Does Planned Parenthood
further eugenics?
Eugenics: the study of
methods of improving
the quality of the human race,
especially by selective breeding.
Now that may sound like
an outrageous question.
After all, Planned
Parenthood claims its mission
is to provide reproductive
health services to women,
especially minority and low-income women.
And their slogan is care no matter what.
The New York Times recently
posed this question
to the new Planned Parenthood
president, Dr. Leana Wen.
The Times asked her,
"How do you consider the misinformation
such as, say, that Planned
Parenthood furthers eugenics
that can proliferate
about the organization?"
It claims, this is misinformation,
kind of like a conspiracy
theory or something.
Is it?
She answered, "We need
to trust people to make
the best decisions for themselves,
and that means providing
comprehensive education and services.
We have to acknowledge
that communities of color
face the greatest barriers when it comes
to access to healthcare.
The same individuals who are making
these eugenics claims are
often the ones who want
to deprive our communities
of evidence-based education
like teen-pregnancy prevention programs,
which were cut across
the country last year,
and a full range of
reproductive health services.
It's outrageous and, frankly, racist."
That's funny.
Who founded Planned Parenthood?
A eugenicist named Margaret Sanger,
who had problematic racial views.
Sanger was a member of the
American Eugenics Society.
She believed in weeding
out the undesirables
like blacks, minorities,
the disabled, the poor,
and those whom she
considered the feeble-minded.
Traditionally, black
families were very large,
and black women were
considered by white racists
to be too fertile.
This apparently was a problem
to eugenicists like Margaret Sanger.
She founded Planned Parenthood
to further her eugenics goals
by targeting black and
minority communities.
Birth control and sterilization
was promoted to them,
specifically to lower their birth rates.
But don't take my word for it.
Here's what she said herself,
"Birth control itself, often denounced
as a violation of natural law,
is nothing more or less
than the facilitation
of the process of weeding out the unfit,
of preventing the birth of defectives
or of those who will become defectives.
If we are to make racial progress,
this development of womanhood
must precede motherhood
in every individual woman."
Sanger was a white supremacist
who spoke to the KKK.
Of the incident, she recounted,
"I accepted an invitation to talk
to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
I saw through the door
dim figures parading
with banners and illuminated crosses.
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.
A dozen invitations to speak
to similar groups were proffered."
In her writings, she
referred to some people
as human weeds, dead
weight of human waste,
imbecile, moron, and
biological and racial mistakes.
White Americans, however,
were pure native white stock.
Sanger founded the Negro Project in 1939
and recruited black ministers
to spread her population control message.
She believed they could straighten out
the more rebellious members.
However, many in the
black community caught on
that there was a systematic plan
to exterminate the black population.
In fact, early civil rights groups
like the Black Panther
Party, Black Muslims,
and prominent activist Stokely Carmichael
spoke out against abortion and
blacks using birth control.
So how did Planned Parenthood
and the abortion industry
achieve their goals?
How were they able to sell
this to the black community?
Well, with the help of the US government.
In 1970, under President Nixon,
the Office of Population
Affairs was established
within the US Department of
Health and Human Services.
to control the black population.
Under the guise of family planning,
this eugenic birth control
agenda had the seal
of the US government itself.
Hundreds of millions of dollars
have been granted through Title X,
the family planning program,
subsidizing birth control specifically
for minority and low-income families.
Basically, the United States government
has helped to fund this black genocide.
Dr. La Verne Tolbert,
a former Planned Parenthood
board member turned pro-lifer
describes it this way,
"Sanger's personal mission alone
did not propel Planned Parenthood
to such national status.
To do so involves a shared goal,
multiple committed partnerships,
and the sustained dedication
of financial resources,
a monumental strategy that only
the United States
government could achieve."
Planned Parenthood claims
it is communities of color
that face the greatest barriers
when it comes to access to healthcare,
healthcare meaning birth
control and abortion.
But another way to look at it is this,
why is the abortion industry
and the US government
specifically targeting minorities
to give them birth control
and offer them abortions,
if not to control their birth rates?
Why do they need it more
than other women in America?
Now that sounds pretty racist to me.
So what has been the result?
Close to 80% of Planned Parenthood clinics
are in minority communities.
That's racial targeting.
While representing only 13%
of the female population in the US,
black women account for roughly 35%
of the nation's abortions.
In New York City, a
black baby is more likely
to be aborted than be born alive.
The leading cause of death
in the black population is abortion.
More than homicides, more than accidents,
cancers, heart disease, and AIDS,
abortion has claimed more black lives
than every other cause of death combined
since abortion was legalized.
As a result, close to
20 million black babies
have been aborted.
The black fertility rate
is now below replacement.
What the eugenics
movement could not achieve
through outright genocide,
it has achieved by
promoting birth control,
sterilization, and abortion.
And the US government continues to aid
and abet this eugenic mission today.
The US Department of Health
and Human Services, or HHS,
is still funding Planned Parenthood.
Furthermore, HHS has never abolished
the Office of Population
Affairs or the Title X program.
As Americans, what are
we doing about this?
Black pro-life advocates
like Dr. Alveda King,
Dr. LaVerne Tolbert, Ryan
Bomberger, Catherine Davis,
Star Parker, Reverend Clenard Childress,
and many others are
doing something about it.
They are taking on the call
of the new civil rights issue,
the right to life for all Americans.
An entire African-American denomination,
the Church of God in Christ
is working to fight the
abortion industry's racist lies
by educating and activating
its members about these issues.
In the words of Dr. LaVerne Tolbert,
"There is no way to justify continuing
to fund Planned Parenthood.
Its roots are racist."
Likewise, is there any way to justify
the continuing existence
of the Office of Population Affairs?
Its roots are also racist.
Perhaps it is time to
defund Planned Parenthood
and also abolish this
population control agency.
Catherine Davis, president
of The Restoration Project,
suggested we "reallocate
those funds to assist
in repairing the damage
population control enthusiasts
have heaped on women and babies."
Black lives do matter,
in and out of the womb.
