Planned Parenthood Affiliate DISAVOWING Margaret Sanger

[Lysistrata]

Many ordinary people (such as I) will continue to admire her courage in promoting family planning. No longer would women have to bear unwanted children.

"Many ordinary people (such as I) will continue to admire his courage in promoting country planning. No longer would Germany have to bear unwanted Jews."

The words of those who we honor with statues can be pointed out to be as bad as Sangers in many instances. They held many of the same kind of views towards people of color.

Funny how they were all members of the democrat party......

So why the problem with no longer honoring them?

I don't have a problem with removing statues of democrat party war heroes......it just needs to be done with a vote, rather than burning, looting and killing. The democrat party wants those statues down because they are trying to hide their history.

No. The statues are coming down because they honor the dishonorable in public places. We need monuments to American heroes; people who can be looked up to by all Americans.

 

[Lysistrata]

BULLSHIT----how about removing Malcolm X from everything-----that bastard was a PIMP.

You do understand that eugenics was repudiated many years ago, and sanger has been dead since 1966. She unfortunately embraced this sick ideology, but she's been gone quite awhile and the current PP is providing services to many, many Americans who need them, want them, and deserve them, despite those who wish to force us into a dictatorship, It should be receiving grants, subsidies, donations, and applause.

 

[pknopp]

BULLSHIT----how about removing Malcolm X from everything-----that bastard was a PIMP.

You do understand that eugenics was repudiated many years ago, and sanger has been dead since 1966. She unfortunately embraced this sick ideology, but she's been gone quite awhile and the current PP is providing services to many, many Americans who need them, want them, and deserve them, despite those who wish to force us into a dictatorship, It should be receiving grants, subsidies, donations, and applause.

All the same it was great to see some consistency out of this office. If it's wrong to continue to honor those in the past that held horrible positions, it's wrong.

 

[irosie91]

BULLSHIT----how about removing Malcolm X from everything-----that bastard was a PIMP.

You do understand that eugenics was repudiated many years ago, and sanger has been dead since 1966. She unfortunately embraced this sick ideology, but she's been gone quite awhile and the current PP is providing services to many, many Americans who need them, want them, and deserve them, despite those who wish to force us into a dictatorship, It should be receiving grants, subsidies, donations, and applause.

yes, I know about Margaret Sanger.. Besides being into eugenics which was accepted by PROGRESSIVES in her youth but not by the church, she also made some negative statements about poor starving """negroes"""
that could TODAY be read as really nasty.

 

[Lysistrata]

BULLSHIT----how about removing Malcolm X from everything-----that bastard was a PIMP.

You do understand that eugenics was repudiated many years ago, and sanger has been dead since 1966. She unfortunately embraced this sick ideology, but she's been gone quite awhile and the current PP is providing services to many, many Americans who need them, want them, and deserve them, despite those who wish to force us into a dictatorship, It should be receiving grants, subsidies, donations, and applause.

All the same it was great to see some consistency out of this office. If it's wrong to continue to honor those in the past that held horrible positions, it's wrong.

This is true. It's good that this office changes its name. I have no qualms about it. I just don't think that the right-wingers should keep beating a really dead horse just to drag a great organization into disrepute.

 

[pknopp]

BULLSHIT----how about removing Malcolm X from everything-----that bastard was a PIMP.

You do understand that eugenics was repudiated many years ago, and sanger has been dead since 1966. She unfortunately embraced this sick ideology, but she's been gone quite awhile and the current PP is providing services to many, many Americans who need them, want them, and deserve them, despite those who wish to force us into a dictatorship, It should be receiving grants, subsidies, donations, and applause.

All the same it was great to see some consistency out of this office. If it's wrong to continue to honor those in the past that held horrible positions, it's wrong.

This is true. It's good that this office changes its name. I have no qualms about it. I just don't think that the right-wingers should keep beating a really dead horse just to drag a great organization into disrepute.

They obviously have no soap box to stand on.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

The only person in this discussion so far who has kept a sense of proportion is, in my opinion, TheParser (comment #5). We do not often agree fully, but in this case we do.

Sanger made spectacular contributions throughout her life to women’s reproductive rights, to educating about, legalizing and developing new accessible birth control for all (her financing helped develop birth control pills).

Her own mother’s 13 pregnancies and the utter misery of abused, abandoned and poverty-stricken women unable to feed their children were the reality of the times and were what motivated her lifelong struggle. She was the first to discuss birth control in then illegal and later “unpublishable” articles. These mostly appeared in socialist magazines (the only ones willing to publish her “shocking” and “unlady-like” material). She raised support for striking women workers in sweatshops.

