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Old 11-20-2008, 12:41 AM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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I wonder if people realize that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a racist and into eugenics ...

Margaret Sanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, In Her Own Words

Sanger's Legacy Is Reproductive Freedom and Racism
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Old 11-20-2008, 12:53 AM
 
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Read Freakonomics. It appears she succeeded.
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Old 11-20-2008, 01:00 AM
 
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What if she was? Henry Ford had a dark side. Are you calling for a boycott of Ford cars?
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Old 11-20-2008, 01:03 AM
 
Location: Mountain Home, ID
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Why is this in the elections forum anyway?

A lot of famous people and companies have less than savory histories. Henry Ford was a Jew hater and Nazi sympathizer.
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Old 11-20-2008, 01:19 AM
 
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So what?


And you're in the wrong forum, too.
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Old 11-20-2008, 05:14 AM
 
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This quote, in a list of odd and probably taken out of context quotes meant to turn the reader anti-choice, was also on the anti-choice website link; guess the website owner and OP are the only two Americans who've never done it LOL snicker snicker:

"Sex is too important to glop up with sentiment. If you feel sexy, for heaven's sake admit it to yourself. If the feeling and the tension bother you, you can masturbate. Masturbation cannot hurt you and it will make you feel more relaxed."
[SIZE=2]The Perils of Puberty, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo. [/SIZE]

If they have a problem with the above, then it goes to show you how extreme and beyond the mainstream their movement really goes.
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Old 11-20-2008, 06:26 AM
 
Location: The Woods
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What if she was? Henry Ford had a dark side. Are you calling for a boycott of Ford cars?
The purpose behind planned parenthood was to carry out her eugenicist ideas. To this day it's been shown planned parenthood targets people she would have viewed as "inferior" and more often than with others tries to talk them into an abortion with their "counseling."
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Old 11-20-2008, 06:34 AM
 
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Sanger was a scumbag, but that doesn't mean that abortion and birth control are wrong, just that Sanger was wrong and Planned Parenthood was when they followed her flawed ideas.
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Old 11-20-2008, 08:01 AM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Sanger was a scumbag, but that doesn't mean that abortion and birth control are wrong, just that Sanger was wrong and Planned Parenthood was when they followed her flawed ideas.
As a public health professional, and a nurse who has worked in maternal-child health for 35+ years, I agree. Just because she was a nutjob, it doesn't mean we should "throw the baby out with the bath water", so to speak. "Politics makes strange bedfellows". You don't ditch someone just because you don't agree with them 100%.
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Old 11-20-2008, 08:56 AM
 
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The purpose behind planned parenthood was to carry out her eugenicist ideas. To this day it's been shown planned parenthood targets people she would have viewed as "inferior" and more often than with others tries to talk them into an abortion with their "counseling."
Who in your mind do they view as inferior and what is your source for this serious accusation?
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