopp, 1936:763
   (3) Eugenic Sterilization, Birth Control Review, Dr. Paul Popenoe, April 1933
   (4) Racial Hygiene, Robert N. Proctor, p. 95
   (5) The Nazi Connection (Eugenics, American Racism, And German National Socialism), Stefan Kuhl, Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 62

   (6) The Nazi Connection, p. 85
   (7) Into The Darkness: Nazi Germany Today, Lothrop Stoddard, 1940, pp. 190-191
   (8) Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, William L. Shire (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1941):257

   Appendix

   A. Dr. Paul Popenoe

   Author William H. Tucker also identifies Paul Popenoe as a researcher favored eugenics. Says Tucker:

   The biologist Paul Popenoe, author of the most widely used American eugenics text and editor of the Journal of Heredity, also reviewed the new German law. Noting that Hitler had read the definitive German work on heredity by Baur, Fischer, and Lenz, Popenoe judged the fuhrer’s program to be based “solidly on the application of biological principles to human society.” (p. 123)

   In the April 1933 BCR Paul Popenoe tells us:

   Eugenic sterilization is one of the many indispensable measures in any modern program of social welfare. It is an integral part of a general system of protection, parole, and supervision, for those who by reason on mental disease or deficiency are unable to meet the responsibilities of citizenship.

   It promotes eugenics by cutting off some of the lines of descent that are spreading mental disease and mental defect throughout the population. It is conservatively estimated that there are approximately 5,000,000 people in the United States who will at some time be committed to state hospitals as insane and that there are approximately 5,000,000 more who are so deficient intellectually (with less than 70% of average intelligence) as to be, in many cases, liabilities rather than assets to the race. The situation will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of the mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results.

   B. A Plan for Peace

   The following (A Plan for Peace, Margaret Sanger) was published in Birth Control Review (April 1932, pp. 107-108):

   A Plan for Peace
   by MARGARET SANGER

   First, put into action President Wilson’s fourteen points, upon which terms Germany and Austria surrendered to the Allies in 1918.

   Second, have Congress set up a special department for the study of population problems and appoint a Parliament of Population, the directors representing the various branches of science: this body to direct and control the population through birth rates and immigration, and to direct its distribution over the country according to national needs consistent with taste, fitness and interest of individuals. The main objects of the Population Congress would be:

   a. to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population.

   b. to increase the population slowly by keeping the birth rate at its present level of fifteen per thousand, decreasing the death rate below its present mark of 11 per thousand.

   c. to keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.

   d. to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

   e. to insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.

   f. to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

   g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

   The first step would thus be to control the intake and output of morons, mental defectives, epileptics.

   The second step would be to take an inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical protection, and segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct.

   Having corralled this enormous part of our population and placed it on a basis of health instead of punishment, it is safe to say that fifteen or twenty millions of our population would then be organized into soldiers of defense—defending the unborn against their own disabilities.

   The third step would be to give special attention to the mothers’ health, to see that women who are suffering from tuberculosis, heart or kidney disease, toxic goitre, gonorrhea, or any disease where the condition of pregnancy disturbs their health are placed under public health nurses to instruct them in practical, scientific methods of contraception in order to safeguard their lives—thus reducing maternal mortality.

   The above steps may seem to place emphasis on a health program instead of on tariffs, moratoriums and debts, but I believe that national health is the first essential factor in any program for universal peace.

   With the future citizen safeguarded from hereditary taints, with five million mental and moral degenerates segregated, with ten million women and ten million children receiving adequate care, we could then turn our attention to the basic needs for international peace.

   There would then be a definite effort to make population increase slowly and at a specified rate, in order to accommodate and adjust increasing numbers to the best social and economic system.

   In the meantime we should organize and join an International League of Low Birth Rate Nations to secure and maintain World Peace.

   Summary of address before the New History Society, January 17th, New York City

   https://culturallegacy.org/margaret-sanger-sterilization-and-the-swastika/

4. Exclusive – D’Souza: The Hitler-Sanger Connection
   HitlerSangerAssociated Press
   DINESH D’SOUZA1 Sep 20172,290
   More children from the fit; less from the unfit—that is the chief issue of birth control.1

   –Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review

   Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, has an ignoble legacy as a racist who addressed the Ku Klux Klan and initiated a Negro Project to reduce the population of poor, uneducated African Americans whom she considered unfit to reproduce themselves. This Margaret Sanger—the real Margaret Sanger—is completely whitewashed in Parenthood propaganda, which deceitfully portrays Sanger as a champion of reproductive “choice.”

