{"id":218048,"date":"2020-02-07T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218048"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T03:07:49","slug":"planned-parenthood-eugenicist-founder-reinterpreted-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-eugenicist-founder-reinterpreted-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Planned Parenthood’s eugenicist founder need to be ‘reinterpreted’? One workshop speaker thinks so."},"content":{"rendered":"
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An event scheduled for later this month at Smith College seeks to “reinterpret Margaret Sanger,” the eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood, who created the “Negro Project” which targeted Black Americans with a birth control agenda. The workshop<\/a>\u00a0, entitled “Reinterpreting Margaret Sanger through a Black Feminist Lens,” features Black abortion rights activist Loretta Ross. The flyer (image below)\u00a0shared<\/a> on Twitter states:<\/p>\n

When a Black woman walks through anti-abortion protesters at abortion clinics, chants of \u201cMartin Luther King<\/a>\u201d and \u201cMargaret Sanger\u201d dog their footsteps, usually shouted by white people who claim that abortion is black genocide. They entwine these two iconic names as if one contradicts the other. This workshop will explore how the intersection of race and gender affects how Margaret Sanger is interpreted through a Black feminist lens.<\/em><\/p>\n

But Sanger needs no “reinterpreting” — she herself openly advocated eugenics and admittedly<\/a> met with members of the Ku Klux Klan. And what the flyer for the workshop doesn’t<\/em> say is that it isn’t “white people” who “claim that abortion is Black genocide” — those who first called it by that name were Black leaders alive during the very time the agenda was introduced by Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

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Reinterpreting Margaret Sanger workshop with abortion advocates (Image: FCWSRC Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Workshop speaker Loretta Ross is a former co-founder of Sister Song, a group she admitted<\/a> is “pro-choice” on abortion. Ryan Bomberger founder of The Radiance Foundation<\/a> has previously referred to Ross as a “national leader of pro-abortion opposition to Black pro-lifers.” WATCH:<\/p>\n