{"id":171295,"date":"2017-09-15T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171295"},"modified":"2025-06-20T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:07:26","slug":"naral-condemns-racist-actions-j-marion-sims-not-margaret-sanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-condemns-racist-actions-j-marion-sims-not-margaret-sanger\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL condemns the racist actions of J. Marion Sims, but not those of Margaret Sanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>NARAL Pro-Choice America is condemning the racist actions of James Marion Sims, the so-called \u201cfather of modern gynecology\u201d, who experimented on slaves. For years, Sims was hailed a hero despite the fact that\u00a0he performed <a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/13\/wife-of-eugenics-guatemala-syphilis-study-former-planned-parenthood-board-member-and-guttmacher-donor-dies\/\">medical experiments<\/a> on Black slaves without anesthesia or their consent. Sound familiar? That&#8217;s because Planned Parenthood&#8217;s founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/legacy-of-death-abortion-eugenics-euthanasia-groups-shared-board-members\/\">Margaret Sanger<\/a>, who once admitted that she believed &#8220;<em>in the\u00a0<\/em><em>sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic<\/em>&#8220;, was also part of a movement that performed medical procedures on Blacks without their consent. However, when it comes to Planned Parenthood, NARAL tolerates the racism linked to it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_170614\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170614\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-170614\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Margaret-Sanger-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Margaret-Sanger-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Margaret-Sanger-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-170614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Sanger (Image Credit Milwaukee Sentinel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sanger was part of the <em>eugenics movement<\/em> which forcefully sterilized Black men and women.\u00a0Not only did Sanger\u00a0have a strong belief in eugenics, she made certain eugenics movers and shakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-connections-to-eugenics\/\">were deeply embedded in\u00a0her organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of those people was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/11\/blacks-sterilized-by-eugenics-program-funded-by-margaret-sanger-supporter\/\">Clarence Gamble<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/gamble-sterilization-eu.jpg\">director<\/a>\u00a0of Sanger\u2019s American Birth Control League, which later changed its name to Planned Parenthood. \u00a0Gamble was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/11\/blacks-sterilized-by-eugenics-program-funded-by-margaret-sanger-supporter\/\">supporter<\/a>\u00a0of a horrific North Carolina forced sterilization eugenics program and he helped fund Sanger&#8217;s infamous\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/25\/margarets-sangers-racial-profiling-and-planned-parenthood\/\">Negro Project,<\/a>\u201d along with Albert Lasker, whose&#8221;prestigious&#8221; foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/foundation-gave-planned-parenthood-award-funded-eugenics-projects\/\">recently<\/a> granted Planned Parenthood a top award.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe that Sanger\u2019s \u201cNegro Project,\u201d along with her eugenics advocacy, contributed to the racist attitude society had about Black births. Yet despite this history,\u00a0Sanger&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/black-pastors-seek-removal-margaret-sanger-bust-from-smithsonian-exhibit\/\">bust<\/a> is currently displayed at the Smithsonian next to Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Demands by Black leaders calling for Sanger&#8217;s statue to be removed have been largely ignored.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171300\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171300\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-171300\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Marion-Sims-Natl-Library-of-Medicine-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Marion-Sims-Natl-Library-of-Medicine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Marion-Sims-Natl-Library-of-Medicine-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Marion Sims (image credit: National Library of Medicine)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sims&#8217; experiments on Blacks differed slightly from the eugenics movement in that his victims were slaves, but like the eugenics movement, Sims did not receive consent.<\/p>\n<p>And if his experiments, which led to a medical breakthrough in treating vesicovaginal fistula, were not bad enough, the New York City Park <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/central-park\/monuments\/1448\">website<\/a>, where one of his statues is located, reports that, &#8220;He [Sims] operated on these subjects, in some cases repeatedly, without the use of anesthesia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sad truth is that the medical establishment ignored Sims&#8217; past and collaborated to pay tribute to Sims by erecting statues in his honor.\u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jurology.com\/article\/S0022-5347(11)00227-8\/fulltext\">literature review<\/a> of medical, sociological, and periodical sources on Sims dating back to 1851, and conducted by Sara Spettel and Mark Donald White, found that:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171298\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171298\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-171298\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/J-Marion-Sims-Statute-NYC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/J-Marion-Sims-Statute-NYC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/J-Marion-Sims-Statute-NYC-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/J-Marion-Sims-Statute-NYC-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J Marion Sims Statute NYC (image credit: City of New York)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While historians, ethicists and the popular press have debated Dr. Sims&#8217; legacy, medical sources have continued to portray him unquestionably as a great figure in medical history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, despite praises of Sims from the medical community for his discoveries (<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.maas.museum\/object\/8451\">some<\/a> which also include instruments now used in surgical abortions), the public is speaking out and demanding that his statues be removed.