Margaret Sanger

American Hero or Menace?

1879-1966

The Laws regarding contraception at the time

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1873- Comstock law

Classified contraceptive information as obscene Punishable up to 5 years in jail States added their own restrictions

Contraception for EVERYONE!

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US Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) invalidated all state laws forbidding the use of contraceptives for married couples
Those rights were extending to non-married persons in 1972

PP today
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1921-American Birth Control League 1939 Birth Control Federation of America 1942 Planned Parenthood Foundation

An interesting fun fact, Margaret Sanger knew abortion was taking a human life. no matter how early it [abortion] was performed it [abortion] was taking life p217 Margaret Sanger Autobiography [1] y Planned Parenthood opposition claims
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http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/Op positionClaimsAboutMargaretSanger.pdf

Margaret Sanger Childhood

Her mother conceived 18 times, only 11 children were born. y She died at 40 of TB y Her mom was Catholic, and her dad was an atheist. y Sanger and her siblings where regarded as the devils children because of fathers religious beliefs.
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Her fights with the man

Thrown in jail multiple times for sharing contraceptive information, receiving contraceptives through the mail and other actions. y Started the Birth Control Review, the first scientific journal dedicated to birth control.
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she authored many other pieces regarding contraception and her ideas
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Founded what is know as today as Planned Parenthood

Explanatory video
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American Life League video about MS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhZHCx0L w0E&feature=player_embedded#!

Some articles in the video

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The cruelty of charity

http://library.lifedynamics.com/The%20Pivot% 20of%20Civilization/Chapter%2005.pdf

Superman is the goal

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archivefree/pdf?res=F70C13F83E5E1A738DDDA80B 94D9405B828EF1D3

The Plan of Peace

Appeared in her newsletter, the Birth Control Review y Concludes birth control will solve all of the worlds problems by segregating and sterilizing the grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring y Also educating about over population and creating strict controls over immigration
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http://library.lifedynamics.com/Birth%20Control% 20Review/1932-04%20April.pdf

The Negro Project

A view of the racist Margaret Sanger y The idea of the negro project was to encourage minority groups, specifically African Americans, to use contraceptives. y Birth Control Review article
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http://library.lifedynamics.com/Birth%20Contr ol%20Review/1932-06%20June.pdf

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the 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's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976. y http://www.blackinformant.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/08/quotes.pdf
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Sangers Connection with Hitler

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Dr. Ernest Rudin

one of the major representatives of German psychiatry, genetics, and eugenics He was endorsed by the Nazi party and prepared commentary for the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring
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Birth Control Review- article written Dr. Ernest Rudin

http://library.lifedynamics.com/Birth%20Control%20R eview/1933-04%20April.pdf p102

Old MS on TV
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/vid eo/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret.html y or no cigarette commercials y http://www.cspanvideo.org/program/288555-1
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Resources
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Planned Parenthoods views

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/history-andsuccesses.htm?__utma=1.1783314255.1318005282.1323876136.1327690 510.9&__utmb=1.6.10.1327690510&__utmc=1&__utmx=&__utmz=1.1327690510.9.8.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|ut mcmd=organic|utmctr=planned%20parenthood&__utmv=&__utmk=233043870#HORIZON

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http://library.lifedynamics.com/Autobiography/Chapter%2017.pdf [1]
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%2910968628%2819960726%2967:4%3C323::AID-AJMG2%3E3.0.CO;2-N/pdf [2]

Other links
http://www.ldi.org/library/#birthcontrol http://library.lifedynamics.com/Birth%20Control%20Review/192111%20November.pdf http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/bc_or_rac e_control.html