>>5015448 - reposting previously nominated notable.
>>5014963 (lb)
Summary of 1957 interview with Margaret Sanger for anons. Interview is about birth control and not abortion.
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Birth control was a dirty word back in the early 1900s.
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Sanger's crusade broke up her first marriage.
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She came from large family. 11 children.
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Trained nurse.
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Women wanted birth control.
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Father was a village atheist.
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Sanger and siblings were called "children of the devil."
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Sanger says she is a humanitarian and doesn't like to see people suffering.
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"Where is the man to give me what the movement gives in joy and interest and freedom."
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Says population control was a motivation.
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Birth control to keep population static.
Same Malthusian Argument that Humans are the problem. We see this today via climate change.
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Wallace says that Church's position is that birth control violates a natural law.
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Sanger brings up Church is celibate and does not know marriage.
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Sanger blames Christianity for the smudge on sex.
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Sanger defends homosexuals for being born that way. Not all are perverts.
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Wallace brings up federal funding of birth control. An issue back then.
* "I think the greatest sin is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents. That have no chance in the world to be a human being, practically. Delinquents. Prisoners. All sorts of things. Just marked when they're born.
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Sanger's clinics offer marriage counseling.
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Wallace asks if women are neglecting marriage by wanting to have a career.
Looks like the whole marriage counseling thing was being pushed way back in 1957 as an alternative to children keeping the family united.