1957 Mike Wallace's Interview With Margaret Sanger

[mortify]

All I have to say is [size=5]WOW![/size]

[quote]Margaret Sanger, the leader of the birth control movement in America, talks to Wallace about why she became an advocate for birth control, over-population, the Catholic Church, and morality.[/quote]

Watch it in full here:
[b][url="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret.html"]Mike Wallace interview with Margaret Sanger[/url][/b]

Edited May 2, 2008 by mortify

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='mortify' post='1516445' date='May 2 2008, 12:26 AM']All I have to say is [size=5]WOW![/size]
Watch it in full here:
[url="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret.html"]Mike Wallace interview with Margaret Sanger[/url][/quote]
Can you lst some of the important points, my computer has no sound.

[mortify]

Cmom, you actually don't need sound since it has subtitles.

But here is a transcript of that interview:


[b][url="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html"]Transcript[/url][/b]

Edited May 2, 2008 by mortify

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='mortify' post='1516451' date='May 2 2008, 12:35 AM']Cmom, you actually don't need sound since it has subtitles.

But here is a transcript of that interview:
[b][url="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html"]Transcript[/url][/b][/quote]
Thank you dearie.

[mortify]

Sanger contradicts herself numerous times and reveals her hate (don't hate, appreciate) for Christianity. I can't help but sense the evil in her.

[quote]WALLACE: Mrs. Sanger do you disagree that Catholics or do you feel that Catholics should not have a right to have a say when the city administration contemplates spending their tax dollars on birth control or the dissemination of birth control information? Something that Catholics believe is sinful.

SANGER: That they have a right to say --

WALLACE: Do you feel that they don't have a right to have a say when a city administration contemplates spending their dollars -- tax dollars on birth control? For instance here in New York Catholics comprise about 45% of our population -- they're the largest single group. Well, don't you think that they should have the democratic right to lobby against having their money spent their tax money spent on something that they consider evil?

SANGER: I suppose they have a right. And they certainly do it -- but so have the others and yet they're only 45% of the population -- and that is not the majority.

WALLACE: But they have a right to get up and...

SANGER: Certainly. I'd have no objection to their having a say about it--but I think we should have the same right. I say "we", I mean non-Catholics .

WALLACE: Well, of course this is a little bit of variance of something you have told our reporter earlier this week, you said earlier this week --"it's not only wrong it should be made illegal for any religious group to prohibit dissemination of birth control -- even among its own members". In other words you would like to see the government legislate religious beliefs in a certain sense.

SANGER: Honestly, -- where are these strange things coming from -- that I said them (LAUGHS)..I should like to know when.

WALLACE: Well, now you know that my reporter spent a good deal of time with you. He's a very accurate young man...[/quote]

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[quote]WALLACE: What are your religious beliefs, Mrs. Sanger? Do you believe in God in the sense of a Divine Being -- who rewards or punishes people after death?

SANGER: [b]Well, I have a different attitude about--the divine--I feel that we have divinity within us, and the more we express the good part of our lives, the more the divine within us expresses itself.[/b]I suppose I would call myself an Episcopalian by religion and there's a--many other, if you travel around the world you get quite a bit of the feeling of all--all religions--have so much alike in the divine part of our own being. And I suppose you just couldn't just put that into a book or you couldn't put it to a phrase or a sentence.

WALLACE: Do you believe in sin -- When I say believe I don't mean believe in committing sin do you believe there is such a thing as a sin?

SANGER: [b]I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the worl[/b]d--that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin -- that people can -- can commit..[/quote]

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Sanger's Marriage

[quote]WALLACE: May I ask you this, could it be that women in the United States have become too independent --that they followed the lead of women like Margaret Sanger by neglecting family life for a career? [b]Let me quote from your biography describing your second marriage to Noah Slee. Quote, "In New York Mrs. Sanger maintained every clause of their compact of independence. They had separate apartments --they telephoned each other for dinner or theatre engagements or passed notes back and forth"[/b]. Would you call this a sound formula for marriage Mrs. Sanger?

