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Oct 22, 2009 - 3:04:39 PM |
A recent Bangor Daily News story mentioned Margaret Sanger, but didn't mention her eugenic and racist writings.
She edited the Birth Control Review (1917-1938), whose December, 1921 masthead read: "Birth control to create a race of thoroughbreds." In the April 1933 issue she wrote: "Slavs, Latin and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds… a dead weight of human waste … eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … we must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
As president of the American Birth Control League, she chose Dr. Lothrop Stoddard as a director. His 1940 book, "Into the Darkness, Nazi Germany Today," expresses admiration for Germany's method of cleaning up their race problem by sterilizing those who were unfit to produce children.
Her December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble reads "We do not want word to get 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 more rebellious members."
Sanger founded Planned Parenthood in 1939 and established the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, which financed the development of the "pill." The World Health Organization lists it on its highest classification of carcinogenicity, causing breast, liver and cervical cancers.
Norplant was finally removed from the market because of numerous lawsuits. It caused thrombosis (formation of blood clots), liver dysfunction and partial or complete blindness.
Depo Provera now carries a warning label for physicians because it causes irreversible bone density loss, multiple bone fractures and knee replacements in girls after only eight shots. Hormonal contraceptives have proven to be dangerous to lives and health of women.
Ron Stauble is a pro-life supporter of the League who resides in Unity, Maine.
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