Nazism and Planned Parenthood
(Reprinted from the Francisan Friars of the Immaculate
brochure)
Adolf Hitler - Dictator of Nazi Germany "The demand that
defective people be prevented from propagating equally
defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act
of mankind." Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10
Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood ". . .we
prefer the policy of immediate sterilizarion, of
making sure that parenthood is ' absolutely
prohibed ' to the feeble-minded." The Pivot of
Civilization, p102
Most people today think that Planned Parenthood and
Nazi Germany have little in common. Their histories
show otherwise. Margaret Sanger, the founder of
Planned Parenthood, subscribe to a Hitlerian
philosophy of Eugenics - the science of
improving "racial health" by socially engineering human
reproduction. Both Hitler and the founders of
Planned Parenthood advocate birth control,
sterilization, and segregation in concentration camps for
the "unfit."
The Birth Control Review
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE
MARGARET SANGER, Editor
DECEMBER, 1921
"Birth Control: to create a race of thoroughbreds"
Slogan of Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood
The banner-head above summarizes the philosophy of
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood. Like Adolf Hitler, Margaret Sanger
considered herself to be part of a genetically
superior elite who had to protect themselves
against "hereditary taints." She set out to
start a "New Race" - "A Race of Thoroughbreds."
This elitist attitude is clearly at odds with
the leftist, social worker image that is commonly
attributed to her by the mass media.
In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control
League, which was renamed "Planned Parenthood" in 1942.
In 1952 she helped found the International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF), serving as its first
president until 1959. Even today, Planned Parenthood
proudly proclaims Margaret Sanger as its "visionary"
founder.
Mararet Sanger's 1922 manifesto, The Pivot of
Civilization, states the following:
"Birth Control which has been criticized as negative
and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly
eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the
program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete
and realistic power to that science. . . as the most
constructive and necessary of the means to racial
health."
Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization.
Brentano's Press, NY, 1922, p 189. Emphasis ours
in quotes throughout.
1933: NAZI PARTY AND FOUNDERS OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD
JOIN HANDS
The founders of Planned Parenthood had more ties to Hitler
than just a shared vision. Their board of directors
included avowed Nazi supporters like Dr. Lothrop
Stoddard (who authored The Rising Tide of Color Against
White Supremacy and another praising the Nazi
sterilization law). They used their official
publication to spread Nazi propaganda. In April of
1933, Birth Control Review published an article by Dr.
Ernst Rubin, who was Hitler's director of genetic
sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for
Racial Hygiene. In this article Dr. Rubin wrote:
"The danger to the community of the unsegregated feeble-
minded woman is more evident. Most dangerous are the
middle and high grades living at large who, despite
the fact that their defect is not easily recognizable,
should nevertheless be prevented from procreation. . . In
my view we should act without delay."
Prof. Dr. Ernst Rudin, head of Nazi Germany's eugenics
program.
"Eugenics Sterlization: An Urgent Need." - Birth
Control Review,
Volume XVII, Number 4 (April 1933), pp. 102-4.
Both Sanger and the Nazi Rudin believe it was
imperative that the "middle and high grades" also
be "prevented from procreation." Compare Dr. Rudin's
quote to this one from Sanger:
". . .there is sufficient evidence to lead us to
believe that the so-called 'borderline cases' are a
greater menace than the out-and-out "defective
delinquents" who can be supervised, controlled and
prevented from procreating their kind."
Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization.
Brentano's Press, NY, 1922, p. 91
The founders of Planned Parenthood printed Dr.
Rudin's article in the same year that he worked with
SS chief Heinrich Himmler to draw up German's 1933
sterilization law which called for the sterlization of
all Jews and "colored" German children. The Nazi
sterlization law bears a shocking resemblance to
Margaret Sanger's own "Plan for Peace." printed in the
April 1932 issue of "Birth Control Review."
CONCENTRATION CAMPS: SANGER'S
"PLAN FOR PEACE"
Sanger's plan called for the formation of American
concentration camps to "corral" that "enormous part of
our population" with "hereditary taints":
"To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization
and segregation to that grade of population whose
progeny is already tainted. . . to apportion farm lands
and homesteads for these segregated persons where they
would be taught to work under competent instructors
for the period of their entire lives. . ."
Mararet Sanger. "Plan for Peace." Birth Control
Review
Volumn XVI, Number 4 (April 1932), pp. 107-8.
What percentage of the population would Margaret Sanger
wish to segregate? After citing army statistics she
noted:
". . .nearly half - 47.3 per cent - of the population
had the mentality of twelve-year-old children or less -
in other words that they are morons."
Mararet Sanger. The Pivot of Civilazation.
Brentano's Press, NY, 1922, p. 263
She went on to say that "only 13,500.00 [or 13.5% of
the 100 million U.S. population of the time] will ever
show superior intelligence" ibid. p. 264. These must
be her "thoroghbreds." the ones who are
not "tainted." Remember that she
considered "borderline cases" the most dangerous.
