#1. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
What more really needs to be added to that? Sanger has no respect for life whatsoever.
#2. Such parents swell the pathetic ranks of the unemployed. Feeble-mindedness perpetuates itself from the ranks of those who are blandly indifferent to their racial responsibilities. And it is largely this type of humanity we are now drawing upon to populate our world for the generations to come. In this orgy of multiplying and replenishing the earth, this type is pari passu multiplying and perpetuating those direst evils in which we must, if civilization is to survive, extirpate by the very roots.
Only quality people should be allowed to live in Sanger’s opinion. Progressivism and eugenics always seem to go hand in hand. It’s a short walk from sterilizing people because they are disabled, to sterilizing people because you don’t like their culture… or opinions. The United States was the first country to undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics. The most recent occurred from 2006 to 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program in two female correctional facilities. It has since been banned.
#3. Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
There’s that eugenics thing again. That got very unpopular after World War 2.
#4. Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Birth control. She apparently knows what’s best for others.
#5. We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
Sanger thought that blacks’ religious tendencies meant they weren’t that keen on using logic.
#6. Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies… and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit…
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.
In her Plan for Peace, birth control ideas, Sanger argued for a license to have a child. Maybe that’s not a bad idea?
#7. [We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
Sanger believed it was wicked to create large families. She believed that large families only brought about poverty and illness. She believed that children’s lives should be ended before they can cause problems for their family.