Want to Stop Abortion (not to mention Racism and Bigotry)? Defund Planned Parenthood!

What you may not know is that the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America is a big player in the international
population control movement in its own right.

We’ve all seen the tapes. Planned Parenthood employees have recently
been caught on video engaging in illegal activities: collaborating
with the sex trafficking of minors, covering up statutory rape, and
even coaching minor girls to avoid disclosing the age of the adult men
who got them pregnant.

We also know that Planned Parenthood is — first, last, and
always — an abortion organization. Its abortionists committed 337
thousand abortions in 2009, or more than one in every four
abortions performed in the U.S. over the course of that same year.
Of every 100 pregnant women who walk into a Planned Parenthood
clinic, 98 leave with empty wombs.

Finally, we know that Planned Parenthood’s abortion business is
very, very lucrative. The organization does a billion dollars worth
of “business” each year. Abortions alone account for
over a third of this revenue, even though only one in 10 patients
come for an abortion. Another third comes from you and me in
the form of government grants and contracts. As a result of
this profiteering, the organization has built up nearly one billion
in assets, making it one of the wealthiest “nonprofits”
in American history, even as it has made the rest of us poorer by
eliminating millions of people from our population.
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But what you may not know is that the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America is a big player in the international
population control movement in its own right. Each year the
organization sends tens of millions of dollars overseas to fund
abortion campaign, not to mention lobby for the legalization of
abortion in countries with pro-life laws, such as the Philippines.

In this the organization continues to follow in the footsteps of
its founder, Margaret Sanger, who had little but contempt for the
“Asiatic races,” as she and her eugenicist friends
called them. During her lifetime, she proposed that their numbers
be drastically reduced. But Sanger’s preferences went beyond race.
In her 1922 book “Pivot of Civilization” she
unabashedly called for the extirpation of “weeds …
overrunning the human garden;” for the segregation of
“morons, misfits, and the maladjusted;” and for the
sterilization of “genetically inferior races.” It was
later that she singled out the Chinese, writing in her
autobiography about “the incessant fertility of [the Chinese]
millions spread like a plague.”

There can be no doubt that Sanger would have been wildly
enthusiastic over China’s one-child policy, for her “Code to
Stop Overproduction of Children,” published in 1934, decreed
that “no woman shall have a legal right to bear a child
without a permit … no permit shall be valid for more than
one child.” As for China’s selective elimination of
handicapped and abandoned babies, she would have been delighted
that Beijing had heeded her decades-long call for exactly such
eugenicist policies.

Sanger was not one for subtlety in such matters. She bluntly
defined “birth control,” a term she coined, as
“the process of weeding out the unfit” aimed at
“the creation of a superman.” She often opined that
“the most merciful thing that the large family does to one
its infant members is to kill it,” and that “all our
problems are the result of overbreeding among the working
class.” That is you and me, folks.

Sanger frequently featured racists and eugenicists in her
magazine, the Birth Control Review. Contributor Lothrop Stoddard,
who also served on Sanger’s board of directors, wrote in “The
Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy” that “We
must resolutely oppose both Asiatic permeation of white race-areas
and Asiatic inundation of those non-white, but equally non-Asiatic
regions inhabited by the really inferior races.” Each issue
of the Birth Control Review was packed with such ideas.

But Sanger was not content merely to publish racist propaganda;
the magazine also made concrete policy proposals, such as the
creation of “moron communities,” the forced production
of children by the “fit,” and the compulsory
sterilization and even elimination of the “unfit.”

Sanger’s own racist views were scarcely less opprobrious. In
1939 she and Clarence Gamble made an infamous proposal called
“Birth Control and the Negro,” which asserted that
“the poorer areas, particularly in the South … are
producing alarmingly more than their share of future
generations.” Her “religion of birth control” would,
she wrote, “ease the financial load of caring for with public
funds … children destined to become a burden to themselves, to
their family, and ultimately to the nation.”

War with Germany, combined with lurid tales of how the Nazis
were putting her theories about “human weeds” and
“genetically inferior races” into practice, panicked
Sanger into changing her organization’s name and rhetoric.
“Birth control,” with its undertone of coercion, became
“family planning.” The “unfit” and the
“dysgenic” became merely “the poor.” The
American Birth Control League became the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.

Following Sanger’s death in 1966, Planned Parenthood felt so
confident that it had safely buried her past that it began boasting
about “the legacy of Margaret Sanger.” And it began
handing out cutely named Maggie Awards to innocents who often had
no inkling of her real views. The first recipient was Martin Luther
King — who clearly had no idea that Sanger had inaugurated a project
to set his people free — from their progeny. “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,” Sanger had
earlier written Gamble.

The good news is that Sanger’s — and Planned Parenthood’s
— patina of respectability has finally worn off.

It is time to cut this racist, money-grubbing, abortion-minded
organization out of the federal budget forever.