Category: Maternity Clinics

The Cruelty of Charity according to Margaret Sanger (in Pivot of Civilization)

This is a chapter from Margarent Sanger’s 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization. The chapter title is “The Cruelty of Charity.” CHAPTER V: The Cruelty of Charity “Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty.  It is a deliberate storing up of miseries for future generations.  There is no greater …

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Abortion as Eugenics Directed at Black People, Bedroom Politics, Francis Beal

What is below was compiled and produced by Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel in their Before Roe v. Wade:  Voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court’s ruling.  The ellipses reflect deletions by those authors.  Anyone who can locate the full, unabridged text, is kindly asked to contact the administrators of this …

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