The Ugly History of Planned Parenthood

The Ugly History of Planned Parenthood
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012

By Stacy Long, afaJournal, Oct. 2012 - www.afajournal.org

“Margaret Sanger was no child advocate, but on October 16, 1916, she gave birth to an entity of which she was immensely proud - America’s first birth control clinic, an abortion facility that grew into Planned Parenthood. Few promises of the birth control revolution have paid out, but its practice of “racial cultivation,” or eugenics, has had astonishing success.

“Sanger linked birth control with eugenic success as the highest end of birth control. In an article titled “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” she wrote, “Before eugenicists and others laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must clear the way for birth control. Like advocates of birth control, eugenicists are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.”

The target: blacks, minorities: In that era, many automatically categorized blacks as inferior and susceptible to the problems Sanger was determined to solve.

“Eugenics is the most adequate avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems,” she promised in an article titled “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.”

“Sanger enlisted Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, Southern regional birth control director, to promote contraceptives to solve those “racial problems” through the 1939 Negro Project. Sanger feared blacks would view the Negro Project as an extermination plot, and she explained to Gamble that promotion of birth control might be best left to their own trusted leaders, saying, “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.”

“Even then, African Americans were slow utilize birth control methods. According to www.blackgenocide.org, in 1964, Planned Parenthood chairman Donald B. Strauss fretted, “Almost one fourth of nonwhite parents have four or more children … only eight percent of white couples have that many children.” Thereafter, abortion clinics were more strategically located in areas adjacent to concentration of black population according to the website.

“The strategy produced results. In 2011, the Guttmacher Institute reported that the “abortion rate among African-Americans women is higher than both Hispanic and white women: 40.2 per 1,000, compared with 28.5 and 11.5, respectively.”

“And so Sanger’s legacy of “racial betterment” insidiously crept into the heart of African-American community posing as a friend.

"The truth: exposing PP’s agenda: Fortunately some African-Americans are alert to this internal enemy. Rev. Arnold Culbreath is the antithesis of Sanger’s model minister - he is the man to straighten out the lie that abortion is not exterminating the black population. A founding member of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, and Director of Protecting Black Life, the Urban Outreach Initiative of Life Issues Institute, Culbreath leads the effort in educating African-Americans on abortion’s threat to their population.

“Culbreath explained, “The black community is largely unaware, and that is why we work hard across the country to educate and activate the black community. there is the disbelief in the black community that Planned Parenthood is their friend. It’s a lie.

“ He pointed out a few telling statistics from the Protecting Black Life website: “Abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community, two of three of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are in black communities and 70% of their facilities are in minority neighborhoods.” to be continued.

Protecting Black Life - www.protectingblacklife.org

George H. Kubeck, It is incomprehensible to me why President Obama loves Planned Parenthood.