A commenter at AmP mentioned this video clip of a long form interview by a young Mike Wallace of an aging Margaret Sanger.  Up until now, I have read some quotes, some accounts, and the like, but this is a chance to hear her in her own words.  Of particular interest is when Wallace mentions her comments to his reporter that religions should not prohibit the dissemination of birth control even among their own members.  He asks her if she actually means that the government should legislatively prevent religions from prohibiting certain activities to their members.  She dances around nicely and doesn’t answer.  Then he asks her if she believes in God, and she responds that she believes in the divine in all of us, and that if we live out the good part of our lives, we increase the amount of divinity in us (my, how new age of her, eh?  New age isn’t so new, is it?)

One of the best though is when Wallace asks her if she believes that sin exists.  She says

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.

Which is to say that humans have no ability to self-improve. It’s that whole quality of life issue that gets beaten over and over – creating a life which has no quality in Sanger’s eyes is a sin. I question…if more people knew of the mentality of the people pushing birth control from the beginning, would they want to be anywhere near it?

Watch the video!