Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger Was a Racist and Eugenicist

LifeNews Note: The following are excerpts of remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at the National Celebrate Life Weekend Gala recently.

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Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist and a racist who considered charity care for impoverished, disenfranchised women, including women of color, especially pregnant women, to be “cruel.”

In her book, “The Pivot of Civilization,” Margaret Sanger devoted an entire chapter to what she called: “The Cruelty of Charity,”

Sanger said: “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.”

“Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease.”  Sanger wrote, “Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and diminish the spread of misery and destruction and all the menacing evils… are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents.”

She continues, “My criticism therefore is not directed at the failure of philanthropy but rather at its success.”

“Such benevolence,” she goes on to say, “is not merely superficial and nearsighted…It conceals a stupid cruelty.”

In 2009, Hillary Clinton accepted the Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthood and said and in her acceptance speech that she was in “awe of her”, and that Margaret Sanger’s “life and leadership” was “one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race.”

Transformational, yes. But not for the better if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, vulnerable, or among the many so-called undesirables who Sanger would exclude and exterminate from the human race.

Today, the struggle to mitigate and God-willing end Planned Parenthood’s anti-child, anti-woman agenda—which has killed more than 10 million babies in their own clinics—is finally being exposed.

Much to the consternation of my colleagues on the other side of the issue I’ve read portions of Abby Johnson’s book Unplanned during debate in the House of Representatives.

David Daleiden has endured serious attacks for his extraordinary investigative work on Planned Parenthood’s barbaric slaughtering of unborn babies to steal their internal organs.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s Medina decision decided this week not only affirmed South Carolina’s disqualification of Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program but has empowered other states to do the same.

We are hopeful that President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will defund Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding on the federal level.

As you know, the so-called abortion pill—mifepristone—is baby poison that kills the child by starving the child to death.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center’s report released two months ago found that the abortion pill that is used in over 60% of all abortions procured in the U.S. seriously harms women and that almost 11% of the women who take mifepristone experience serious side effects including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging and other serious adverse events.

Earlier this week we celebrated the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey and said, “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” and returned “to the people and their elected representatives…the authority to regulate or prohibit abortion.”

Finally, future generations will someday look back on us and wonder how a why a society that bragged about its concern for human rights could have promoted abortion by starvation and dismemberment.

And in an information age how so many were deceived into believing that abortion was safe.

Like you, I believe that abortion violence need not be forever.

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