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‘The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.’

The Susan B. Anthony List has taken Planned Parenthood’s Lobby Day today as an opportunity to highlight the founding mother of Planned Parenthood — that is, Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood’s eugenic roots. SBA List has taken out this ad in D.C.-area papers. 

Our Jonah, of course, wrote an excellent primer on just this issue in his Liberal Fascism

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Cheryl
   04/07/11 10:10

Is there supposed to be a link for the ad?

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   04/07/11 10:31

The woman who made this hideous statement is much-admired, and her work much-appreciated, by Hillary Clinton, a person millions of Americans believe should be President of the United States.

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Another Anon
   04/07/11 11:24

The title reminds me about how mice will eat their newly-birthed young. Is this what things have degraded to? Despite all their 'intellectualism', that they're no better than animals?

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gbs7P
   04/07/11 11:31

Sanger meant those dark words to be ironic, not taken as a call for infanticide. She also wrote this:
"It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide. "

See this WikiQuote article:
External Link 

It lists some commonly misattributed quotes. In the list is a quote that Jonah incorrectly attributes to Sanger in his linked post.

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   04/07/11 14:32

gbs7P: And, Sanger was wrong about that, too! Increased contraception has led to higher abortion rates - to abortion being used as birth control.

Explain Sanger's thoughts on eugenics, and the need to ensure that certain people did not reproduce - because they were, you know, dumber than others or the wrong color.

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gbs7P
   04/07/11 16:03

annieoakley,
My point was not about Sanger and whether she was right or wrong, it was about K-Lo. Taken out of context the quote paints Sanger as an advocate for child murder. Does K-Lo think that Swift considered Irish children good eating?

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   04/07/11 16:35

It's clear the abortion industry targets non-whites. The white libs try to promote abortion in third-world countries. And Barak Obama is the #1 abortion advocate in this country. I wonder why?

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   04/07/11 18:42

Swift was a hero. Sanger was the opposite. I think she may have been exaggerating in making that statement, but not by much, when you read what else she believed and wrote.

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gbs7P
   04/07/11 22:31

annieoakley,
A smear is a smear, whether it's about a hero or a villain. K-Lo's means do not justify her ends.

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Vote Democrat
   04/09/11 10:54

Hmmm, let's see what is going on here. Democrats start the Civil War over slavery, then when they lose a Democrat kills the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War Democrats start the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize newly freed slaves, hanging blacks and Republicans alike for decades. Jim Crowe laws, etc., etc. Now, Democrats ensure that BILLIONS of dollars per year are spent aborting minority babies by the hundreds of thousands and minorities VOTE for Democrats. The Nazis should have been such marketing wizards, Hitler would be running the world and Democrats would cheer him.

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