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Clinton, Sanger, and Guadalupe

Last week, Hillary Clinton visited Mexico City and stared into the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the miraculous image having been lowered to the floor for the purpose. One day later, she was accepting the Margaret Sanger award from the Planned Parenthood Federation in Texas.

Clinton’s remarks about St. Juan Diego’s tilma are best left unrepeated. Her acceptance speech to Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, warrants some commentary. Particularly this line:

“I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision.”

Even for an organization which attempts to promote the horrific act of abortion as a good and healthy thing, Sanger’s complete views are an embarrassment, and her “vision” an abomination. Perhaps Clinton has been reading one of the more whitewashed hagiographies of Planned Parenthood’s founder. The next time she gives a speech on the subject, though, I invite her to quote a few of these statements made by her award’s namesake. These should be a hit with any racists, eugenecists, or murderers in the audience*:

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” [Referring not to abortion, but the best solution to children suffering the ‘evils’ of large families.]

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

“Birth control … is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those will become defectives.”

“We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who should never have been born at all.”

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

“Give dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”

“… the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development….”

Ironically, her views on abortion are also something the pro-abortion crowd of today would do well to conceal:

“I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.”

“To each group we explained … that abortion was the wrong way — no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way … because life had not yet begun.”

Clinton — or anyone, for that matter — should hang her head in shame for accepting an award in the name of Margaret Sanger.

One wonders whether her encounter with the Virgin of Guadalupe was entirely wasted … but let’s pray that it planted the seed of something new.

* Quotes with sources taken from here and here.