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April 23, 2009 | 2:34 pm

Clinton grilled for praising Planned Parenthood founder

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Margaret Sanger was a controversial figure in women’s liberation, an activist for birth control who later founded Planned Parenthood. And yesterday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got grilled by two Republican members of Congress for praising Sanger.

“Sanger,” Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said, “was an unapologetic eugenicist and racist who said ‘the most merciful thing a family does for one of its infant members is to kill it.’ And said on another occasion, ‘eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.’”

Emily Belz at World magazine writes:

Clinton didn’t respond to the Sanger quotes at first, but later in the hearing when questioned again on the matter, she said in all humans (she used Thomas Jefferson’s slave holding as an example) “there are things we admire and there are things we deplore.”

Deplorable, indeed. Now, politicians can get worked up over just about anything. But eugenics is about as ugly a world as Nazi. And for good reason.

(Hat tip: Christianity Today Politics Blog)

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just as an FYI, eugenics never really went away, they just changed the name.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eugenics_Quarterly_to_Social_Biology.jpg

Comment by Proton Soup on 4/23/09 at 3:24 pm

Probably briefed by the same staffer who researched Suha Arafat. We all remember Clinton kissing Arafat after her inspirational speech about Israeli genocide by poisoning of Palestinian children. But let’s look into this ideas further. Is she saying that the humans in the Obama administration are in some degree deplorable, or in the Bush administration that were admirable? Tell us more.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/23/09 at 11:12 pm

I have had a chance to take a closer look at this entry. Nice shot there, Proton.

I also looked the link you provided to the Wikipedia entry for ‘Nazi Eugenics’, Brad. To my mind a more telling comment on the story would be a link to the unmodified Eugenics entry. In it, we would discover the support of outstanding liberals for managing the breeding of he human race as we do horses and dogs and roses; mating the very best and weeding and pruning unwanted branches and twigs from the human family tree. A story of hubris that patronizingly assumes that those supporters are qualified to choose, and that Hitler won’t get to read about it while in jail, and that the bad guys won’t get to control the process.

Not too much different than the orangutan-like hubris of outstanding liberals of the time supporting medical education and getting doctors who perform radical plastic surgery and transgender operations; or outstanding liberals supporting rights and self-determination for Palestinians counterfeit national movements who use the tools and vocabulary of radical politics to discredit and demonize and disposess Jews authentic nations from their homeland; or outstanding liberals manipulating the political-media complex to enslave America for generations (Obama lied - the economy died).

All for our own good, of course.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/26/09 at 8:10 am

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