Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the Mother of all murderers, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and an indefatigable proponent of racist eugenics policies that sought to use contraception, sterilization, and abortion as the means of depopulating those non-white ethnic groups she deemed to be "human weeds." She has the blood of millions of unborn victims of abortion on her hands. May God have mercy on her soul.Chances are, you've heard about this wretched woman any number of times before, but most likely, you've never heard her explain, as she does in this vintage 1957 television interview with Mike Wallace, why she did what she did and how she became, as Wallace inaptly termed it, a "crusader" for birth control and abortion. By the way, note that she is absolutely in error (intentionally or not, I can't say) when she claims that, when she was getting started on her contraception-abortion jihad, there was no opposition from "the Church," by which she means the Catholic Church, "or any church." This is false. The Catholic Church had, just 27 years earlier reminded couples yet again that contraception is wrong and that the Church continued to firmly reject it (c.f., Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii 53-62).
Watch the shadow cross her face and how she fidgets uncomfortably when Wallace asks her if it's true that her mother was born a Catholic and she admits it. The interview speaks for itself.
(Tangentially, and unrelated to Sanger's comments, a quick word about Mike Wallace's testimonial commercial for Philip Morris cigarettes — bizarre by today's sensibilities about smoking. Oddly, his clipped cadence, his facial expressions, such as the odd quick flashes of a phony grin, here and there, reminded me less of the young Mike Wallace and more of Phil Hartman's SNL impression of Mike Wallace with a little 1976 Chevy Chase Weekend-Update thrown in around the edges.)
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- Thank you so much for posting this. It clears a lot up. Especially her mentioning that the greatest sin is to have children, children born into poverty or with a disease. There are worse things than disease of the body, one of the soul which Mrs. Sanger had. And then for her to show off her grandchildren, reminds me of someone recently, would that be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi? I forget. How sad. I thought the commercials for cigerette were quite ironic sense now a days one can not smoke or buy them till they are 18 but if you want to kill your unborn child, sure. Opey
- It amazes me how so many people are now of the same opinion of Margaret Sanger. It is ridiculous to think that it is "unnatural" that begetting children be first and foremost in marriage. I can't believe that she would even say the church just wants more Catholics and that's why they forbid birth control. I wonder if she really even believed the things she said.
- She is creepy. It is sad to here her talk about the laity disobeying the Church for so very long. Planned Parenthood would be a much reduced organization if Catholics had been faithful. Here is a frightening answer - The greatest sin is bringing a child into the world (and then she quickly clarifies the statement to mean a sick or poor child). But she would not call infidelity nor murder sins. I think that you could say that we live in the country that she envisioned. Scary. Her vision is outlasting cigarettes.
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she is very creepy in my opinion, I found it very hard to watch this footage, made me feel very angry at her ignorance.
I was three years old! She is definitely macabre, and listening to her, I had the most awful feeling of Satan's presence. I cannot wrap my brain around how this woman developed her "philosophy" and that term is used very loosely. If the mental health technology in 1957 was what it is today, she probably would be committed rather than jailed. I find myself more sad than anything at the horrible implications she makes about our beautiful Church and humanity in general. Lord have mercy.
Abbey
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