Showing posts with label family planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family planning. Show all posts

July 9, 2013

Margaret Sanger and the Nazis: How Many Degrees of Separation?

Вышла статья в Social Work про логику привязки Сэнгер и планирования семьи к нацистским практикам, логика несложная, обычный микс полуправд и полулжей :)

The syllogism that we most often find looks something like this:
  • Planned Parenthood was founded and primarily influenced by Margaret Sanger.
  • Margaret Sanger was a leading figure in the eugenics movement in the United States.
  • The eugenics movement in this country strongly influenced Nazi eugenics, and thus the Holocaust.
  • Therefore, a strong association exists between M. Sanger (and therefore Planned Parenthood) and the horrors of Nazism.
автор спец по уходу за ВИЧ+, его второе направление: Eugenics and Historical Issues Related to Persons with Disabilities

December 13, 2012

Gloria Feld at MSPP

GF: I don’t waste my breath. They usually are deliberately misrepresenting the facts. They are mostly people who want women barefoot and pregnant again.

Мне кажется, что всё-таки не  misrepresenting, а какая-то странная логика, причём именно в духе Логоса, какого-то неведамага демиурга a la Hegel. На земле как-то всё попроще и поживее. Но иррациональная логика = логика. Если человек считает, что главное спасти душу, то women barefoot and pregnant again его очень мало колышут.

July 19, 2012

family limitation

On Monday June 25, the Library of Congress opened an exhibit in Washington on "Books That Shaped America". The exhibit celebrates 88 works that shaped American life and thought, including Margaret Sanger's 1914 pamphlet "Family Limitation", which was a basic instructional manual of basic family planning techniques.

"Of course, it is troublesome to get up to douche, it is also a nuisance to have to trouble about the date of the menstrual period. It seems inartistic and sordid to insert a pessary or a suppository in anticipation of the sexual act. But it is far more sordid to find yourself several years later burdened down with half a dozen unwanted children, helpless, starved, shoddily clothed, dragging at your skirt, yourself a dragged out shadow of the woman you once were."

Read more about "Family Limitation" in this blog post, or read the pamphlet yourself here!

March 17, 2011

женский месячник или месячные женщины

Thus, historians like David M. Kennedy and Ellen Chesler were able to celebrate the fact that Margaret Sanger enhanced the ability of many women to have reproductive choices by her work on behalf of “family planning,” a term that rendered birth control more acceptable to a popular audience, while also noting that her decision to enter into a partnership with the American Medical Association and support of a “doctors only” approach to prescribing contraceptive devices rendered access to effective contraception nearly impossible for many working-class and poor women.

Moreover, the leading role that Sanger played in the eugenics movement betrayed the socialist principles that underlay her initial championship of birth control as she came to embrace instead the eugenic principle of more children from the fit and fewer from the unfit.

source статья о женском движении в США и роли МС как новой струи