In my research on the abortion issue, I have come across many statements from abortionists and clinic workers. Some of the most disturbing were about minorities. In a future article, I will give examples of pro-choice activists using racism to gain support for abortion. In this article, I would like to present three disturbing quotes by abortion providers.

Dr. Edward Allred owns a chain of abortion clinics called “Family Planning Associates Medical Group.” Their website can be found here. His clinics have such a poor safety record that they have numerous lawsuits against them. At least ten women have died after or during abortions in this chain of abortion clinics.

Dr. Allred has performed tens of thousands of abortions and is a millionaire several times over. In an article in the San Diego Union, he said the following (1):

Population control is too important to be stopped by some right wing pro-life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide; I’d set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could … When a sullen black woman of 17 or 18 can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us, it’s time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles, having babies for welfare is the only industry these people have.

Dr. Allred’s attitude may or may not be shared by other doctors at Family Planning Associates, but you can’t help but wonder: if the founder and head of this clinic chain has such disdainful feelings towards minorities, will they be treated well in his clinics?

In a more recent article, Dr. Alfred Brown of Los Angeles described why he liked performing abortions on Latino women.

Latino women are some of the best patients [for abortions.] They come in and they don’t complain.

While not as blatant as Dr. Allred, Dr. Brown seems to show contempt for his patients. It is important to him that they “don’t complain” and quietly submit to their abortions.

Pro-life activists were shocked when they heard abortionist Dr. Ashutosh “Ron” Virmani say to them:

Let’s see you adopt those ugly black babies and get them off the taxpayer’s money.

These are only a handful of quotes, but taken together, they are disturbing. There is no way to tell how many abortionists hold racist attitudes, but Live Action’s expose of Planned Parenthood suggests that these doctors are not the only ones.

1. “Doctor’s Abortion Business Is Lucrative,” San Diego Union, 12 October 1980, at B-1, col. 1.

There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s in Brooklyn and Queens when it was politically dominated by a white, Catholic population. Despite the ferocious opposition of the Church’s hierarchy to abortion and the killing of preborn human life, the majority of that population voted over and over for pro abortion candidates. It had nothing to do with “choice”, “reproductive freedom” or “women’s rights”. It had everything to do with fear and the loathing of the burgeoning black and brown populations. They wanted those populations and the perceived threats to their well being limited and stopped. Sorry but that was just the way it was. Today those white, Catholic, “politically powerful” populations in Brooklyn and Queens no longer exist.

That rational or Margaret Sanger’s vision remains today as the primary reason that most support widespread abortion.

Racial Prejudice and Population Control


	"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of." - United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in Emily Bazelon, "The Place of Women on the Court", The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009


"In particular, we are able to demonstrate that family planning services in the United States were provided more frequently whenever there were black Americans in the population. In other words, there is a strong inferential case to be made that reactions to the racial composition of the population have influenced decisions to provide family planning services. … This fact [, that contraception dispensaries tend to be located in predominantly minority areas, not in poor white ones,] gives apparent substance to charges that such programs are designed not simply to assist the poor, but to control the growth of the black population. " - Kammeyer, Yetman et al, "Family Planning Services and Distribution of Black Americans," in Population Studies: Selected Essays and Research (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975.) p. 475.

	"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the 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." - Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 10, 1939 (Smith College, Sanger Collection)

"Population control is too important to entrust to some right-wing, pro-life types. Take the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants: Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide. I'd set up a[n abortion] clinic in Mexico for free if I could. Maybe one in Calexico would help. The survival of our society could be at stake.…The Aid to Families With Dependent Children program is the worst boondoggle ever created. When a sullen black woman can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us it's time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles having babies for welfare is the only industry the people have." - Dr. Edward Allred (multi-millionaire, former owner of Family Planning Associates, once upon a time the largest independent abortion clinic chain), quoted in "Doctor's Abortion Practice Lucrative," The San Diego Union, 10/12/80, pp. A-3, 17.

		"In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there [Poland and Russia] had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to actually be encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population. … We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health. … It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions ['clinics'] and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics." - Adolf Hitler, Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941-42.

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