A billboard campaign in Atlanta, Georgia proclaiming "Black Children are an Endangered Species" has generated editorial comment and analysis around the nation. Last week the Chicago Tribune printed an article entitled "Antiabortion activists see a racial conspiracy." Naturally, the purpose of the article was to challenge such a premise as untrue.
Two key points were used to question the concept that Planned Parenthood has targeted their faciliities for eliminating African-Americans through abortion. First, statistics were cited that African-Americans have a higher birth rate than the national average, even with all those abortions. Of course, such statistics cannot deny that Planned Parenthood helps abort almost one half of African-American babies, so their birth rate could be much higher with fewer abortions.
Second, Margaret Sanger was quoted to say in 1920, "While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion is justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization." Is this statement proof that she was against abortion?
Strong evidence suggests otherwise. Even the Tribune article admits Sanger was an advocate of eugenics, a movement that supported selective breeding and forced sterilization of the poor and feeble-minded. In her book Women and the New Race Sanger asserted that the "most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it." Those positions suggest that having concerns about abortion would certainly be inconsistent.
However, American Life League (ALL) has an explanation for Sanger's anti-abortion quote (which they cite from the December, 1918, Birth Control Review). ALL observes, "How do you sell the practice of contraception to a public that is totally opposed to it? In 1918, when she wrote the above, no religious denomination accepted the practice of contraception. Well, you sell it to the people by insisting that with better contraception there would be less abortion!"
Thus, it appears the lie that contraception reduces abortion was part of the marketing plan for Planned Parenthood from almost the very beginning. Now that former insiders like Abby Johnson have revealed their strong push to increase abortions for profit, the lie has been confirmed. Planned Parenthood has no interest in reducing abortions, so clearly they know that their business approach increases their abortion business.
Contact: Bill Beckman
Source: Illinois Review
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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