Read on to find out. [65] The clinic received extensive funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, who continued to make anonymous donations to Sanger's causes in subsequent decades. On This #ThrowBackThursday I bring you Mary Maxwell Gates. [68]:28 Sanger introduced Carbizone birth control tablets to China. Indeed, Bill Gates II, a prominent Seattle lawyer, also served on the board of Planned Parenthood. Bills great-grandfather on his mothers side, J. W. Maxwell, founded Seattles National City Bank in 1906. Mary Maxwell Gates earned a position of power in the business world which few women were able to obtain in her time. However she would appeal to both ideas as a rhetorical tool. ", Correspondence between Sanger and McCormick, from, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 19:17. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) a separate entity from the U.S. nonprofit wields significant influence on global sex education. Aside from Gates, the World Health Engelman, Peter C., "Margaret Sanger", article in. The billionaire was fascinated growing up with Bill Gates Sr.'s involvement with Planned Parenthood. Upon leaving the army, he studied medicine and phrenology but ultimately became a stonecutter, chiseling-out angels, saints, and tombstones. [26] These problems were epitomized in a story that Sanger would later recount in her speeches: while Sanger was working as a nurse, she was called to the apartment of a woman, "Sadie Sachs", who had become extremely ill due to a self-induced abortion. Sanger became estranged from her husband in 1913, and the couple's divorce was finalized in 1921. One of the projects funded by the grant is Abortion Access in Crisis and Conflict Zones, which is staffed by Jill Filipovic and Nichole Sobecki both known for their pro-abortion writing. [7] She has been criticized for supporting negative eugenics; Sanger opposed eugenics along racial lines and did not believe that poverty was hereditary. One stated that the series contained "a purer morality than whole libraries full of hypocritical cant about modesty". [51] He later became the first legal manufacturer of diaphragms in the United States. She wrote several books in the 1920s which had a nationwide impact in promoting the cause of birth control. In 1999,Bill and Melinda Gates donated $1.73 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, through theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A post shared by Bill Gates (@thisisbillgates). [62] The founding principles of the ABCL were as follows:[63]. PENTAGON'S SCHOOLS INFESTED WITH SHOCKING PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL FOR MILITARY KIDS: 'TIME TO SEND A D*CK PIC'. SEATTLE William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Margaret Sanger: Pioneer to the Future, p. 109. Between 1920 and 1926, 567,000 copies of Woman and the New Race and The Pivot of Civilization were sold. I make sure the resources are available, and he works to wisely spend the money, he told With all of the problems facing humanity at the moment, Bill Gates and his class wouldlike us to believe that it is our children that are the problem. Sanger invested a great deal of effort communicating with the general public. His parents were rather well off, so he together with his two siblings (Kristianne and Libby Gates) could afford [102], While researching information on contraception, Sanger read treatises on sexuality including The Psychology of Sex by the English psychologist Havelock Ellis and was heavily influenced by it. His wife, Mary, Bill IIIs mother, was the first female president of King Countys United Way. [34] In 1922, she married her second husband, James Noah H. What Is Bill Gates' Actual Connection To Planned Parenthood? That year she became the first woman to serve as a director of First Interstate Bank and the first woman to serve as the president of the King Countys United Way. [114], Over the course of her career, Sanger was arrested at least eight times for expressing her views during an era in which speaking publicly about contraception was illegal. [127][128][129] Biographer Ellen Chesler commented: "Margaret Sanger was never herself a racist, but she lived in a profoundly bigoted society, and her failure to repudiate prejudice unequivocallyespecially when it was manifest among proponents of her causehas haunted her ever since. He was a lunatic. When Starbucks was a small company with only six stores and a total business value of $3.8 million, a man who is now Starbucks executive chairman nearly lost the business in an underhanded deal, according to Yahoo Finance. Sanger was the sixth of 11 surviving children,[20] spending her early years in a bustling household. 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[98] Pincus had recruited John Rock, Harvard gynecologist, to investigate clinical use of progesterone to prevent ovulation. one of the richest men in the world, Bill Gates, Bill would spend a weekend with his former girlfriend and business partner Ann Winblad, things turned nasty between Bill and Melinda, Bill and Melinda Gates donated $1.73 million. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. As NBC News reports, William Gates Sr. was a trustee of the organization and worked onthe board of Planned Parenthood prior to his death in September 2020. This is a sinister justification of the murder of our weakest citizens, funded by the most powerful. Planned Parenthood, said that children under 10 should learn about being sexually attracted to gender diverse people. This 16-page pamphlet contained detailed and precise information and graphic descriptions of various contraceptive methods. According to the Gates Foundation grant database, the Foundation gave Planned Parenthood of America, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington about $71 million from before 2009 through 2013. [141]:182188, While Sanger condemned abortion as a method of family limitation, she was not opposed to abortion intended to save a woman's life. He was president of the Seattle/King County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association and a director of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the King County United Way and Planned Parenthood. Consider this for a moment: In an age of fear and desperation, some of the worlds richest people are telling impoverished men and women that what they need is the right and the ability to kill their preborn children. She also wanted to prevent so-called back-alley abortions,[10] which were common at the time because abortions were illegal in the U.S.