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Sanger exhibit unjust
Recently, a group of black pastors sent a letter to the director of the Smithsonian Institute asking that a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger be removed from their exhibit.
“Perhaps the Gallery is unaware that Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies and regarded them as feeble minded (weeds to be exterminated). She spoke at rallies of KKK women and communicated with Hitler sympathizers. Her notorious Negro Project sought to limit, if not eliminate, black births. Despite this history, her bust sits proudly in your gallery as a hero of justice.”
Population control – then as now – was important to Sanger and her ilk. In her “American Baby Code,” she states, “No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth … the most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Forward to current times and we often hear there are 7 billion people on the planet. What shall we do? Jacques Cousteau claimed that “in order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”
Still, “God Bless Planned Parenthood” – President Barack Obama.
Christy Miller
Sagle