Margaret Sanger

As some of you may know from reading the other blog I regularly post at--Theomony.blogspot.com--I am being forced to take a course titled "Women and Politics." It isn't a political history course, but a course designed to further the childish philosophy that many men and women today espouse--feminism. In fact, I am the only man in the class who doesn't possess a vagina. Not even the 6'4" 350 lb. offensive guard who sits next to me appears to have two. It is both frightening and sickening.

Lately I had been struggling with an upcoming assignment. We have to write a biography on a woman in politics. Though, one girl asked if she could do a biography on Angelina Jolie and was approved, and so I suppose "politics" is being defined pretty broadly here. Anyway, I didn't know who would be the targ...uh...I mean object of my writing until yesterday while sitting in my immigration history class.

My professor began talking to us about the prominence of eugenics in the early 20th century and my mind jolted into gear. Suddenly I recalled that the founder of Planned Parenthood was a leading voice in the eugenics movement. Margaret Sanger is truly a villain in American history, but unfortunately I don't believe many know enough about her to see her as anything other than a woman who gave women the right to "control their own bodies." This is where I come in.

I plan on presenting a pretty sterile biography for the most part--that means no interjection of opinion. Well, that's not entirely accurate. I will offer opinion but it won't be mine but Margaret Sanger's and she has expressed her opinion plenty. Here is a sample:

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

I pulled that off the web, but will be checking ASU's journal archive to see if I can find it quoted in a scholarly journal and/or get ahold of the original writing.

Oh, golly, here is more:

"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

"Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932

Here is a link to a eugenics image archive:

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

So, how do we as men deal with this attitude in other men as well as other women?