   Even more incriminating than Sanger’s racism, however, is her close association with Nazism. Sanger was part of a community of American progressives who championed two remedies to get rid of “unfit” populations. The first was forced sterilization, which was Sanger’s preferred solution.

   Sanger wanted to make it look like the sterilizations were voluntary. In a 1932 article, Sanger called for women to be segregated from the larger community onto “farms and homesteads” where they would be “taught to work under competent instructors” and prevented from reproducing “for the period of their entire lives.” If the women didn’t want to live this way, they could get out of it by consenting to be sterilized.2

   The other progressive solution was “euthanasia,” which basically involved killing off the sick, the aged, and the physically and mentally disabled. One of Sanger’s colleagues, the California progressive Paul Popenoe, called for “lethal chambers” so that large numbers of “unfit” people could be systematically lined up and killed.3

   The Nazis learned about these American programs, and enthusiastically adopted them. As Edwin Black documents in his book The War Against the Weak, the Nazi sterilization law of 1933 and the subsequent Nazi euthanasia laws were both based on blueprints drawn up by Sanger, Popenoe and other American progressives.4

   In fact, the “lethal chambers” the Nazis employed using carbon monoxide gas to kill off “imbeciles” and other undesirables were the first death camps. Later these very facilities were expanded into Hitler’s “final solution” for the Jews, using many of the same medical personnel who manned the euthanasia killing facilities.

   Sanger’s close associates Clarence Gamble, who funded Sanger and spoke at her conferences, and Lothrop Stoddard, who published in Sanger’s magazine and served on the board of her American Birth Control League, both knew about the Nazi sterilization and euthanasia programs and praised them. Stoddard traveled to Germany where he met with top Nazi officials and even secured an audience with Hitler. His 1940 book Into the Darkness is a paean to Hitler and Nazi eugenics.5

   Sanger too was on board. In 1933, Sanger’s magazine Birth Control Review published an article on “Eugenic Sterilization” by Ernst Rudin, chief architect of the Nazi sterilization program and mentor of Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor at Auschwitz. Sanger’s magazine also reprinted a pamphlet that Rudin had prepared for British eugenicists.

   Writing in 1938, when the Nazi program was in full swing, Sanger urged America to follow Hitler’s example. Using the language of Social Darwinism—the same language that Hitler uses in Mein Kampf—Sanger wrote, “In animal industry, the poor stock is not allowed to breed. In gardens, the weeds are kept down.” America, Sanger concluded, must learn from the Nazis and carry out nature’s own mandate of getting rid of “human weeds.”6

   Hitler never quotes Margaret Sanger, but he was inspired by the writings of two of her associates, Leon Whitney of the American Eugenics Society and Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society. During the 1930s, Whitney on one occasion visited Grant to proudly show him a letter he had just received from Hitler requesting a copy of Whitney’s book The Case for Sterilization.

   Not to be outdone, Grant pulled out his own letter from Hitler, which praised Grant for writing The Passing of the Great Race, a book Hitler called his eugenic “Bible.”7 This incident shows how progressive eugenicists in America were well aware of their impact on Hitler and proud of their association with him.

   Another example of progressive enthusiasm for Hitler involves Charles Goethe, founder of the Eugenics Society of Northern California, who upon returning from a 1934 fact-finding trip to Germany, wrote a congratulatory letter to his fellow progressive Eugene Gosney, head of the San Diego-based Human Betterment Foundation.

   “You will be interested to know,” Goethe’s letter said, “that work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought, and particularly by the work of the Human Betterment Foundation. I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life.”8

   If Planned Parenthood and the Left today want to get away from this sordid history, they must stop denying it. Rather, they should repudiate and distance themselves from Sanger and her fellow progressives, who were not only racial bigots but also inspired some of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century.

   Dinesh D’Souza’s new book The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left is published by Regnery.

   Citations

   1 Cited by Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 135.

   2 Margaret Sanger, “My Way to Peace,” January 17, 1932, Margaret Sanger Papers, nyu.edu/projects/sanger.

   3 Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill, Applied Eugenics (New York: Macmillan, 1918), 180.

