{"id":1027,"date":"2018-12-19T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2018-12-19T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:37:51","slug":"1921-margaret-sangers-the-eugenic-value-of-birth-control-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1921-margaret-sangers-the-eugenic-value-of-birth-control-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"1921: Margaret Sanger&#8217;s &#8220;The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1028\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1028\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.35.32-PM-225x300.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.35.32-PM-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.35.32-PM.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front cover of the &#8220;Birth Control Review&#8221; where Sanger published her article\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1029\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1029\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1029\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.34.16-PM-236x300.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.34.16-PM-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.34.16-PM.png 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Margaret Sanger&#8217;s &#8220;The Eugenic Value of Birth Control and Propaganda&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924007352325;view=1up;seq=73<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Introduction to the museum discusses, Margaret Sanger was an activist and leader in the Birth Control Movement (Burgin 2018). In the early 1900s when a large portion of the population was beginning to fear the decrease in the Anglo-Saxon race, the Eugenics movement skyrocketed. Sanger\u2019s article about the connection of eugenics and the Birth Control Movement speaks to whom she, and the larger population, see as the fit and qualified population to be reproducing. Sanger refers to the \u201cunfit\u201d in society as those who are poor, uneducated, and the feeble-minded (Sanger 1921). Her intention with this is to promote those who are not physically or mentally fit, who aren\u2019t educated and wealthy enough, are those who are defined as the people who should not be giving birth. This way there will be a decrease in \u201cunfit\u201d babies and it will \u201cdiscourage the over fertility\u201d of the \u201cdefective\u201d (Sanger 1921). Sanger\u2019s and many other people\u2019s in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century mentality and generalized stereotype of individuals with disabilities not being fit to parent continues to be a concern and widespread stereotype in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Introduction to the museum discusses, Margaret Sanger was an activist and leader in the Birth Control Movement (Burgin 2018). In the early 1900s when a large portion of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1921-margaret-sangers-the-eugenic-value-of-birth-control-propaganda\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dori-auslander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}