[11] She believed that, while abortion may be a viable option in life-threatening situations for the pregnant, it should generally be avoided. Sanger's bail was set at $500 and she went back home. The purpose of this project, Live Action noted, will likely be heavily skewed to support a so-called need for abortion in Bangladesh, Colombia, and Nigeriapro-life nations that do not want abortion but are ripe for the picking by international abortion groups already working overtime to legalize abortion throughout South America and Africa. As COVID-19 and government responses to the pandemic crush local economies worldwide,globalist philanthropists and financiers of ideological projects are using the opportunity to push feticide on unwilling nations. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Powered by. [5] Sanger drew a sharp distinction between birth control and abortion, and was opposed to abortions throughout the bulk of her professional career, declining to participate in them as a nurse. And we stormed into the guys office, and hes sitting at his desk and Bill Gates is leaning over, all six-foot-seven of him, and basically points a finger at him and says, You should be ashamed of yourself. [104] Influenced by Ellis, Sanger adopted his view of sexuality as a powerful, liberating force. She launched a campaign to challenge governmental censorship of contraceptive information through confrontational actions. [56] Only when Sanger pledged that Byrne would never break the law was she pardoned after ten days. All rights reserved. Men and women who have it in control and constantly use their brain cells thinking deeply, are never sensual. Rather unsurprisingly, a fact-check conducted by Snopes concluded that no evidence has been found to back up any claims that Bill Gates' fatherembraced eugenics or was in charge of Planned Parenthood throughout his life. Rather than stand trial, she fled the country. My heart was racing. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. [156][157] In 1981, Sanger was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Gates Sr. sits on a number of boards, including serving as co-chair for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. All Rights Reserved. She served on the board with IBM CEO John Opel, which garnered her a relationship with the man that would give her son his first shot at success. Because of William's association with Planned Parenthood, an unfounded rumor began to spread suggesting Bill promoted the idea of eugenics the practice of selective breeding after being encouraged to by his dad. This is the only photo that can be legally reused of Bill Gates, Sr, although many exist online, as well as many reusable photos of Bill, Jr. We never hear about this again from Bill Gates. [24]:393[96], In 1948, Sanger helped found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood, which evolved into the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952, and soon became the world's largest non-governmental international women's health, family planning and birth control organization. Stopes showed Sanger her writings and sought her advice about a chapter on contraception. Gates donated to the organization years before and years after the 2017 report was released. [43], During her 1914 trip to England, she was also profoundly influenced by the liberation theories of Havelock Ellis, under whose tutelage she sought not just to make sexual intercourse safer for women but more pleasurable. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! He was also heavily involved in Planned Parenthood, according to PBS. Over the years, the Gates Foundation has donated millions to abortion organizations including Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International all the while claiming that they do not financially support abortion. Since its creation in 2000, the Gates Foundation has donated $78.5 million to Planned Parenthood. [142] Furthermore, in 1932, Sanger directed the Clinical Research Bureau to start referring patients to hospitals for therapeutic abortions when indicated by an examining physician. In 1966, Planned Parenthood began issuing its Margaret Sanger Awards annually to honor "individuals of distinction in recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights". After Sanger's appeal of her conviction for the Brownsville clinic secured a 1918 court ruling that exempted physicians from the law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptive information to women (provided it was prescribed for medical reason), she established the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB) in 1923 to exploit this loophole. "[124] Sanger was supported by one of the most racist authors in America in the 1920s, the Klansman Lothrop Stoddard,[125][126] who was a founding member of the Board of Directors of Sanger's American Birth Control League. The claims that the elder Gates supported the idea of eugenics appears to be nothing more than a wild assumption. [70], In 1928, conflict within the birth control movement leadership led Sanger to resign as the president of the ABCL and take full control of the CRB, renaming it the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB), marking the beginning of a schism that would last until 1938.[71]. [106], Sanger opposed excessive sexual indulgence. Due to her connection with Planned Parenthood, many who oppose abortion frequently condemn Sanger by criticizing her views on birth control and eugenics. The sex ed toolkit from The International Planned Parenthood Federation, which operates separately from the U.S. The IPPF did not immediately respond to a request for comment. William Henry Gates II, better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates, and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. He was the father of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Of course this wasn't literally true, but Gates Sr. did sit on the national board of Planned Parenthood according to a fellow PP board member, as well as his obituary . At the time, Microsoft was a small software company. [53] Nine days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested. He was 94. