{"id":182866,"date":"2018-05-25T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=182866"},"modified":"2018-12-08T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:48:45","slug":"family-planning-suspicion-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/family-planning-suspicion-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Government ‘family planning’ push once rightly raised suspicion of Black genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a previous article<\/a> in this series on the eugenics and class warfare agenda behind federally funded population programs like Title X and others, I detailed how minority leaders quickly became suspicious of the government’s push for “family planning.” This article will document the beginning of this agenda and how suspicions of these programs targeted at “low-income,” impoverished Americans continued.<\/p>\n

In 1919, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger made an astonishing admission. Quoting from Sanger’s \u201cBirth Control and Racial Betterment,\u201d published<\/a> in the February 1919 edition of her Birth Control Review, Sanger says, “Birth Control will clear the way for eugenics and the elimination of the unfit.” She went on:<\/p>\n

Before eugenists and others who are laboring for\u00a0racial betterment\u00a0can succeed,\u00a0they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the\u00a0eugenists, for instance, are seeking to\u00a0assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods….<\/p>\n

Eugenics without Birth Control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sanger’s statement could almost be described as prophetic. Fears of the overpopulation of certain people groups were and are common in eugenics circles.\u00a0By the 1960s, as discussed in part one of this series, fears of overpopulation were again being driven by organizations with ties to eugenics, pushing for federal dollars to reduce the births of the poor.<\/p>\n

This was met with resistance in the United States, where there was a growing concern that the push for federally funded population control was motivated by a sinister plot to limit the births of Blacks and other minorities. After all,\u00a0years of eugenic programs<\/a>, had already been aimed at sterilizing Black Americans, so why wouldn’t federally funded “family planning” programs also target those populations?<\/p>\n

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Graffiti says Birth Control is a Plan to Kill Negro (Image credit: Jet Magazine, August 1951)<\/p><\/div>\n

As Live Action News has previously documented<\/a>,\u00a0North Carolina\u2019s eugenics program was funded in part by Clarence Gamble, a member of\u00a0Planned Parenthood<\/a>\u00a0founder Margaret Sanger\u2019s Boards of Directors for both the American Birth Control League<\/a> (ABCL)\u00a0as well as<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood.<\/a>\u00a0He was a close\u00a0friend<\/a>\u00a0of the Planned Parenthood Federation\u00a0and was also a financier of Sanger\u2019s birth control crusade. That eugenics board was responsible for the sterilization of Elaine\u00a0Riddick, as seen in the video clip<\/a> below from the film, Maafa21<\/a>:<\/p>\n