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In Chapter 11 of Godless (p. 271), Ann Coulter writes of Margaret Sanger:

In her 1922 book Pivot of Civilization, she advocated the elimination of "weeds....overrunning the human garden"; the segregation of "morons, misfits, and the maladjusted"; and the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."

From a column published in the Wall Street Journal in 1997, The Repackaging of Margaret Sanger written by Population Research Institute president Steven W. Mosher:

In her 1922 book "Pivot of Civilization" she unabashedly called for the extirpation of "weeds ... overrunning the human garden;" for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and the maladjusted;" and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."

Coulter:

In a 1939 manifesto titled "Birth Control and the Negro," she noted that "the poorer areas, particularly in the South...are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations."

Mosher:

In 1939 she and Clarence Gamble made an infamous proposal called "Birth Control and the Negro," which asserted that "the poorer areas, particularly in the South ... are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations."

Coulter:

Her "religion of birth control" would, she wrote, "ease the financial load of caring for with public funds ... children destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family, and ultimately to the nation."

Mosher:

Sanger recommended birth control to lessen the financial burden of caring for such wees, "destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family, and ultimately to the nation."

Needless to say, Mosher and The Wall Street Journal are not credited in the Chapter 11 endnotes of Coulter's Godless for the author's selected examples of Sanger's work from which she apparently just copied.

# posted by Ron Brynaert : 8/25/2006 02:06:00 AM