   4 Edwin Black, The War Against the Weak (Washington, D.C.: Dialog Press, 2013), xvii, 258.

   5 Ernst Rudin, “Eugenic Sterilization, an Urgent Need,” Birth Control Review, April 1933.

   6 Margaret Sanger, “Human Conservation and Birth Control,” March 3, 1938 speech, Margaret Sanger Papers, nyu.edu/projects/sanger.

   7 Cited by Black, The War Against the Weak, 270.

   8 Cited by Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 36, 46.

   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/09/01/exclusive-dsouza-the-hitler-sanger-connection/

5. SANGER AND EUGENICS AND SOCIALISM, OH MY

   February 10, 2015

   Dear Liberty,

   On January 22, 2015, feminists all across the country sang praises on the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, granting the “right” to kill their unborn baby. It is their most sacred sacrament given to them by their apostle Margaret Sanger.

   Margaret Sanger was born shortly after the Civil War during the time of Reconstruction. Her father was an outspoken political radical whom many claim encouraged Margaret to always speak her mind, which she did. Margaret called him a lazy drunk who forced her mother to have too many children which Margaret blamed for her early death.

   From here the myth of Margaret Sanger begins. PBS praises her saying she “devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women.” Wikipedia touts her as “an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse… [who] popularized the term birth control.” Biography.com states, “Sanger fought for women’s rights her entire life,” calling her an “activist” and a “social reformer”.

   http://www.thefactspaper.com/liberatingletters/2015/sanger-and-eugenics-and-socialism-oh-my-m.html

6. SANGER AND THE HOLOCAUST: Margaret’s Nazi Connections in Historical ContextBookreader Item Preview

   SANGER AND THE HOLOCAUST:

   Margaret’s Nazi Connections in Historical Context.

   WRITTEN BY: A.E. Samaan — Feb. 2023 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7879263

   GENERAL PREMISE:

   An uncomfortable truth has resurfaced: the ideals that fueled the fires of The Holocaust had an American and British origin. It was Britons who invented eugenics and Americans that matured it into practicable laws, not the Germans. These eugenics concepts and_ their resulting laws were communicated and handed off to the scientists that were behind Hitler’s racial state. This was done through international organizations, journals, and yearly symposiums and conferences. The Germans were following the lead of the Britons and Americans, not the other way around.

   This is where Margaret Sanger’s role in Holocaust history needs a fresh analysis. The American Birth Control movement was an integral part of the international eugenics movement, which in turn, included the individuals that were pivotal in erecting Hitler’s eugenic state. Sanger possessed a considerable talent for organizing like-minded people and thus was a driving force for the eugenics movement. This is why the name “Margaret Sanger” and “American Birth Control” keep surfacing in the archives that house the papers of the international eugenics movement, whether the researcher looks for her or not.

   The majority of criticism aimed at Sanger misses the point. Posthumously proving that she was a “racist” is largely a worthless gesture. There are now and have always been “racists” that go about their lives making value judgements based on ethnicity. The real question is if those racial judgements go from mere opinions to concrete acts against ethnic minorities. Margaret Sanger was not a Nazi. In fact, some of Sanger’s writings are inspirational works championing individual liberty, a concept anathema to core National Socialist beliefs. However, a larger portion of

   her beliefs concerning humanity are more than merely distasteful. Her ideals share a generous amount of common ground with the eugenics of Nazism, but more to the point, she expended a considerable amount of time and money towards making sure her eugenic ideals were implemented. The fact that she supported, collaborated and promoted this abbreviated list of eugenicists, sympathizers, collaborators, and known members of Hitler’s government, both before and after The Holocaust, renders her views more than merely insulting. Her organizing and propagandizing of eugenics was consequential enough to have made a difference in the way the eugenics movement evolved ultimately to light the fires of The Holocaust.

   DISTINCTIONS:

   The individuals listed herein collaborated or sympathized with Hitler’s eugenic revolution to varying degrees. This analysis distinguishes between casual association and the explicit ideological, political, and organizational support of the ideas that culminated in the “crimes against humanity.” This is the difference between “guilt by association” and willful association with the guilty.

   The conclusions reflected herein are those that are reflected in the personal correspondence exchanged between said individuals and Sanger herself. While Sanger’s papers are closely guarded by her surviving family, the fact of the matter is that her letters had recipients, and these recipients just happened to be accomplished scientists, authors, and journalists whose papers merited archival preservation. The value of this analysis comes into focus when one realizes that the individuals documented herein can in no way, shape, or form be characterized as marginal or inconsequential to the history of eugenics and The Holocaust. Quite to the contrary, the history of The Holocaust simply cannot be written without acknowledging the substantial role the following individuals played. Some of these were, by Hitler’s own admission, his ideological mentors.

