Frasi di Margaret Sanger

Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger è stata un'attivista, infermiera, scrittrice ed educatrice sessuale statunitense, pioniera della contraccezione e dei diritti riproduttivi.

Margaret Sanger fu colei che diffuse per la prima volta all'interno del mondo anglosassone il termine "controllo delle nascite", aprì la prima clinica di controllo delle nascite negli Stati Uniti d'America ed istituì organizzazioni che si sono poi evolute nell'attuale Planned Parenthood.

Sanger utilizzò i suoi scritti e discorsi principalmente per promuovere il suo modo di pensare. Fu perseguitata per la sua pubblicazione intitolata Family Limitation , censurata secondo le regole delle "Comstock laws" nel 1914. Per timore di serie conseguenze legali emigrò in Gran Bretagna fino a quando non si sentì più sicura da spiacevoli conseguenze legali in patria. Gli sforzi di Sanger nelle sue campagna di sensibilizzazione ai problemi sessuali contribuirono a diversi casi giudiziari i quali favorirono la successiva legalizzazione della contraccezione nel territorio statunitense.

A causa della sua connessione con il tema della pianificazione familiare, Sanger fu frequentemente un facile bersaglio di critiche da parte degli oppositori dell'aborto , anche se la politica di pianificazione non iniziò a fornire aborti prima degli anni settanta del XX secolo, dopo cioè che Sanger era già morta. Ella, che venne aspramente criticata anche per il suo sostegno alla cosiddetta eugenetica negativa, rimane una figura ammirata e stimata all'interno del movimento per i diritti riproduttivi statunitense.

Nel 1916 aprì la prima clinica di controllo delle nascite, il che condusse presto al suo arresto a causa della diffusione e distribuzione d'informazioni nei riguardi della contraccezione, questo dopo che un poliziotto in incognito acquistò una copia del suo opuscolo sulla pianificazione familiare. Il conseguente processo e successivo appello generò varie controversie.

Sanger riteneva che per far sì che le donne avessero una loro posizione più equilibrata nella società e potessero condurre una vita più sana, dovevano essere in grado di determinare quando avere o meno dei figli, quando portare a termine o meno una gravidanza. Voleva anche prevenire gli aborti clandestini, che erano comuni a quel tempo e procurati in condizioni di completa mancanza di sicurezza per le donne in quanto illegali. Credeva che mentre l'aborto fosse talvolta giustificato, doveva essere però generalmente evitato e considerò la contraccezione come l'unico modo pratico per evitarlo.

Nel 1921 fondò l'American Birth Control League che divenne poi la Planned Parenthood Federation of America . A New York organizzò la prima clinica di controllo delle nascite con uno staff composto esclusivamente da dottoresse, nonché una clinica ad Harlem con un consiglio consulivo composto da afroamericani ed in cui furono aggiunti poco dopo membri della stessa comunità di colore.

Nel 1929 costituì il "National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control" che fu il punto focale dei suoi sforzi di gruppo di pressione per la legalizzazione della contraccezione negli Stati Uniti. Dal 1952 al 1959 fu presidentessa dell'"International Planned Parenthood Federation" . Morì nel 1966 ed è ampiamente considerata come una delle fondatrici del moderno movimento di controllo delle nascite. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Settembre 1879 – 6. Settembre 1966
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Margaret Sanger: Frasi in inglese

“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.”

"The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", October 1921, page 5.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32

“I started to take the pulse of the child and as I did so, I saw two bodies of the child - one slightly above the other exactly in the same position and an exact replica - except that it was not flesh but a substance more like cob-webs the color of smoke.”

To Roy Jansen, June 30, 1931. "Roy Jansen (1889-1975), an editor at the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, wrote to Sanger on June 12 asking her to contribute 'some particularly intense or interesting moment in your life' for use in a series called 'Interesting Moments' that was to appear in several newspapers throughout the country." https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22Selected+Papers+of+Margaret+Sanger%22&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22%281889-1975%29%2c%20an%20editor%20at%20the%20pittsburgh%20sun-telegraph%2c%20wrote%20to%20sanger%20on%20june%2012%22
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939, (2007), Esther Katz, editor, University of Illinois Press, p. 99. <small>(Interlineations within the text are rendered within up and down arrows (T I) https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22on+the+reverse+often+with+an+arrow%22&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22interlineations%20within%20the%20text%20are%20rendered%20within%20up%20and%20down%20arrows%22) https://www.google.com/#tbm=bks&q=%20%22dear%20mr.%20jansen:%20the%20most%20interesting%20incident%20of%20my%20life%20was%20some%20years%20ago%20when%20i%20was%20sitting%20beside%20a%20dying%20child%27s%20bed%22 https://www.google.com/#tbm=bks&q=%20%22i%20saw%20two%20bodies%20of%20the%20child%20%E2%80%94%20one%20slightly%20above%20the%20other%20exactly%20in%20the%22 https://www.google.com/#tbm=bks&q=%22in+a+horizontal+position+across+the+room+and+through+the+closed+steel+door%22
Notes at bottom of p. 99 read: "TLcy MSP, DLC (LCM 103:61). For ADf version dated June 12, 1931, see LCM 103:59. The published version was not found. 1. MS was probably referring to her daughter, Peggy Sanger, who died of pneumonia on November 6, 1915. 2. MS did not write about the two-body phenomena anywhere else, though she wrote in My Fight [for Birth Control] of Peggy's death that 'I saw the frail strength of her little body slip away' (126) http://birthcontrolreview.net/My%20Fight%20for%20Birth%20Control/Chapter%2009.pdf." http://books.google.com/books?id=yngbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22probably+referring+to+her+daughter,+Peggy+Sanger%22&dq=%22probably+referring+to+her+daughter,+Peggy+Sanger%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AslqVNqkNMagNsWtg-AC&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA (MS = Margaret Sanger, TLcy = Typed Letter Carbon Copy, DLC = Library of Congress, ADf = Autograph Draft, LCM = Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.google.com/search?q=Margaret+Sanger+Papers+on+microfilm%2C+Library+of+Congress+edition.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=Margaret+Sanger+Papers+microfilm%2C+Library+of+Congress https://www.google.com/search?q=Margaret+Sanger+Papers+on+microfilm%2C+Library+of+Congress+edition.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=bks&q=%22When+citing+documents+on+a+microfilm+edition%2C+the+microfilm+abbreviation%22+ https://www.google.com/search?q=Margaret+Sanger+Papers+on+microfilm%2C+Library+of+Congress+edition.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=bks&q=%22For+those+items+that+also+appear+on+the+Sanger+microfilm%2C+reel+and+frame+citations+follow+the+entry%22+</small>
Contesto: The most interesting incident of my life was some years ago when I was sitting beside a dying child's bed, watching the pulse and waiting for the crisis. It was about two o'clock in the morning. I started to take the pulse of the child and as I did so, I saw two bodies of the child - one slightly above the other exactly in the same position and an exact replica - except that it was not flesh but a substance more like cob-webs the color of smoke. I stood back and beheld this extraordinary phenomena and watched the upper body move majestically away in a horizontal position across the room and through the closed steel door. The physical body remained and was still breathing. Consciousness was never regained and an hour after, the little girl ceased to breathe.

“Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow.”

This second version of Peggy Sanger's death quoted in Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, (2012), Jean H. Baker, Hill and Wang, New York, p. 103. https://www.google.com/#q=%22Peggy+was+sleeping.+Her+pulse+was+so+soft+and+slow%22&tbm=bks
Contesto: Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow. I was unable to realize that the end was near and had my fingers on her ankle to get the pulse when before my eyes arose another Peggy horizontally sleeping [who] rose about a foot or more—fluttering and quivering a moment as if taking leave of its bondage and slowly and majestically [she] soared and floated across the bed and out through the iron closed door... Peggy had left for the great unknown and beyond.

“The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

Margaret Sanger libro Woman and the New Race

Origine: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 5, "The Wickedness of Creating Large Families."
Contesto: Thus we see that the second and third children have a very good chance to live through the first year. Children arriving later have less and less chance, until the twelfth has hardly any chance at all to live twelve months. This does not complete the case, however, for those who care to go farther into the subject will find that many of those who live for a year die before they reach the age of five. Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. The same factors which create the terrible infant mortality rate, and which swell the death rate of children between the ages of one and five, operate even more extensively to lower the health rate of the surviving members.

“Peggy had left for the great unknown and beyond”

This second version of Peggy Sanger's death quoted in Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, (2012), Jean H. Baker, Hill and Wang, New York, p. 103. https://www.google.com/#q=%22Peggy+was+sleeping.+Her+pulse+was+so+soft+and+slow%22&tbm=bks
Contesto: Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow. I was unable to realize that the end was near and had my fingers on her ankle to get the pulse when before my eyes arose another Peggy horizontally sleeping [who] rose about a foot or more—fluttering and quivering a moment as if taking leave of its bondage and slowly and majestically [she] soared and floated across the bed and out through the iron closed door... Peggy had left for the great unknown and beyond.

“I should be the Hunger Strikee.”

Margaret Sanger asking Ethel Bryne to agree to Sanger's historically revised biopic. https://books.google.com/books?id=b3GBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT264&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q=tied%20up&f=false

“More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue in birth control.”

Editors of American Medicine in a review of Sanger's article "Why Not Birth Control Clinics in America?" published in Birth Control Review, May 1919
Misattributed

“It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.”

Margaret Sanger libro Woman and the New Race

Origine: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 2, "Women's Struggle for Freedom"

“Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”

Unknown source, attributed by Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) http://www.blackgenocide.org/planned.html and by Roger L. Roberson, Jr, The Bible & the Black Man: Breaking the Chains of Prejudice (2007), p. 18.
Seems to take "human weeds" from "a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds" or from "the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks– those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization" and "exterminated" from "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" (see above).
Misattributed

“I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit.”

The Mike Wallace Interview (ABC) http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html,
Posed question: "Do you believe in sin — When I say "believe" I don't mean believe in committing sin, do you believe there is such a thing as a sin

“Throughout the 200+ pages of this book Sanger called for the elimination of "human weeds," for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and maladjusted," and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."”

" Who Was Margaret Sanger? http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pp04a.txt", brochure published by the American Life League, regarding The Pivot of Civilization http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1689/1689.txt.
None of those quoted phrases actually appear in the book.
Misattributed

“Margaret Sanger: On the contrary, it seems to me that it is more practical and Humane.”

One Minute News (1947), interview with British Pathé's John Parsons

“The main objects of the Population Congress would be […] (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”

"A Plan for Peace", April 1932, pp. 107-108, summarizing an address to the New History Society, New York City,
Birth Control Review, 1918-32

“(We) are seeking to assist the white race toward the elimination of the unfit”

blacks
Falsely attributed to "Birth Control and Racial Betterment", Birth Control Review, February 1919 http://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads/2015/09/1919-02-February.pdf, by Steve Deace, " Planned Parenthood: The next relic from our racist past that must be purged http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/13/steve-deace-planned-parenthood-the-next-relic-from/", Midwest Conservative (The Washington Times),
Actual quote: "Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenicists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit."
Misattributed

“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”

"The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", October 1921, page 5.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32

“The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.”

Alice Groff, "The Marriage Bed", The Woman Rebel, V.I No. 5, p. 39 (edited by Margaret Sanger)
Misattributed

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