Nat Hentoff, The Washington Post
Pro-choice forces are so intent on removing all obstacles to abortion that eugenics is no specter to them.
The eugenics roots of the pro-abortion movement
Margaret Sanger was a pioneer of legalized abortion and the founder of
Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the
U.S. Sanger was also a well-known eugenicist whose writings make clear
the historic connection between abortion on demand and eugenic thinking.
Planned Parenthood has published a
web page purporting to show that Sanger did not hold the abhorrent
views attributed to her. Although some of Sanger's quotes have been
taken out of context, her writings speak for themselves:
The full text of Margaret Sanger's The Pivot of Civilization
Michael K. Flaherty, The American Spectator
Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, remains a hero to the abortion movement and a "liberator" to the prestige press. In the book Pivot of Civilization she described her objectives: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit..." The people Sanger considered unfit were "all non-aryan people."
Mary Senander, the Minneapolis Star Tribune
Contemporary liberal social planners have elevated Sanger to sainthood, protesting that her birth control campaign was nothing more than a vehicle for economic betterment and health for the masses. But Sanger's own well-documented words, publications and associations indicate a deeper and darker motivation. Sanger began publishing the Birth Control Review in 1917 and served as its editor until 1938. The May 1919 Review proclaimed, "More children for the fit, less for the unfit." By unfit, Sanger meant the mentally retarded or physically handicapped; later her definition expanded.
by Jefferis Kent Peterson
Abortion has been numbered among the liberal causes of modern politics. But a careful examination of the history of the abortion rights movement would shock even the most ardent defender of a woman's right to choose. The founders of the movement were in fact racists who despised the poor and who were searching for a way to prevent colored races from reproducing. Rather than defending the rights of the poorest of the poor, which is the tradition of liberalism, the founders advocated abortion as a means of eliminating the poor. And rather than desiring to help the poor through welfare programs, they wanted to eliminate all charities and government aid.