   ON THE GERMAN SIDE OF THE EQUATION HANS HARMSEN:

   “Population control” and “Nazism” are two phrases that would make anyone cringe. Nobody who wants to avoid being identified with Hitler’s population control policies would ever consider associating with

   http://www.eugenicsanthology.com

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   https://archive.org/details/sanger-s-nazi-connection-2023-v-7

7. George Bernard Shaw, Hitler, and Margaret Sanger
   In this clip from the 2008 film “The Soviet Story“, we see that George Bernard Shaw, the celebrated progressive playwright defended Hitler, advocated killing those who can’t justify their existence and called for the development of lethal gas 10 years before the national socialists in Germany did exactly that.

   George Bernard Shaw was one of the left’s most revered figures and the only person besides Al Gore to win both an Oscar and a Nobel prize

   https://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/george-bernard-shaw-hitler-and-margaret-sanger/

8. Who Was Margaret Sanger
   Author: A.L.L.
   WHO WAS MARGARET SANGER

   Introduction

   To suggest that Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist is to raise the ire of many of the present-day leaders of Planned Parenthood and other anti-life organizations. However, the facts do speak for themselves.

   For example, throughout the pages of the Birth Control Review, Mrs. Sanger’s journal, there are countless quotes which not only suggest that she favored eugenics, but that she provided a forum to those who wished to spread their fear of human life, when that life was conceived by someone other than a member of society’s elite.

   This brochure is devoted to familiarizing you with the most outrageous of the statements to which Mrs. Sanger gave credence, as well as to a few of her own. Since books have been written about her, it is not necessary for us to go into her sordid background at length, but simply to give you a taste of the hypocrisy which has led so many people into the web Planned Parenthood weaves, even today. It is a web that distorts, misrepresents and ultimately cheapens the beautiful gift of human sexuality which God gives to each and every person at conception.

   Who Was Margaret Sanger?

   Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an adulteress, racist and bigot, a supporter of Hitler’s Nazi party, and a believer in eugenics – the purification of a particular race of people by selective breeding. Her magazines and journals were filled with writings and articles by well-known eugenicists and members of Hitler’s Third Reich.

   Marriage

   Sanger made every effort to promote philosophies which would assist the state in controlling the size of families. However, with regard to her own family, her first husband William Sanger, her children, and her subsequent divorce, she wrote in her 1931 book, My Fight for Birth Control:

   “‘My first marriage failed, not because of love, romance, lack of wealth, respect or any such qualities which are supposed to be lacking in broken ties, because the interest of each widened beyond that of the other” (p. 296). “From the deep waters into which I had been swept by the current of events it was impossible to return to the shallow pool of domesticity'” (p. 92).[1]

   The wife who is able to stay at home and care for her family because she wants to is characterized by Sanger as someone who is simply drowning in a “shallow pool of domesticity,” an attitude con-sistently promulgated in today’s society by the feminist movement and those who have relegated motherhood to the lowest level of achievement.

   Adultery

   After a failed trial marriage at 18, she married William Sanger in 1902 and soon engaged in extramarital affairs while encouraging her husband to do the same. She pronounced the marriage bed to be “the most degenerating influence in the social order” and advocated a “voluntary association” between sexual partners.[2]

   At the beginning of her “mission” to bring birth control to America, around 1912, she saw birth control as a tool in the class struggle and was clearly on the side of the poor.

   However, her involvement with well-known socialists and eugenicists of the day (Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Will Durant, Clarence Darrow, and Ellen Key) changed her mind completely. Over a period of eight years she began to turn the birth control movement against the very people she had set out to help.

   Jesus Christ

   Mrs. Sanger, who did not have faith in God, and detested all those who did, wrote:

   “I never liked to look at Jesus on the Cross. I could not see any good it did to keep looking at him. We could not help him, as he had been crucified long ago.”[3]

   To know Christ and to appreciate His suffering, death and resurrection for each and every one of us would obviously have been foreign to Mrs. Sanger. To her, after all, many of those created in the image and likeness of God were simply less than human.

   The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger

   Instead of helping the poor, she considered them slum dwellers (particularly Blacks, Hispanics, and Jewish immigrants) who would soon overrun the boundaries of their slums, contaminating the better elements of society with their diseases and inferior genes.

