Pro-life Republicans in the House and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are demanding that the National Portrait Gallery remove a bust of Margaret Sanger from all Smithsonian properties, and said it shouldn’t be displayed because she supported the use of contraceptives to control minority populations.
Sanger was also one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, which Republicans have been attacking as a group that may be trying to profit from the sale of fetal remains.
“Ms. Sanger was an avowed advocate of eugenics and the extermination of groups of people she deemed as ‘undesirables,'” the lawmakers wrote. “Specifically, Ms. Sanger singled out African-Americans, among other minority groups, as deserving to be subjected to such horrific and inhumane treatment.”
“Honoring a figure who promoted such hatred and deep-seated racism is not only contrary to the values that the exhibit is purporting to promote, but also deeply antithetical to the very values most Americans hold dear,” they added.
The letter was prompted by recent revelations about Planned Parenthood, and it said Sanger wrote in a 1939 letter that it should never get out that “we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
“Honoring Ms. Sanger is an outrage,” they wrote. Read their full letter here:
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