Posted on 01/22/2007 4:22:13 PM PST by wagglebee
Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie says Planned Parenthood advocates abortions -- particularly in the black community.
"How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly to hasten the demise of black people?" Massie asked in a statement LifeNews.com received.
"People of conscience should be appalled and outraged by this alignment," he added.
The LCCR is a political coalition of almost 200 groups representing liberal racial, gender, age, disability and religious special interests as well as labor unions. The group is known for its opposition to judicial nominees who adhere to an orginalist interpretation of the Constitution.
In announcing the new affiliation, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington president and CEO Jatrice Martel Gaiter said her group and the LCCR now "share a dedication to promoting human rights" as well as alleged "committed to justice and equality.
LCCR president Wade Henderson added that Planned Parenthood was "one of the nation's leading health care advocates" and that "health care reform is the next frontier for the civil rights movement."
However, Massie said that promoting abortion doesn't square with the pro-life values most black Americans hold dear.
In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released in August of 2006, 70 percent of black Protestants said that abortion should be prohibited or eliminated.
"The civil rights movement in America has been stifled for many years by poor leadership and an inability to focus on the real issues that hinder progress," Project 21 member Djana Milton said about Planned Parenthood's membership.
"By getting into bed with a nearly billion-dollar organization so vocal in professing its desire to increase risky behaviors without an eye to consequences, the LCCR has taken a giant step backwards in promoting true civil rights in America," Milton added.
ACTION: Express your disappointment to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights at 1629 K Street NW, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20006 or call 202-466-3311. You can send an email message by going to http://www.civilrights.org/about/contact_us
Related web sites:
Project 21 - http://www.project21.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - http://www.civilrights.org
"How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly to hasten the demise of black people?" Massie asked in a statement LifeNews.com received.
It's staggering how so many in the civil rights movement fail to see the implicit racism of the left.
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They should be. Wasn't one of the original stated goals of PP eugenics?
Absolutely right. Kill off the "lower races" as well as other various "defectives". Another outfit complicit in this is, sadly, The March of Dimes, which figures the best way to "prevent birth defects" is to kill off the defectives.
It's hideous. I'm surprised more aren't outraged.
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966)
Founder of Planned Parenthood
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." ~ Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932
On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)
On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
And there's lots more here if you can stomach it:
http://dianedew.com/sanger.htm
"They should be. Wasn't one of the original stated goals of PP eugenics?"
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"In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released in August of 2006, 70 percent of black Protestants said that abortion should be prohibited or eliminated."
I used to use the March of Dimes as an example in one of my classes. They made the mistake of solving the problem they were founded to solve. Instead of going out of business, they found a new one: birth defects are forever.
Although I'm happy that they are taking this stand, I think this statement is a little over the top. It has shades of the 'government gave black people crack' conspiracy to it.
This was never a sinister plot to exterminate just black babies. I think this movement was actually driven by young white women who found it 'inconvenient' to be pregnant. In the end it affects us all adversely, so let's not make it into some racist conspiracy.
This is a colossally silly argument.
I think you need to learn more about Margaret Sanger.
I'm well aware of Sanger's views on eugenics. She was one twisted woman. She tried to equate eugenics with poverty, having observed that the poor, regardless of race, have more children than the rich white folks of her time. She was just as hell bent on exterminating the poor white trash as the black people.
What about "Dollar Bill" Jefferson in NOLA ?
Perhaps they can influence the outcomes in a few Democratic primaries in heavily African-American legislative districts.
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