   Throughout the 200+ pages of this book Sanger called for the elimination of “human weeds,” for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of “morons, misfits, and maladjusted,” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.”[4] In this same book she argued that organized attempts to help the poor were the “surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating . . . defectives, delinquents, and dependents.”[5] She called for coercive sterilization, mandatory segregation, and rehabilitative concentration camps for all inferior Blacks, Hispanics, poor Whites, and Catholics.

   Sanger’s brand of prejudice was based on what author John L. Keller labels “Scientific Racism,” the belief that as long as people demonstrated “a good quality gene pool” they were esteemed a valuable part of society. On the other hand, if a group, including Whites, demonstrated undesirable traits, their fertility had to be curbed along with other “inferiors and undesirables.”[6]

   George Grant stated in Grand Illusions: “In her book Women and the New Race she asserted that the ‘most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.'”[7]

   Minorities

   On October 19, 1939, Sanger outlined a plan for stopping the growth of the Black community. She predicted that “the most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. 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 rebellious members.”[8] Her planning, which included being careful to make it appear that hand-picked Blacks are in control, is followed with success even today. Faye Wattleton’s position as President of PPFA was testimony to that fact.

   The Birth Control Review by Margaret Sanger

   The Birth Control Review, founded by Sanger in 1917, was totally committed to the eugenics philosophy. The official editorial policy of The Review endorsed I.Q. testing, which classified Blacks, southern Europeans, and other immigrants as mentally inferior to native-born White Americans and called them a nuisance and a menace to society.[9] In the 1920s she tried to use the results from I.Q. tests, which classified the U.S. soldier as a near moron, to back up her own findings.

   Sanger truly believed these groups were a “dead weight of human waste” and “a menace to the race.”[10]

   Abortion and Birth Control

   It was in the December, 1918, Birth Control Review that Margaret Sanger wrote perhaps the most ingenious comment of all: “. . . I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization. . .”[11]

   How do you sell the practice of contraception to a public that is totally opposed to it? In 1918, when she wrote the above, no religious denomination accepted the practice of contraception. Well, you sell it to the people by insisting that with better contraception there would be less abortion! It sounds very familiar, doesn’t it?

   Today, it is only the Roman Catholic Church that stands for the truth with regard to contraception, and among its members it is said that eighty percent practice contraception anyway. Would Mrs. Sanger be proud of her campaign if she could see the results we live with today – more than 50 strains of VD as well as the deadly AIDS virus?

   And would she agree with current Planned Parenthood president Pamela Maraldo, who writes: “As Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders has so succinctly put it: ‘We’ve taught our children in driver’s education what to do in the front seat, and now we’ve got to teach them what to do in the back seat.'”[12]

   Today American youth are told that the “responsible” thing to do is use contraception, be realistic and formulate your own values as you go, and if your contraception fails, get an abortion.[13] Responsible? Mrs. Sanger would be proud.

   Thus through Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood has molded the sexual ethics of the day: Sex is a natural thing for a teenager to desire and if a teenager feels that he is to be sexually active that is his decision; all society asks is that he not produce children.

   1. Goldstein, David, L.L.D., Suicide Bent: Sangerizing Mankind (Radio Replies Press, 1945) p. 23. 2. Drogin, pp. 15, 22. 3. Goldstein, David, loc. cit., p. 25. 4. Grant, George. Grand Illusions (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1988), p. 55. 5. Drogin, p. 45. 6. Grant, pp. 98-99. 7. Grant, p. 59. 8. Drogin, p. 33. 9. Drogin, p. 20. 10. Drogin, pp. 17, 46. 11. Crawford, Linda, Life Dynamics, research notes, 1/25/93. 12. Maraldo, Pamela J., “Contraceptive Use: Coping With Psychosocial Barriers,” Family Planning World, 3-4/93, p. 5. 13. Reality-Based Sexuality Education, Planned Parent-hood Federation of America, 1993, p. 4 [brochure plus outline].

