A NATIONAL PORTRAIT OF MARGARET SANGER

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American Spectator:

Fifteen years ago I came across in an archive “A Plan for World Peace” issued by a prominent American just months before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.

 

The plan advocated “a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” For the tens of millions of Americans whose genes the author judged objectionable but who themselves judged sterilization objectionable, the plan offered “farm lands and homestead for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.”

 

Those words found in the Library of Congress contradict the depiction of Margaret Sanger in the National Portrait Gallery.

 

, and 23 of their congressional colleagues describe the Planned Parenthood founder as “an avowed advocate of eugenics and the extermination of groups of people she deemed as ‘undesirables.’” They demand that the National Portrait Gallery remove a bust of her in an exhibit called “The Struggle for Justice.”

 

“Margaret Sanger is being demonized for a lot of things she didn’t do,” National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet tells the New Yorker. Sajet labels Sanger neither “perfect” nor a “eugenicist leader.” What the National Portrait Gallery contends the Library of Congress rebuts.