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I’d assume that most readers of this site will be familiar with the term, and the fundamental philosophy behind the concept of eugenics. For those not familiar, allow me to summarize:
- Eugenics entails the promotion of desirable characteristics within humanity, primarily by method of selective breeding.
- Eugenics also entails the culling of undesirable traits within humanity by various means; sterilization and extermination not least among them.
Let’s be clear; if you’re reading this, the likelihood that you are in the “desirable” category is exceedingly low.
The fact is that this view has been around for a long time and, this twisted philosophy is the bedrock on which such atrocities as the holocaust were built. This was made possible because, in truth, this idea transitioned from the realm of pure philosophy and theory decades ago and began its entry into policy.
Let me show you something…
Margaret Sanger
If one were to simply visit the Wikipedia entry for Margaret Sanger, one might walk away with the impression that this is simply a case of a progressive mind, fighting for women’s liberty, who’s been given a “bad rap”… yet this is not the case.
In April of 2017 a PhD by the name of Brian Clowes, published an exposé of the Birth Control Review; a series of publications by Sanger. In it, you’ll find clear-cut connections to eugenics, antisemitism, racist ideologies and connections to – wait for it – the National Socialist party in Germany. You’ll know them as the Nazi party.
It’s not my desire to provide you with an exhaustive history of this woman – that’s something one can easily do for themselves if they are so inclined, and honestly there is no shortage of easily accessible materials and information through which to do so.
Rather than attempt to sway your view, I’ll let Margaret speak for herself…
But for my view, I believe that there should be no more babies.
Interview with John Parsons, 1947
The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Woman and the New Race, Chapter 5, “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families.” (1920)
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.
Letter from Margaret Sanger to Dr. C.J. Gamble, December 10th, 1939
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan… I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.
Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, published in 1938, p. 366
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically… Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin—that people can—can commit.
Interview with Mike Wallace, 1957
The most serious evil of our times is that of encouraging the bringing into the world of large families. The most immoral practice of the day is breeding too many children…
Woman and the New Race (1920)
Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded [sic] upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.
Birth Control and Racial Betterment. The Birth Control Review (1919)
The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
he Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda, Birth Control Review (1921), p. 5
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children? Birth Control Review, Nov. 1918
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
“My Way to Peace,” Jan. 17, 1932. Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress 130:198
I could go on and on, but honestly – do I need to? It’s like shooting fish in a barrel – this woman was so up-front in her disdain for humanity that it’s little wonder Planned Parenthood removed her name in an attempt to dissociate from her legacy.
It’s too-little, too-late however, as the ideologies this woman espoused went forward and have, to date, effectively permeated Western society through and through. Of course, this has been done apart from any direct association with eugenics, it’s no coincidence in my mind that the plight of abortion takes disproportionate prevalence among minority peoples.
In other words – they changed the name and the tag-line, but the product is the same; death.
In the end, this woman and her views have had an unfortunate impact upon modern society – such that there are people who literally see the industry that Sanger birthed as being virtuous. Far be it from me to ever understand how the wholesale slaughter of the innocent could be seen as a form of righteousness.
Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.
Isaiah 5:20
I told you this takes a toll…
Until next time,
שלום עליכם – Shalom Aleichem – Peace Be Upon You