\u00a0And, although silent about eugenicist Sanger&#8217;s\u00a0bust at the Smithsonian, abortion advocates are hypocritically joining the call to remove statues of Sims.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171305\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171305\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171305\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NARAL-on-J-Marion-Sims-statute-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NARAL-on-J-Marion-Sims-statute-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NARAL-on-J-Marion-Sims-statute-500x386.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NARAL-on-J-Marion-Sims-statute.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NARAL on J Marion Sims statute (image credit Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In one example, an e-mail sent out by the abortion lobby group, NARAL demanded the removal of a Charleston statue of Sims on grounds that the &#8220;monuments commemorate a history that willfully ignores the suffering of black women, and we cannot continue to honor that history by keeping these statues up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it may sound noble to speak out against a Sims&#8217; statue, the fact is that NARAL is silent where <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-not-serious-disavowing-racist-history\/\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> is concerned even though Planned Parenthood continues to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-spoke-ku-klux-klan-supported-eugenics-organization-still-honor\/\">honor<\/a>&#8221; their founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/legacy-of-death-abortion-eugenics-euthanasia-groups-shared-board-members\/\">Sanger<\/a>\u00a0whose eugenics beliefs targeted &#8220;black women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, just as with Sims, the media remains silent on the fact that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s ties to eugenics go well beyond Sanger.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, although Sanger&#8217;s organization did not morph into <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eugenics-proponent-coin-planned-parenthood-iconic-slogan\/\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> until 1942, Live Action News has published <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-connections-to-eugenics\/\">documentation<\/a> that proves that Planned Parenthood followed their founder&#8217;s ideology and collaborated with the eugenics movement.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that Planned Parenthood was so supportive of eugenics ideology that they <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-connections-to-eugenics\/\">advertised<\/a> in eugenics journals. And, as late as 1968, the Eugenics Society encouraged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2906074\/pdf\/eugenrev00003-0012.pdf\">funding<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Society\u2019s activities in crypto-eugenics should be pursued vigorously, and specifically that the Society should increase its monetary support of the FPA and the IPPF [International Planned Parenthood Federation]&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171311\" style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171311\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171311\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Eugenics-Society-to-fund-IPPF-1968.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Eugenics-Society-to-fund-IPPF-1968.png 554w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Eugenics-Society-to-fund-IPPF-1968-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Eugenics-Society-to-fund-IPPF-1968-500x314.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenics Society to fund IPPF 1968<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, both Sanger and Planned Parenthood invited eugenics leaders to speak at conferences, tried to merge publications with them, and Planned Parenthood was even granted free rent from the Eugenics organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/es-rent-free-tp-ippf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16515\" src=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/es-rent-free-tp-ippf.jpg?w=450&amp;h=255\" alt=\"Eugenics S Rent Free to IPPF\" width=\"531\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>This image to the left taken from a eugenics\u00a0document\u00a0shows Planned Parenthood received rental space from the Eugenics Society.\u00a0This is reinforced by former Planned Parenthood chairman, CP Blacker, who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/demografia.rcm.upr.edu\/images\/CIDEclasico\/Pob-conferencia\/Paper06-Blacker-1964-The%20international%20planned%20parebthood%20federationaspects%20of%20its%20history.pdf\">told<\/a>\u00a0an audience at a Planned Parenthood event in 1964 that while he was secretary of the Eugenics Society they gave Planned Parenthood accommodations &#8220;rent free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that Planned Parenthood evolved out of eugenics, and Sanger, who once pushed eugenic propaganda in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-founder-spoke-to-kkk-but-photo-is-fake\/\">speech<\/a>\u00a0before the Klu Klux Klan, openly advocated sterilizing those she deemed &#8220;unfit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, while\u00a0NARAL&#8217;s outrage in denouncing Sims&#8217; racist past appears honorable, no one is fooled by the faux rhetoric as long as NARAL remains eerily silent about Planned Parenthood.\u00a0Because, as NARAL themselves stated, society can no longer &#8220;commemorate a history that willfully ignores the suffering of black women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, that includes Planned Parenthood&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARAL Pro-Choice America is condemning the racist actions of James Marion Sims, the so-called \u201cfather of modern gynecology\u201d, who experimented on slaves. 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