SANGER: For different people, yes...it certainly was for me, and for my husband. We had a very happy marriage...he had different friends than I had and--I don't believe in forcing, after all we were two adults, forcing your friends on another person when they have an entirely different outlook--it worked out very well.[/quote]

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[quote]SANGER: I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world--that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin -- that people can -- can commit..[/quote]

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Sanger's bizarre view on why the Church rejects contraception (and more self contradictions):

[color="#0000FF"][quote][color="#0000FF"]WALLACE: I asked you your motives a little while ago, at the beginning of the program--your motives in working for birth control as hard as you have for as many years as you have. Y[b]ou reject the principle Catholic argument against birth control as being totally invalid. Well what do you think is the reason, the motive of the Church in forbidding birth control?[/b]

SANGER: You'd have to ask a Catholic that, I couldn't say what their motive is.

(...)

WALLACE: But you won't hazard a guess.

SANGER; I don't care to, thank you.

WALLACE: May I ask you why? Now I know that in private and...in--actually in public discussions, I think, prior to this time--you have been willing to state your understanding of what the motives of the Church are and now you would you would rather remain silent. May I ask you why?

SANGER: Well, simply because I don't think that a -- that the Church has changed in its attitude, some of the hierarchy have changed their attitude. You can't say the same thing that you might have said a year ago or two years ago as to your belief, as to your opinions. I'm not going to --

WALLACE: [b]Have you heard it said, that the reason that the Church is against birth control is because they want more Catholics?[/b]

SANGER: I've read it.

WALLACE: Do you believe it?

SANGER: Well, if you read their papers, where they point out Boston, that that's what had happened in Boston in Massachusetts. They had simply out-bred the Protestants and they're -- they -- in Boston in Massachusetts they have control. I read that in their own papers

WALLACE: I see...of course the Church's answer--the Church's answer, and I read now from a pamphlet published by [b]the Redemptionist Fathers in Missouri, says as follows: It says "that point of view about wanting more Catholics is nonsense. Quote, "The Catholic Church does not command Catholic husbands and wives to have even one child. The Church considers it more than normally meritorious for them to have no children if they mutually and perpetually give up the use of the marriage right for the Love of God."[/b]

SANGER: Alright, I have no quote what they do, so they...I think that the question in my mind is that they may do and order their own people to do as they wish but I object to their having the same rules for people who are not of the same religion.

WALLACE: Well, they believe, you see, that it was a natural law, not a Catholic Law, but a "natural law," and therefore a sin not just for Catholics, but a sin for all peoples...and I think that there are other religious groups, the very very Orthodox Jews, feel the same way about birth control. Let's look at another argument against Birth Control, Mrs. Sanger, published in Red Book Magazine, in March of 1956.It says "Birth Control is a devastating social force, which tends to weaken the moral fibre of the community. Immunity from parenthood encourages promiscuity, particularly when unmarried persons can so easily avail themselves of the devices." Do you doubt that?

SANGER: I doubt it.[/color][/quote][/color]

Edited May 2, 2008 by mortify

[Jaime]

Man do I miss smoking

[mortify]

I was shocked by the flagrant cigarette advertisements but the interview itself was really interesting.

[fides quarens intellectum]

double post.

Edited May 2, 2008 by fides quarens intellectum

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1516483' date='May 1 2008, 11:33 PM']Man do I miss smoking[/quote]

i was thinking the same thing.

[fides quarens intellectum]

Whoah. He asks her if she believes there is such a thing as sin, and she responds that the greatest sin is to bring a child into the world. Whoah.

[dominicansoul]

Well, wherever Sanger is now, she definitely knows the TRUTH! What's really horrible is the legacy she has left behind, and all the lives affected by it...

[b]Priests really need to preach against birth control. [/b] This is an issue that is so vital and important in this day and age...and I never hear about it from the pulpit. How are Catholics supposed to know it's wrong? Especially those Catholics that don't read up on Encyclicals and their Cathechism. They certainly are not receiving this teaching on their own or in the parish CCD programs. (At least that was my experience when I went through my parish CCD program. It was never even mentioned.) I think the majority of Catholics receive their teachings from the homilies at Mass. Sadly, I also think many believe what the media says about the Church.

Edited May 2, 2008 by dominicansoul