{"id":170983,"date":"2017-09-05T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=170983"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:23:39","slug":"cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-not-serious-disavowing-racist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-not-serious-disavowing-racist-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood not serious about disavowing racist history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood and its marketing gurus want the public to believe that they have disavowed founder Margaret Sanger for her racist and eugenicist beliefs, despite Sanger’s name being prominently associated with its facilities. Planned Parenthood often refers to Sanger as a “hero” and continues to make light of her history and associations with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists.<\/p>\n

As Live Action News previously\u00a0reported<\/a>, Margaret Sanger was a\u00a0proponent of eugenics<\/a>\u00a0who spoke to the women\u2019s branch of KKK in 1926. She also created the “Negro Project<\/a>.” In a\u00a0letter<\/a> penned to Clarence Gamble, she insisted upon using Black ministers to win the Black community to her cause because “[w]e do not want\u00a0word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” If it did, she believed she could use these ministers to “straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of\u00a0[the Black community’s] more rebellious members.”<\/p>\n

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Excerpt: Margaret Sanger Letter to Clarence Gamble, Negro Project<\/p><\/div>\n

In a recent post<\/a> on Medium.com, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said of the current climate of racism in America:<\/p>\n

This racism didn\u2019t happen on its own\u200a\u2014\u200ait was built by white people and white people must\u00a0take action<\/a>\u00a0to dismantle it. People of color have led the fight against racism for generations, but we all have a\u00a0responsibility<\/a>\u00a0to tear out the foundations of racism wherever we find it: in ourselves, our communities and our organizations, including Planned Parenthood.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood’s prominent image of founder Margaret Sanger<\/p><\/div>\n

The fact that Richards neglected to mention is that Planned Parenthood’s founder was tied to the eugenics movement which forcefully sterilized many Blacks<\/a> and minorities. Planned Parenthood even served as a referral agency to some of those eugenics boards, as the film Maafa21<\/a>\u00a0details:<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood Eugenics Board Robert Webber<\/p><\/div>\n

In some parts of the country, Planned Parenthood was closely associated with these state eugenics boards and was often a referral agency for them.\u00a0 But the system did not always run smoothly.\u00a0 In 1969, when the number of sterilizations approved by the Iowa State Eugenics Board began to drop, the Board was attacked in the press by the executive director of Planned Parenthood Robert Webber<\/strong>.\u00a0 He said that he was alarmed by the decline in numbers and that the Eugenics Board should expand its approval criteria.<\/em><\/p>\n

Board chairman Dr. S.M. Korson responded that the Board\u2019s guidelines were already fairly broad.\u00a0 He pointed out that approvals were routinely given for young girls for no reason other than the Board\u2019s speculation that they might likely one day engage in immoral behavior without the capacity for being wives and mothers.\u00a0 At that point, Webber publicly scolded the Board and told them that they should either increase the number of sterilizations or quit.<\/em><\/p>\n

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