{"id":1154,"date":"2020-07-22T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:00:47","slug":"at-last-planned-parenthood-disavows-their-racist-founder-margaret-sanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"At last! Planned Parenthood disavows their racist founder, Margaret Sanger."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Not only did she have a program in the south called “The Negro Project” but she also hated Jews and Catholics.So will Time magazine also disavow her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is removing the name of Margaret Sanger, the founder of the nation’s largest abortion provider, from its New York City clinic due to her “harmful connection to the eugenics movement,” the group said Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement comes after more than 350 current and former staffers at the Manhattan clinic, as well as 800 donors, supporters and volunteers, called Sanger “a racist, white woman.” An open letter on June 18 to Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, criticized the organization as “steeped in white supremacy,” the Washington Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades, pro-life activists pointed out Sanger’s racism, but in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Planned Parenthood said it is addressing the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KANYE WEST SAYS PLANNED PARENTHOOD WAS CREATED BY ‘WHITE SUPREMACISTS TO DO THE DEVIL\u2019S WORK’; ORG RESPONDS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe removal of Margaret Sanger\u2019s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood\u2019s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,\u201d Karen Seltzer, the chair of the New York affiliate\u2019s board, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The national organization has defended Sanger in the past, claiming she was well-intentioned in her outreach to Black communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanger launched the Negro Project, in 1939, which was aimed at “helping Negroes to control their birthrate,” while advocating for a federal “population bureau” to police reproduction. She worked with Black leaders like W.E.B DuBois and Mary McLeod Bethune, but also addressed the women\u2019s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in 1926. Planned Parenthood stated it strongly disagrees with Sanger\u2019s decision to speak to an organization that spreads hatred. The national Planned Parenthood group also criticized Sanger’s support for policies to sterilize people with disabilities that could not be treated, and for \u201cplacing so-called illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes and dope fiends on farms and in open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct,\u201d the group said in a 2016 fact sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Dean Nelson, the executive director of Human Coalition Action and an African American minister, told Fox News in a statement that the decision is \u201clong overdue\u201d and said more action is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou cannot acknowledge the racist person and history without admitting to the racist vision that has resulted in nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood\u2019s surgical abortion facilities being located within walking distance of Black neighborhoods,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the fulfillment of Margaret Sanger\u2019s vision. It is unconscionable that the taxes of Americans go to an organization with racist founding and mission. There\u2019s no redeeming Planned Parenthood\u2019s tainted origins and current-day racist practices, and I call on Congress to follow Planned Parenthood of Greater New York\u2019s lead and fully defund Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only did she have a program in the south called “The Negro Project” but she also hated Jews and Catholics.So will Time magazine also disavow her? Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is removing the name of Margaret Sanger, the founder of the nation’s largest abortion provider, from its New York City clinic due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12864,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/12864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}