On January 14 and subsequent days, various folks here contributed to a thread about the late Martin Luther King -- triggered by the news that certain U.S. bishops (particularly Bp. Tod Brown of California) had nonimated King as one of thousands that the Vatican ought to recognize as a modern martyr for Christian principles.

There were folks who mentioned some of Kings shortcomings -- particularly his links to communism, his womanizing, and his plagiarism, I believe.

Because King did, said, and wrote some things that seemed good to me, I have been hesitant to condemn him. But I just learned, a couple of days ago, of an extremely serious defect in his thinking and activities -- one that probably should dwarf his other errors, in the eyes of an orthodox Catholic.

I will quote from a newsletter published by "Les Femmes," a group of wonderful women who work for the betterment of the Church in my diocese (though their efforts are having an impact elsewhere too).

What the newsletter reveals is that King accepted Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award in May of 1966, a couple of years before his death (in the year of Humanae Vitae).

[In case you are unaware of it, Planned Parenthood (PP) is arguably the single most evil entity in the U.S.. Founded as "The American Birth Control League" before 1920, by a racist eugenicist with links to Hitlerism, Margaret Sanger (an ex-Catholic and virulently anti-Catholic nurse), PP is the nation's foremost provider of abortion. Their local centers killed about 1 out of every nine preborn babies who died by abortion last year -- i.e., about 150,000 innocents. PP pretends to be a non-profit organization -- and is thus able to rake in tax dollars from folks now in the White House and some Governor's mansions -- but its confidential papers show that it is out to make big bucks to pay handsome salaries to its officials and killing "doctors." Besides taxpayer dollars, it rakes in lots of cash through the sale of abortion-causing contraceptives. The U.S.'s PP is now an affiliate of IPP, International Planned Parenthood, which works to spread the "culture of death" throughout the globe.]

[Quoting Les Femmes now]: In his speech written for the PP award acceptance ceremony, King advocated population control, saying, "We spend paltry sums for population planning even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet ... Family Planning ... is possible, practical, and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess." King described the "striking kinship" between the civil rights movement and "Margaret Sanger's early efforts." He praised Sanger for her "courage and vision" and called her efforts to limit black families an "important institutional remedy" to their problems. The poor, he said, "have many unwnted children. This is a cruel evil they urgently need to control." Like Sanger, King advocated eliminating poverty by eliminating children. ... The first state abortion law [in Colorado] passed the year following this speech. [Sanger was 83 (or 87, depending on the source you believe) at the time of the King reward, and she died about four months later.]"

[Why was the award to King so ironic?]
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist whose birth control policies targeted the "ill-favored" [her word] and "dysgenic races" and those who held views she disliked, i.e., Jews, Slavs, Hispanics, blacks, fundamentalists, and Catholics. She planned to open "clinics" wherever "human weeds" and undesirables "bred unhindered." In 1939 Sanger formulated the "Negro Project." She planned to hire several "Colored ministers, preferably with social service backgrounds and with engaging personalities" to promote birth control among blacks. In her own words, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. 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." Martin Luther King served PP's purposes to a tee. At best, he was a useful dupe. If he was aware of Sanger's evil and well-publicized views, he was much worse. [end of item quote from Les Femmes' "The Truth" newsletter.]

Please join me in praying that the PP empire will come crashing down. There are good people at work full time to counteract PP's evil influence -- especially Jim Sedlak, a layman who founded "STOPP" as a local effort in New York state around 1985, but who let STOPP become a wing of the Judie Brown's American Life League (ALL) a couple of years ago. Their Internet site is a great one: http://www.all.org/sitemap.htm

God bless you. JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), February 23, 2000

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I will join you, JFG, in praying for an end to Planned Parenthood, which we also call Planned Barrenhood and Banned Parenthood. Therese

-- Therese Saulino (tfsauli@cooknet.net), March 17, 2000.

For corrections to the above misquotes and misinformation, see http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/thisispp/sanger.html

or

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/index.html

-- Sam Gridley (itnech@aloha.net), May 30, 2001.

No thanks, Sam.
The information given above is truthful and well documented, using Sanger's own printed words. Consult the truthful folks at www.all.org for confirmation.
The sites you have provided cannot be depended upon as anything but tools of satan. One cannot possibly get a "correction" from something as sinister as "planned parenthood," the biggest single baby-killer on the planet.
May God lead you out of the pro-death morass.
JFG

-- (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), May 31, 2001.

Full disclosure of the insidious evil that is Planned Parenthood today was provided in a 1988 book by Grant, and the full text is on WWW:

http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/2116_47e.htm

Planned Parenthood has only gotten worse. They have joined ACLU and NOW in litigation against the "Choose Life" license plates which states like Florida have instituted so that pro-life citizens can support crisis pregnancy centers through donations as they purchase these plates.

-- Joseph P. Belk (jpbelk@fuse.net), October 12, 2002.

Hey John, I've never seen this post until now. I was thinking about Sanger just yesterday, about the truth regarding her way a thinking...

All John writes about at the top of this thread is the truth. Sanger was basically a Nazi.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), October 12, 2002.

Thank you, Joseph and Emerald.
(E, better get busy in the archives! I have to admit, though, that I still haven't read 100% of the old threads either.)
JFG

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), October 17, 2002.