Margaret Sanger Would Be Proud of What Planned Parenthood Has Become
Planned Parenthood was founded on Oct. 16, 1916, by population control advocate Margaret Sanger. Though the organization’s mission statement today refers to “the fundamental right of each individual” to “manage his or her fertility,” Sanger was more honest about her goals in a 1934 article entitled “America Needs a Code for Babies.”
A few highlights from this eugenics masterpiece include:
“The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies … and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.”
“No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.”
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