Kelly Epperson
As taxpayers, we have learned to not be surprised when our tax dollars are frequently used to fund causes we personally oppose. But what if we knew that our money was being used to support the murder of almost 2,000 Black and Hispanic Americans every day? Can you imagine the outrage and protest that would ensue as a result? Oh, wait… our government does fund the killing of minorities, by giving approximately $350 million per year to Planned Parenthood. And where is Al Sharpton? He’s too busy falsely accusing Duke lacrosse players of rape to be bothered with the slaughter of his own people.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s leading abortion provider, and its background is controversial at best. A study of the organization’s history and impact reveals its underlying racism. This article does not propose the idea that everyone associated with Planned Parenthood is racist, but it does assert that the institution targets minorities, and the results are devastating.
Planned Parenthood: ITS ROOTS
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened an illegal birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, to provide contraceptives for poor, immigrant women. Shortly thereafter, Sanger began the American Birth Control League, along with The Birth Control Review. In 1920, The Birth Control Review endorsed Lothrop Stoddard’s racist book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy. The publication also frequently featured articles that promoted eugenics, which advocates “improving” the human population genetically, through various means. Eugenics eventually became the ideological foundation for the horrific crimes of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
Those who doubt Sanger’s views on eugenics and population control should look no further than Sanger’s own book, The Pivot of Civilization (1922). In this work, Sanger praises eugenicists for identifying the potential danger of “reckless spawning” of the “feeble-minded.” She advocates birth control as a way to allow sexual freedom without burdening society with the procreation of these “unwanted types.” Later, in 1939, Sanger wrote a letter to Charles Gamble that admitted, "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (emphasis added) Coincidentally, Planned Parenthood omits the emphasized part of this quote in their attempts to justify and explain away Sanger’s radical viewpoints.
Margaret Sanger posed as a woman concerned with the quality of life for the poverty-stricken. In reality, she was a racist who thought that the “unfit” should be kept from breeding through birth control and sterilization.
Planned Parenthood: ITS RESULTS
Regardless of Sanger’s views on sexual freedom and race, it would be unfair to condemn an entire institution based on its founder’s extreme opinions. It is necessary to examine the results of the organization. Sadly, the products of Planned Parenthood do not stand up to much scrutiny. Let’s take a look at the facts:
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s leading abortion provider, and its background is controversial at best. A study of the organization’s history and impact reveals its underlying racism. This article does not propose the idea that everyone associated with Planned Parenthood is racist, but it does assert that the institution targets minorities, and the results are devastating.
Planned Parenthood: ITS ROOTS
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened an illegal birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, to provide contraceptives for poor, immigrant women. Shortly thereafter, Sanger began the American Birth Control League, along with The Birth Control Review. In 1920, The Birth Control Review endorsed Lothrop Stoddard’s racist book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy. The publication also frequently featured articles that promoted eugenics, which advocates “improving” the human population genetically, through various means. Eugenics eventually became the ideological foundation for the horrific crimes of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
Those who doubt Sanger’s views on eugenics and population control should look no further than Sanger’s own book, The Pivot of Civilization (1922). In this work, Sanger praises eugenicists for identifying the potential danger of “reckless spawning” of the “feeble-minded.” She advocates birth control as a way to allow sexual freedom without burdening society with the procreation of these “unwanted types.” Later, in 1939, Sanger wrote a letter to Charles Gamble that admitted, "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (emphasis added) Coincidentally, Planned Parenthood omits the emphasized part of this quote in their attempts to justify and explain away Sanger’s radical viewpoints.
Margaret Sanger posed as a woman concerned with the quality of life for the poverty-stricken. In reality, she was a racist who thought that the “unfit” should be kept from breeding through birth control and sterilization.
Planned Parenthood: ITS RESULTS
Regardless of Sanger’s views on sexual freedom and race, it would be unfair to condemn an entire institution based on its founder’s extreme opinions. It is necessary to examine the results of the organization. Sadly, the products of Planned Parenthood do not stand up to much scrutiny. Let’s take a look at the facts:
- Two separate studies found that approximately 60% of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in areas that have a measurably higher black population than the rest of the state. In short, PPFA abortion clinics are targeted in black inner-city neighborhoods.
- African American women have 36% of the abortions performed in the U.S., yet blacks only account for 12.3% of the total population. Hispanic women receive 22% of all U.S. abortions, yet they only make up 12.5% of the total population. Clearly minorities are having far more abortions than whites.
- In 2009, nearly 60% of New York City pregnancies among black women ended in abortion. 41% of pregnancies for Hispanic women ended in abortion. Compare that to only 20% of pregnancies for white women.
- Abortions killed more African Americans as of 2005 than the 7 leading causes of death… combined! It is estimated that around 1,700 African American babies are killed every day in abortion clinics.
- Black women are 3 times more likely to get an abortion than white women.
- As of 2004, nearly 30% of the black population has been lost to abortion. As a result, African Americans are no longer the largest minority group.
Susan Cohen, of the Guttmacher Institute, a PPFA affiliate, claims that the higher number of abortions for blacks is due to the higher number of unintended pregnancies among African American women. Ironically, the same Planned Parenthood that facilitates the abortion also provides birth control services for these same women. Did they mix up the birth control pills with the fertility medicine? Or is it that Planned Parenthood’s preferred answer to unwanted pregnancies has changed from prevention to extermination?
In 1860, four million African Americans were held in slavery. From 1973 to the present, nearly four times as many African Americans have been killed in the abortion clinics.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., says it best when she says, “The great irony is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”
The statistics and quotes in this article came from the following sources:
http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/55956#
http://www.alanguttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/manassas/social/introsoc.htm
Kelly- Well stated. You might also be interested in a powerful documentary which explores this topic much deeper- it is called: maafa21, a Swahili word for a "terrible Tragedy" which is being carried out against the black community today. See clips here http://www.maafa21.com
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