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Uuuum, he is most definitely at risk, and on the hook to financially support “woman’s body, woman’s choice” against his will for at least 18 years.
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Sorry…let me rephrase. If a man does not have access to birth control, is he at risk for becoming pregnant and carrying an unwanted child in his body?
“on the hook” is a stretch. There are certainly millions of men who bear absolutely no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for an unwanted pregnancy and resulting child, but yeah point taken that it takes two to make a baby.
Sanger needed support from wealthy white folks who were frequently pro-eugenics. Whether she actually believed it herself or just tried to appeal to people who did, who knows.
Back in Sanger’s time, there was no such thing as “racism.” Negros and women were labeled “inferior” and homosexuals did not exist.
Sanger hated the disgusting environment that “Negros” were forced to live in, and saw the having big families made the poverty worse. She championed smaller families as a way out of poverty.
ETA: One thing I know about the hardcore anti-abortion troops: They will do anything to stop abortion, including lie.
Why in the name of common sense are you people putting Negro in quotes? It’s a perfectly cromulent word, even though it’s fallen out of common use. I admit that some idiots are offended by it, but they’re the same type that get offended by niggardly.
Some of Margaret Sanger’s ideas on eugenics come across as insensitive at best, deplorable at worst. But that doesn’t remotely begin to outweigh the great deal of good she did, much less brand Planned Parenthood as racist.
It went considerably beyond dislike. Ford funded a newspaper that printed viciously anti-Semitic drivel including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the paper was distributed through Ford dealerships). He also played footsie with the Nazis (Ford plants supplied them with war material, but Ford refused to make aircraft engines for the British).
None of that sleazy history means that people should boycott Ford Motors today.
Heck, the United States was founded by a bunch of slaveowners - or people willing to overlook slavery in reaching the compromise that founded our nation.
And while we are still a racist country - no doubt about it - we have evolved perhaps a little from a nation where it was legal to kill a man or rape a woman who was your property.
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Why in the name of common sense are you people putting Negro in quotes?
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I didn’t put the word Negro in quotes. The author of the article I quoted did.
Margaret Sanger’s mother bore a large number of children and her life was shortened by childbirth complications. Ms. Sanger certainly wanted to help women avoid things like this. My own grandmother died bearing her tenth child–my mother’s youngest sister. (The baby also died.) The men at the time, of course, didn’t give a damn. :mad: