A well-documented fact about abortion is that the main organization that pushes it in the U.S. (Planned Parenthood) was conceived by America's mostinfluential eugenicist, Margaret Sanger. She described Negros and dirty, poor immigrants as weeds who should be sterilized.
Listen to learn more about Sanger’s goal for Black Genocide.
Eugenics was always tied to birth control. In 1915, Sanger published her first booklet, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, in which she wrote:
“It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stoop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them.”Sadly, Sanger came to this conclusion at least in part because of her own experience, writing in her autobiographical book, My Fight for Birth Control, “I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jails with large families.”
Sanger founded the Birth Control Review in 1917. In 1922, Sanger wrote in The Pivot of Civilization, “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.” Her book coincided with a popular movement that used “scientific racism” to assert Black inferiority.
Keep in mind, while Black men who miraculously survived World War I were returning home (some only to be lynched in their uniforms), Sanger continued to address the need to sterilize and reduce Negro and immigration populations. And she used the Black community towards this end.
During the Great Depression, Sanger and other eugenicists argued that bringing a Black child into a hostile world was considered “pathetic.” Her friend, Walter A. Terpenning, wrote in “God’s Chillun”:
"The birth of a colored child, even to parents who can give it adequate support, is pathetic in view of the unchristian and undemocratic treatment likely to be accorded it at the hands of a predominantly white community, and the denial of choice in propagation to this unfortunate class is nothing less than barbarous."In the June 1932 edition of Sanger’s Birth Control Review, an editorial, “The Negro Number,” said of Blacks:
“Shall they go in for quantity or quality in children? Shall they bring children into the world to enrich the undertakers, the physicians and furnish work for social workers and jailers, or shall they produce children who are going to be an asset to the group and American society?” most [blacks], especially women, would choose quality ... if they only knew how.”By 1939, Sanger had begun to increase her focus on the reproductive practices of Black Americans. Sanger’s Clinical Research Bureau and the American Birth Control League were merged to form the new Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) in 1939. And, BCFA enrolled heavy hitters to roll out Sanger’s “Negro Project.”
The Negro Project was supervised by a “special committee,” including Margaret Sanger, Mary Lasker, and Dr. Clarence Gamble, of Procter and Gamble, who was also BCFA’s new regional director for the South.
Gamble proposed a “Suggestion for Negro Project” in November 1939. He wrote that to avoid Black leaders thinking that birth control might be used as an “extermination plot,” he suggested that they place Black leaders in prominent positions so they would believe they were in charge.
One outcome of his suggestion was the creation of a Negro Advisory Council, comprised of representatives and prominent Black leaders from 25 major Black organizations and universities. Another was Gamble’s effective targeting of Southern Black ministers. He enrolled them to teach Black congregants the importance of preventing pregnancies under the guise of “family planning.”
Sanger wrote of the Negro Project,
“The minister's work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach.”Sanger’s legacy lives on, especially in the city where she lived. To date, more Black babies are killed through abortion in New York City than are born. And, abortion facilities are strategically and disproportionately located in more low-income minority communities than in any other community. Life Issues Institute mapped Planned Parenthood surgical abortion facilities, for example, and found that 79 percent were located in minority neighborhoods.
“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.”
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, in America, Black women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic Caucasian women to have an abortion. And, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two Black pregnancies ends in abortion.
Imagine the entire Black population of Oakland, California, Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. completely eliminated. Then imagine that their combined total would not even reach the number of Black babies aborted in 2008, for example, in one year: 683,294.
Abortion of Black babies every year kills more Black lives than if the cities of Atlanta, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. lost their entire Black population in one year. The next year, imagine several other entire Black populations of major cities, completely gone.
That is the reality of abortion of Blacks in America.
But this reality becomes worse even than murder and genocide – because a certain class of people continue to financially profit from this destruction. Black baby parts and tissue, by their sheer number, may be disproportionately used more than other baby body parts and tissue experimented on for "scientific and medical research."
The only difference between today and pre-Civil War America is that the sale of Black babies is technically illegal. Everything else is the same: the ‘mastas’ are largely elitist eugenicists, who continue to earn millions of dollars by exploiting Black women, assuring them it's "in their best interest" to freely give their DNA and child’s body parts, without ever financially compensating them.
A dream come true for Sanger.
