Word: birthed
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...that traced the women of an American family over several generations. In one scene, the young female granddaughter attends a rousing speech by Margaret Sanger, whom we all know as the founder of Planned Parenthood. The portrayal of Sanger was as a heroic crusader for women's rights to birth control and reproductive freedom...
...example, Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America (which in 1942 changed its name to Planned Parenthood) designed a "Negro Project." The idea was to get Negroes to use birth control. The project proposal said, "The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly." The project decided to hire "coloured ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities" to travel and promote birth...
...Sanger's explicitly stated aims for the American Birth Control League (another predecessor of Planned Parenthood) was "racial progress." She used her magazine Birth Control Review to promote White Supremacy and Nazistyle eugenics. She once wrote of her goal of creating a "race of thoroughbreds" by encouraging "more children from the fit, and less from the unfit." In 1932, the magazine outlined Sanger's "Plan for Peace," which called for coerced sterilization, mandatory segregation and rehabilitative concentration camps for all "dysgenic stocks." In 1933, the magazine even published an article by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization...
...clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says most schools are failing boys by forcing them into an "educational straitjacket." Elementary schools lack male teachers, "sending a message to boys that learning is primarily for girls." Young boys, he claims, learn at different tempos, and perhaps the cutoff birth month for starting school should be later for boys than for girls. Once there, boys should be allowed to move around more, taking short recesses when they are restless. They should be able to use computers rather than be forced to write by hand before their small-motor skills...
...mother's violent, lacerating imagery appears in a poem called "Hysterectomy": "My disease will be stripped out/ Like the rotten lining of a leather coat." Plath's angry confessional tone is echoed in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/ A copy of the face/ You gave birth to." In "Readers," Hughes rails at those who have made a cult out of her mother: "They turned her over like meat on coals/ To find the secrets of her withered thighs/ And shrunken breasts...