Margaret SangerĢƵ statue should be removed
Margaret Sanger believed some people were “human weeds,” “reckless breeders” and “morons” who never should have been born.
With those anti-human attitudes, she founded Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, which reaps in billion-dollar revenues while aborting 345,000 unborn babies each year. It does not hide the fact that it targets poor and minority women for abortions, too.
But, while rioters are defacing and destroying statues of U.S. leaders in the name of ending racism, Sanger’s statue still has a place of honor in The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
As our nation struggles to address racial injustice, it is unconscionable that an avowed racist and eugenicist is featured so prominently.
In a 1939 letter to a friend, she wrote, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” She also spoke to a KKK gathering in 1926.
Sanger founded Planned Parenthood 100 years ago, and since abortion became legal nation-wide in 1973, an estimated 20 million unborn black babies have been aborted in America.
It’s time for the Smithsonian to stop honoring the person who planted these beliefs into an organization that continues to abort 247 black unborn babies every single day.
Black lives matter! ALL lives matter. Abortion is murder.
Pastor Terry Hagedorn
Smithfield