weird, deranged, & cringe

A teenage girl has been arrested in North Carolina for assault with a “deadly weapon” after allegedly taking abortion pills 31 weeks into her pregnancy, which prompted her to go into labor. The teen’s boyfriend has also been arrested, and charged with negligent child abuse.

The charges are head-spinning: the “deadly weapon” appears to refer to...abortion pills. By taking the medication, cops say, the teen—who we’ll call J—signaled her “intent to kill.” She is also charged with negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury and assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child.

If/When/How Associate Director of Legal Services Elizabeth Ling described the charges as “yet another example of cops twisting abortion stigma into a crime,” within a policing system “that looks at someone going through a deeply terrifying experience and only sees a villain.”

Instead of being allowed to rest and receive medical care just days after going into labor, the 18-year old was arrested and jailed on Tuesday. She was then forced to show up for a court hearing on Wednesday.

“birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race”

“the most urgent problem to-day is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective”

”I accepted an invitation to talk to the woman’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose.”

”On the other hand, the mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.”

“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

you guessed it, it’s Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood! oh and the founder of the American Birth Control Legion whose mission according to Sanger is “To promote eugenic birth selection throughout the United States so that there may be more well-born and fewer ill-born children―a stronger, healthier and more intelligent race.”

Was she a eugenicist? Yeah. So were a bunch of other people of her time. I never see you dumbasses call telephones demonic because what’s-his-nuts Graham Bell was also a raging eugenicist.