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PassingFair

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10. It wasn't meant to be negative.
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 05:35 AM
Apr 2012

I, too, hate that it comes up every time Sanger is mentioned.
But it DOES come up. Maddeningly so.

I felt it was OK to express that in here.



You don't need to apologize, I get that it's maddening.



"She was indeed a person of her times, largely in that she did not have access to the science we have access to today, to understand some of the problems she was seeking to solve, let alone access to the solutions available to us today in the form of both treatments and social supports, for example.

To pick on Margaret Sanger, of all the people available to target for anti-human social policies advocated and applied 70 or 80 years ago, always just strikes me as rather bizarre."


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Margaret Sanger... [View all] Violet_Crumble Mar 2012 OP
I believe it's Elizabeth Cady Stanton orpupilofnature57 Mar 2012 #1
Sanger died in 1966 PassingFair Mar 2012 #2
please .... iverglas Apr 2012 #6
From the same Wiki article you linked below: PassingFair Apr 2012 #8
wiki is a handy reference for many things iverglas Apr 2012 #9
It wasn't meant to be negative. PassingFair Apr 2012 #10
for me, it is one of those, it is what it is. whatever that may be, lol seabeyond Apr 2012 #11
we really need to stop this iverglas Apr 2012 #13
thank you Scout Apr 2012 #14
Love this post. redqueen Apr 2012 #15
exactly! iverglas Apr 2012 #16
Thank you for this, Iverglas! PassingFair Apr 2012 #17
we must thank VC iverglas Apr 2012 #18
Violet reports that she has the flu iverglas Apr 2012 #19
People opposed to choice and freedom love to drag her name through the mud Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #3
No, not really. redqueen Apr 2012 #4
Ugh. Ford was a HORRIBLE anti-semite. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #5
remember that weird nun and her leaflet? iverglas Apr 2012 #7
It seems like MadrasT Apr 2012 #12
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