Apr 27, 2008

Margaret Sanger up close and too personal

There is a fascinating September 21 1957 interview by a young Mike Wallace of Planned Parenthood founder and eugenicist Margaret Sanger, complete with cigarette smoking Wallace and an insight into the mind of Sanger through her at times straight forward, at other times dodgy Sanger answers and patently false denials. Hear the chill in Sanger's voice, and see the coldness in her eyes as she states that she was a "born humanitarian." If it weren't so scary you might laugh at the Freudian slips from Ms. Sanger, such as when Wallace asks her if she believes in sin, and Sanger's response is, " I believe it is a sin to bring children into the world, who are diseased." However, Sanger has a long pause between "world" and "who are diseased", so that it sounds as if she is saying it is the greatest sin to bring children into the world.
See the lost art of a News person actually interviewing a controversial public figure, and an earlier age when public figures were not such accomplished liars.
Google Mike Wallace and Margaret Sanger

3 comments :

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

Great post Jay. I wanted to comment yesterday but I lost my internet connection and figured I would do so today.

Your readers might appreciate the following article:

http://www.michnews.com/
artman/publish/article_
20085.shtml

DTF is exposing error everywhere and this serves to build up Christ's Kingdom. Working together, we will - with the help of God's grace - restore all things in Christ.

JayG said...

Great post Paul, thanks. If any individual said what Planned Parenthood does, there would be a million person march outside their doors, and no one would stay 35 feet away. We owe Judie Brown a debt of thanks again for publishing this. Follow the link and sign the petition to stop our government from funding these eugenicists.

Jerry said...

I wholeheartedly agree, and have just signed the petition.

In fact, I believe we must take it a step further. Beyond merely asking for these subsidies to end, we must cease our own material participation via our tax dollars. I believe we must actually start to withhold tax money, that is to say, begin a tax resistance movement or an all-out strike until this is remedied. If interested, you may want to read more on this idea at my blog. (Look for "pro-life strike".) Feel free to respond with comments or criticisms.