{"id":177537,"date":"2018-04-05T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177537"},"modified":"2024-08-28T23:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:28:40","slug":"how-planned-parenthood-abortion-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/how-planned-parenthood-abortion-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning: How Planned Parenthood became an abortion corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Believe it or not, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger did not introduce abortion to the organization. It was a man, Alan F. Guttmacher (after whom the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute is named), who did so. But Sanger has a very controversial history as an enthusiastic proponent of eugenics and as a member of the American Eugenics Society. The philosophy of eugenics not only fed her work within the Planned Parenthood movement, but her lesser known\u00a0advocacy of euthanasia<\/a>\u00a0as well.\u00a0The organizations Sanger founded, such as the American Birth Control League (ABCL), and later, Planned Parenthood, also\u00a0have ties to many eugenics proponents<\/a>.\u00a0Under the philosophy of eugenics, minorities and the poor, as well as others deemed to be \u201cfeebleminded or unfit\u201d were sometimes sterilized by the state. And at times, state sterilization boards used Planned Parenthood to commit these surgeries.<\/p>\n

Sanger’s\u00a0advocacy of eugenics reveals that her desire was initially to sterilize those she deemed “unfit.” It wasn’t until after these inhumane, eugenic methods were challenged in court that abortion was introduced into Planned Parenthood as an organization.<\/p>\n

This clip from the documentary film, Maafa21,<\/a> recounts a case in which eugenics courts utilized Planned Parenthood’s services to do the dirty work of eugenic sterilizations:<\/p>\n