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.
Nothing about speaking to women Klan members either.
“It was condescending, pseudo-intellectual, paid for by the taxpayers and used to get Democrats elected. At least when I listen to Rush, I’m not getting 1800FLOWERS talking points.”
-The guy who set up The People’s Cube talking about New York Public radio
Was NPR Started To ‘Control’ The US Population?
This blatantly false presentation by Ms. Kelly, and NPR doesn’t surprise me from some other recent readings.
NPR is as useless as Media Matters.
Yes, but Media Matters doesn’t suck funds out of my wallet.
Interesting defense. Exonerate her by conceding everything she engaged in.
http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html
“Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion”
This is a general figure, but it seems unlikely that PP would be substantially different.
"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.""
"Rise to Power"? Too late Maggie. I wonder at what point she woke up: annual massive rallies of lockstepping jackboots, Austria, Munich, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Stalin pact, Poland?
'Hey, at least I said something before France fell! Can't you give me a medal or something.'
Fact Check: Was Planned Parenthood Started To 'Control' The Black Population? (NPR)
This subject should have been massively publicized for frickin' years.
It is a testament to the feckless (R)etard party and of course the enemy media that it has remained buried.
It should be exploited in the exact same way our enemies exploit the smallest thing they find. It would cause cracks and fissures in the obscene coalition between black Americans and the (D)emocrat-Slavery party that never let go.
I would be much harder on this subject than the good doctor ( not to criticize him in the least ). Something like this ...
'My brothers and sisters, Planned Parenthood is the eugenics arm of the (D)emocrat party the same way the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm (D)emocrat party.'
Let's hope this is the start of a long game strategy and that he continues on regardless of the outcome of the campaign. White folks should shake off the political correctness and join with him.
NPR has a handbook on Ethics? If so, I wish that had lived up to them over the past 40 years.
However, not all is lost if they send a copy of it to every member of Congress, the White House, IRS leadership, DOJ leadership, DHS, DHHS, EPA etc. Maybe some of the print would rub off on them.
Oh I’ve got to be kidding, right?
I have heard that not all of her papers have been released.
Exodus 22:29, There are others. Whoever authored that post is getting it all mixed up.
Considered inferior human beings whose birth rate must be curtailed by abortion, Sanger’s Planned Parenthood open its bigger abortuaries in the Blacks areas and in Latin barrios.
It is unconscionable that Black vote over 90% for the democrats, the party of the slavery, the KKK, the segregation and the death of millions of unborn Black babies.
Margaret Sanger, Sterilization, and the Swastika
by Mike Richmond
http://www.spectacle.org/997/richmond.html
“To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation [concentration camps] or sterilization”, advocated the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger in April 1932 (”A Plan For Peace”, Birth Control Review; see ‘appendix’ for this full unabridged seminal article).
Which country pioneered forced sterilization in the 20th century, Germany or the United States of America? The German program began in January 1934, but the U.S. state of Indiana passed a forced sterilization law (for mental defectives) in 1907 (when Adolf Hitler was 18 years old).
Before the German program began, at least seventeen U.S. states (including California) had ‘forced sterilization’ laws. Before 1930 there were 200-600 forced sterilizations per year (in the U.S.A.) but in the 1930s the rate jumped to 2,000-4,000 per year. (1)
Who ‘Inspired’ the architects of the German Sterilization law?
“The leaders in the German sterilization movement state repeatedly that their legislation was formulated after careful study of the California experiment as reported by Mr. Gosney and Dr. [Paul] Popenoe. It would have been impossible, they say, to undertake such a venture involving some 1 million people without drawing heavily upon previous experience elsewhere.” (2)
Who is Dr. Paul Popenoe? He was a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement and wrote (1933) the article ‘Eugenic Sterilization’ in the journal (BCR) that Margaret Sanger started. How many Americans did Dr. Popenoe estimate should be subjected to sterilization? Between five million and ten million Americans. “The situation [in the U.S.A] will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results.” (3)
Margaret Sanger was admired by the Nazis, hugging communism and Theosophy, she was, as Hitler, a disciple of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the religion that rejects God and worship serves Lucifer, a cult which retains a powerful influence in certain circles in New York, Washington, D.C. and around the U.S.
It is no coincidence that the book that most influence has had on Obama, and that earned him to master the technique to achieve power, was “Rules for Radicals” and that its author, Sal Alinsky, is dedicated to Lucifer.
Margaret Sanger turned to use some black Ministers take their congregations propaganda for birth control, since I didn’t want to go to realize that its purpose was to exterminate the black population.
It was within this collusion between the democratic administration of F.D.R., who incubated under the reign of F.D.R. the macabre monstrosity, more worthy of Nazi Germany as a nation founded on respect for divine creation, of what was called the study of scientific research “Tuskegee” in which 400 black men were recruited by the Department of public health in 1932 and infested with syphilis under the delusion that they were going to be treated for their infections when instead they were not administered any drug in order to study the development of such devastating disease infested. The study continued for 40 years and the 400 survived only 125. No one was prosecuted or convicted of heinous crime.
In its “Plan for Peace” founder “Planned Parenthood” intended to segregate or forced sterilization of those who she considered genetically inferior. Between 2,000 to 4,000 forced sterilizations were performed annually under F.D.R.
The Nazi Minister, Ernest Rudin, later resorted to forced sterilization of Jews in occupied Europe through rays X.
Margaret Sanger was decorated by Hitler for his work on eugenics, science of which Hitler used to justify their mental alienations of creating a breed of Arian, pure and superior.
Not happy Democrats white supremacists with their historical record of supporting slavery, the KKK, the lynching of blacks, the denial of their civil rights, segregation and use blacks of Guinea pigs for medical experiments, under the Government of Harry Truman, those same monsters of evil led his diabolical experiments to Guatemala to see if the Hispanics reacted just like blacks against inoculation of the scourge of syphilis to see as this disease was destroying the bodies of those unhappy without receiving any treatment.
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