The racists in our midst
- May 19, 2008 - 1
Actor: I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
Planned Parenthood: Absolutely.
Actor: Like the black community for example?
Planned Parenthood: Certainly.
Actor: The abortion—I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
Planned Parenthood: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.
Actor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.
Actor: And we don’t, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Actor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college.
Planned Parenthood: All right. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and want to make sure I don’t leave anything else.
That transcript is from a telephone call made earlier this year to a Planned Parenthood office by an actor working for a student journalist at a pro-life magazine distributed on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles. The journalist, Lila Rose, made several calls to Planned Parenthood offices around the country, and exposed the organization’s racism and greed nearly every time.
What’s that, you say? You didn’t read about this in the major news media? Likewise, you probably didn’t get to read about the large group of pro-life African-American pastors who protested Planned Parenthood’s racism outside the organization’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C., after they learned the results of Lila Rose’s undercover investigation.
Read it here, then: Planned Parenthood, the recipient of more than $20 million annually in federal government funding, is a racist organization and has been since its earliest days. No rational person who has studied the history of Planned Parenthood can believe otherwise. Its founder was a rabid racist by the name of Margaret Sanger, who coined the word “eugenics” to explain her philosophy that lesser forms of mankind like Negroes should not be allowed to proliferate beyond control.
“We do not want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she famously wrote in 1939—the same year she began her Negro Project.
Lila Rose’s 2008 telephone inquiries would indicate Planned Parenthood, the most prolific abortion provider in the country, hasn’t changed its philosophy in the nearly 70 years since Sanger forthrightly proclaimed the organization’s mission.
Of course, Planned Parenthood argues that their beloved founder is being quoted out of context, and that at any rate the organization is no longer under the control of Sanger, who died in 1966.
Really? If Planned Parenthood has changed its ways, why is it that the organization locates nearly 80% of its “clinics” today in minority neighborhoods? Why are 35% of all abortions in this country performed on African-Americans, who comprise only 13% of the population? Why do half of all African-American pregnancies end in abortions? (Statistics courtesy of the Idaho Values Alliance.)
The secular news media don’t have the courage to tell us this story. Most (but certainly not all) politicians are afraid to take on this issue. Judges cringe. Church members are uncomfortable even talking about it. The general population yawns.
Saddest of all, many Christians have turned away as fifty million of our brothers and sisters of all races have been slaughtered in the womb as if they are a pestilence.
This article is reprinted from the May 8, 2008, issue of the Baptist Record, the newspaper of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
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1 On May 21st, 2008, at 10:14am, E. Botley wrote:
I did, in fact, read this article a while ago. And I am surprised to see it repeated here. Do not misunderstand me Planned Parenthood is a despicable and irresponsible organization. However, to tag the organization as racist is a stretch, at best. Planned Parenthood, I would imagine, does research before they simply build a new facility. That research would more than likely include demographic studies (simple marketing research). Once that information is compiled and analyzed the location would be chosen. I can not speak to who the representative was on the phone (other than a weak individual), but the greater thought of the representative was probably to get the donation. The greatest sadness here is that there was and is no compassion on Planned Parenthood’s part and the donation is easier to receive than a child (race is irrelevant).