Regardless of where these alters to Satan are, God does not approve of child sacrifice.
Posted on 08/15/2015 7:56:52 AM PDT by Drango
Ben Carson alleged in an interview with Fox News Wednesday that Planned Parenthood puts most of its clinics in black neighborhoods to "control the population" and that its founder, Margaret Sanger, "was not particularly enamored with black people."
Planned Parenthood has been a target on the campaign trail after a series of sting videos was released alleging the organization illegally profits from selling aborted fetal tissue. Carson, a famed neurosurgeon turned Republican presidential candidate, has been a vocal opponent of the group. He was also in the news this week after reports surfaced that he once used aborted fetal tissue for research.
Here's a closer look at Carson's comments:
What Carson said
On Fox News Wednesday, Carson was asked about Democrats' criticism that Republicans who want to defund Planned Parenthood are waging a "war on women." He responded:
"Maybe I am not objective when it comes to Planned Parenthood, but, you know, I know who Margaret Sanger is, and I know that she believed in eugenics, and that she was not particularly enamored with black people.
"And one of the reasons you find most of their clinics in black neighborhoods is so that you can find a way to control that population. I think people should go back and read about Margaret Sanger who founded this place — a woman Hillary Clinton by the way says that she admires. Look and see what many people in Nazi Germany thought about her."
It's not the first time Planned Parenthood has faced criticism about its founder and the placement of its clinics — former presidential candidate Herman Cain made a similar statement in 2011.
What Planned Parenthood said
In response, Planned Parenthood said Carson was not only "wrong on the facts, he's flat-out insulting." Alencia Johnson, assistant director of constituency communications, told NPR:
"Does he think that black women are somehow less capable of making the deeply personal decision about whether to end a pregnancy than other women? ... It's a shame that a doctor, who should understand the barriers black women face accessing high-quality preventive and reproductive health care services, would pander so clearly to anti-abortion extremists on the right."
Did Margaret Sanger believe in eugenics?
Yes, but not in the way Carson implied.
Eugenics was a discipline, championed by prominent scientists but now widely debunked, that promoted "good" breeding and aimed to prevent "poor" breeding. The idea was that the human race could be bettered through encouraging people with traits like intelligence, hard work, cleanliness (thought to be genetic) to reproduce. Eugenics was taken to its horrifying extreme during the Holocaust, through forced sterilizations and breeding experiments.
In the United States, eugenics intersected with the birth control movement in the 1920s, and Sanger reportedly spoke at eugenics conferences. She also talked about birth control being used to facilitate "the process of weeding out the unfit [and] of preventing the birth of defectives."
Historians seem to disagree on just how involved in the eugenics movement she was. Some contend her involvement was for political reasons — to win support for birth control.
In reading her papers, it is clear Sanger had bought into the movement. She once wrote that "consequences of breeding from stock lacking human vitality always will give us social problems and perpetuate institutions of charity and crime."
"That Sanger was enamored and supported some eugenicists' ideas is certainly true," said Susan Reverby, a health care historian and professor at Wellesley College. But, Reverby added, Sanger's main argument was not eugenics — it was that "Sanger thought people should have the children they wanted."
It was a radical idea for the time.
Sanger wrote about this mission herself in 1921: "The almost universal demand for practical education in Birth Control is one of the most hopeful signs that the masses themselves today possess the divine spark of regeneration."
Was Sanger "not particularly enamored with black people"?
Sanger's birth control movement did have support in black neighborhoods, beginning in the '20s when there were leagues in Harlem started by African-Americans. Sanger also worked closely with NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois on a "Negro Project," which she viewed as a way to get safe contraception to African-Americans.
In 1946, Sanger wrote about the importance of giving "Negro" parents a choice in how many children they would have.
"The Negro race has reached a place in its history when every possible effort should be made to have every Negro child count as a valuable contribution to the future of America," she wrote. "Negro parents, like all parents, must create the next generation from strength, not from weakness; from health, not from despair."
Her attitude toward African-Americans can certainly be viewed as paternalistic, but there is no evidence she subscribed to the more racist ideas of the time or that she coerced black women into using birth control. In fact, for her time, as the Washington Post noted, "she would likely be considered to have advanced views on race relations."
Are most of Planned Parenthood's clinics in black neighborhoods?
In 2014, the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research center, surveyed all known abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood clinics, in the U.S. (nearly 2,000) and found that 60 percent are in majority-white neighborhoods.
