Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger
Founder, Planned Parenthood


* “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

* “…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, (referring to immigrants and the poor)

* “More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control.” (Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12)

* Birth control aims: “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

* “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go 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.” -Margaret Sanger, letter to Clarence Gamble, Dec. 10,1939. - Sanger manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

* “Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. … Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never have been born.”—Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, p.279.

* “I visited hospitals in this city, and found them lacking in the simple and most ordinary article of decency. No soap, no cod-liver oil … This has given rise to skin trouble, and the poor little waifs are a sad, miserable lot. It would be a great kindness to let them die outright, I believe.”—Margaret Sanger. “Women in Germany.” Birth Control Review, January 1921,
(vol. V, no. 1); p. 9.

* “Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness …. We
are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates.”—Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Women’s Health.” Birth Control Review,December 1917, (vol. I, no. 12); p. 7.

* “Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed,they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control,the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. …” -Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment.” Birth Control Review,February 1919, (vol. III, no. 2); p. 11.

* “The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order,” –Sanger, (p.23)

* (referring to Catholicism beliefs) “…enforce SUBJUGATION by TURNING WOMAN INTO A MERE INCUBATOR.” The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.

* “I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.” What Every Girl Should Know, by Margaret Sanger (Max Maisel, Publisher, 1915)

The American Baby Code

Margaret Sanger

Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies. To assist couples who wish to prevent overproduction of offspring and thus to reduce the burden of charity and taxation for public relief and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.

Article 2. Birth control clinics shall be permitted to function as services of government health departments or under the support of charity, or as non-profit, self-sustaining agencies subject to inspection and control by public authorities.

Article 3. A marriage license shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood.

Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.

Article 5. Permits for parenthood shall be issued by government authorities to married couples upon application, providing the parents are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and on the woman’s part no indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health.

Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.

Article 7. Every county shall be assisted administratively by the states in the effort to maintain a direct ratio between county birth rate and its index of child welfare. When the county records show an unfavorable variation from this ratio the county shall be taxed by the State…. The revenues thus obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial support to birth control…..

Article 8. Feeble-minded persons, habitual congenital criminals, those afflicted with inheritable diseases, and others found biologically unfit should be sterilized or in cases of doubt should be isolated as to prevent the perpetuation of their afflictions by breeding.

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Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood (formerly American Birth Control League) was outspoken in promoting her idea of a racially better society. The origin of her public prominence was her launching of The Woman Rebel around the time of separation from her first husband. It was a monthly newsletter encouraging a woman to become “the absolute mistress of her own body”. Being found in violation of the Comstock Laws, she was compelled to flee to Europe to escape conviction. While there, she had an affair with the outspoken socialist H.G. Wells*, though he was married at the time. Wells, however, proved to not be her only love interest as she had an affair with yet another outspoken socialist and eugenics supporter Havelock Ellis**, who at the time was married to an open lesbian.

Sanger returned to the States shortly, more determined to promote her racist and population limiting philosophy by publishing numerous publications on the subject, including articles for the Socialist Party newspaper entitled, The Call. Not limited to socialist publications, in her April 1932 writings in A Plan for Peace, she asserted her objectives, a few of which are listed below:

C: To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.

D: A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

F: To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

G: To apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

She quickly gained enough prominence to establish The American Birth Control League with the assistance of Lathrop Stoddard and C.C. Little. She caught the eye of James Noah H. Lee, an oil tycoon and they were married. Shortly thereafter, through his Bureau of Social Hygiene, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., an avid population control and eugenics advocate, allocated funds for the Clinical Research Bureau, the first legal birth control clinic in the U.S. In fact, Rockefeller himself was neck-deep in promoting eugenics. As such, he funded none other than Ernst Rudin in his search for the eugenically correct population– yes, the same Nazi appointed by Adolf Hitler to direct the Racial Hygiene Society – a society devoted to the sterilization or death of those who were racially impure. During Hitler’s reign, we saw the implementation of such ideas. In the years prior to World War II Margaret Sanger commissioned Rudin to serve as an adviser to her own organization.

The ABCL eventually altered their name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. in 1942. Assisting the organization through the transition was Prescott Bush, who had developed deep business connections with Rockefeller in the oil industry. Bush served as the Treasurer for Planned Parenthood during their name transition in 1942, and remained with the organization through 1948. Sanger later served as their president from 1952-1959. In promoting her cause internationally, she also helped establish the first World Population Conference (in Geneva).

Planned Parenthood has and continues to serve as a major catalyst in population control and as an effective vehicle for changing the mindset of society from traditional Christian values, which embrace reverence for life, to promoting atheism, selfishness, and racial control, which many adopt under it’s careful disguise of sexual liberation.

