{"id":182790,"date":"2018-05-27T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=182790"},"modified":"2021-01-25T23:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T05:57:39","slug":"population-control-recruited-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-control-recruited-president\/","title":{"rendered":"How the population control movement recruited a sitting Republican president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action News’ series on Title X and the formation of federally funded population control programs has documented that the push for government dollars in the 1960s was derived from a eugenics-based effort<\/a> to limit the populations of “low income,” impoverished communities. During this time frame, many within the population control community, including Planned Parenthood, were concerned about overpopulation, and some would argue the concern was focused disproportionately on minorities<\/a>.\u00a0This concern wasn’t new for Planned Parenthood, which has a history\u00a0steeped<\/a>\u00a0in eugenics, an ideology that manifested itself in many ways, including the\u00a0forced sterilization<\/a>\u00a0of many Black citizens.\u00a0As Live Action News previously reported<\/a>, many within Planned Parenthood\u2019s organization and other population control groups thought\u00a0coercion<\/a>\u00a0might be needed to stem the growth of people groups they deemed \u201cunfit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part two of the series noted how the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration began touting federally funded “family planning,” a term perceived to be more acceptable than “birth control” (emphasis on “control”) to the Black community. But it was under the Richard Nixon administration that these population control programs grew. Years later, it became public knowledge that President Nixon had made racist statements towards the same population groups these programs were created to “help.”<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood praised Richard Nixon over creation of Title X (Image credit: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the clip below<\/a> from the documentary about eugenics, Maafa21<\/a>, you can hear actual recordings of then-President Richard Nixon discussing the growth of the Black population with members of his staff. These discussions center around the legalization of abortion, but some believe they may also shed light on Nixon’s push for federally funded population control programs.<\/p>\n

A partial transcript is below (warning<\/span> – offensive language):<\/p>\n

Nixon<\/strong>: ”\u00a0\u2026 as I told you –\u00a0 we talked about it earlier –\u00a0 that a hell of a lot of people want to\u00a0control all the Negro bastards<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nixon<\/strong>: \u201cYou know what we are talking about \u2013 population control<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Unidentified Staff<\/strong>: \u201cSure<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Nixon<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re talking really \u2013 and what John Rockefeller really realizes \u2013 look, the people in what we call the \u201cour class\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0control their populations. Sometimes they\u2019ll have a family of six, or seven, or eight, or nine, but it\u2019s an exception<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unidentified Staff<\/strong>:\u00a0Sure<\/em><\/p>\n

Nixon<\/strong>: \u201cPeople who don\u2019t control their families are people in- the people who shouldn\u2019t have kids..<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n