Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night, my wife and I saw part of A will of Their Own, a miniseries 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...
...What! The founder of Planned Parenthood, the darling of the left-wing, was racist...
...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...
...this as a mother who has come to parenthood through adoption. True, my daughter Becky and I don't "look alike" (an issue on people's minds last week, as if physical resemblance somehow legitimizes or alters the parent-child bond). But I assure you, Becky's claim on me is exclusive and has been in evidence since the age of 14 months, when she raced across a room yelling, "My mommy!" then tried to shove a child off my lap. I've met hundreds of adopted children; not one has needed a court or a mirror to figure...