THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

progress, security and even existence; we shall see much-abused 'eugenics' actually moulding
social programmes and political policies... we or the next generation..." (Stoddard, _The
Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy_, 1930) Sanger advocated not only the
"elimination of human weeds" in a social context, but approved of the "sterilization of
genetically inferior races." (_The Pivot of Civilization_, p.101,108,123) Although she
proposed a peaceful path to "racial purification," in which people would be educated and paid
to foster "more children from the fit, fewer from the unfit", Sanger had no quarrel with the
Nazis' compulsory sterilization program. Another BC League member, Harry Laughlin,
received an honorary MD degree from the University of Heidelberg, in appreciation of his
"contributions to the Third Reich". (Richard Hertz, _Chance and Symbol_, p.107) In return, a
number of American eugenicists urged the Eugenics Record Office (a BC League enterprise)
to make Adolf Hitler an honorary member. (see Robert Proctor, _Racial Hygiene_, p.103)
Although this was not done, Nazi articles were printed and Nazi sterilization policies were
praised in the _Birth Control Review_, even after American eugenicists were invited to
witness their coercive and often brutal methods. [see more under Nazism section].
Has Planned Parenthood distanced themselves from the unsavory history of their
organization? Not if their Annual Report of 1985 is the last word: "Proud of our past, and
planning for our future." The "planning" has included birth control and/or sterilization of the
"mentally retarded" [Project 3], the "physically handicapped" [Project 4] and "psychiatric
patients, criminals, and prisoners" [Project 6]. (Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
"A Five Year Plan 1976-1980")
[While it is true that PP circulated a statement in Feb. 1998 ("The Truth About Margaret
Sanger", see the PPFA on-line Library & Resource Center) to "refute" Sanger's "alleged
racism", their efforts are embarrassing. For example, Sanger is exonerated from the racist
masthead of the _Birth Control Review_ because she did not personally invent the slogan; and
then for "proof" they quote her assessment of "the raising of human thoroughbreds" as "the
noblest and most difficult art". There are also cases of outright denial. One example: claiming
that the review by Havelock Ellis of Stoddard's _Rising Tide_ was published by Sanger in
order to denounce Stoddard's racism, while ignoring the fact that Stoddard remained a coleader
in good standing at the BC League. Another: refuting Sanger's motto, "More children
from the fit, less from the unfit" by attributing it to the editors of _American Medicine_ who
were summarizing her article published therein, omitting the fact that Sanger reprinted this
line in the May 1919 _BCR_ alongside her article.) In some cases, unsavory Sanger quotes
are denounced as nonexistent, whereas other sources have cited book and page for them - the
Sanger statement cited above from _Pivot_ about "human weeds" and "genetically inferior
races" is specifically dismissed as an "allegation" by "anonymous anti-family planning
activists"). I know of no other attempt by PP to deal with Margaret Sanger's eugenics.]
Did Planned Parenthood target only poor black communities for eugenic control, as most
people believe? Not if the locations of their birth control clinics are any indication. Sanger
herself opened one in the Brownsville section of New York - not a neighborhood of poor
Afro-Americans, but immigrant Slavs, Hispanics, Italians... and Jews. [In the 1998 statement,
the PPFA "refutes" the fact that Sanger targeted these groups for population control by saying
that she was not promoting "abortion" among them, only "birth control"....] Were Sanger's
"undesirables" limited to the socially unproductive and genetically dysfunctional? Not if we
consider her own declaration that "dysgenic races" should rightly include "Fundamentalists
and Catholics" - a purely religious consideration. (see _Woman's Body, Woman's Right_,
Linda Gordon, p.229-334.) We will see later that, according to Bailey's New World Order,
religious conviction does indeed affect one's fitness for the new human subrace. [Some