Abortion is racist (pt 2)

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Her Planned Parenthood mission

In a 1939 letter to Dr. C. J. Gamble, Sanger urged him to get over his reluctance to hire "a full time Negro physician" as the "colored Negroes...can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubt."

Like the abortion lobby today, Sanger urged Dr. Gamble to enlist the help of spiritual leaders to justify their deadly work, writing, "We do not want 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."

And that spirit of racism continues today, as more than 300 former and current employees of Planned Parenthood said recently in an open letter, noting a "toxic" environment.

"Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist, white woman. That is a part of history that cannot be changed," they observed, writing that the pattern of "systemic racism, pay inequity, and lack of upward mobility for Black staff" continues.

The vast majority of the abortion vendors have set up shop in minority neighborhoods, which can be seen in the scarce statistics available at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though they are only 13% of the female population, African Americans made up 36% of all abortions tracked in 2016.

In the 1970s, when the Supreme Court's Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion, polling showed that Blacks were "significantly less likely to favour abortion" than whites. Yet in New York City, more black babies are aborted than born alive each year. And the abortion industry think tank, the Guttmacher Institute, notes that "the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women."




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