For school today I was supposed to read a little article about Margaret Sanger and write a blog summary of what I learned.
Margaret Sanger was the woman who founded planned parenthood. People will say that planned parenthood is a good thing to have in today's world with so many difficult situations that aren't fit for a newborn child, and others say that all life is precious and that planned parenthood is a terrible thing. Whatever side of that coin you are on, it would seem that Margaret Sanger was on neither. The main point that the article was getting across was that Margaret Sanger more or less started planned parenthood to get ride of children who were going to be born with defects, she is quoted in a biography saying, "By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 7)."
The whole article was filled with very interesting points and a fair amount of Margaret Sanger's quotes. I would urge you to read it to at the very least get a different perspective on the ideals that the planned parenthood industry was founded on.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/grossu-margaret-sanger-eugenicist/
Margaret Sanger was the woman who founded planned parenthood. People will say that planned parenthood is a good thing to have in today's world with so many difficult situations that aren't fit for a newborn child, and others say that all life is precious and that planned parenthood is a terrible thing. Whatever side of that coin you are on, it would seem that Margaret Sanger was on neither. The main point that the article was getting across was that Margaret Sanger more or less started planned parenthood to get ride of children who were going to be born with defects, she is quoted in a biography saying, "By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 7)."
The whole article was filled with very interesting points and a fair amount of Margaret Sanger's quotes. I would urge you to read it to at the very least get a different perspective on the ideals that the planned parenthood industry was founded on.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/grossu-margaret-sanger-eugenicist/
scary isn't it.
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