{"id":205276,"date":"2019-07-01T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205276"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:41:47","slug":"planned-parenthood-praises-eugenics-north-carolina-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-praises-eugenics-north-carolina-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood president praises eugenics-linked North Carolina clinic founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood, a corporation founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, is opening<\/a> a new abortion facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, a state that has a tragic history with a eugenics program financed by one of Sanger’s directors. At the facility’s ribbon cutting ceremony<\/a>, Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen was joined by\u00a0Sarah Bryant, a woman who founded Planned Parenthood Health Systems of Charlotte in the 1970’s and sat<\/a> on the national board. But what makes the opening of this abortion facility even more disturbing is that Sarah Bryant previously revealed that two eugenicists — one man engrossed in population control and the other who ran a sterilization program later exposed as coercive — influenced her to open a Planned Parenthood so many years ago.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Planned Parenthood ribbon cutting with Sarah Bryant (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wen was thrilled to have Bryant at the ceremony,\u00a0recounting<\/a>\u00a0the event to an audience in June 2019:<\/p>\n

[T]here was a woman there named Sarah Bryant who had first started the chapter of Planned Parenthood in Charlotte 50 years ago. And she came to this ribbon cutting and I thought that was kind of amazing. And by the way, they also put in this new health center a red telephone<\/a> and it was the same red telephone that Sarah had used to call volunteers and donors back in the day, which was really sweet. But that was not the real story….<\/em><\/p>\n

Wen also\u00a0tweeted<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood prez tweets Sarah Bryant praise Charlotte NC (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Charlotte Planned Parenthood story began in 1969, when, according to a\u00a0cached history\u00a0published<\/a> by Planned Parenthood, Bryant recruited “doctors, lawyers, ministers and concerned women to help establish a Planned Parenthood affiliate. The group met regularly at the United Way….”\u00a0In 1971, Planned Parenthood of Greater Charlotte was incorporated.<\/p>\n

The Planned Parenthood page went on to say, “[T]he Charlotte phonebook had a listing for ‘Planned Parenthood,’ but there was no clinic and no staff.\u00a0 Instead, calls came to the home of Sarah and Bob Bryant. Sarah had a special red telephone she reserved for Planned Parenthood inquiries, which rang at all hours. She assisted those who called and appeared on her doorstep by referring them to doctors and social service agencies. They came from as far away as Asheville, Knoxville and Wilmington.”<\/p>\n

Bryant later called<\/a> that red telephone “a symbol” — and some within the pro-life movement might agree, given that Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in the country. Red is perhaps an appropriate color.<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood Charlotte founder Sarah Bryant red telephone<\/p><\/div>\n

But who influenced Bryant to open the Planned Parenthood in the first place? In 2011, the Charlotte Observer answered<\/a> that question, writing, “In the late 1960s, Charlotte welfare director\u00a0Wallace Kuralt\u00a0and banker Art Jones approached her to start a\u00a0Planned Parenthood\u00a0health center.”<\/p>\n

“We were like a Third World country in that area at the time,” Bryant told the paper.<\/p>\n

In the video below, Bryant confirms the influence these men had over her decision to open a Planned Parenthood, \u201c[T]hen Mr.\u00a0Art Jones<\/a>\u00a0who was a banker and Mr. Wallace Kuralt who was the chairman, head of the county health commission, urged me to start Planned Parenthood. They had been involved and had known about Margaret Sanger when they were in [Oberlin] college. So, that was the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n