Herman Cain's Planned Parenthood 'genocide' slur
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/01/herman-cain-planned-parenthoo...
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Andrew Sanger writes:
"Cain could use a history lesson. When my grandmother started Planned Parenthood in 1916, her first clinic was in Brownsville, Brooklyn, then a mixed neighborhood of primarily European immigrants. Within a decade and a half, her nascent organisation received the endorsement of several prominent African Americans, including Mary McLeod Bethune, WEB DuBois and Rev Adam Clayton Powell Jr. At their urging, in 1930, Harlem's first birth control clinic was opened, in partnership with the New York Urban League. In years to come, African American leaders endorsed her efforts to bring contraceptives to poor, rural black residents – the same services Planned Parenthood delivered to poor, rural white residents.
To think that my grandmother was clever enough to enlist prominent black religious and community leaders to exterminate their own race is not only nonsensical; it's racist. Throughout her career, my grandmother's driving force was to ensure that every child was a wanted child."
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I'm not defending Cain, and I know he is just playing up a wedge issue to distract from more important issues, but it appears that Andrew Sanger appears revise history lying by ommission. He forgot to include this quote from the elder Sanger regarding the Negro Project:
"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."
This quote has been used by numerous Sanger detractors, including Angela Davis and the pro-life movement, to support their claims that Sanger was racist.[86] However, according to New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Sanger, in writing that letter, "recognized that elements within the black community might mistakenly associate the Negro Project with racist sterilization campaigns in the Jim Crow South, unless clergy and other community leaders spread the word that the Project had a humanitarian aim."[87]"
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cherry5000
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thank god, I took sex education in school, it help me made choices: 1. Not to have kids out of wedlock, and 2. how to use birth control. 3. to say the word "NO." I wasn't able to have children but thank goodness sex education gave me to tools to be responsible.
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maasanova
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MARGARET SANGER QUOTES, Founder of the Birth Control League (which later became Planned Parenthood)
“No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood.”
- Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) in her proposed The American Baby Code, intended to become law.“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the 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.”
Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.http://www.prisonplanet.com/eugenics-quotes-from-lofty-ideals-to-highly-centrali...
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