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother. [43] At the Fifth International Neo-Malthusian Conference in 1922, she was the first woman to chair a session. "[130], Sanger's eugenics policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods, and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, as well as compulsory segregation or sterilization for the "profoundly retarded". [161] There is a Margaret Sanger Lane in Plattsburgh, New York and an Alle Margaret Sanger in Saint-Nazaire, France. The Gates family long had an interest in the subject of population control and reproductive health. Therein, of course, lies the answerwe do not think that abortion and birth control pills and Planned Parenthood sex education are making the world a better place. In spite of her original intentions, she remained active in the movement through the 1950s. In 2014, Melinda shared her thoughts on family planning and claimed (via CNS News) theirfoundationhad "decided not to fund abortion.". It was used to fund the South-North Adolescent Partnership, the Project to Combat Gender-Based Violence in Latin America, and Brothers for Change. [111] Sanger maintained links with affiliates of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (which contained a number of high-profile gay men and sexual reformers as members), and gave a speech to the group on the issue of sexual continence. The group calls for the mass sexualization of children 10 years of age and younger, as was revealed She was set to receive the Municipal League of King Countys Citizen of the Year when she died at age 64 from cancer on June 10, 1994, according to her obituary. He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. WebGates served on the boards of numerous organizations in the Pacific Northwest, including the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, King County United Way and Planned Parenthood. As The New York Times reported, the Microsoft co-founder has been the target of widespread misinformation amid the coronavirus pandemic, and one major theory to have emerged about Gates in 2020 is that his father, William Gates Sr., ranthe reproductive health non-profit organization Planned Parenthood. ", The sex ed toolkit from The International Planned Parenthood Federation, which operates separately from the U.S. Getty/Twitter Then he revealed that, for a time, his father, William H. Gates, Sr. was the head of Planned Parenthood. But what's the truth? [8], Sanger's view of eugenics was influenced by Havelock Ellis and other British eugenicists,[120] including H. G. Wells, with whom she formed a close, lasting friendship. Flyers she distributed to women exhorted them in all capitals: "Do not kill, do not take life, but prevent. [22][23], In 1911, after a fire destroyed their home in Hastings-on-Hudson, the Sangers abandoned the suburbs for a new life in New York City. In 1928, Slee would smuggle diaphragms into New York through Canada[24]:255 in boxes labeled as 3-In-One Oil. This is not philanthropy. Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future pp. A friend told Howard Schultz to meet with Bill Gates Sr., a prominent Seattle attorney. She was prosecuted for her book Family Limitation under the Comstock Act in 1914. [41][42] Though postal authorities suppressed five of its seven issues, Sanger continued publication, all the while preparing Family Limitation, another challenge to anti-birth control laws. Wade Supreme Court decision, and Bill Gates himself said in a video clip (below) that his father was the head of Planned Parenthood. This years-long When he passed away in September 2020, The New York Times stated in his obituary: Mr. Gates co-founded what became Preston, Gates & Ellis, a leading Seattle law firm, in 1964, and was a partner until 1998. IBM hired Microsoft to build an operating system for its first personal computer. 'You are a nursecan you tell me? Around this time she met Marie Stopes, who had run into Sanger after she had just given a talk on birth control at a Fabian Society meeting. But amid all this speculation about his private life, one rumor that's hounded the tech connoisseur for years is his apparent connection to Planned Parenthood. Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Gates Sr. sits on a number of boards, including serving as co-chair for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (The firm is now called K&L Gates.) 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The affluent and educated already limited their child-bearing, while the poor and uneducated lacked access to contraception and information about birth control. Conspiracy theories and rumors surrounding the billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates and his many business connections have soared in recent years. [165][166][g], In July, 2020, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced their intention to rename the Planned Parenthood headquarters on Bleecker Street, which was named after Sanger. The combined net worth of those six donors is just over $325 billion. 29 Apr 2023 08:32:51 He also served 15 years as a regent of the University of Washington. [143], Sanger's writings are curated by two universities: New York University's history department maintains the Margaret Sanger Papers Project,[144] and Smith College's Sophia Smith Collection maintains the Margaret Sanger Papers collection. READ NEXT: Bill Gates Net Worth: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Bill Gates Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Sanger has been recognized with several honors. His daddy, Bill Gates, ran it after her death. New York. History of the Corning-Painted Post Area, p.240. Other readers, however, praised the series for its candor. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. And so its fascinating. 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[123] Sanger's view put her at odds with leading American eugenicists, such as Charles Davenport, who took a racist view of inherited traits. Or was there something that happened? My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. By submitting your information, you agree to allow LifeSiteNews to send you email communications. Others member associates included the Reproductive Health Uganda, Vietnam Family Planning Association, Syrian Family Planning Association, SECS Contraception And Sexual Education Society, Romania, Sex & Samfund - The Danish Family Planning Association, and the Palestinian Family Planning And Protection Association.
