More Race-Motivated Donations Plague Planned Parenthood

Back on February 29th of this year I brought the story of how students at the UCLA based pro-life publication, The Advocate, had been investigating Race-Motivated Donations to Planned Parenthood and that organizations complicity. Recently there have been more and more people getting evolved with this story and writing excellent pieces as well. I thought I’d share some of those with you as well as the story behind Margaret Sanger and a new video from the Advocate.

First, the video:



Margaret Sanger

Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:

A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization."[14] She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population."

How Planned Parenthood Duped America

Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as "unfit," a plan she said would be the "salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike of those who were "irresponsible and reckless," among whom she included those " whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers." She further contended that "there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped." That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered "unfit" cannot be easily refuted.

While Planned Parenthood's current apologists try to place some distance between the eugenics and birth control movements, history definitively says otherwise. The eugenic theme figured prominently in the Birth Control Review, which Sanger founded in 1917. She published such articles as "Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics" (June 1920), "The Eugenic Conscience" (February 1921), "The purpose of Eugenics" (December 1924), "Birth Control and Positive Eugenics" (July 1925), "Birth Control: The True Eugenics" (August 1928), and many others.

Ericka Anderson has two good pieces on this. As does Leon H Wolf in his post concerning The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision to hold a hearing on a case involving a secret abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was a victim of rape called Looking Behind the Veil at the Lawlessness of Planned Parenthood

Again I’ll reiterate what I’ve said before… This is disturbing on a number of levels but one can't help but be appalled at the racist underpinnings here. As someone who thinks the abortion issue is complex enough without adding this type of hot-button controversy to it, I must say if we're going to have these death shops they must be operated at a level higher than this!

Planned Parenthood can't be permitted to use race as an incentive in which to collect donations, Period!!!


Below is the Original post dated February 29th 2008

Race-Motivated Donations Plague Planned Parenthood

Ok! Right off the bat I have to tell you this is the sickest story I've had the misfortune of researching in a long time. Although it turns my stomach to comment on, I would be remiss not to share it with our readers.

Students at the UCLA based pro-life publication, The Advocate in California taped phone calls in an investigation linking Planed Parenthood and racism.

The results are sickening:

CNSNews confirmed the call with Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio and they said this:

Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio confirmed to Cybercast News Service that the telephone conversation with a presumed donor occurred in mid-summer 2007, adding that it was not the policy of Planned Parenthood to accept donations specifically to underwrite abortions among minority women.

But the transcript, audio and video of the call tell a different story!

Here's a transcript of one of the calls made by James O' Keefe, a first-year law student and an advisor for the The Advocate, who made the call posing as a potential donor to Planned Parenthood of Ohio.

Planned Parenthood:"Planned Parenthood Administration, this is Lisa."
O'Keefe:"Hi. I am interested in making a donation today."
Planned Parenthood:"Let me put you through to Tim in our development office."
O'Keefe:"Is there anyone I can speak to now?"
Planned Parenthood:"Me."
O'Keefe: "Who am I speaking with now?"
Planned Parenthood: "My name is Lisa Hutton."
O'Keefe: "Lisa, what is your position?"
Planned Parenthood: "Administrative assistant."
O'Keefe: "When I underwrite an abortion, does that apply to minorities too?"
Planned Parenthood: "If you specifically want to underwrite it for a minority person, you can target it that way. You can specify that that's how you want it spent."
O'Keefe: "Okay, yeah, because there's definitely way too may black people in Ohio. So, I'm just trying to do my part."
Planned Parenthood: "Hmm. Okay, whatever."
O'Keefe: "Blacks especially need abortions too. So, that's what I'm trying to do."
Planned Parenthood: "Well, for whatever reason, we'll accept the money."
O'Keefe:"Great, Thank You."
Planned Parenthood:"Mmmm, hmmm."

Here's the video:

O'Keefe told Cybercast News Service it was his voice on the recording and that the recording has not been doctored. "Nothing was done to change the content," he said. "I think the audio clearly speaks for itself."

O' Keefe explained that part of his motivation for placing the call was to fight the racism he perceives in Planned Parenthood.

"African-Americans today are targeted by the abortion industry and suffer deeply because of it," he said. "Planned Parenthood makes a profit off of their operations. We wanted to reveal their racist past - and the practical racism of their policies today - reflected in their other operations. Planned Parenthood must be held accountable for their actions, both past and present."

This is disturbing on a number of levels but one can't help but be appalled at the racist underpinnings here. As someone who thinks the abortion issue is complex enough without adding this type of hot-button controversy to it, I must say if we're going to have these death shops they must be operated at a level higher than this!

Planned Parenthood can't be permitted to use race as an incentive in which to collect donations, Period!!!