Planned Parenthood: Culture of Genocide

The debate continues to rage over abortion in this nation. My views are clear: I am unapologetically opposed to abortion as a means of birth control. As an emergency procedure where medical necessity dictates, it is a matter of conscience where a choice between two lives must be made.  This is not a decision that I could undertake lightly, and I hope that others share that view. 

My purpose in writing is to expose the culture of genocide that lies at the very founding of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation. Its roots go back to the Progressive Era early in the 20th century where the intelligentsia determined to set themselves up as the keepers of mankind, even including the decision of which lives were worth living or even worthy of entering the world. A large number of Americans, and especially those in the black community are ignorant of the roots of the movement and the sinister motives that continue to this day. 

 [The] incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.” 1

Currently, in our government, there is a well-entrenched cadre of true believers in abortion on demand, a group that lionizes the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.  Among these is Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  At 4 minutes 25 seconds into this video, Ms. Clinton compares the eugenics advocate and racist Margaret Sanger to Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Clinton even seems to say that Sanger is superior to Jefferson. 

 

So the bar has been set; Margaret Sanger’s actions in life were superior to that of the author of the Declaration of Independence. 

Let’s examine the evidence. Let’s start with a video overview of Sanger’s beliefs.

 

Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York, on September 14, 1879. Although Sanger had aspirations of becoming a doctor, she only worked briefly as a “nurse probationer” and never entered nursing school. 2  

By 1916, Sanger had fully subscribed to the eugenics movement which formed a central tenet of the progressive movement. Sanger saw birth control as a principal way to limit the numbers of people she considered to be defective. Sanger sought to protect the freedom and power of those she believed to be of a superior breed as they would be needed to rule over the impure masses. At this time she was operating an illegal birth control center in Brooklyn, NY, in a heavily Italian and Jewish minority neighborhood, establishing the model for locating future Planned Parenthood clinics in heavily minority neighborhoods of the inner cities of America. 

By 1919, Margaret Sanger had founded Birth Control Review and wrote: “More children from the fit, less from the unfit—that is the chief issue in Birth Control.”2  She expanded on this belief in her autobiography:

I accepted one branch of this philosophy, but eugenics without birth control seemed to me a house built upon sands. It could not stand against the furious winds of economic pressure which had buffeted into partial or total helplessness a tremendous proportion of the human race. The eugenists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from less children for the poor to more children for the rich. We went back of that and sought first to stop the multiplication of the unfit. This appeared the most important and greatest step towards race betterment.4 

Sanger directed her anger at organized charity for causing the problem with overpopulation of “undesirables”:

It [charity] reveals a fundamental and irremediable defect. Its very success, its very efficiency, its very necessity to the social order, are themselves the most unanswerable indictment. Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease.

Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents. My criticism, therefore, is not directed at the “failure” of philanthropy, but rather at its success.

These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day [sic] produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice…5

So, let’s summarize to this point:

 Margaret Sanger subscribed whole-heartedly to the belief in eugenics as the way to better the human race by increasing desirable peoples and decreasing numbers of undesirable peoples. She further went on to blame the success of charity in taking care of the less fortunate for causing undesirable, unfit people for continuing to exist, even prospering. She called these people “human waste.”

At this point in her life, Margaret Sanger then moves against blacks as a group worthy of particular attention on her part. In so doing, she created what is known as the “Negro Project.” Now, I won’t be silly enough to impart racism simply because of the use of the word “negro.” It was in common usage, as were the words, “colored people,” in that day. But the actions and deviousness of the Negro Project are quite chilling. By extension, her views that certain people constitute “human waste” then encompass blacks. Her plan was summarized best in her own words:

It seems to me from my experience…that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.

The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Emphasis added]6

Today’s Planned Parenthood carries on the tradition of birth control, with the added component of abortion as a means of “family planning.” The end result has taken a terrible toll on the black community.

Where are the voices of the black community in response?

Certainly one can always point to Dr. Alan Keys and his staunch support of life on his site www.LoyalToLiberty.com. Here you will find his discussion of his views and perhaps as importantly, an examination of the views of prominent people believed to be pro-life. Labels can be misleading.

Also, Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Chilress, Jr., a black Baptist preacher from Montclair, NJ, has put together a site in which a plethora of educational items about the scourge of abortion in the black community can be accessed. In fact, his work is so vast on the subject, that the reader would be well-advised to set aside a fair amount of time to visit www.BlackGenocide.org. But a fair warning, there are areas where those faint of heart may fear to tread. The issue of abortion is not sugar-coated in any way on this site.

Now, I can hear the critics already screaming: “But these ideas are old ideas. No one subscribes to eugenics anymore.”

Really?

 ”Frankly I had thought that at that time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”   7/2/09 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg       

 The reality:

“The most dangerous place for an African American to be is in the womb of their African American mother.” Rev, Clenard H Childress Jr

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SOURCES:

1. Rev. Dr.Clenard H. Childress, Jr., www.BlackGenocide.org

 2. Madeline Gray, Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1979), p. 326.

 3. “Intelligent or Unintelligent Birth Control?” editorial from American Medicine, Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12.

 4. Sanger, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, pp. 374-375.

 5. Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, pp. 116-117.

 6. Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (New York: Grossman, 1976), p. 332.