{"id":171822,"date":"2017-09-20T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171822"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:56:00","slug":"margaret-sanger-prominent-planned-parenthood-building-bust-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/margaret-sanger-prominent-planned-parenthood-building-bust-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Sanger’s statue at the Smithsonian Institute is ‘a slap in the face to Black folks’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The controversy around the removal of statues that portray racist historical figures fail to spotlight Margaret Sanger, whose bust is in the Smithsonian and whose name is displayed on a Planned Parenthood<\/a> building. Sanger was a\u00a0proponent of eugenics<\/a>\u00a0who spoke to the women\u2019s branch of Klan in 1926. She also created the “Negro Project<\/a>”\u00a0in which she schemed<\/a> to use Black ministers in her work because she did not, \u201c[…] want\u00a0word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite acknowledgment that their founder had “flaws,” Planned Parenthood continues to honor<\/a> her as a “trailblazer.” But, as society learns of Sanger’s eugenic ideology which led to the forced sterilization of minorities, as well as her speech before the Klan, they have become increasingly critical. \u00a0This has prompted the abortion corporation, whose history<\/a>\u00a0also includes associations with the racist eugenics movement, to allegedly “disavow<\/a>” Sanger’s racist beliefs.<\/p>\n

But, as Live Action News has documented<\/a>, those words have little meaning when you see that\u00a0Sanger’s name is prominently displayed on one of their facilities. And worse yet is the fact that the Finger Lake facility<\/a>\u00a0is listed as Title X-funded<\/a>\u00a0in New York’s 2016 directory<\/a>.\u00a0This means that this Planned Parenthood facility receives tax dollars, despite displaying the name of a racist on their building.<\/p>\n

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Margaret Sanger’s name on Planned Parenthood building<\/p><\/div>\n

Just as outrageous is the fact that when a local media outlet highlighted<\/a> this Planned Parenthood they failed to mention Sanger’s past. Instead, the news outlet touted Planned Parenthood’s “services” even though nationally Planned Parenthood is losing patients<\/a> and decreasing legitimate health services while increasing the number of abortions. \u00a0By using half a billion in tax dollars every year, Planned Parenthood has managed to garner<\/a> over 34 percent of the nation’s abortion market share while skating criticism of their racist history.<\/p>\n

In addition to placing her name outside the facility, Planned Parenthood’s centers in two states are named after Sanger:<\/p>\n