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To: Greg or e who wrote (66107)	2/19/2015 10:56:47 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"LOL Those Bigots at the New York Times?" There are plenty of bigots everywhere. I have seen hundreds of "quotes" that don't match Margaret's papers nor her published books. You can call that bigotry. And you can call that Scheming. "Exactly who were these Human Weeds that Priestess Sanger condemned to death???" What an asinine ejaculation. Yikes! Firstly, she was not a Priestess--she was a nurse. Nurses deal in saving lives, whenever they can. But they see more suffering and misery in their fight to save lives than you will ever see--even in your imagination. Secondly, let me help you with the metaphor--which is a really good one. A weed is UNWANTED. Before birth control, a majority of the children were UNWANTED...because the husband kept refusing to sleep on the roof. Weeds also tend to crowd out the garden and create a struggle for survival, just as 20 children will produce disease, starvation, crime, suffering, and death. Margaret Sanger toiled her entire life to make birth control legal--and then respectable and available. Birth control (just so you don't continue to misunderstand the metaphor) is not about KILLING weeds--it is about PREVENTING weeds. Obviously, mothers will love their unwanted children as much as they are able--but that is not the point. Love will not buy them an education or feed their bellies or cure their syphilis. Because of Birth Control you have undoubtedly kept unwanted weeds out of your garden--have you not?? Or did you actually want the burden of 20 kids?? There are not many people left in this world who do not welcome the legality and availability of birth control. So you know who to thank for your ability to choose only wanted additions to your family--right?? The other way to control unwanted children is the policy adopted by the Alberta Government--sterilization of people with mental disorders or severe genetic handicaps such as Downs. This no doubt prevented a lot of children who would have had no real parenting, as it were--but nowadays the good intentions of those ideas do not justify their implementation. Margaret's main thrust was birth control. She also considered the benefits of voluntary sterilization...with Government assistance given to such people who voluntarily agreed to help improve the human race. Today, such ideas are out of fashion because birth control has changed the social make-up so that even poor families (at least in the west) can more or less successfully plant a garden. Before birth control it really appeared like the human race was going to destroy itself. Educated people were really afraid of the death and misery they saw in uncontrolled families. With universal birth control, we have, as a race, gotten things somewhat under control. We can bring health and education and vaccinations to a family of 3 which we could not do in thousands of families of a dozen or so each. "When we first started out an anti-Negro white man offered me $10,000 if I started in Harlem first. His idea was simply to cut down the number of Negroes. ‘Spread it as far as you can among them,’ he said. That is, of course, not our idea. I turned him down. But that is an example of how vicious some people can be about this thing." Margaret Sanger “What can the Negro group do in connection with planned parenthood?” I asked. “In the first place, the Negro leaders should understand it. It is a basic principle for a sound healthy race. Leaders should have the courage in their respective communities to stand for the idea. Planned parenthood is not aimed at any one people. It is for all, and the objective is to do away with the waste of life. Margaret Sanger