What Ben Carson Knows about Planned Parenthood

National Review ^ | 8/14/15 | Ian Tuttle

[markomalley]

It’s an irony surely lost on the Black Lives Matter crowd that whatever the perils of life in Democrat-controlled cities, nowhere is as dangerous to black Americans as the womb.

That is not a matter of chance, as Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson noted Wednesday on Fox News: “I know who Margaret Sanger is,” Carson told host Neil Cavuto, referring to the founder of Planned Parenthood, “and I know that she believed in eugenics, and that she was not particularly enamored with black people. And one of the reasons that you find most of their clinics in black neighborhoods is so that you can find a way to control that population.” He encouraged viewers to read up on Sanger (about whom, he noted, Hillary Clinton has gushed). To that end, the best resource is Sanger herself.

In her 1922 book The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger wrote:

The lack of balance between the birth-rate of the “unfit” and the “fit” [is] admittedly the greatest present menace to the civilization. . . . The example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit, and therefore less fertile, parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem to-day is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

While Sanger spent her 50-year birth-control crusade touting “reproductive freedom” and women’s “liberation,” those goals were inextricable, to her mind, from population control. And so Sanger devoted much of her career to stopping the “inferior classes,” the “mentally defective,” the “poverty-stricken” et al. from reproducing — or, as she called it, “reckless breeding.” Sanger again:

Modern studies indicate that insanity, epilepsy, criminality, prostitution, pauperism, and mental defect, are all organically bound up together and that the least intelligent and the thoroughly degenerate classes in every community are the most prolific. Feeble-mindedness in one generation becomes pauperism or insanity in the next. There is every indication that feeble-mindedness in its protean forms is on the increase, that it has leaped the barriers, and that there is truly, as some of the scientific eugenists [sic] have pointed out, a feeble-minded peril to future generations – unless the feeble-minded are prevented from reproducing their kind. To meet this emergency is the immediate and peremptory duty of every State and of all communities.

Sanger’s devotion to the “science” of her day provided her a purportedly empirical basis on which to establish a hierarchy of desirable persons. Predictably, in 1939, allied with prominent black ministers and community leaders, Sanger commenced her “Negro Project” to promote birth control among blacks. “The mass of significant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously,” wrote Sanger’s Birth Control Federation, “with the result that the increase among Negroes . . . is [in] that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.”

An influential colleague in this project, and Sanger’s close friend, was Lothrop Stoddard, whose book The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy became a gospel of the eugenics movement: “Finally perish!” he writes in one place. “That is the exact alternative that confronts the white race. . . . If white civilization goes down, the white race is irretrievably ruined. It will be swamped by the triumphant colored races, who will eliminate the white man by elimination or absorption. . . . We now know that men are not and never will be equal.” As for solutions: “Just as we isolate bacterial invasions, and starve out the bacteria, by limiting the area and amount of their food supply, so we can compel an inferior race to remain in its native habitat.” Stoddard’s book was published in 1920. Six years later, in Silver Lake, N.J., Sanger delivered a speech at a Ku Klux Klan rally. And, adding to her discredit, it should come as no surprise that Sanger was complimentary toward Nazi eugenics, and Nazi leaders were complimentary toward Sanger.

This may be history — but the abortion industry, intentionally or not, has carried on Sanger’s troubling legacy. Why is it that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, black women are five times likelier than white women to have an abortion?

Perhaps it has something to do with the placement of abortion clinics. In 2011 the pro-life organization Life Dynamics analyzed the zip codes of every abortion or abortion-referral facility in the United States. They noticed that these facilities were overwhelmingly located in zip codes with minority populations well above the state average. Consider Texas, which in 2011 had 94 such facilities: 72 were located in zip codes with disproportionate black and/or Hispanic populations. Or take the zip codes of Kentucky’s two facilities: In one, the Hispanic population was 166.6 percent of the state average; in the other, the black population was 915 percent.

“There is not one state in the union without population control centers located in ZIP codes with higher percentages of blacks and/or Hispanics than the state’s overall percentage,” the study’s authors noted. And, they added:

We identified 116 ZIP codes with more than one population control facility. Of those, 84 were disproportionately black and/or Hispanic. What this means is that, when the American family planning industry places multiple facilities in a ZIP code, that ZIP code is more than two-and-a-half times as likely to be disproportionately minority as not.

Critics of these findings suggest that abortion providers are simply going where the need is — low-income, which are typically minority-dominant, areas. But abortion advocates also claim that promoting birth control in these areas helps to reduce abortions and unplanned pregnancies. And that has not happened. In 2011, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute published the findings of a study comparing rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion in 1994 and 2006. Among women with incomes below the federal poverty line, the unintended pregnancy rate rose by 50 percent. They also experienced an increase in abortions. Women with incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty line saw decreases in both of these categories. Conclusion: The results were exactly the opposite of what abortion providers claimed was the goal.

Cause and effect are not straightforward here, to be fair. But these providers surely have created some of those customers by providing ready access to cheap birth control — and, ultimately, abortion — thereby promoting riskier sexual behavior.

