{"id":166869,"date":"2017-05-31T19:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166869"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:06:44","slug":"planned-parenthood-rewrites-eugenicist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-rewrites-eugenicist-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood tries to cover up how its founder wanted to eliminate Blacks and minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday, Planned Parenthood\u00a0released its\u00a02015-2016 annual report<\/a>, five months later than usual. In it, it was found that \u2013\u00a0as in years past \u2013 health care services have decreased, while abortions have increased. The report also made sure to attack the Center for Medical Progress, claiming that its\u00a0videos were “heavily edited” (a false claim<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What makes this annual report special is that it is the 100-year anniversary of Planned Parenthood’s founding. Of course, this report had a timeline touting Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0history and lauding its founder, Margaret Sanger.<\/p>\n

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“It was the dawn of a new day in my life… I went to bed knowing that no matter what it might cost… I was resolved to seek out the root of evil, to do something to change the destiny of mothers, whose miseries were as vast as the sky,” Sanger is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Planned Parenthood’s timeline is a little creative when it comes to its accomplishments.<\/p>\n

“In response to many BLACK WOMEN BEING DENIED ACCESS to health and social services, Sanger opens a new clinic in Harlem. It\u2019s endorsed by the New York Urban League and supported by prominent Harlem churches,” the entry for 1930 reads. It’s clearly meant to show that Planned Parenthood has been there to help minority women…but it conveniently leaves out Planned Parenthood’s history of eugenics.<\/p>\n

That’s right: Planned Parenthood’s history is rooted in eugenics, starting out with its founder, Margaret Sanger. Partnering with black religious leaders, for example, was part of Sanger’s strategy for her “Negro project<\/a>.” In a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, Sanger laid out her vision for the project, which was a collaboration between the American Birth Control League and Sanger\u2019s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.<\/p>\n

It seems to me from my experience …\u00a0that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As documented in the film Maafa 21, Sanger reportedly also wanted the government to put birth control in the drinking water<\/a> of urban areas with heavy concentrations of minority populations. Sanger also accepted an invitation to speak for a women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>, saw\u00a0birth control as a tool for “weeding out the unfit,” and argued that certain classes of people \u2014\u00a0minorities, the disabled, the sick, and the poor \u2014\u00a0“never should have been born at all.”<\/p>\n