Pro-life leaders are denouncing Planned Parenthood’s president after she apologized for its founder’s links to white supremacy and eugenics.
“Up until now, Planned Parenthood has failed to own the impact of our founder’s actions,” Johnson wrote. “We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate ‘product of her time’.”
“Until recently, we have hidden behind the assertion that her beliefs were the norm for people of her class and era, always being sure to name her work alongside that of W.E.B. Dubois and other Black freedom fighters,” she continued.
Johnson confirmed that Sanger “spoke to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan at a rally in New Jersey to generate support for birth control” and “endorsed the Supreme Court’s 1927 decision in Buck v. Bell, which allowed states to sterilize people deemed ‘unfit’ without their consent and sometimes without their knowledge.”
Going forward, Johnson said the abortion giant will make an effort to make Sanger “less prominent in our present and future” yet remaining “an influential part of our history and will not be erased.”
Nevertheless, Johnson asserted that Planned Parenthood “must fully take responsibility for the harm that Sanger caused to generations of people with disabilities and Black, Latino, Asian-American, and Indigenous people.”
Johnson spent the rest of the op-ed speaking about efforts by the organization that she says have led to higher wages among women. She also spoke about Planned Parenthood’s initiatives in fighting against systemic racism.
Benjamin Watson, former NFL star and the current Vice President of Human Coalition, argued that Planned Parenthood’s “denunciation of Margaret Sanger rings hollow.”
“Whether they personally identify with Sanger’s ideology or not, they continue to carry out her mission, by serving as the leading executioner of our children,” he noted. “The same Sanger they claim to disavow would applaud their efforts and results, as a disproportionate percentage of Black children have been killed in Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics.”
“Acknowledging a racist history does not absolve them of the blood on their hands, as they continue to take full advantage of victims of the racism they decry,” Watson asserted.
Dr. Deborah Honeycutt, Board Chair of Human Coalition Action, said that the abortion giant “has contributed to the harm of women of color for decades, and Alexis McGill Johnson’s so-called ‘reckoning’ does nothing to change that truth.”
Honeycutt further argued that Planned Parenthood has “failed to confront the white supremacy within its organization” while continuing “to aggressively prey on Black and brown communities with abortion.”
“Destroying human life contributes to a culture of death and injustice, and Planned Parenthood will always be known for killing a generation of minorities, just as Margaret Sanger dreamed that it would,” she continued.
Despite commending Johnson’s confession of Sanger’s “racist and eugenicist views,” the Rev. Dean Nelson, Executive Director of Human Coalition Action, asserted that the abortion giant has targeted people of color with the “implementation of those views.” In supporting his claim, Nelson noted that nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are located “within walking distance of minority neighborhoods.”
“There’s no redeeming Planned Parenthood’s tainted origins and current-day racist practices. It’s a grave injustice that Planned Parenthood uses the taxpayer dollars of Black and brown people to continue Margaret Sanger’s legacy of racism and eugenicism across our country,” he concluded.
Last September, a coalition of over 120 black leaders urged Planned Parenthood in a letter “to “confront its racist founding, mission and practices.” Christian Headline News
The following is from Pro Life Across America
- 18 days from conception, heart begins to beat, with the baby’s own blood.
- 28 days from conception a baby has eyes, ears, and even a tongue!
- 28 days from conception: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
- 30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7mm (1/4”) long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins.
- 42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun.
- 42 days: Brain waves can be detected, the jaw forms, including teeth and taste buds. The unborn baby begins to swallow amniotic fluid. Fingers and toes are developing.
- 45 days from conception: The unborn baby is making body movements, a full 12 weeks before the mother may notice such stirrings. By seven weeks the chest and abdomen are fully formed. Swimming with a natural swimmer’s stroke in the amniotic fluid, the baby now looks like a miniature human infant.
- 44-45 days: Buds of milk teeth appear, and the unborn baby’s facial muscles develop. Eyelids begin to form, protecting the developing eyes. Elbows take shape. Internal organs are present, but immature. 99% of muscles are present, each with its own nerve supply.
- 52 Days: Spontaneous movement begins. The unborn baby then develops a whole collection of moves over the next 4 weeks including hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, pursing the lips, moving individual arms and legs, head turning, touching his/her face, breathing (without air), stretching, opening the mouth, yawning and sucking. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:14-16