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9. Sanger, Margaret
   in: Health/Nutrition, People, Programs
   Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 — September 6, 1966) – Women’s Health Advocate, Nurse, Socialist and Social Reformer

   Margaret Sanger
   Margaret Sanger
   Photo: Library of Congress
   Digital ID cph 3a30477
   Introduction: Margaret (nee: Higgins) Sanger risked scandal, danger, and imprisonment to challenge the legal and cultural obstacles that made controlling fertility difficult and illegal. Ms. Sanger viewed birth control as a woman’s issue and she was prepared to take on the medical establishment, the churches, the legislatures, and the courts. She was persuasive, tireless, single-minded, and unafraid of a fight. On October 16,1916 she opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, was arrested, and served thirty days for distributing information about contraceptives. From that experience, Sanger moved on to assume leadership of the struggle for free access to birth control. In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation, and spent her next three decades campaigning to bring safe and effective birth control into the American mainstream.

   Biography: Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, the sixth of 11 children and the third of four daughters. When her mother, Anne Higgins, died from tuberculosis at the age of forty-nine, Margaret believed her mother’s 18 pregnancies were the underlying cause of her premature death. Margaret’s father expected her to assume the household duties carried by her mother. Unwilling to assume that role, Margaret, aided by her older sisters, left home in 1896 and enrolled in Claverack College and Hudson River Institute. She entered the nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1900. In 1902, just months before completing the program, she met and married architect William Sanger. Margaret Sanger and her husband had three children and the family settled in Hastings, a Westchester County suburb of New York City.

   Suburban life, however, did not satisfy the Sanger’s. By 1910 the family moved to New York City. William Sanger wanted to give up his work as a draftsman to try his hand at painting. To help support the family, Margaret Sanger found work as a visiting nurse on the Lower East Side. It was there that Sanger saw her mother’s tragedy greatly expanded in the lives of poor, immigrant women. Lacking effective contraceptives, many of these women, when faced with another unwanted pregnancy, resorted to five-dollar back-alley abortions. It was often after one of these botched abortions that Sanger was called in to care for the woman. After experiencing many women’s trauma and suffering, Sanger began to shift her attention from nursing to the need for better contraceptives.

   The Sangers also became immersed in the prewar radical bohemian culture flourishing in Greenwich Village. They joined a circle of intellectuals, activists, and artists that included Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair, Mabel Dodge and Emma Goldman. Margaret Sanger became a member of the Liberal Club and a supporter of the anarchist-run Ferrer Center and Modern School. She also joined the Women’s Committee of the NY Socialist Party, and took part in labor actions led by the Industrial Workers of the World, including the 1912 strike at Lawrence, MA and the 1913 strike at Paterson, NJ.

   Although married and the mother of three young children, Sanger devoted more and more of her time to her mission. Sanger’s anger turned into militancy, and her family took a backseat to her crusade. In 1914 she coined the term “birth control” and soon began to provide women with information and contraceptives.

   Margaret Sanger and sons Grand and Stuart, circa 1919
   Margaret Sanger and sons Grand and Stuart, circa 1919
   Photo: Public Domain
   In 1914, Sanger’s articles in The Woman Radical brought her a federal indictment for violating federal postal obscenity laws, prompting her to flee to England. As soon as the ship left U.S. waters, she cabled a radical publisher in New Jersey to distribute 100,000 copies of her pamphlet, Family Limitation. Sanger remained exiled in Europe until late 1915; William Sanger had been arrested and jailed for distributing one copy of Family Limitation, and Margaret Sanger returned to face the charges against her. Personal tragedy intervened when the Sangers 5-year-old daughter died suddenly from pneumonia; public sentiments resulted in dismissal of the charges against Margaret Sanger.

   Up to this time, Sanger had been promoting woman-controlled contraceptives, such as suppositories or douches. A 1915 visit to a Dutch birth control clinic convinced her that a new, more flexible diaphragm, carefully fitted by medically trained staff,

   https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/health-nutrition/sanger-margaret/

10. Margaret Sanger’s Little-Known Connection to the Klu Klux Klan
    Sofia Infante|March 24, 2021|2 Comments|Contraception, Eugenics, Resources
    The adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is especially relevant in the case of a photo taken of Margaret Sanger giving a speech to the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1926. The authenticity of the photo is debated, but what is beyond question is that Sanger’s deeply held racist and eugenicist views, though mostly hidden by the mainstream media, are alive and well today. In fact, Sanger was proud of these beliefs and freely wrote about and promoted them. She is the founder of Planned Parenthood, a billion dollar-a-year business and the largest abortion

    https://www.hli.org/resources/margaret-sanger-kkk/

11. Reflections on Roe: When Margaret Sanger Spoke to the KKK
    by PAUL KENGOR

    As liberals excoriate Republican Congressman Steve Scalise for speaking to a group with a reported connection to David Duke, former KKK member, I’m reminded today—on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade—of a moment that liberals will never dare acknowledge: a 1926 speech to the KKK by one of their most revered ideological darlings, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

