{"id":182783,"date":"2018-05-24T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=182783"},"modified":"2018-11-08T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:55:35","slug":"title-x-curb-population-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/title-x-curb-population-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Were programs like Title X started to curb the population of certain people groups?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Was there a sinister eugenics agenda behind so-called federally funded “population control” programs like Title X<\/a>?\u00a0 The program, which could be seen as a form of classism, is touted as a “family planning”program aimed at “helping” poor and low income Americans in limiting their families. But the question is, what motive was behind this push prior to Title X’s 1970 passage, and who were the key players?\u00a0In this four part series, Live Action News hopes to answer those questions.<\/p>\n

When the push to use government dollars to fund population control programs was introduced, there was heavy opposition from groups that saw the move as racist eugenics. The Population Council and Planned Parenthood, two of the main groups behind this move, were both founded with eugenic philosophies. Planned Parenthood even played a prominent role in recruiting an ideal Republican lawmaker — as readers will learn later in the series — whom they convinced to sponsor what has become known as the federal Title X Family Planning Program, which now funnels $60 million to the organization.<\/p>\n

READ: Film documents Planned Parenthood’s history of Black genocide, eugenics<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading up to this time, many within the Black community viewed government programs of population control as genocidal efforts aimed at limiting the births of Blacks and other minorities. This was not without justification, as detailed by Simone M. Caron’s research, “Birth Control and the Black Community in the 1960\u2019s: Genocide or Power Politics?<\/a>,”<\/em>\u00a0published by the Journal of Social History:<\/p>\n

Certain segments of the black community mistrusted the underlying intention of both private and government efforts with respect to contraception. Some blacks in particular became skeptical of the increasing push for contraceptive dispersal in poor urban neighborhoods, accusing contraceptive proponents of promoting nothing less than “black genocide.”…<\/p>\n

The incidence of increasing government involvement in contraception at the same time as the civil rights movement gained strength could be interpreted as a planned conspiracy to decrease the numbers of blacks and other racial minorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leaders of the birth control movement even suggested that crime and health disparities within the Black community could be resolved by reducing the Black population. This kind of thinking aroused additional suspicion as calls for public health centers to disseminate birth control pills to the poor began to emerge.<\/p>\n

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1942 article urges family planning for Harlem (Image credit New York Times)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

In 1967, Black comedian Dick Gregory\u00a0joined<\/a>\u00a0more than 1,100 Black delegates for the First National Conference on Black Power<\/a> where he, along with others in the group, adopted a black power manifesto that called for the \u201crefusal to accept birth control programs on the basis that they seek to exterminate Negroes,\u201d among other demands, according to a July 24, 1967, New York Times report. Gregory and others viewed<\/a> “government programs designed for poor Black folks” which emphasized birth control and abortion as, “designed to limit the black population.”<\/p>\n

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1967 First National Conference on Black Power<\/p><\/div>\n

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1967 First National Conference on Black Power refuse birth control<\/p><\/div>\n

Journalist Samuel Yette, himself outspoken about the genocidal aspects of birth control, once wrote about noted civil rights activist\u00a0Fannie Lou Hamer\u2019s<\/a> views in\u00a0<\/strong>The Afro American \u2013 Apr 2, 1977<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt is still a society in which an injured man must show his ability to pay before getting hospital services,\u00a0<\/strong>but his daughter or wife can be aborted or fed birth control pills, at public expense\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fannie Lou Hamer<\/p><\/div>\n

In that same article, Yette, one of the first Black journalists to work for Newsweek, wrote, “Instead of seeking ways to feed the hungry, the back stage plan was to get the poor unwittingly to endorse a plan to eliminate from the society those who were hungry.”<\/p>\n

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Samuel Yette and his book The Choice (Image credit Saynsumthn blog)<\/p><\/div>\n

