© Provided by Washington Examiner Everyone in the pro-life community has known for decades that Margaret Sanger was a racist. She believed in eugenics. She believed that only the "fit" should be breeding and that family size should be limited. Sanger particularly targeted the black population through her "Negro Project," calling African Americans "reckless breeders" and "human weeds."
I remember hearing these allegations when I worked at Planned Parenthood, and I remember the organization vehemently denying them, pivoting back to its standard talking point about Sanger and how she was a "champion for women." In fact, according to Planned Parenthood, we owed all our feminine freedoms to Margaret Sanger. She was a modern-day hero. Pictures of her were hung on our walls, awards were given in her name, buildings were named after her, textbooks talked about how she helped to shape women's rights; I would venture to say that a few people probably named their children after her.
A couple years ago, I was on a call with an abortion rights group. Someone began talking about Sanger, and the question was posed, "Was she a racist?" The moderators began to chuckle and stated, "Well, she was a 'little r' racist. I mean, everyone was racist back then, so she just sort of fit into the mainstream crowd." I'm still not sure what a "little r" racist is. As far as I know, a racist is simply a racist, but I couldn't believe that these white women on the call were making excuses for Sanger's racist behavior and that the women of color listening were accepting it and then laughing about it. Since when is racism a laughing matter? Well, I guess when you are making excuses for the blatant racism shown by Planned Parenthood's founder, it's hilarious.
About a year ago, a group of 300 former Planned Parenthood employees wrote an open letter discussing the racism they witnessed inside of their recent employer. I was familiar with the racism they discussed. I remember co-workers giving bigger discounts to minority clients who came in for abortion services, reasoning that we couldn't have "those" women having too many kids. This is why 79% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are in nonwhite neighborhoods. As its founder said, we have to work hard to eradicate the "human weeds" in our society.
More than likely, you didn't hear much about that open letter from 300 former Planned Parenthood employees. The media did a fantastic job of burying it and hiding it from the public. The liberal media's job is to protect the image of Planned Parenthood at all costs.
Now, after decades of denying Sanger's racist past and, in turn, its racist foundation, Planned Parenthood finally comes out and admits to it. Yes, she was kind of racist and dabbled in eugenic thinking, it says. And Planned Parenthood admits that is bad. But this is all a stunt. Please don't let it fool you.
If Planned Parenthood was really interested in undoing its racist roots, it would take a lot more than a media statement about its founder. If it were really serious about rebuilding a brand that was not riddled with racism, then it would immediately shut down the abortion clinics that it erected in black communities in order to intentionally snuff out black babies. It would invest in programs to actually help women of color. It would invest in fatherhood programs. It would help pay for women of color to get an education, including vocational training. It would offer comprehensive healthcare for men, women, and children. It would invest in safe housing options for minority families.
It would stop telling women that in order to succeed in life, you must kill your innocent child. It would instead empower women so that they didn't feel like they had to choose between their own success and the life of their child.
But you know what? Planned Parenthood will never do that. You know why? Because abortion pays too well. Investing in minority communities only costs them money. Abortion makes them money.
Planned Parenthood is the greatest predatory racist organization among us. It lies to, kills, and destroys the black community each and every day. Margaret Sanger told us exactly who she was, and people didn't believe it. Planned Parenthood tells us who it is by the communities it targets each and every day.
Abby Johnson is CEO and founder of And Then There Were None and author of Unplanned, which was made into a feature film in 2019.
Tags: Opinion, Op-Eds, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Race and Diversity, Health, Gender Issues
Original Author: Abby Johnson
Original Location: Margaret Sanger's racist legacy lives on at Planned Parenthood