THE FUNDIES VS. MARGARET SANGER

A commenter on POLITICO posted a link to this attack on Sanger in the Worldview Times and I decided to check the quotes, starting with this one:

17. In Sanger's book, Woman and the New Race, she declared, "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." Ibid. 133.

I thought the "ibid" refers back to this citation, George Grant, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, 1992. This is available online in PDF format here.  After doing a search, I realized that I was mistaken because Grand Illusions did not have the quoted text.  Sanger's book on Google  DID have the text though not the same page number.  Here's an extended selection that includes the quote above, from pages 61-63 in Women and the New Race.

One of the clearest of these was that made by Arthur Geissler among miners and cited by Dr. Alfred Ploetz before the First International Eugenic Congress. [Problems in Eugenics, London. 1918.] Taking 26,000 births from unse1ected' marriages, and omit ting families having one and two children, Geissler got this result:

Thus we see that the second and third children have a very good chance to live through the 1st 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. Moreover, the overcrowded homes of large families reared in poverty further contribute to this condition. Lack of medical attention is still another factor. so that the child who must struggle for health in competition with other members of a closely packed family has still great difficulties to meet after its poor constitution and malnutrition have been accounted for.

This book is a favorite among leading Fundies, as one can see by looking at the introductory blurbs:

Grand ZllurionJ peeks behind the curtain of Planned Pmenthood exposing the lies that
have made it a “respectable” institution.
–R. C. Sproul, President, Ligonier Minktries

For those who care about family and chiidren, thk book is a must. Planned Parenthood
is a radical extremist group funded with milhons of your tax dollars. Read this book!
Prepare to get educated about Planned Parenthood.
–Donald E. Wildmon, President, American Family Association.

George Grant is right- thk is a wax. A war of words. Chuice means categorical selfishness.
Fetus means a mass of dkposable tissue. And education means learning how to live
and act in shameless immorally while suffering no consequences. What a grand illusion.
When are we going to wake up?
– Beverly LaHaye, President, Concerned Women for America

George Grant has done it again. He has written a compelling and decisive analysis of
one of our most ditlkult social dilemmas — and he has done it with style and grace. This
book is certainly must reading for every concerned Christian today.
–D. James Kennedy, Ph. D., Senior Minister, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

George Grant’s Grand Illusiozr is one of the most outstanding studies of the true and hidden
agenda of Planned Parenthood. It is must reading for all those who are concerned
with protecting unborn life.
– Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Executive Director, Christian Coalition

George Granfs Graad Illusions unmasks both the elitist, racist past of Planned Parenthood and its horrific anti-family, anti-life present. If every American would take the time to acquaint themselves with the facts contained in this book, the questibns of any public funding for Planned Parenthood would be over.
– Dr. Richard Land, President, The Christian Life Commission