Storify by Joshua Treviño

The hideous, murderous roots of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger: racist, bigot, eugenist, fan of Nazi forced sterilizations -- and Planned-Parenthood hero today. Some quotes and links.

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"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 18:17:05
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"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 18:21:09
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"Hands off Mexico! Let peons achieve emancipation from chattel slavery! On with the Social Revolution!" -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 18:34:45
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"[Charity has] a destructive purpose ... keeping alive the most unfit & encouraging them ... to multiply." - @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 18:40:44
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"[R]ights of the individual could be equally well safeguarded here." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger, 1938, on Nazi forced sterilizations.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 18:47:45
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"French soldiers .... proved at the Battle of the Marne and Verdun the efficacy of birth control." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Wed, Jun 13 2012 19:06:18
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"Eugenics is .... the solution of racial, political and social problems." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:10:42
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"[T]he most urgent problem today is .... over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:13:26
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"Some method must be devised to eliminate the degenerate and the defective." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:15:21
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"Given Birth Control, the unfit will voluntarily eliminate their kind." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:16:36
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"Before eugenists laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must clear the way for Birth Control." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:28:43
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"I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:29:49
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"Birth Control, on the other hand, not only opens the way to the eugenist, but it preserves his work." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:31:02
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"The present generation of Frenchmen .... is the product largely of Birth Control methods." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:32:27
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"[A]dvocates of Birth Control .... are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:33:34
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"[The gov't should give] a pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:39:07
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"[T]he multiplication of the unfit is a world problem." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:42:30
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"In animal industry the poor stock is not allowed to breed." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:45:41
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"[A] nationwide program of birth control [must] be adopted or our nat'l level of intelligence will sink." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:47:45
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In this 1938 piece, @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger praises Nazi sterilization methods -- and Nazi protection of rights! http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=220126.xml
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:49:56
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"We need one generation of birth control to weed out the misfits, to breed .... responsible individuals." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:54:32
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Going through @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger's writings, one is struck by her application of animal-husbandry terminology to humans.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 05:55:39
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"A marriage license shall [not] give .... the right to parenthood." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger, proposed legislation, 1934.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 06:00:03
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"No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger, proposed legislation, 1934.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 06:00:49
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"No man shall have the right to become a father, w/o permit for parenthood." -- @PPAct founder Margaret Sanger, proposed legislation, 1934.
Thu, Jun 14 2012 06:01:51
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