[Peace-discuss] Obama gets another one right

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I will read and comment on it Marti.  Thank you for sharing.
(btw, I can't send posts to sf-core)

Before I dared to publish the videos about Sanger on my
website I did research out each quotation to see if it was accurate and 
in context, and
I did read several pieces and a few whole books by Sanger and her 
cohorts/colleagues online.
The quotes made in the videos are indeed verbatim and although selected 
and disembodied from
their context, I did not find that they are misrepresentations of 
Sanger's meaning or intent.

I also recently ordered and received a book by Linda Gordon "Woman's 
Body Woman's Right"
which is a history of the birth control movement from a Pro-Choice  
perspective.  Gordon was
also not particularly kind in her treatment of the historical Sanger.

There is no doubt that the pro-life movement has some spin to the stuff 
they produce because
they are trying to persuade not just report.  Recognizing that, I did go 
and read the originals,
and stuff from both sides of the argument. 

I have spent most of my life working in biology and biomedical fields 
related to agriculture. 
The fastidious environmental and nutritive requirements of the 
developing pre-born
individual that is disingenuously misinterpreted as an argument of fetal 
viability
invoked in Roe v. Wade, etc., is completely devoid of merit.  Life 
doesn't begin at conception, it continues
through conception in the form of a new individual with full potential 
formed by the union of
a live sperm and a live egg.

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The best way to understand Margaret Sanger is to go read Margaret Sanger.

The thing that cannot be erased from Maggie Sanger's writings is that 
she was profoundly
anti-poor and anti-negro and was quite worried that the world would turn 
into something
like the scenario presented in "Idiocracy" unless the valiant agents of 
birth control intervened.

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I agree that the society is badly broken.  It is so badly broken that I 
voted with my feet once
and vowed not to ever come back.  Things aren't any better.

I don't think that the problem is capitalism or socialism exactly.  
Seems to me that we need them both.

I see the problem being that too many people dont know how to get along 
with one another,
too many are unaware, and too many are afraid of the truth.

People are not getting good instruction on how to live their lives and form
lasting bonds with their families because somehow the natural ways and 
instincts are being replaced
with something socio-pathologic.  I think one big problem is that we 
intervene too much and
dont allow some people to go through the difficult sweaty transition of 
adaptation in the face of an
irrevocable committment.  Jumping out of an airplane is an irrevocable 
committment.  Some eggs will
need to be broken to make the omelet, and we have too many interferences 
that are halting
the process because some people are afraid of it.  (This may be unclear 
to some.)

It does no good to render feelings of guilt or to simply criticize,
but there needs to be a lot more understanding and willingness to be 
truly helpful.
I see one of the real problems is that the men are not being real men.  
The best way for women
with children to be supported is that the woman be in a permanent loving 
relationship with a man.  Period.
Certainly some 3-legged cats can climb trees.  The manufacturer's 
recommendation is the full complement of 4.

If the women and men dont want to submit to a conventional lifestyle, 
therein lies their problem.    The problem is that we
rush in and say "poor baby...you dont have to put up with that ole mean 
bastard...we will take care of you"
rather than offering needed support but allowing people to work out the 
rough edges on their own.

I dont think that abortion should be offered as an alternative.  Ever.  
It's certainly not
helpful to the economy or the society, it breaks down the moral fiber of 
the people, and...
it's simply not necessary.  Unless a mild form of genocide is the goal, 
in which case the
utility is obvious as well as the morality, ethics, and understanding.

Marti Wilkinson wrote:
> I've attached an article written by Alexander Sanger who addressed 
> what he believes and cites as misrepresentations of his grandmothers 
> view on eugenics. I personally think the videos present a great deal 
> of distortion and it's hard to find a more 'objective' source.
>
> What I see many of these responses touching on is that basic access to 
> health care, jobs that pay a living wage, and support for women with 
> children are the best way to actually prevent abortions. Until we 
> address some of these basic inequalities this will continue to be an 
> issue.
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