In order to cloak the true purpose and history of this organization, Planned Parenthood continues to proliferate propaganda that is blatantly false when having to face truths proclaimed against them. For instance, although Sanger was a founding member of the Eugenics Society of America, Planned Parenthood states:

“Eugenics is the science of improving hereditary qualities by socially controlling human reproduction. Unable to foment popular opposition to Margaret Sanger’s accomplishments and the organization she founded, Sanger’s critics attempt to discredit them by intentionally confusing her views on “fitness” with eugenics, racism, and anti-Semitism. Margaret Sanger was not a racist, an anti-Semite, or a eugenicist.” - Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Inc. (still online as of March 16, 2007)

Apparently, Planned Parenthood attempts to claim that though she was a founder of the Eugenics Society of America, she was not a eugenicist. In fact, they outright claim she did not promote it, even against a mountain of evidence. Planned Parenthood will predictably continue their deceptive propaganda, which is easily derailed with facts rather than propaganda. The thoughts and ideals of this organization’s founders expose the true agenda for Planned Parenthood.
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*H.G. Wells (socialist, member-Fabian Society, eugenics activist, assisted in the formation of the League of Nations)

“I believe .. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.” - H.G. Wells

**Havelock Ellis (socialist, member-The Fellowship of the New Life which directly splintered into the Fabian Society, pioneered autoerotism and narcissism, both later adopted by Sigmund Freud, wrote The Task of Social Hygiene)

“Eventually, it seems evident, a general system, whether private or public, whereby all personal facts, biological and mental, normal and morbid, or duly and systematically registered, must become inevitable if we are to have a real guide as to those persons who are most fit, or most unfit to carry on the race…” -Havelock Ellis

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Modern Planned Parenthood Quotes

“We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity.”-Faye Wattleton, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1986

“If your parents are stupid enough to deny you access to birth control, and you are under 18, you can get it on your own. Call Planned Parenthood.”-Planned Parenthood advertisement, Dallas Observer, Jan. 30, 1986

“There are only 2 basic kinds of sex: sex with victims and sex without. Sex with victims is always wrong. Sex without is ALWAYS right.”-You’ve Changed The Combination, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.

“The question of whether or not to sell ourselves to men is a false one: The real question is how to sell ourselves in the way that is least destructive to ourselves and our sisters. Prostitutes don’t need our condescension. What they need is our alliance. And we need theirs.”-The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women’s Health Collective, p 113

“Sex is too important to glop up with sentiment. If you feel sexy, for heaven’s sake admit it to yourself. If the feeling and the tension bother you, you can masturbate. Masturbation cannot hurt you and it will make you feel more relaxed.”
-The Perils of Puberty, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.

“At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth control without the consent or knowledge of your parents. So, if you are 14, 15 or 16 and you come to Planned Parenthood, we won’t tell your parents you’ve been there. We swear we won’t tell your parents.”-Planned Parenthood employee lecturing students of Ramona High School, Riverside, Calif., April 21-22, 1986

Of 6,000 clinic visit records examined from a Texas PP clinic, only 3 referred for adoption. (Aborting -Planned Parenthood, by Robert H. Ruff, New Vision Press, 1988

Planned Parenthood advocated compulsory sterilization of all who have two children.
-Family Planning Perspectives (a PP publication), June, Oct. 1970

“… to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage we will prevent fear and guilt. We must also relieve those who have these … feelings, and we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraceptive measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy.” -Dr. Lena Levine in 1953, concerning Planned Parenthood’s purpose and planned course of action, Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, Psycho-Sexual Development, quoted in Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, pg. 10

Dr. Warren Hern on pregnancy: “an episodic, moderately extended chronic condition … May be defined as an illness … Treated by evacuation of the uterine contents…”

-”Is Pregnancy Really Normal?” Family Planning Perspective, Planned Parenthood, vol. 3, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pg. 9

Breast Cancer Foe Gives Big $$ to Top Abortion Provider

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By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
February 22, 2005

(CNSNews.com)- A foundation that uses events such as the "Race for the Cure" to raise money to fight breast cancer is jeopardizing women's health by using some of those funds to support local chapters of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, according to a former advisor to the foundation.

Planned Parenthood clinics provide breast cancer screening and education, but the organization is also the nation's top abortion provider.

"You can't affirm life with one hand and support an organization that kills people with the other," said Eve Sanchez Silver, a medical research analyst and two-time breast cancer survivor who severed her ties with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation after learning that its chapters supplied $475,000 in grants to local Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2003. Silver and many others in the medical and scientific community believe that abortion makes a woman more vulnerable to developing breast cancer.

