In 1921, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) along with founding directors Clarence Cook “C.C.” Little, who served as President of the American Eugenics Society, and Lothrop Stoddard, a white supremacist who published his book “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy” in 1920. The ABCL would eventually become the Birth Control Federation of America, which was renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
Sanger believed she had found the solution to Stoddard’s “Crisis of the Ages” in birth control. In a 1919 article, she appealed to eugenicists to
lend their support to birth control as the vehicle for “racial betterment.” Sanger’s objective was to eliminate the “unfit,” while striving to “Create a
Race of Thoroughbreds,” which was the tagline for her magazine The Birth Control Review. Sanger published countless articles on eugenics and racial cleansing in The Birth Control Review, including “Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need” by Dr. Ernst Rudin in 1933. Ernst Rudin, Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need,Birth Control Review (1933), available at https://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads...3-04-April.pdf. Rudin was the architect of the racial policy in Nazi Germany known as Rassenhygiene or racial hygiene and praised Adolf Hitler as the one who through whom “our 30 year long dream of 6 translating Rassenhygiene into action finally become a reality.” William H. Tucker, The Science and Politics of Racial Research 121 (1996). In 1939, Margaret Sanger initiated the “Negro Project” to educate Blacks about birth control and thereby reduce the birth rate among
Black Americans. She sought help from her friend Clarence Gamble, heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune. Gamble had already been funding birth
control clinics in North Carolina in order to “improve North Carolinas next generation by correcting the present undesirable differential birth
rate….” James A. Miller, Betting with lives: Clarence Gamble and the Pathfinder International, available at https://www.pop.org/betting-with-liv...note_anchor-16. Sanger wrote to Gamble about her ideas for the Negro Project, which included enlisting the support of Black doctors as well as Black clergy members who Sanger believed to be essential to the success of her project. In a December 10, 1939 letter to Gamble, Sanger wrote, “We do not want 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 letter to C. J. Gamble, 1939 (https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358b c3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf).
All about a woman's right. Yup.. move along folks. Nothing to see here.
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