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February is Black History Month, and we are reminded of the many
African-Americans who have made remarkable contributions to our great country.
Sadly, I am reminded also of the huge number of African-American babies aborted
every day in the United States snuffing out enormous future potential from this
community. Adding insult to injury, evidence has surfaced over the last few
months concerning anti-African-American attitudes in the abortion
industry.
I refer to the explosive news regarding racist behavior by
employees of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. A student reporter at
UCLA who did some investigative journalism released some shocking recordings
showing that the eugenic and racial origins of Planned Parenthood are evident in
the work of the organization even today.
It has long been known-but
largely unreported--that Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood)
advocated population control and birth prevention among the "unfit" from the
beginning of her public work. As early as 1915, Sanger's first handbook
entitled, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, discussed the vicious cycle of
ignorance breeding poverty and poverty breeding ignorance. Sanger's solution to
this problem was to prevent the birth of children who would not have an
inheritance of health or intelligence and whose parents could not provide for
them. This philosophy resulted in the creation of Sanger's Negro Project in
1939-a program aimed at restricting reproduction among the African-American
population.
Fast forward to February 2008, when Lila Rose, the UCLA
student mentioned above, and a friend called Planned Parenthood clinics in seven
states. The friend played the role of a blatantly racist man inquiring as to
whether the organization would take his donation if it was earmarked
specifically for the abortion of an African-American baby. The caller explained
that he didn't want his son's chances of being accepted to college lessened due
to affirmative action.
The recorded calls to Planned Parenthood involve
conversations between the would-be racist customer and several employees. The
employee at Ohio Planned Parenthood told the caller that, "For whatever reason
we'll accept the donation." The Director of Development at Planned Parenthood of
Idaho, Autumn Kersey, was told that the caller wanted his donation directed
toward an African-American because, "We just think the less black kids out there
the better." Autumn's response was laughter followed by the comment,
"Understandable, understandable." Seven clinics were contacted, and Planned
Parenthood went 7 for 7 in accepting donations specifically targeted for the
abortion of African-American babies.
Abortion is the leading cause of
death in the African-American community, and Planned Parenthood has had
significant impact on the astronomical decline in the birth rate of this group
of people. According to Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., abortion
is the primary agenda of groups like Planned Parenthood in the African-American
communities. They also offer birth control and some health services, but the
emphasis is on abortion for these particular parents. The organization operates
a disproportionately high number of facilities in metropolitan areas with high
African-American populations. Since 1973 abortion has taken the lives of about
14 million African-American babies, nearly 1450 every day in this country.
Approximately 35% of all abortions in the U.S. are performed on African-American
women, while they represent only 13% of the female population of the
country.
The exposure of these actions by Planned Parenthood employees
reminds us again how seriously divisive this hateful behavior is. The conduct of
Planned Parenthood should fuel a revolt to end taxpayer funding of this
organization. The decimation of the African-American community should ignite a
movement aimed at stopping the eradication of an entire generation of children
by removing African-Americans from the crosshairs of the Planned Parenthood
abortionists.
Published February 22, 2009 on Opposingviews.com |
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