According to its website, the Komen Foundation works "through a network of U.S. and international affiliates and events like the Komen Race for the Cure ... to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by funding research grants and supporting education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world."

The foundation's most recent annual report indicates that, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2003, Komen and its more than 100 affiliates received over $154 million through private donations, corporate contributions and a number of fund-raising events.

The most successful money-maker for the organization in that 12-month period was the Race for the Cure, the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world. The events drew more than one million participants who raised nearly $88 million from donors. The 2004 race in Washington, D.C., held in June, drew more than 52,000 runners/walkers. The Komen Foundation expects 1.4 million participants in its series of more than 100 races in 2005.

While holding administrative and fund-raising expenses to about 25 percent of its budget, the foundation spent about 75 percent of its funds in the 2003 fiscal year on mission-related activities, including grants and programs related to breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment.

That year, Komen affiliates awarded $38.4 million to support community outreach programs, including 21 grants to local Planned Parenthood chapters totaling more than $475,000.

Silver told the Cybercast News Service that she doesn't believe the foundation should be involved with Planned Parenthood, since that organization "is in the business of abortions.

"If they stopped doing abortions tomorrow, they'd go broke the next day," Silver said. "As far as I'm concerned, anything they do in the way of drawing women in for any kind of service would simply be to acclimate them to their organization until they're ready to have an abortion."

The fact that Komen is awarding grants to the nation's top abortion provider "proves to me that the foundation's perspective is not for the safety of women. It can't be," she said.

"Everywhere, women who are working to combat breast cancer are begging for money, but they give funds to Planned Parenthood instead," Silver added. "And that organization is using it to make beautiful centers so they can lure women in to kill their babies."

Silver sees a parallel between today's abortion industry and the situation during World War II. "Gas chambers were set up right in the middle of neighborhoods the same way Planned Parenthood centers are," she said. "One day, we're going to look back, and people are going to be ashamed that we allowed this to happen in this country."

'This can't be true'

Silver spent almost four years as a charter member of the foundation's National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council. In that capacity, she helped the Komen organization set national and international policy, particularly regarding Hispanic populations.

That all changed after Silver received an e-mail about Joan Archer, a breast cancer patient who returned a wig to an Iowa chapter of the foundation last May. Archer cited Komen's financial support of Planned Parenthood as one of the reasons for giving back the wig.

"The people who sent that to me said, 'This can't be true because Eve (Silver) is a part of this organization, and there's no way she'd be a part of this,'" Silver said. "I checked it out to see if it was so, and it was."

The following weekend, Silver attended a meeting with Komen's leaders at the foundation headquarters in Dallas. "They were getting ready to revamp their program, and I wanted to know if they would consider not funding Planned Parenthood.

"I said: 'As a Latina adviser, I have to tell you that this is a serious break in the fabric of the reality of the organization. It's not in line with what I believe Komen to be. I don't understand why this is happening.' "

According to Silver, the foundation officers responded that they were helping Planned Parenthood in an effort to support any organization providing breast care services.

However, as the Cybercast News Service previously reported, an examination of Planned Parenthood's recent annual reports shows that while the organization's overall revenue has increased five years in a row and the number of abortion procedures performed at Planned Parenthood clinics has soared during the same period, the number of breast exams conducted at Planned Parenthood facilities in 2003 (the most recent year available) fell by 13.3 percent.

Silver's second objection to Planned Parenthood is that the organization was founded by Margaret Sanger, a leader in the science of selective breeding or eugenics. "[Sanger's] plan was to eliminate people of color," Silver said. "As a woman of color, I have no interest in supporting an organization that is designed to kill the very people I'm supposed to be representing."

When Komen officials refused to back down on their financial support of Planned Parenthood, Silver resigned from the foundation.

Abortion-breast cancer link

Silver also told the Cybercast News Service that as one of the nation's most powerful advocates for finding a breast cancer cure, the Komen Foundation is ironically contributing to the incidence of breast cancer with its support of Planned Parenthood.

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, agrees with Silver, even referring to the number of breast cancer cases since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court made abortion legal in its Roe v. Wade decision, as "a tsunami."

Malec pointed to a 2001 report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which indicates that among women in the generation following Roe v. Wade, there was a 40 percent increase in cases of breast cancer. "In 1970, the average American woman's lifetime risk for the disease was 1 in 12," she noted. "Today, 1 in 7.5 women develop breast cancer.

