Was Margaret Sanger opposed to abortion?

[MFTM]

The Church is opposed to abortion for ANY reason since it is murdering an innocent human being- the baby. Even the life of the mother is not a valid argument to have an abortion according to the Church. St.Gianna Molla died because she refused to have an abortion in order to save her own life. One can not be a true Catholic and be “pro-choice” (i.e. pro-abortion).
As for PP, they are not only pro-abortion to the nth extreme but virulently pro-promiscuity and anti-virtue in every way possible! I do not know how any good Catholic could have anything to with them!

 

[st_lucy]

QUOTES FROM MARGARET SANGER:

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order…”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children…”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Give dysgenic groups [people with ‘bad genes’] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

 

[rpp]

I have catholic friends who said she supported it. They are PP’s members. Yet a search at CA brings up an article saying she was opposed to abortion. But no citation is given. Just the statement.

Can anyone clarify this?

BTW, Sanger founded Planned Parenthood.

A person cannot be Catholic and pro-Abortion. (Catechism 2279)

Providing money to Planned Parenthood in any areas free more money for them to provide both their murders as well as their morally detestable activities such as providing contraceptives and sterilization, as well as the promotion of a culture of self-indulgent sex to teenagers.

I would tell your friends they need to either stop supporting Planned
Parenthood in absolutely every way or cease calling themselves “Catholic”. They cannot have it both ways.

 

[Ignatius]

I read a book [biography] about Margaret Sanger from the late 50’s early 60’s …

The book would serve just fine as a reference.

 

[Mary_ann_R]

I have catholic friends who said she supported it. They are PP’s members. Yet a search at CA brings up an article saying she was opposed to abortion. But no citation is given. Just the statement.

Can anyone clarify this?

Sanger believed that murdering infants was merciful.

Check out this site by Diane Dew.

 

[Jennifer123]

Someone else said she wanted it to be safe …

that was me…I hope the OP really read my comments thoroughly, maybe I wasn’t clear enough.
She is on record as saying she was opposed to abortion only because it wasn’t “safe and legal”. That was most likely the beginning of the movement to make abortion legal, then they (Sanger and the other “choice” advocates) could claim abortion is safe, which we all know it isn’t physically, mentally and spiritually.

 

[YADA]

The book would serve just fine as a reference.

Yes, Well I think it was just titled “Margaret Sanger” but I read this back in the sixties … I have no idea who wrote it or exactly the title … I know that I was not impressed with this personage … rather appalled actually … it was not uplifting like other biographies *

I know in the late 70’s early 80’s I attempted find it again [because of all the controversy] but was not able to … that was when I learned that Planned Parenthood was re-writing history [to shine up Margaret Sanger’s image - removing references to Hitler, etc] … most information you can find about Margaret Sanger now is post Roe V Wade and any thing you get from Planned Parenthood does not include quotes like the ones found and referenced in the earlier posts … they are mostly abiquous or benign …*

 

[Ilroy]

Yes, Well I think it was just titled “Margaret Sanger” but I read this back in the sixties … I have no idea who wrote it or exactly the title … I know that I was not impressed with this personage … rather appalled actually … it was not uplifting like other biographies *
*

checked Borders and this came up…wonder if it’s the one you were talking about…?

Margaret Sanger, an Autobiography
Bibliographic Data: Hardcover, Franklin Book Company, Incorporated, January 1938

List Price: $230.00

 

[LittleDeb]

I’m holding in my lap a fabulous biography of Sanger written in the late 70s. Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society by Elasah Drogin.

She quotes Sanger’s actual writings and letters. There are images of the covers of her periodical, “The Birth Control Review.” There are sections in this book about the research done on what Sanger called “over dues.” She had her staff compile poverty and medical information on the women she turned away as “over due for contraception.” ie pregnant women were turned away from her “health clinics” but not before information was gathered on them for her push for abortion.

One of the reasons I tend to avoid the use of Sanger’s term “birth control” is because of how it came to be. Sanger’s mentor and she picked up the term because they wanted it to be all encompassing. They wanted to control birth, not just conception.

I have been researching Sanger for years. It is so difficult to get to her real eugenic, racist roots. She has been sanitized by her current followers. This site: blackgenocide.org/planned.html has been exceptionally helpful.

 

[rpp]

I’m holding in my lap a fabulous biography of Sanger written in the late 70s. Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society by Elasah Drogin.

I saw the book title and just knew that you had typed it in wrong. So I checked. Turns out, I was wrong and you are typed the title of the book correctly.

The author called a woman a “father”. :whacky:

The sickness here runs so deep it is beyond my ability to even imagine.

 

[LittleDeb]

I saw the book title and just knew that you had typed it in wrong. So I checked. Turns out, I was wrong and you are typed the title of the book correctly.

The author called a woman a "father". :whacky:

The sickness here runs so deep it is beyond my ability to even imagine.

Yep, the title is tongue in cheek at Sanger. The author is showing that Sanger was trying to escape and condemn motherhood. I have often thought it should be called "Sanger: The Gender Neutered Leader of Modern Society. Calling her ‘father’ is actually an unintentional insult to men.

The main thing Sanger really favored was sterilization. She wanted everyone neutered so that the enjoyment of sex was identical and purposeless. She didn’t want women to enjoy sex because of the true and wonderful nature of sex. She wanted women to enjoy sex so they could use it as a weapon against men!

To the OP: I am absolutely sure Sanger was pro-abortion. In the link I provided above there is an audio clip of her own writings. Sanger is speaking about the weirdness of what she had to go through to speak to the women’s auxiliary of the KKK. She notes in that entry how she couldn’t even speak to this group about abortion because they would be up in arms about the immorality of it. In other words, she is noting that the KKK was too moral to accept abortion so she couldn’t speak on it. That is how sick her thinking went. The KKK was more moral than she was!!

 

[Al_Masetti]

I didn’t notice that anyone had posted the Wikipedia bio of Margaret Sanger.

Wiki tends to have a particular point of view; nevertheless, it is interesting:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger