By Mary Flores
Educational Outreach Coordinator
American Life League
One hundred years ago, a woman named Margaret Sanger opened
the first birth control clinic
in New York City. That first clinic was the birthplace of what we know today as
the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Educational Outreach Coordinator
American Life League
One hundred years ago, a woman named Margaret Sanger opened
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| Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) |
Most people
recognize Planned Parenthood as the largest abortion provider in the United
States, but few people realize that PPFA started with just birth control.
You see, when we
think we can control when and where we have children, it leads us to believe
that children are either wanted or unwanted. When a society believes that a
person’s value depends on whether or not he is wanted, the only recourse is
abortion.
Where it all started
Thanks to the
work of one woman—Margaret Sanger—America changed its mindset about
contraception. In the late 1800s, contraception was illegal. It was even
illegal to distribute information about contraceptives in the United States,
let alone perform abortions. Sanger set out to change that law.
Inspired by the
false “science” of eugenics, Margaret Sanger believed that birth control was
the only way to “cleanse the public gene pool” and to eliminate the poor and
those whom she deemed “unfit” from society—an ideology much like that of the
Nazis.
In the space of
100 years, the United States not only permitted anyone to use contraceptives,
it also decriminalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Today’s youth deserve to know
Feminists of
today see Sanger as a hero because of her campaign for birth control and her
organization’s later campaign for abortion in America. Our young people deserve
to know the truth about how Sanger’s ideas continue to damage our families and
society as a whole.
A new multimedia
unit study entitled Who Was the Real
Margaret Sanger? from American Life League’s Culture of Life
Studies Program shows high school students the history of the founder of Planned
Parenthood and exposes Margaret Sanger’s twisted ideology and adherence to
eugenics—the same quasi-science used by the Nazis to justify the murder of
millions of people in order to create a “better race.”
In order to make
this important unit study available in time for the fall semester, American
Life League has started a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to raise the
funds necessary to complete the study, as well as donate copies of Who Was the Real Margaret Sanger? to
schools in need.
You can help
bring this important effort to schools by giving to the campaign and sharing the project
on social media. In exchange for backing the project, you can receive rewards
such as a copy of Who Was the Real
Margaret Sanger? and other unit studies from the Culture of Life Studies
Program.
American
Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program stresses the culture of life as
an integral part of every academic discipline. CLSP is dedicated to helping
students become effective communicators of the pro-life message.
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