"Only a third-trimester process matures breast cells into cancer-resistant tissue and protects a pregnant woman from the overexposure to estrogen -- a recognized carcinogen -- experienced early in a normal pregnancy," Malec said. "On the other hand, a woman who has an abortion is left with more cancer-vulnerable cells," she added.

"The link between abortion and breast cancer is further supported by research showing that a woman who has a premature birth before 32 weeks of pregnancy more than doubles her risk for breast cancer," Malec said. "A premature birth is biologically the same event as an abortion," she added. "Only the mother's intentions differ."

Five medical groups and a bioethics center recognize that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, Malec said. A seventh medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has called on doctors to warn women of a "highly plausible relationship" between abortion and the disease.

While the Komen Foundation acknowledges that several studies "have suggested that abortion may moderately increase the risk of breast cancer," it questions the accuracy of those studies, arguing that the reporting of past behavior on a sensitive topic like abortion "can have a significant impact on the precision of the information gathered."

Instead, the Komen Foundation's website cites a number of studies that contradict the assertions of an existing link, and the group states flatly that "the evidence clearly shows that abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer."

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) takes a slightly different approach to the topic on its website, conceding that there is a "possible link between induced abortion and breast cancer," but in the same sentence slamming the "theory whose principal promoters oppose abortion regardless of its safety.

"The theory awaits conclusive confirmation by medical researchers," the PPFA website states. "While Planned Parenthood believes that women should have access to information about all factors that influence the risk of disease, PPFA also believes that women deserve information that is medically substantiated and untainted by a political agenda."

Silver has a different view of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

"Physiologically, this is a fact. For people to say this is not a fact is outrageous and ridiculous," she said. "In Great Britain, they use abortion incidence as an indicator of breast cancer risk."

'Two for the price of one'

Rebecca Gibson, a spokesperson for the Komen Foundation, told the Cybercast News Service that the foundation and its affiliates "do not provide any funding for abortions or for any activities outside the scope of our mission.

"We know that early detection is the key to surviving breast cancer; thus, we support breast cancer screening programs," Gibson said. "In many urban and rural areas, Planned Parenthood may be the only source of free or low-cost women's health screening services (e.g., pap smears, mammograms, clinical breast exams, etc.)."

In addition, "some Komen affiliates provide restricted grants to local Planned Parenthood clinics to provide vital breast health services for underserved women in their communities," she stated. "In order to monitor their progress, grantees are required to provide detailed reports to the funding affiliate at least twice per year."

Nevertheless, Silver said this arrangement makes abortion more accessible because "the money is fungible.

"If you relieve pressure on one side, that means they can use more money on the other side for abortions," Silver said. "It's not separate, and people need to know that. You cannot kill people in one room and do breast services in another and somehow think that's a balance."

Silver added that Planned Parenthood's current strategy enables that organization to "get two for the price of one" since "they kill the baby, and then they let the mother go because eventually she will develop breast cancer, and then they'll get her, too."

Contributors and corporations should "stop funding the Komen Foundation" and other organizations that provide money to Planned Parenthood, Silver said. But until that takes place, she is hopeful that a legal trend which began in Australia will spread to the U.S.

"Medical malpractice, insurance companies and all of society are going to pay a price because women who are denied their right to abortion-breast cancer information are beginning to sue, and they're beginning to win," she said.

Silver referred to a recent lawsuit against a clinic in Portland, Ore., that performed an abortion on a 15-year-old girl without informing her of the procedure's psychological and breast cancer risks. This was the second abortion-cancer case to be prosecuted in the U.S. and the first in which a judgment, the terms of which were not publicly disclosed, was returned against an abortion provider.

"If they're not going to listen to us one way, they may have to listen to us through litigation," she said. "The next voice you hear may be the sound of another woman saying, 'I didn't get my information, and I want to sue.'

"I think women everywhere should check out the rules of their state and see what's going on because they may well have been injured and may not know" the options available to them, Silver added.

'I'm a survivor'

In addition to running Cinta Latina Research, the firm she founded in 1999 to provide cancer control education and research consultation, Silver is "speaking out on the abortion-breast cancer link all over the country" and has found receptive audiences in unexpected places.

"I spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about abortion and breast cancer the night before the Boston Red Sox won the World Series" last October, she said. "Most of the people who attended were men who would rather come to hear what I had to say than stay home and watch the game. That was rather inspiring to me."

Silver acknowledges that surviving cancer herself has made her "race" against abortion and Planned Parenthood a personal matter. "I don't want any woman to go through the horror of breast cancer the way I did," she said. "I'm a survivor, and I have a responsibility to make sure that information gets out."

Planned Parenthood did not respond to numerous calls seeking comment on this article.