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originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: intrptr
There's a thread on here somewhere discussing chips that can be implanted where medication can be dispensed remotely. Perfect solution. Implant a chip in every newborn, and at puberty start dispensing birth control. Stop dispensing it when the adult can prove they are ready to have children. Perfect way to eliminate ALL unwanted pregnancies. Giving up a little personal freedom is a small price to pay…for the children.
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: windword
…things a fetus doesn't posses.
Thats subjective on your part, how could you know if a human fetus 'minds' being aborted?
Because....Biology.
In contrast with eugenicist William Robinson, who advocated euthanasia for the unfit,[note 8] Sanger wrote, "we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."[92] Similarly, Sanger denounced the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program.[87] In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain in the hands of able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment.[89][93]
Sanger's writings echoed her ideas about inferiority and loose morals of particular races. In one "What Every Girl Should Know" commentary, she references popular opinion that Aboriginal Australians were "just a step higher than the chimpanzee" with "little sexual control," as compared to the "normal man and Woman."[78] Elsewhere she bemoaned that traditional sexual ethics "... have in the past revealed their woeful inability to prevent the sexual and racial chaos into which the world has today drifted."[93]
Such attitudes did not keep her from collaborating with African-American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929, James H. Hubert, a black social worker and leader of New York's Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem.[96] Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930. The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African-American press and in black churches, and it received the approval of W. E. B. Du Bois, founder of the NAACP.[97] In 1939 Sanger wrote, "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." She did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects.[98] Sanger's work with minorities earned praise from Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1966 acceptance speech for the Margaret Sanger award.[99]
From 1939 to 1942 Sanger was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role—alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble—in the Negro Project, an effort to deliver birth control to poor black people.[100] Sanger wanted the Negro Project to include black ministers in leadership roles, but other supervisors did not. To emphasize the benefits of involving black community leaders, she wrote to Gamble "we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." This quote has been cited by Angela Davis to support her claims that Sanger wanted to exterminate black people.[101] However, New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project, argues that in writing that letter, "Sanger recognized that elements within the black community might mistakenly associate the Negro Project with racist sterilization campaigns in the Jim Crow South, unless clergy and other community leaders spread the word that the Project had a humanitarian aim."[102]
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: texasgirl
Her simple reason? She chose to give the baby away to a couple desperate to have a child and couldn't. There are millions of people every day desperate for a child.
I've always been pro-choice but now....not so much. To me, life is life. It isn't up to us who deserves to live and die.
You laud your sister for the choice that she made, but you would consider taking that choice away from other women and force your sister's choice onto them?
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: intrptr
hmm, I got my prenatal care from one for my first kid, at least at the begining and they didn't deliver babies and they didn't do abortions... I had to go to another doctor before it was time to deliver. and well I do believe he also did abortions… all that was in the 80's maybe it depended on weather you were in a large city or small or maybe your location… this was in texas
Us guys need to have better options than condoms, women have an entire arsenal at their disposal (but for some reason don't fully utilize?)
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: windword
…things a fetus doesn't posses.
Thats subjective on your part, how could you know if a human fetus 'minds' being aborted?
Because....Biology.
Well, in that sense fetuses are as human as you and I? By the first trimester they are formed, heart pumping, blood pumping, all their digits, so who's to say they aren't thinking? Ask moms about fetus 'behavior' in the womb.
I laud her choice because she changed my view.