Planned Parenthood has not released numbers on the neighborhoods of its specific clinics, but responding to a request for demographic information, the organization said that in 2013, 14 percent of its patients nationwide were black. That's nearly equal to the proportion of the African-American population in the U.S.
However, Carson is tapping into a more subtle sentiment — the targeting of African-Americans in health care systems. There have been documented cases of that happening, including the now-infamous Tuskegee study. Starting in the 1930s, the Tuskegee Institute enrolled black sharecroppers in experiments and allowed them to suffer from syphilis untreated, though they were told they were getting treatment.
And, Wellesley's Reverby said, that was sometimes the case for birth control clinics historically, too. They may have been available in communities where more general health care was not, raising some ethical questions.
"One of the issues is ... what happens when you can find birth control clinics but you can't find primary care? It's just a question of what the state's willing to provide for," Reverby said. "Was there overuse of birth control and sterilization in poor communities in some states? Absolutely. It's a complicated story."
Did Sanger have a connection to Nazi Germany?
Not that NPR found. Sanger herself wrote in 1939 that she had joined the Anti-Nazi Committee "and gave money, my name and any influence I had with writers and others, to combat Hitler's rise to power in Germany."
She also said books of hers had been destroyed and that she had intellectual friends who were sent to concentration camps or put to death. Sanger did not have a connection to the Nazis, but a loose association comes through her involvement in the eugenics movement.
American and German eugenicists closely collaborated, and the Nazis reportedly borrowed much of their 1933 so-called sterilization law from American models. That law allowed the government to forcibly sterilize people with alleged genetic disorders.
That might be, but I suspect that the Hispanics are targeted by the 60% of Planned Parenthood resources that are not targeted specifically at killing Black babies.
The stat says the 40% is divided between black, hispanic, and other minority neighborhoods. But still, this means that a disproportionate number of abortion clinics are in minority areas, which supports the basic gist of Carson’s point.
The #blacklivesmatter crowd are going to have trouble attacking him and frankly any of the candidates that are whiling to counter with Sanger, abortions and the millions of black aborted babies.
I suspect the Soros group and other funders of #blacklivesmatter, ACORN, Occupy Wallstreet and other anarchist groups don’t want to suffer a reduction of abortions. They serve Moloch, Baal, Beelzebub, Satan, the Devil, evil.
Propaganda.
Regardless of where these alters to Satan are, God does not approve of child sacrifice.
Technically, reports did surface.
Unfortunately NPR failed to point out that the reports are unsubstantiated allegations by Carson’s political enemies which have been refuted.
For an article claiming to be fact checking, it is truly full of lies.
Blood libel. May God judge them speedily.
Nationalism and racism were the bane of Europe right up to 1940. Anyone who had read enough from that period realizes how it affected all classes in all counties. Darwin gave the notion even more respectability. It is a mad idea, ever bit as mad as the witch hunt that disgraced Europe for centuries.
Did that evil witch want ALL babies killed (regardless of colour)?
Yes, she did.
“No More Babies!” - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y
She didn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose. She was pro-death and anti-breeder.
Why must US taxpayer money fund DNC talking points?
Who would you believe? An organization that kills babies or a doctor that thrilled on making babies healthy and have a normal life? Need more be said?
You are on to something here.
Planned Parenthood needs to pay reparations. Billions.
Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? How are they any different?
Why are the taxpayers still paying for NPR? They have been caught using their “reporting” services and money to aid Democrat campaigns over and over again! Taxpayers are being forced to pay for their political advertisement posing as government news.
There are enough Leftist billionaires and trillionaires to fund an education operation like DOE, EPA, NPR and Planned Parenthood and all their other political activist groups. Also, illegals should be funded by the Dem’s billionaires, not our government under welfare. Let them use their own money in the effort to ruin America with invasion, socialism and globalism. They have the money to run their operations and cut government spending at the same time.
I would have been shocked if NPR did not come out with a story finding Sager totally saintly.
You are correct, and I missed that. If I am to be corrected on a measurement, who better to do it than a Yardstick? Thanks!
Why are they targeting ethnic neighborhoods in the first place?
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Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? How are they any different?
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I take it you mean as those “three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities” who can straighten out anyone in the Negro population who might figure out what is going on? I think they fit the bill nicely.
I have one question for NPR doesn’t the fact that Margret Sanger had no problem Talking about Eugenics with the KLU-Klux-Klan. say something about her and what she saw abortion as being for.
Sanger *did* say they needed black clergymen with 'engaging personalities', to obscure the *real* purpose behind it all, didn't she? Congratulations! You've just named two of the same...
the infowarrior
NPR is racist. They’ll lie about anything.
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