On March 27th in Houston, Texas, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the leading abortion provider in the United States. With assets of over $1 billion dollars, Planned Parenthood killed over 300,000 innocent, unborn, American children in 2007 alone.

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a known racist and eugenicist. Following are quotes from Margaret Sanger and excerpts of the glowing praise Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had for Sanger upon receipt of the Margaret Sanger Award.

The real Margaret Sanger

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.

"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."Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.

"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems."Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.

"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922

What Hillary has to say about Margaret Sanger and Abortion

Quotes from Hillary Clinton's remarks at Planned Parenthood Federation of America Awards Gala Houston, Texas
March 27, 2009  

(Note: the following text contains excerpts from Secretary Clinton's March 27, 2009 speech in Houston, TX at PPFA Awards Gala)

"...Now, I have to tell you that it was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision."

"...The overarching mission of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the cause of reproductive freedom that you continue to advance today is as relevant in our world now as it was a hundred years ago. So I thank you."

"...The 20th century reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race."

"...And the derivative inequities that result from all of that [abortion and birth control] are evident in the fact that women and girls are still the majority of the world’s poor, unschooled, unhealthy, and underfed. This is and has been for many years a matter of personal and professional importance to me, and I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women’s rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this [Obama] Administration."

"...You see, I believe that women’s rights and empowerment is an indispensable ingredient of smart power and therefore is integrated into our renewed emphasis on diplomacy and development."

"...I am also pleased to tell you that we announced that the United States will once again fund family planning through the United Nations. We are going to fund a contribution of $50 million this fiscal year. That’s a 130 percent increase over our last contribution, which was made in 2001. Congress has also approved the [Obama] Administration’s request for $545 million in bilateral assistance for family planning and reproductive health programs this year. And this is a significant increase over last year. Because I and the Administration and not wavering in our commitments to development assistance even in these tough economic times."

"...And that is why I strongly support Planned Parenthood, and organizations that are on the front lines around the world. I want to thank several people who are really special, and starting with Cecile Richards, who has done a magnificent job on behalf of Planned Parenthood. And I know that she and her very talented team, including Laurie Rubiner, whom you saw in the video, who’s the vice president for public policy, will make sure that women’s health and women’s reproductive health is included in any deliberation concerning our — finally adopting — a system that takes care of all of our people."

Lest there be any doubt as to how Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton defines the term "Reproductive Health" or "Reproductive Rights" consider her Clinton said,"We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women's health and reproductive health includes access to abortion."  See the YouTube video of her response to Rep. Chris Smith.  Note that she follows Planned Parenthood's misrepresentation of the facts relating to pregnancy rates and illegal abortions.

See also:

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