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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39368)	9/23/2000 11:49:47 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes, it's very important for everyone to know the WHOLE story of Margaret Sanger.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39368)	9/23/2000 12:41:50 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This is what DMA was thinking of (from the Encyclopedia Britannica site, a review of a documentary): "The American woman, in my estimation, is sound asleep," Sanger wrote in a fury. "Suffrage was won too easily and too early in this country." Unable to sway the women's movement to her cause, Sanger turned to the most powerful advocacy group of her time the eugenicists. The documentary deals with this shift in strategy objectively, neither justifying nor condemning it. "Sanger was always looking for a vehicle to propel her cause forward," Alfred says. "Sanger had what we call the `PR know-how' to get her cause linked with bigger issues that would keep it in the public view." Eugenic theory posited that the human race would be improved "by encouraging high reproductive rates in classes deemed socially desirable .... and by discouraging reproduction amongst the undesirables." Racists exploited these quasi-scientific theories for several decades, culminating in the eugenic rationale of the German fascist movement in the early 1930s. But even as early as the 1920s, the United States had passed forced sterilization laws in twenty states, eugenics was taught in universities, and many leading reformers and thinkers were advocates of eugenics. Margaret Sanger promoted access to birth control for all women, regardless of class, arguing that women should be able to restrict their family size voluntarily. Eager to make use of the popularity of eugenics, she wrote The Pivot of Civilization in 1922, in which she espoused decreasing the birth rate of "mentally and physically defective" people. Linking birth control to eugenics shifted Sanger's movement from what David Kennedy, author of Birth Control in America, calls a "radical program of social disruption" to a "conservative program of social control." britannica.com

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39368)	9/23/2000 11:25:38 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Did you go to New Market? Thats one of my favorites. Its a battlefield site on a farm with orchards. The farm house and orchards are still there. The property is owned by VMI and they have kept it unchanged since the war, except for repairs to the house. The only addition is a museum called the Hall of Valor. The Battle of New Market was fought between VMI cadets and Union army regulars who were led by a tough Prussian commander. You can walk through orchards where the cadets made their stand, then up a little knoll that they charged where the Union artillery units were. The lads from VMI sent them howling into the wilderness! I'll bet the Union and Prussian officers never lived that down. it's just as important for them to know of Margaret Sanger. Yes, I agree. They should be told of the Eugenics Society that Sanger belonged to. And they should be shown copies of their books, which preached euthanasia of dark-skinned people and "simple" people. Its apparent to anyone who has seen those books from the 20s and 30s that the National Socialists cribbed directly from them.