nicely formulated

She was the founder of Planned Parenthood and fought for the legality and use of birth control.  She was a socialist, an athiest, a feminist, and supported negative eugenics.  In short, she wanted undesirable people (those with diseases, mental problems, etc.) not to have any children, and poor or black people to have very few.  She subscribed to the evolution-inspired notion of creating a pure race.  As a feminist, she just in general didn't see childbearing or child raising as worthwhile pursuits for women.  Too bad her mother didn't see it that way.  She was the 6th child.

...she was generally against abortion, believing it to be much more preferable to prevent a pregnancy than to end a life.  This was back before the Pill, but now we know that the Pill causes early abortions.  I don't quite understand why pro-lifers take the Pill.


Sanger's main argument that led to many birth control clinics opening was that there were poverty-stricken, syphilis-infected prostitutes who were performing their own abortions and dying from it.  She argued that in these type of cases preventing pregnancy altogether was preferrable to an early death.  Obviously, many agreed with her and that's why birth control is now mainstream.  But we've all not only bought her ideas about birth control for the "undesirables" of society, but we've taken it a step further and now we prevent our babies even if we have plenty of money for another child, no diseases, and a stable home!

some of the most conservative Christians I've ever met have the same view of children as a socialist athiest of 100 years ago.