Yette went on to publish a book, “The Choice,”\u00a0<\/em>which exposed\u00a0high level attempts of Black genocide through birth control, abortion, and additional means. Shortly after the publication, Yette was fired by Newsweek and claimed that his superiors told him that the \u201cNixon White House\u201d wanted him out of Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book dealt with things they did not want people to know about at the time,\u201d Yette told the Tennessee Tribune, which he joined as a columnist, in 1996. \u201cThere were those well-placed in our government who were determined to have a final solution for the race issue in this country \u2014 not unlike Hitler\u2019s \u2018Final Solution\u2019 for Jews 50 years earlier in Germany. I wrote this and documented it. It caused the Nixon White House to say to Newsweek in effect, \u2018Don\u2019t come back until you are rid of him.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Blacks were highly suspicious of anything that had to do with “control,” radical Black Muslim leader Malcolm X suggested. In 1962, Wylda B. Clowes, a Black field consultant for Planned Parenthood, and Mrs. Marian Hernandez, director of the Hannah Stone Center, met with\u00a0Malcolm X\u00a0to \u201cdiscuss with him his group\u2019s philosophy concerning family planning.\u201d Memos from the meeting indicated that\u00a0overpopulation discussions evoked questions on why major efforts to control population were directed toward “colored nations.” The Black Muslim leader\u00a0asked if Planned Parenthood had anything to do with “birth control” and offered the suggestion that Planned Parenthood would probably be more successful if they used the term “family planning” instead of “birth control.”<\/p>\n

His reason for this was simple. He stated that “people, particularly Negroes, would be more willing to plan than to be controlled\u2026.”<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood memo with Malcolm X<\/p><\/div>\n

While Caron concludes that the Black community eventually accepted contraception, a look at the organizations behind the push for government funded “family planning” programs reveal that their initial concerns may have been spot on. Behind the scenes, population control groups — some with long ties to the eugenics movement, such as the Population Council<\/a>, Planned Parenthood, the Hugh Moore Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others \u00a0— were seeding the ground and calling for large sums of government money to be spent on so-called “family planning.”<\/p>\n

Author Donald T. Critchlow, in his book, “Intended Consequences, Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America,” notes that the Population Council took the lead, and had an annual budget of over $3 million by 1964. Ford and Rockefeller Foundation<\/a> money, along with dollars from other eugenics organizations, were flooding the Population Council coffers by the millions.<\/p>\n

The Population Council<\/a> was\u00a0founded<\/a>\u00a0in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III, as Live Action News has previously documented<\/a>. The group\u2019s second president, Frederic Osborn, was a\u00a0founding member\u00a0of the American Eugenics Society. Osborn once\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cEugenic goals are most likely attained under a name other than eugenics.\u201d He also\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0Margaret Sanger\u2019s \u201cCitizens Committee for Planned Parenthood,\u201d\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0in her\u00a0Birth Control Review<\/a>\u00a0in April of 1938. Some speculate that Planned Parenthood\u2019s infamous slogan, \u201cEvery Child a Wanted Child,\u201d may have\u00a0originated<\/a>\u00a0with Osborn.<\/p>\n

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These groups pushed the idea of a worldwide population crisis. The media joined in the fear mongering by publishing articles about the impending population crisis. Images of global starvation resulting in forced euthanasia and cannibalism were depicted in books such a Paul Ehrlich’s now discredited “The Population Bomb.”<\/p>\n

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Population Bomb threatens world peace<\/p><\/div>\n

On-screen gloom and doom propaganda was also being disseminated.<\/p>\n

One film, produced by Walt Disney Productions, has been detailed in a previous Live Action News article,<\/a>\u00a0and interestingly, the controversial 1967 film, “Family Planning,”\u00a0<\/em>was produced in association with the\u00a0Population Council<\/a>, a eugenics founded organization.<\/p>\n

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Walt Disney Production produces FP film with Population Council<\/p><\/div>\n

The propaganda film<\/a> featured Disney\u2019s iconic animated character, Donald Duck, who introduces the alleged gloom of having a large family.\u00a0Children in smaller sized families are \u201chealthy and happy and go to school to gain an education,\u201d the film states, as if children of large families are unhealthy, unhappy, and uneducated. The film indoctrinates its viewers that a \u201chappy family\u201d is one with a modest number of children while large families basically starve with \u201cno money for modern conveniences. [\u2026]”<\/p>\n