Thus, for Sanger, 86.5% of the population would
be "morons" or "borderline cases" and prevented from
procreation! Not even Hitler went this far.
For the 47.3% who "are morons" she suggested:
"The emergency problem of segregation and sterlization
must be faced immediately. Every feeble-monded girl
or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the
moron class, should be segregated during the
reproductive period. . . we prefer the policy of
immediate sterilzation, of making sure that parenthood
is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded."
So much for "reproductive rights!"
Of course she could not keep people segregated without
the use of barbed wire and guard towers. In other
words, Sanger was talking about concentration camps.
We know what happened in Hitler's camps. If Mararet
Sanger had been able to build her concentration camps,
would the same thing have happened? This would
depend on how charitable she was. Read on. . .
SANGER'S VIEW OF AMERICA
"Borderline cases" - "a greater menace" = 39.2%
"Morons" - Sterilize and Segregate = 47.3%
"Thoroughbreds" - Allowed to Reproduce = 13.5%
The Fruit of Their Common Philosophy:
Hitler's - Planned Parenthood's
HOLOCAUST
Motive: Inconvenient
Rationalization: Sub-human
HATRED OF CHARITY
Chapter 5 of Sanger's book is titled "The Cruelty of
Charity."
In it she wrote:
"Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that
our civilization has bred, is breeding and is
perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,
delinquents and dependents"
Margaret Sanger. - The Pivot of Civilization.
Brentano's Press, NY, 1922. p. 108
Sanger's words are almost identical to Hitler's:
"This is in keeping with the humanitarianism which, to
avoid hurting one individual, lets a hundred others
perish. The demand that defective people be prevented
from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand
of the clearest reason and if systematically executed
represents the most humane act of mankind."
Adolf Hitler. - Mein Kampf
vol. 1, ch. 10 1925
Given the striking similarity in their monstrous
rhetoric, it is reasonable to assume that Sanger would
have grown weary of feeding these "delinquents."
In this same chapter Sanger went on to mention "a
special type of philanthropy or benevolence, . . .
which strikes me as being more insidiously injurious
than any other. . . to supply gratis medical and
nursing facilities to slum mothers." The Pivot of
Civilization. p. 114
Sanger considered help to poor mothers the very worst
kind of charity.
What was the root of her hatred of the poor?
Read on:
". . . we are paying for and even submitting to the
dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning
class of human beings who never should have been born
at all, . . ." ibid., p. 187
In a democracy the majority rules and Sanger
was afraid of the under-class outnumbering the
elite. She was paranoid about "submitting to the
dictates" of those "who never should have been born
at all."
This hatred for the poor, especially the most
destitute, clearly placed her on the extreme fascist
right.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD TODAY:
In Mararet Sanger's time, the Birth Control movement
made no attempts to hide the eugenical philosophy that
drove it. Only after World War II, when the
public's eyes were opened to the horrors of the Nazi
death camps, did it seek to distance itself from the
term "eugenics."
Today's Culture of Death would seem to be
more "egalitarian" than in Mararet Sanger's day:
the targeted peoples seem to be indiscriminate, without
reference to race or class. Or are they?
In light of Planned Parenthood's philosophical history,
the meaning of its current politics becomes more clear.
While Sanger and her eugenical colleagues opposed giving
maternal care to poor women, the one service Planned
Parenthood does not offer is maternal care. The only
choice offered by Planned Parenthood is the choice to
kill - not to plan for parenthood.
Is it any coincidence that the founders of Planned
Parenthood were racists and Nazi propagandists. . . and
that so many of its clinics today are in minority
neighborhoods. According to their own statistics,
42.7% of the abortions performed by Planned Parenthood
are on minorities - that's three times more than on
whites, as a percentage of their respective populations.
Is it any coinidence that Planned Parenthood publicly
supports China's brutal one-child policy which coerces
or forces millions of women into having abortions.
So much for "reproductive freedom"!
Like Adolf Hitler, Planned Parenthood has subjected
us to a scape-goat philosophy which blames societal
problems on its poorest members, which sanctioning the
avarice of the richest. In its early days,
Planned Parenthood inflamed the rich and educated
elite against poor people with its philosophy
of "racial health." Today, the same organization
continues to inflame the wealthy nations with a
philosophy of "population control." The effect of
these two arguments is the same: poor woman
are coerced into abortion, birth control, and
sterilization.
The eugenical philosophy pioneered by the likes of
Mararet Sanger and Adolf Hitler is not just a
bygone memory. In many poor nations today (such as
Peru, Mexico. . .), oppressive governments have imposed
sterlization on millions of poor women. The United
Nations talks a great deal about population control,
and many population control agencies will give
humanitarian aid only to those poor women who accept
sterlization.
In this the first time you have heard of this side
of Planned Parenthood? What else is the mass media
not telling us about the abortion industry?
Let us look forward to the day when Planned
Parenthood clinics are made into holocaust museums.
We all must do our part to pray and protest for this
end. If you wish to write to your congressman to
stop your tax dollars from going to Planned
Parenthood. . .
go to:
http://congress.nw.dc.us/hli/