The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

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Summary: Margaret Sanger, a great woman
Review: Growing up the daughter of a practicing lay midwife in the middle of the Hippie Era, I have seen the consequences of not planning ahead before making babies. Margaret Sanger is a great historical figure for everyone, female and male alike, and her memory has been unfairly sullied by funamentalist ninnies and misogynists. I wholly support her vision, with the proviso that because of the increase in average lifespan because of modern medicine, none of us, even the fittest, can breed indiscriminately, and it's even more critical that people with genetic health issues as well as people whose families haven't fit into society very well exercise the better part of valor and refrain from reproducing.

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Summary: Autobiographers do not make good historians.
Review: To interpret yourself and hope everyone after you swallows your interpretation was the wistful hope of this author. What a stark comparison between the Margaret Sanger of this autobiography and the real Margaret Sanger! What the world remembers is that her family planning clinics were usually located in Black neighborhoods. Ms. Sanger doesn't consciously disclose the connection between Darwinian Evolution and her campaign to reduce the birth rate among peoples she considered to be inferior, of lower intelligence, poor or poorly bred.
Go to a real historian like George Grant for the full story. (Grant is as readable as a good story-teller.) >Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood<, a book he wrote in 1988, tells what Margaret Sanger was really like.

Rating:
Summary: Autobiographers do not make good historians.
Review: To interpret yourself and hope everyone after you swallows your interpretation was the wistful hope of this author. What a stark comparison between the Margaret Sanger of this autobiography and the real Margaret Sanger! What the world remembers is that her family planning clinics were usually located in Black neighborhoods. Ms. Sanger doesn't consciously disclose the connection between Darwinian Evolution and her campaign to reduce the birth rate among peoples she considered to be inferior, of lower intelligence, poor or poorly bred.
Go to a real historian like George Grant for the full story. (Grant is as readable as a good story-teller.) >Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood<, a book he wrote in 1988, tells what Margaret Sanger was really like.