Abortion culture has gutted the humanity of America. Respecting life implies sacrifice, but American society seeks narcissism, and we are addicted to the toxic drug of abortion.
If Margaret Sanger could time travel to visit a modern Planned Parenthood, would she recognize the organization she started?
My home state of Colorado allows abortion for any reason up to birth. It forces insurance providers to cover abortions without even a copay. It went into debt to shovel $4.4 million in Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood. The state tried to stop my wife as a medical provider from saving unborn babies, even when their crying mothers wanted them. Colorado may be an extreme example, but every state struggles with abortion mania.
Did you know the founder of Planned Parenthood never intended this to happen? The feminist crusader for eugenics Margaret Sanger actually had a mission to end abortion. Her writings even show she believed human life began at conception. She believed abortion was evil.
According to Sanger’s autobiography, in 1916 she mailed fliers that said “DO NOT KILL, DO NOT TAKE LIFE, BUT PREVENT.” Seeing unplanned pregnancies as a scourge on women, her solution was contraception. She wanted to prevent pregnancy, not end it. “Birth control,” as Sanger called it, was needed because “abortion was the wrong way.” “[N]o matter how early it was performed,” Sanger wrote, “it was taking life.” Contraception was better because “life had not yet begun.”
As she stood trial in 1918, Sanger’s court exhibit, The Case For Birth Control, called abortion “the greatest disgrace of modern civilization.” She explained that her movement “is antagonistic to the general practice of abortion.” Her Birth Control League was for “the Prevention of Conception, and not the causing of abortion.” Contraception, she claimed, would “positively do away with the evil of abortion.”
In Germany, while evangelizing for “birth control,” she was shocked that the doctors preferred abortions because they believed they could control women. In Berlin, she told an audience that contraception was the “harmless” solution because the only others were “infanticide, which is abhorred, and … abortion, nearly as bad.”
A Russian man thought Sanger’s “birth control” meant terminating pregnancies. “No, that’s abortion,” she explained. “We don’t want that. Birth control is different.” In New York she derided the “wise men and scientists” who continued the “barbaric methods” of “infanticide, abortion, and other crude ways.”
Maggie won her mission to legalize “birth control” in the United States. The Supreme Court’s rulings in Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird allowed contraception for anyone. The Comstock Act, passed in 1873 banning the mailing of contraceptives, effectively ended in 1972, a century after it became law. Six years following her death, Sanger’s lifelong ambition was realized.
Yet, her goal to end abortion was a massive failure. One year after legalized “birth control” came legalized abortion. Roe v. Wade ruled it was needed for “privacy.” Doe v. Bolton said it was for “health.” In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey claimed it was to prevent “undue burden.” In 2000, the FDA approved an abortion pill for pregnancy as if it were a “Serious or Life-Threatening Illness.” Solutions in search of a problem?
If Margaret Sanger could time travel to visit a modern Planned Parenthood, would she recognize the organization she started? What would she think of states ending unborn life with impunity? Would the thought of the government forcing people who believe in the sanctity of life to pay for the slaughter of the unborn shake her to her core? Would she reconsider starting that “birth control” clinic in Brooklyn, New York?
Unlike Planned Parenthood and their “pro-choice” supporters today, Margaret Sanger opposed abortion from conception. Her “birth control” wasn’t supposed to end life. It was to end abortion.
I’m not simping for Margaret Sanger or her quest for “birth control.” I don’t think she would join a “pro-life” organization. But the gap on this issue between today’s Planned Parenthood and the woman who created it is enormous.
If Planned Parenthood’s founder considered abortion “barbaric” and “evil,” why do Democrats want to die on that hill? Margaret Sanger tried to eliminate abortion; her own organization has turned it into a sacrament. Maybe it’s time to rethink this religious fervor for abortion on demand. Let’s consider what abortion really is, as Sanger did. It ends human life.
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Daniel Mynyk hosts the weekly theological and political podcast Truthspresso. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Pensacola Christian College and a Master’s of Information Systems from the University of Phoenix. He has contributed to The Upper Room, The Thinking Conservative, and the Libertarian Christian Institute. Daniel and his wife Chelsea run Castle Rock Women’s Health, a life-affirming whole women’s health clinic. They have four kids.
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