I saw this yesterday, and had to dig deep in the remains to find it again:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4577720ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-16-10 09:58 PM
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Leading anti-abortion activist dies in Mass. at 84
Source: Associated Press
BOSTON — Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and a nationally recognized leader of the anti-abortion movement, has died at age 84.
Anne Fox, the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, says Jefferson died Friday in Cambridge. She says Jefferson recently became ill.
Jefferson helped establish the National Right to Life Committee. Communications director Derrick Jones says she was its at-large director when she died.
A great lady.
Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-16-10 10:13 PM
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3. May she burn in hell.
And seeing all the people she killed....
A filthy savage, is Hawkeye X. Hate the guy.
Now, it gets interesting when a knowledgable person shows up.
boppers (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-17-10 02:15 AM
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11. Several above posters haven't heard of her, so a short primer:
Birth control and abortion once had strong ties to the US eugenics movement, where abortion and birth control were part of "solving the minority problem". If children weren't produced by minorities, because rich white people stepped in and gave them drugs and abortions, those population groups could be "kept in check".
Jefferson effectively stepped in and said "HELL NO", and made sure people knew that there was a racist motivation to birth control (at the time), and she was instrumental in forcing the missions of racists like those of Planned Parenthood (which has changed names and missions a few times since then) to be universal and non-discriminatory.
This message was brought to you by "Shit your teachers couldn't talk about in school, because it's radioactive."
which sends someone positively over the edge, when the subject of Margaret Sanger is brought up.
boppers (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-18-10 11:26 PM
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38. Sanger's words:
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.... We are convinced that racial regeneration, like individual regeneration, must come 'from within.' That is, it must be autonomous, self-directive, and not imposed from without."
From:
"The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", full source at:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/docum...
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iverglas (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-19-10 10:47 AM
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46. what are your words?
What are you pretending that Sanger meant when she said that?
I stated that when Sanger used the word RACE she was referring to THE HUMAN RACE.
Do you have any reason to dispute that, and any grounds on which to dispute it?
If you are not disputing that fact, what is your point in reproducing that passage?
Shall I guess?
iverglas (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-20-10 01:21 PM
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68. what vicious filth
Her concept of race, regardless of whether you will admit it or not, was THE HUMAN RACE, and it had not one thing to do with the "race" referred to in the term racism. Not one thing.
Kinda like Hannah Bell's subject-only response: "Bullshit."
boppers (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-20-10 04:20 AM
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63. Race came later, in some ways...
...but they were already measuring skulls.
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iverglas (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-20-10 01:25 PM
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69. Who is this "they" to whom you refer
"they were already measuring skulls"
And this goes on for some time, bopper calmly providing links and support, and Iverglas frothing at the mouth. Bopper actually has some academic credentials on the subject, but iverglass is having none of it. The thread died quietly on Sunday evening, but was revived for one post only on Tuesday, when someone said "good riddance" to the great lady, with a tasteless smiley face.
