Margaret Sanger - America's Abortion Monstriarch
Last October for our Halloween edition, Heartbeat Press covered the spine-tingling tale of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his horrific contributions to the abortion industry. His televised trial captured the attention of the nation in December 2013, and had the two-fold effect of exposing his decades-long rap sheet and pulling abortion and all its cruelty into the public view for everyone, Pro-Life and Pro-Death, to consider. Convicted of many charges (including malpractice, retention of untrained staffers, and the murder of hundreds of babies and at least one woman), the trial put Gosnell and many of his associates behind bars, ridding the world of a few monsters. But the reality is that their crimes could never have been perpetrated if abortion wasn't rooted in and condoned by American culture. One of the people responsible for that atrocity is quite a special monster herself.
Born in Corning, New York, in 1879, Margaret Sanger seemingly entered the world with a deep-seated grudge against marriage and the family unit. She vocally expressed her distain for both from an early age and began her young adult life by founding a center (with her sisters) in 1916 (renamed Planned Parenthood in 1942). The main goal of the center was to dispense birth control pills to combat what Sanger considered a needless amount of children being born. Since birth control was illegal at the time, the center was eventually raided and Sanger spent 30 days in jail after refusing to pay a fine. While modern feminists applaud Sanger for this and many other "brave" acts of societal defiance, they often forget or are unaware of Sanger's other "accomplishments."
In 1939, Sanger, who not only protested the traditional family but was also a proud eugenicist, created "The Negro Project" with other prominent xenophobes of the time. This endeavor, which called upon Black doctors to sterilize other African Americans (willingly or unwillingly), aided Sanger's vision of racial purity and displayed her prejudices against 14.1 million members of the American population at the time. She was once quoted as saying, "The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among white, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit." Years later, Sanger would be given an honorary KKK membership as the members of that group highly praised her work.
Throughout the 1940s and '50s, Margaret Sanger traveled the country, tirelessly preaching her doctrine of birth control and limited family, saying, "Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches." When unchanged or rising birth rates hampered her cause, she eagerly endorsed abortion, saying of it, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it," and, "Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally-tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." As she had hoped, her teaching began to take root and were eventually touted by the worst of humanity.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels both greatly admired Sanger's work and applied it to their own goal of racial cleansing during WWII. More notably, Dr. Josef Mengele (the notorious butcher of Romany and Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp) took his inspiration directly from Sanger's ideology, justifying his torment of human being with the defense that they were inferior to his race and therefore "subhuman" without the right to basic care and decency. After the war, Mengele went on to perform abortions, further advancing Sanger's cause, and many policies that Sanger boldly defended (Buck v. Bell) were used as Nazi defense during the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46.
Margaret Sanger died in 1966, but her work was quickly picked up by other "visionary" feminists in the name of women's empowerment. If only they could see the hypocrisy of that goal. While Margaret Sanger may not have committed any abortions herself of actively sold them (though birth control goes hand in hand with and in many cases is abortion), her actions spurred on those who would, and her organization remains the biggest provider of abortions in the country. The blood of millions is on her hands and the minds of millions still bow to her whims.
Photo Credit: The University of Chicago
Sources: Live Action.org (Margaret Sanger) (Josef Mengele), Forgotten History, Wikipedia.org, The Denver Post.com, Encyclopeidaushmm.org
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