Abortion Quote by Margaret Sanger

“While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,”

Margaret Sanger

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Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy…

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Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence…

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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is…

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Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

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No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

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The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

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Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions……

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“No gods, no masters. ”

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I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance…

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