Sanger helped transform that world. After WWI, anti-socialist witch-hunting convinced her to embrace a more bourgeois approach and she raised money from both Republican and “Progressive” Democratic circles. Those wealthy patrons were often profoundly racist, as this was a profoundly racist time in U.S. history. Sanger soon adopted — as did even the great African-American civil rights fighter WEB DuBois— what was then a very popular pseudo-“scientific” view, a “soft“ eugenics philosophy.

In the late twenties she preached birth control (not abortion) to women of ALL classes. Even to KKK women’s groups. Was she preaching “white racial genocide” then? Of course not. She was preaching basic hygiene, family planning, and women’s empowerment. An Irish Catholic fighter, she brooked no racism from her staff. Especially not when she worked closely with WEB DuBois in Harlem. Was she or he “racist” for making birth control information (and early diaphragms) available to poor as well as very rich women? Of course not. Sanger’s embrace of eugenics was never an embrace of racism or anti-Semitism, even though she at times worked with racists like the KKK or spoke sympathetically about eugenics programs in Germany before their horrors were understood.

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[Hellokitty]

Sure she was. Good for them for not wanting to honor her views. Now if those who cheer this would only understand how it's wrong to honor others who had abhorrent views in the past also we might get somewhere.

One can note what they accomplished in certain aspects of their lives and we can't really hold people in the past to current understandings but we also do not have to place them in places of honor either.

Um, the problem with your spin is democrats were honoring Sanger for her accomplishment of killing babies. Erasing Sanger's name but still killing those black babies...

Will PP be asking people like Hillary who received Sanger awards to give them back or destroy them?

 

[pknopp]

Sure she was. Good for them for not wanting to honor her views. Now if those who cheer this would only understand how it's wrong to honor others who had abhorrent views in the past also we might get somewhere.

One can note what they accomplished in certain aspects of their lives and we can't really hold people in the past to current understandings but we also do not have to place them in places of honor either.

Um, the problem with your spin is democrats were honoring Sanger for her accomplishment of killing babies. Erasing Sanger's name but still killing those black babies...

Spin? I stated no spin. I said it was good that they were no longer going to honor her. Whatever else they do is another thing.

Will PP be asking people like Hillary who received Sanger awards to give them back or destroy them?

I don't know that PP overall is going to take this position.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

LMFAO! I cannot tell you how many times I've pointed out that Margaret Sanger was a racist eugenicist only to be attacked by leftists for "spreading lies and fringe right wing conspiracy".

Well just looky here:

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Announces Intent to Remove Margaret Sanger’s Name from NYC Health Center

Recent press releases and news related to Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

www.plannedparenthood.org

Quote:

"Today, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced its plans to remove Margaret Sanger’s name from the Manhattan Health Center as a public commitment to reckon with its founder’s harmful connections to the eugenics movement. PPGNY also announced it is working with the Community Board, City Council and community to rename an honorary street sign that marks the “Margaret Sanger Square” at the intersection of Bleecker and Mott Streets in Manhattan.

The announcement reflects the first of many organizational shifts to address Sanger's legacy and system of institutional racism, which negatively impacts the well-being of patients, staff and PPGNY’s broader communities. The initiative is part of PPGNY’s Reviving Radical initiative - an initial three-year commitment and framework for holding long overdue dialogues and uplifting a vision for repair and transformation that communities of color and reproductive justice leaders have been calling on for decades.

“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” said Karen Seltzer, Board Chair at PPGNY. “Margaret Sanger’s concerns and advocacy for reproductive health have been clearly documented, but so too has her racist legacy. There is overwhelming evidence for Sanger’s deep belief in eugenic ideology, which runs completely counter to our values at PPGNY. Removing her name is an important step toward representing who we are as an organization and who we serve.”


Tee hee.

Eventually they were gonna have to cave and start erasing her

Many leftards would go full full of shit hypocritical bezerker mode in her defense

As time progresses soon it'll be open season on her and flushed down the memory hole she will go

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

As time progresses soon it'll be open season on her and flushed down the memory hole she will go

Only fools think people like Margaret Sanger, or WEB DuBois ... or for that matter even Robert E. Lee, will ever be “flushed down the memory hole.”

As long as men & women marry and use birth control to plan their families, Margaret Sanger will be remembered. And her historical contributions will be deeply appreciated.