{"id":7040,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/saving-the-preborn-and-pulling-human-weeds-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","slug":"saving-the-preborn-and-pulling-human-weeds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/saving-the-preborn-and-pulling-human-weeds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Preborn and Pulling &#8220;Human Weeds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book review about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.  She was a Malthusian socialist who regarded poor people as &#8220;human weeds&#8221; to be sterilized whenever possible.  She felt that &#8220;the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.&#8221;  She was closely connected with the &#8220;race  purification&#8221; scientists of the Nazi party, being convinced that the &#8220;inferior races&#8221; were a &#8220;menace to civilization&#8221;, thus, she wanted to create a &#8220;race of thoroughbreds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was a Malthusian socialist who regarded poor people as &#8220;human weeds&#8221; to be sterilized whenever possible. She felt that &#8220;the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.&#8221; She was closely connected with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450,828,1432,131,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}