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> I'm really interested in how you can categorize abortion of unwanted babies as genocide. Sanger, 1924: "How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unl

> I'm really interested in how you can categorize abortion of unwanted babies as genocide. Sanger, 1924: "How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds." Sanger, 1939: "The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want 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." Sounds like eugenics and genocide to me. > Would you say the same about preventing all babies from being born with fetal alcohol syndrome by having the mothers abort? Yes.

0xfeba 6y ago
Sanger was objectively a terrible person. That doesn't mean that abortion is a automatically immoral. So you can equate terminating a pregnancy with that of murdering adults and children but unfortunately in reality it's a grey area. The older the fetus gets, the less grey it gets but there's no solid line to make it easy as much as conservatives would like to believe. Especially in cases of rape, or high-risk pregnancies. It's a terrible decision to have to make, so I'm all for reducing the number of abortions. But you can't do that by outlawing abortion. And the side that wants to do that, outlaw abortion, also wants to pretend teenagers can "just not have sex" and that there's no need to teach them about safe sex, contraceptives, etc.