The exact causal relations aside, though, what the data make clear is that Margaret Sanger’s project continues in a new form. Cecile Richards is not Lothrop Stoddard, fearing the contamination of the superior Aryan race. But Planned Parenthood has focused its efforts in in minority neighborhoods, despite those efforts’ deleterious outcomes (according to Planned Parenthood’s own standards).

Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested there are “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” If you want to know which populations she’s thinking of, perhaps you should look for the local Planned Parenthood clinic.

[markomalley]

PP was founded by one of the most evil women of the 20th Century, if not THE most evil woman of the 20th Century. She was a Eugenicist who wanted to wipe out whole populations. For example, in this 12/10/1939 letter to Charles Gamble, founder of P&G, she discloses:

If you take a look at page 102 of the April, 1933 issue of the Birth Control Review (Sanger's Journal of her Birth Control League which, after the war, morphed into Planned Butcherhood) you will note an interesting article titled, Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need. The doctor was Dr. Ernst Rüdin. In case you're not familar, Dr. Ernst Rüdin was honored by Hitler as being the "pioneer of the racial-hygienic measures of the Third Reich." He was one of the collaborators of Margaret Sanger.

Sanger was a child of the sexual revolution 50 years before the sexual revolution was even conceived. She believed the birth of a child was a shame and a large family was a catastrophe:

Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race, (New York: Eugenics Press, 1920), chapter 5.

(btw, if you click on the link, there's even worse to read in that book)

[Catsrus]

There is a good book on the internet called, “Killer Angel,” which is quite lengthy and involved - but really gives one the best look at the demon called Margaret Sanger. This is someone Hillary Clinton admires? Margaret was a sick woman and I believe, demon possessed> Sorry, I don’t have the link, but if one googles it, it should be there.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Great article by Ian Tuttle. HOORAY Ben Carson.

[grey_whiskers]

From the link under "April, 1933 issue":

One of the most strikmg recent proofs of the possibilities Inherent ln sterilization 1s lts recom- mendatlon ln the Report made to the State of New Jersey by the School of Public and International Affairs of Prmceton University in December, 1932 The recommendation read

The costs of canng for the feeble-mlnded could be reduced greatly if a law permitting the sterilization of the unfit were enacted There is abundant evidence to support such Legislation and it has been recommended repeatedly in the past. Not only are the feeble-mlnded unfit to beget children but they are incompetent to rear them. Sexual sterilization carrled out under the direction of the department of institutions and agencles would enable the State lnstitutions to parole and dscharge Inmates much earher than is now possible

Sounds A LOT like the current pro-choice argument, "Well, if you're so pro life, you like it when babies are brought into the world and their parents can't take care of them."

Not love of babies motivating them, but either love of death, or Eugenics.

Go, PRINCETON!

[savagesusie]

It is nihilism. Just planned, State-controlled societies-—from the minds in the 1800s, who decided to “kill God” (eliminate Christian Worldview which elevated women and created the most brilliant, free, diverse, efficient cultures possible). Individualism can’t exist in collective slave cultures-—(all godless, pagan cultures which are incompatible with Individual Natural Rights from God). These Sanger-types NEED to be able to KILL off the useless eaters (abortion/ethanasia—for the “collective” good).

It is essential to get children away from the Natural Family which destroys bonding and emotional security, Common Sense, and eliminates individualism (unique identity formation for “group think” collectivism).

All Prussian type schools (ours) is to remove young plastic “minds” from their Natural environment (Common Sense/GK Chesterton)....so they are put into artificial systems for mass indoctrination who will believe anything the State tells them——ignorant of all Wisdom (Bible) and Traditions and History which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science. Only Christian Classical Education created the minds of a Newton, Kepler, Maxwell,Galileo-—and is why Christian Classical Education was taken out of our public schools by John Dewey and banned by the 60s legal system (no freedom to pass our Traditions or History to our children-—just paganism, satanism and Marxism allowed).

As Fichte-—part of the godless crew—stated that it was essential to destroy Free Will in children, to create unshakeable beliefs so that the children will be so irrational they will believe “snow is black” (1810) and will be “happy slaves” of the State where armies and soldiers are never needed.

They have polluting the minds of children since forever-—first taking over all elite universities to force their Sanger/Marx collective ideology on the masses. John Dewey, signer of the Humanist Manifesto (read it-—Sanger ideology) is the “Father of Modern “Education”” in America.

We need to return to Classical Education (pre-Dewey)-—including the Bible—to get back the ability for critical thinking which NEEDS KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM of the AGES, which formed our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

[Calpublican]

Few other national figures could get away with
saying this out loud and be credible in the black
community.

[rdb3]

Yes, Margaret Sanger was one evil beast.

Here's a link to Killer Angel in its entirety (PDF or HTML).

[Sun]

Wish more Black leaders would inform how Planned Parenthood is murdering Black babies.

So glad Ben Carson is speaking out.