Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Great Genes’ Ad Goes Viral — But Sanger’s Eugenics Still Gets a Pass| National Catholic Register

The outrage machine fired up over American Eagle’s advertising slogan — but not over Margaret Sanger’s own words about “bad stock” and racial targeting.

Finally! 

The children of Margaret Sanger have awakened to the horrors of eugenics. It’s about time. Seriously. 

When people are blind to malignant evil, it usually takes something more earth-shattering than the typical manifestation of the evil to shake them from their moral torpor. 

For the left, that constitutes a social media meltdown over American Eagle and its model, actress Sydney Sweeney, accusing them of being Nazi eugenicists for an ad campaign featuring Sweeney in their jeans that says simply, “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.”

That’s it. A play on jeans/genes, and we have the reincarnation of the infamous Nazi, Dr. Joseph Mengele. For as long as the modern left has existed, they have been blind to the eugenics behind Margaret Sanger’s entire eugenics project at the Birth Control League, renamed Planned Parenthood. 

When Sanger began her Birth Control League, her newsletter, The Birth Control Review, had as its tagline, “Birth Control: To create a race of thoroughbreds.” They have ignored her Negro Project, aimed at convincing Black Americans to curtail their reproduction and limit the sizes of their families. 

The project ran from 1939-1942, and was camouflaged in the wake of Hitler’s extermination camps. Consider Sanger’s correspondence with Dr. Clarence Gamble when she writes:

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the 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.” 

Those accusing Sweeney and American Eagle of eugenics ignore that little gem from Sanger, as well as these: 

• Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need. … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.” (Birth Control Review, April 1933)
• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” (“The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, p. 5)

They have ignored the fact that Planned Parenthood has operated more than 70% of its facilities in or within two miles of inner-city neighborhoods, or the Houston abortion mega-business strategically located at the crossroads of four minority neighborhoods. 

Not even the eugenic sterilization of the developmentally disabled, enshrined in the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Buck v. Bell, could wake them from their slumber. Nor have the eugenic abortions in China that have taken 40 million baby girls during the one-child policy.

Nope. It took a pretty young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes in a Jeans commercial, and the suggestion that she has great jeans/genes to provoke the left. Of course, they ignore the biological reality that fewer than 5% of women have the genetic makeup to have such a body as this young woman. But then, these are the people who champion cutting the genitals off of confused little boys. So neither biology nor decency is exactly their forte. 

And then there is the eugenic slaughter of Down syndrome babies in the womb. 

Iceland proudly proclaimed some years back that it has no more babies with Down syndrome. That’s because they now have a 100% track record of diagnosing and killing them in the womb. 

Here in the U.S., 74% of Down syndrome babies diagnosed in the womb are terminated. Crickets from the left. When they look in the mirror, do they see Nazi eugenicists who turn a blind eye to Sanger’s Negro Project targeting her “human weeds,” 63 million aborted babies, a sustained extermination campaign against Down syndrome babies, forced sterilization of the developmentally disabled, and eugenic slaughter of baby girls in the womb in China? 

No. The Nazi is the pretty blonde girl in the jeans ad, who doesn’t need to spend tens of thousands on plastic surgery to achieve a certain look. Eugenics isn’t about recognizing that supermodels have great genes.

Eugenics is about slaughtering those whom you believe to have inferior genes. It’s the battalions of Eva Brauns on the left who pose an existential threat to those whom they deem as less worthy of human dignity than they are, in their twisted worldview. They are the disciples of Margaret Sanger, militating for unrestricted abortion, especially for those they deem unworthy of life. 

American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney have no blood on their hands. Would that their accusers could say the same. 

“Life unworthy of life,” was the Nazi eugenic battle cry. Sanger and her acolytes have carried that banner for more than 100 years. The pretty girl in a jeans ad threatens nobody, even if she has great jeans that work well with her great genes. 

Still, the word “eugenics” has finally made its way to liberal lips, even if it is a ham-handed deflection. So that’s a start. 

And a little blonde shall lead them …

Dr. Gerard M. Nadal is the president and CEO of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.