[SKRIVA] Ännu en gloria på sniskan

From: Rickard Berghorn <rickard.berghorn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 01:41:17 +0100
Vissa saker är så befängda att bara en äkta cyniker kan skratta hjärtligt
åt dem. Detta fick jag just veta om en av USA:s stora feministiska ikoner,
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), känd för sitt engagemang i sexualundervisning
och spridande av preventivmedel:
"All the same players were involved, such as Margaret Sanger, who was a
member of the American Eugenics Society and was the editor of the Birth
Control Review. The primary philosophy was trumpeted on the cover of the
Birth Control Review: 'More Children for the Fit. Less for the Unfit.' She
made it clear whom she considered unfit: 'Hebrews, Slavs, Catholics, and
Negroes.' She set up her Birth Control clinics only in their neighborhoods.
She openly advocated the idea that such people should apply for official
permission to have babies 'as immigrants have to apply for visas.'

Why dont we hear of this connection between Margaret Sanger, the founder
of Planned Parenthood, and Eugenics?

Two words: Adolf Hitler. He officially instituted Eugenics, leading an
entire country in carrying out its principles, not only to breed what he
believed to be a superior race but to eliminate everyone whom he considered
to be inferior. Where did Hitler find early support for his Eugenic ideas?
From Margaret Sanger and her circle. Eugenic Scientists from Nazi Germany
wrote articles for Sangers Birth Control Review, and members of Sangers
American Birth Control League visited Nazi Germany, sat in on sessions of
the Supreme Eugenics Court, and returned with glowing reports of how the
Sterilization Law was 'weeding out the worst strains in the Germanic stock
in a scientific and truly humanitarian way.'

After World War II, when the world learned of the horrors of the Holocaust
and the death camps, the term Eugenics was utterly discredited. Margaret
Sanger was quick to distance herself from Eugenics and began to emphasize
Birth Control as supposedly a feminist issue. We dont hear about Eugenics
at all any more."
http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/chesterton-101/lecture-36/

Här ska förtydliga att jag naturligtvis anser att barnbegränsning och
familjeplanering ("birth control") bara är av godo och i modern tid inte
kan belastas för sin historiska koppling till eugeniken. Men Margaret
Sanger får nog betraktas som en prakthöna som i blindo hittade en guldklimp.

-- Rickard

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