Mothers Day
As others have noted around the internet, Ms Collins conveniently left out any references to other of Ms Sanger's pet causes, in particular the practices of eugenics and sterilization of lesser races. My old dictionary says that eugenics is "a science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed". In other words, she wanted to control who mated with whom, I guess because she was so smart. Would she have voted for Obama?
Ms Collins is paid to be a journalist, and likely has won various awards, but this article highlights the problem with what's left of that profession (craft?). There are severe space limitations when writing anything other than a book you're going to self-publish, but one would think she could have spared a sentence or two to mention that Ms Sanger was not the epitome of an angel. Of course, it's also possible she did and the NYT editor removed them.
On the same day, the legendary "actress" Raquel Welch had published, on CNN no less, an article, also about the birth of the birth control pill (somehow that sounds so wrong). I know very little about what, if any, journalism training she has, but if she did write it, she's a better example of the profession than Ms Collins. Believe it or not, she actually mentions that for all the positives of the pill, there may have been some negatives too. In addition, it's very well written.
For those who would like to read something that actually illustrates the normal type of love given freely by mothers the world over, I'd recommend this one. Bring tissues.
So maybe it's not yet time to write about mom, but family members not familiar with the photo may see from where it came by clicking on the thumbnail and enjoy the memory. Happy Mothers Day to all, and particularly to my sisters and Shane's mom.