An "Unnatural" Leader

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JMJ

An extremely interesting and thought provoking interview.  It is with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and the Birth Control Movement and is from over fifty years ago.  The whole interview is interesting but it is almost 30 minutes long so I encourage you to watch at least the last ten minutes starting at 18:04.

The interviewer is very direct with Sanger, pointing out discrepancies between her current answers and previous quotes.  It is obvious she is irritated by this line of questioning, and more than once fails to remember a quote (even one from earlier in the week).  It is painfully similar to current Planned Parenthood executives and cheerleaders who publicly pretend to be positive influences on the community and indifferent to their opposition, all the while use their allies to force their destructive agenda.  


One of the interviewer's questions is about taxpayers funding the dissemination of contraception, which is amazing considering the year this was filmed (1957).  A revealing moment comes when she is asked if she believes in sin.  Her answer:

"I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world--that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin -- that people can -- can commit."

The interviewer presses her with questions of specifying sin, to which she replies:

"Well, I naturally think murder, whether it's a sin or not, is a terrible act."

It is also terrible when you are stuck in traffic for 10 hours, but that is not a sin.  Conveniently and persistently denying the existence of sin callouses one's conscience and allows him to live a life free of consequence.  But it is just that, a non-consequential life that does nothing to move him to his intended end.


It is important to note that when given the Church's opposition to birth control on grounds of natural law, Sanger refuses to believe in such a thing.  There is no objective Truth in her mind, no law written on our hearts.  Actually, she ironically attacks the Church's position as "unnatural".  What could be more unnatural than a woman denying her innermost instinct to be a mother?  Whether biological or spiritual, every woman's body has been made to be fruitful.  And yet, because so many women are pumping the pill into their bodies for 5, 10, 15, even 20 straight years they no longer know what it means to be a woman.


Birth control has deeply wounded woman, and has utterly decimated marriages.  We cannot fully promote a culture of life until we recognize these truths.