Following this NewsBusters post on Wednesday (3/21/07), the Los Angeles Times has admitted it "oversimplified the eugenics views of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger."
On Wednesday, we took issue with this article by Stephanie Simon in the Los Angeles Times that stated that Sanger "did not support coerced birth control." Simon also wrote that Sanger had merely "associate[d] with proponents of eugenics, the philosophy that only the most worthy should be allowed to reproduce"
In our article, we demonstrated that Sanger's own words suggested the opposite. In her 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger wrote, "Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive period." For men, Sanger recommended the "policy of immediate sterilization." In other writings, Sanger referred to some members of humanity as "human weeds."
After my post, I wrote to the Readers Representative at the Times, and I provided a link to my article. I received a response indicating that the paper would be "running a correction."
From today's LA Times (Sunday, March 25, 2007):
FOR THE RECORD:
Antiabortion efforts: An article in Wednesday's Section A about antiabortion efforts in black communities oversimplified the eugenics views of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger in saying she did not support coerced birth control. Sanger did not support measures to limit the population of minorities through coerced contraception. She did, however, support forced sterilization of the mentally disabled.
There you go. But here's another reminder about Sanger for the Times:
Margaret Sanger on eugenics: "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." ("The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda," Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5) (link) (link)
Should you care, continue the debate among yourselves.
—Dave Pierre is the creator of TheMediaReport.com and a contributor to NewsBusters.
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Ahhh that Sanger...what a gal
March 25, 2007 - 21:10 ET by bigtimerAhhh that Sanger...what a gal!
I have always despised her and her beliefs!
The leftists love her...that should say it all.
Excellent job Dave Pierre! Thank you for saying what needed to be said for a lot of us out here...and fighting the likes of Stephanie and the LA Times...if they would ever just tell the truth and state the truthful facts.
If wishes were fishes....
Oh yes, it should be very a
March 26, 2007 - 01:46 ET by liberal_bug_zapperOh yes, it should be very apparent that Mrs. Sanger and Dr. Josef Mengele were peas from the same pod. The leftists have always held these beliefs, but they hide them from as many people as they can and instead try and play on people's natural distrust of government (government's trying to take your rights you women... stand up) and on people's emotions to win. If exposed to the light of day, and real scrutiny, their arguments never hold up... which is why they end up resorting to name calling and ad-hominem attacks.
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It just doesn't fit with liberal agenda
March 26, 2007 - 05:49 ET by Mr. TerryI'd like to hear Nancy Pelosi, or Hillary Clinton quote Maragaret Sanger while they shout about abortion rights. It would lose many voters if they told the truth about Sanger's racial views.
If egenics solves racial, political and social problems then is it not the same policy which the NKVD and Stalin used at the same time Hilter and Himmler were cleansing the Fatherland?
Nuke the whales!
Now wait a minute guys. If s
March 26, 2007 - 06:22 ET by FowlerK9Now wait a minute guys. If someone had sterilized Rosie's father the world would've been a much nicer place. Don't you think? Just a thought.
Now, wait, do you think that
March 26, 2007 - 11:18 ET by Darth DutchNow, wait, do you think that Rosie has a father? I'm sure her preference would have been to have had two mothers since all men are to her are sperm donors for women to use, right?
Dutch
fowlerK9 - you are correct--
March 26, 2007 - 11:25 ET by misterbillfowlerK9 - you are correct--not only that, but they set her father free in the sty again to do more harm to the world.
Yep, my family has personally been "touched"
March 26, 2007 - 08:32 ET by Ole_SargeMargaret Sanger, was an evil woman. Make no mistake about it and many of her followers since are just as evil, just as twisted and some, just as dead.
There is a relative in the family that, while I was growing up, I was told died of typhoid fever. She actually died from a botched abortion. She was one of the many young women in the 1920's; (a Catholic, a decendant of immmigrants (German in the USA since 1823, and Canadian in North America since 1653) college educated (first woman in her family so educated)) that "embraced" the message and facilitated abortions.
She was married, to an atheist, and another devotee of Margaret Sanger. She died after an abortion from infection. Nursed on her death bed by her mother (my great-grandmother) and sister-in-law, (my grand-mother) This was so hushed up in the family, I found the truth reading old newspapers.
I was once a "brain-washed" teen that really believed the "overt" ads of Planned Parenthood, till I was older. And really "looked" at what they were doing.
Pope John Paul the Great had called us out as a culture and a nation to embrace a culture of Life, not death. All Margaret Sanger sold was evil and death.