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The Art Of Natural Family Planning In The Light Of John F. Kippley
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On the other hand, below are the supporters of
artificial family planning. The first person to be seen among this group
is Margaret Sanger nee Higgins (1879-1966), an Irish American who was
the one that introduced the phrase, birth control through her polices in
the 1920s and 1930s. Margaret’s theory was very famous in her time
especially as to have influenced Hitler so much. Sanger’s objective was
to eliminate what she called the unfit members of the society by massive
sterilization programs. Unfit members of the public for her include the
poor, illiterates, the handicapped and the criminals, the black
Americans and the Africans. In a letter, which she wrote to Clarence
Gamble on 19th Oct, 1939, she expressed her plans to stop the growth of
black population in the USA. Margaret also introduced many groups to
channel her views. Among these groups were the Planned Parenthood
Federation in America which she founded and was its first president.
Sanger’s group saw the Africans as ‘sub man’ and the typical English
labourer as ‘sub sub man’ who should be eliminated from the society. For
her, 70% of the American people were reckoned as ‘morons’ (morons for
her means those with low I.Q), and she recommended that the government
should conduct I.Q tests compulsively so that those with low I.Q. will
be immediately sterilized so as to curtail their growth. For her
therefore:
The burden of supporting these unwanted types has to be
borne by the healthy elements of the nation. Funds that should be used
to raise the standards of our civilization are diverted to the
maintenance of those who should never have been born. [4]
Maria
Stopes (1880-1956) on her part in supporting the course of the unnatural
method of family planning founded the first birth control clinic in
Great Britain in 1921. She also founded a society for constructive birth
control and racial progress for which she was the first president.
However, it is now widely recognized that these two women, Maria and
Sanger were responsible for today’s sexual permissiveness, pornography,
divorce, contraception and abortion through their actions.
Thomas
Robert Malthus (1766-1834), an avowed elitist is another personality who
was credited to have championed the birth of family planning. In his
view, he believed that the poor should be eliminated for the sake of the
society. Intrinsic to Malthus theory was a belief that the poor
overburdened the world’s resources and that consequently, they should
never really exist. Malthus view influenced many so that they began to
see anyone who helps the poor as an enemy of the society since he was
only helping to prolong and propagate evil.
Having said something
about some individual views on family planning, let us then see the
notion of some organizations and groups that lended wait to the support
of one of the methods of family planning.
The Christian churches were
not left behind in the issue of supporting one of the two methods of
family planning. Thus, the church insisted that the practice of natural
family planning is the only authentic method of family planning. Hence:
the
church teaches that it is morally permissible for couples to calculate
their fertility by observing the natural rhythms inherent in the
generative faculties and to reserve marital intercourse for infertile
times. Thus, couples are able to plan their families without violating
the moral teachings
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