All of you out there supporting planned parenthood should really remember what the woman who founded them said…. just saying. Do not stand with PP
Oh wow, you guys are still trying desperately trying to paint Sanger as a racist huh? Okay, if you’re gonna flat out lie like this you can at least try not to be lazy about it.
You’ve given no context to this quote and conveniently left of the first half of it. The sentence in it’s entirety is “
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”I know you manipulated it that way because you wanted to make Sanger seem as evil as possible, and also because literally the only thing pro lifers know how to do is lie, but admittedly the full sentence by itself looks damning enough. I think you know this, which is why you provided no context. If you had, your entire argument would have fallen apart. Here are Sangers words with context;
“It seems to me from my experience where I have been in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored
Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to
their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which
means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this
with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic
he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I
believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His
work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the
nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors.
His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained,
perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to
reach. 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.”The article I linked goes into better detail about Sanger, the so called “Negro project”, and the lies spread about her by the pro life movement. I encourage you to read it the next time you feel like spreading lazy, manipulative propaganda bullshit like this.
TL;DR: The full quote states that Planned Parenthood wanted to hire Black doctors in order to make their Black patients feel safer and respected. It also states that Planned Parenthood wanted to work with Black ministers, and encourage the ministers to tell others that Planned Parenthood was a safe clinic for Black patients.
In other words, she didn’t want this exact lie to start circulating
Sip sip bitch
This is all true.
What is also true is that Sanger was extremely ableist, and simply because one quote is often taken out of context does not mean that Sanger wasn’t an overt eugenicist who did say things like:
“the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”
And “Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
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And meant it. Combine that with her alliance with Henry Pratt Fairchild, who wrote The Melting Pot Mistake, in which he just flat out said ‘Jews will never be really American, also, that’s why we should ensure there aren’t interracial children, and America should be for white people only, also only white Christians,’, and Planned Parenthood has an ugly racist, ableist antisemitic history.
That doesn’t mean that the organization itself hasn’t come a long way and isn’t doing important and vital work. But trying to whitewash and clean up Sanger’s reputation and make it like she wasn’t racist, egregiously ableist, antisemitic, and a lot of other things, doesn’t do us any favors as progressives and defenders of the right to choice and the need for Planned Parenthood, because those things happened, and she said them. Even if this one quote is out of context which places this one quote in a better light, there’s a reality, and that reality is that Sanger held some pretty terrible beliefs.
The entire context is at the links if you want to read it all.
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