Susan G. Komen's Good Girl Image and Hardball Abortion Politics

Scott of Minnesota,

A question: what do you mean? Kindly tell me if you don't mind. Thank you.

Jamie

Jamie Stiehm of DC 9:00PM February 12, 2012

HOW ABOUT A FEW QUOTES FROM MARGARET SANGER - THE FOUNDER OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD?

"There is but one practical and feasible program in handling the great problem of the feeble-minded. That is, as the best authorities are agreed, to prevent the birth of those who would transmit imbecility to their descendants."

She wrote a pamphlet, "Birth Control and the Negro" . In it she writes, "Negroes present the great problem of the South and still breed carelessly and disastrously." Also, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."

Regarding birth control she wrote;

The purpose in promoting birth control, "Is to create a race of thoroughbreds..." she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics." Ah.... Hitler's "final solution".

"The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped."

"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..."

"All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral."

Ms Sanger speaks at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

I wonder if Jesse Jackson knew of Sanger's views before he endorsed Planned Parenthood.

Jackson wasn't always pro abortion.

In 1977, Jackson penned an essay for the National Right to Life News. Human beings cannot give or create life by themselves, it is really a gift from God," Jackson wrote. "Therefore, one does not have the right to take away (through abortion) that which he does not have the ability to give."

I think ol' Jesse saw the light of "more money and power" on the other side of the issue a few years later.

Isn't the heritage of irresponsible hedonism "special"?

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:36PM February 07, 2012