    Unlike Scalise, Sanger did not unwittingly speak to a group with a link (direct or indirect) to the KKK through a member. No, Margaret knowingly went directly to the Real McCoy—straight to the dragon’s mouth. In May 1926, a hopeful spring day, this progressive icon, this liberal hero, this founding mother of one of liberalism’s most sacred organizations, Planned Parenthood, an organization that liberals demand we fund with tax dollars, went directly to a KKK meeting and spoke at length to the faithful

    https://spectator.org/reflections-on-roe-when-margaret-sanger-spoke-to-the-kkk/

12. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/book-extract-ibms-secret-nazi-shame/O6PKWXYK552O7OG5LHLXXFJGQM/ One of the [The complex-looking machines with a punch card and card-sorting system initially built to assist the collation of vast amounts of information gathered in a census] is displayed in a place of prominence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The IBM badge can be clearly seen.
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/516978 Association for Computing Machinery
    IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation Author: Edwin Black 01 February 2001
    Random House Large Print ISBN:978-0-375-43124-1
    about same author https://www.mic.com/articles/142991/edwin-black-ibm-nazi-holocaust-history
    same author https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-calculator-quot-2 When U.S. law made such direct contact illegal, IBM’s Swiss office became the nexus, providing the New York office continuous information [to keep Nazi census machines repaired and to provide solutions for customized punch cards] and credible deniability.
    different author https://archive.ph/tURjf#selection-2429.759-2429.886 Later in the summer of 1943, the Polish timber merchant’s same five-digit Hollerith number, 44673, was tattooed on his forearm. Auschwitz chief archivist Piotr Setkiewicz finally pinpointed the first such IBM customer site … housed in Barracks 18 …
    resources posted to a Holocaust studies course https://ringling.instructure.com/courses/3311/modules

    • My error — all of the written content originates with Edwin Black — either he is the only writer to document this or no one else has bothered to follow up because his work has been so complete.

    • The wikipedia page for Mrs. Sharev indicates that she has had a habit of comparing current events (COVID vaccines) to Nazi gas, which I consider (as do others references on the page), a trivialization of the Shoah. Therefore, one should put in perspective that she may have a stress-related reaction that is triggered by news of events that remind her of the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Sharav reference to https://twitter.com/JFDA_eV/status/1562374123581542400

      • I haven’t seen all three parts of her documentary, but what I have seen is excellent.

        And as I recall, her theme is that the Holocaust did not start with the parts in black and white with a cello in a minor key. It started with policies and narratives exactly like what we saw in the last three years, and will likely ramp up again very soon. Probably going closer to US elections or with the round of vaxx deaths predicted this fall.

13. While I do not have information about Margaret Sanger, the organization Planned Parenthood is mentioned in The Kissinger Report about controlling global population growth on page 85 and elsewhere.

    Implications of Worldwide Population Growth
    For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests
    (THE KISSINGER REPORT)

    December 10, 1974

    https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf

    pg 85

    II. – Action to Create Conditions for Fertility Decline: Population and a Development
    Assistance Strategy
    A. General Strategy and Resource Allocations for AID Assistance
    Discussion:

    1. Past Program Actions

    Since inception of the program in 1965, AID has obligated nearly $625 million for
    population activities. These funds have been used primarily to (1) draw attention to the
    population problem, (2) encourage multilateral and other donor support for the world wide
    population effort, and (3) help create and maintain the means for attacking the problem,
    including the development of LDC capabilities to do so.

    In pursuing these objectives, AID’s population resources were focused on areas of need
    where actions was feasible and likely to be effective. AID has provided assistance to population programs in some 70 LDCs, on a bilateral basis and/or indirectly through private organizations and other channels. AID currently provides bilateral assistance to 36 of these countries. State and AID played an important role in establishing the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) to spearhead multilateral effort in population as a complement to the bilateral actions of AID and other donor countries. Since the Fund’s establishment, AID has been the largest single contributor. Moreover, with assistance from AID a number of private family planning organizations (e.g., Pathfinder Fund, International Planned Parenthood Foundation, Population Council) have significantly expanded their worldwide population programs. Such organizations are still the main supporters of family planning action in many developing countries.