NBC's Today show recently brought tears
to my eyes. In disbelief, I watched our nation's mainstream media honor Margaret
Sanger, the woman who single-handedly gave birth to Planned Parenthood and the
abortion movement. The movement that is responsible for literally millions of
terminated souls, including more than 1,200 abortions of African-American
children each day!
As Katie Couric heralded this bigoted, racist woman as a heroine for the
millennium, my jaw hit the floor. Sanger was described as vivacious, warm,
healing and powerfully driven. Ellen Chesler, a Sanger biographer, said Sanger
wanted simply to liberate "women to experience their sexuality free of
consequence."
While noting Sanger wrote for a socialist weekly and published her own
newsletter called The Women Rebel, No Gods, No Masters, NBC failed to mention
that she proposed in some writings that Negroes like my parents and grandparents
be given the choice of segregation or sterilization. NBC told of Sanger's
battles with the Catholic Church, her arrests and self-imposed exile to escape
further imprisonment. It was further revealed that she abandoned her husband and
three small children "for the cause."
Sanger's grandson said she was so devoted to her "cause" that she was seldom
home to care for her own children. One daughter died of pneumonia at the age of
four. The report claimed Sanger never recovered from the loss even though they
already said "her children were neglected" and "her marriage fell apart" and
"she remarried and went on." Is this the behavior of an American hero?
NBC said some of Sanger's supporters objected to her more controversial
beliefs regarding population control. But that's all they said. After it was
over, I saw blood red through a veil of tears and uncontrollable emotion.
"The Negro Project," which Sanger established to ensure that the
African-American population did not outgrow the white population, was never
mentioned. To add insult to injury, the segment implied that Sanger should have
been honored by this country but never was.
NBC mentioned Sanger's founding of Planned Parenthood and her legacy in the
Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion as well as her role in the
development of the birth control pill. But they failed to mention her writings
concerning the creation of, in her words, "government-run farms and homesteads"
for "illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends,
morons, mental defectives and epileptics." Witness the misery and anguish massed
in the communities we now call ghettos and government housing - where a Planned
Parenthood office is readily accessible to encourage abortion and sexual
freedom. Compare those communities to non-minority suburbs and tell me that
Sanger's undermining of the minority family structure has not been achieved. Why
was this not covered?
According to NBC, Sanger "improved the lives of billions of people." I
suspect they weren't referring to all the dead and neglected babies. But, then
again, babies were dispensable to Sanger - even her own.
Nancy Stevenson, Sanger's great-granddaughter, claimed Sanger made it so that
"women today can have it all." I wonder if she is referring to the cold
callousness by which women and young girls choose to terminate life in their
wombs? Or perhaps that have it all by tossing away their virtue, dignity and
innocence on the altar of sexual freedom? Maybe it is because they can now leave
their kids with strangers to challenge men to a duel on the battlefield of
money, sex and power?
Whatever Stevenson means, there is no question Sanger's efforts changed our
society. She succeeded in keeping the population of the Negro down. And she
succeeded in influencing both white and black leaders and their followers to
adopt philosophies that directly oppose their own religious beliefs.
Sanger also succeeded in corralling the human misery she wanted to isolate.
She succeeded in persuading the government to assist her Planned Parenthood
clinics in the murder of millions by legalizing and sanctioning a woman's
"choice" to determine the fate of her unborn baby. Sanger achieved success by
convincing society that being both a career woman and mother was a noble cause,
despite her inability to do so. She successfully divided our nation over the
issues of birth control, abortion, religion and family.
America's mainstream media has crowned Margaret Sanger a hero to women. I am
asking you to make your own stand. Will you ignore the facts and pretend you
don't know the truth? Or will you act?
Will you use your own influence and stature and power to combat the evil that
has been held up and honored by others. As we observe the 27th anniversary of
legal abortion this January 22, will you stand with me and others as we speak
out fervently and frequently regarding the humiliation and shame brought upon
this country by Margaret Sanger? Will you stand up for what you believe or deny
having the knowledge? END
Mike Green is an associate of Project 21 and the president of the Committee
to Restore America Foundation in San Diego, California.
Quote from atheist
Margaret Sanger:
"No Gods - No
Masters" — Margaret Sanger
