Gloria Feldt on Margaret Sanger: Brooklyn Museum

In honor of the birthday of Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, feminist writer and commentator Gloria Feldt discusses Sanger's life and work, the history of the birth-control movement, the role that birth control plays in women's equality and empowerment, and what activists today can learn about leadership from Sanger's organizing. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 13, 2009. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

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[Mia6146]

Anyone who agrees with Margaret Sanger is a racist!! Period. This B. probably is repeating what they told her to say! Ya right!!! Margaret Sanger...a hero?? Right!  and I'm Marilyn Monroe!! Bunch of morones!!

[MaggieSullivan60]

Sanger wanted to kill african americans and was a proud supporter of the KKK.

Planned murderhood is a deadly racist group and they are proud of it.

[RaptureMeSoon]

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

[catholicmarxists]

@quemacha I thought little to no sexual control was a virtue to the evil PP federation. Now I'm confused. Keep posting their own words... They can't deny it then.

[catholicmarxists]

Evil. DO they celebrate Hitler's birthday too? Our taxes pay for this?

[scatcoitusmoosic]

lol@ a lot of pro-life propagandists slandering margaret sanger

[quemacha]

"The aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets" - (Sanger, What Every Girl Should Know, 1920).

[startingnov903]

@procommenter I wrongly assumed you were capable of intelligent, constructive debate on the important issue of the reproductive rights of women and the conscious choice of family size. That you could appreciate that in the day and time that the book was written things were not what they are today, and that a single phrase taken out of context does not constitute an intelligent quote on a body of work. My bad. No, I am not appologizing for her. I was trying to suggest you could do better.

[procommenter]

@startingnov903 : You are apologizing for Margaret Sanger? Are you as cannibal too?

[startingnov903]

@procommenter Read the paragraphs before the line, where she explains that the more children you have the less likely they survive. In my mother's generation women had more than a dozen babies, and they all lived in the most desperate poverty. If they had had access to birth control they might have had a chance to get an education, good food, and a better life. The WHOLE book is available at Google books. Read more of the book. Assuming you understand from one phrase is not respecting yourself .