Bioethics and Eugenics, Part III

This post deals with a sensitive subject, but one that must be examined, especially if there is truth to it. It is another path that eugenics has taken which has caused countless destruction to our citizens, our nation and especially to a particular targeted segment of our society. The subject? One article, written by Jesse Lee Peterson, states it aptly, "Abortion: Black Genocide" and poiginantly states that "true racism is extermination of minority babies." This spells out to us clearly that the issue of abortion is not just about convenience, but it is about preserving a viable black race! Ellis Washington, in his March 1, 2008 article, "Today's unborn blacks: More vulnerable than slaves," poignantly summarizes,

"A slave of 1808 has a better chance of life than a black pre-born baby of 2008."

According to Jesse Lee Peterson,

"Abortion propagandists have dehumanized the unborn baby just as was done with the Jews in the Holocaust. In his book 'Abortion Practice,' Warren Hern, M.D. compares the unborn child to a 'parasite,' which was the exact word Hitler used to dehumanize Jewish people in his infamous 'Mein Kampf."

Abortion became legalized in 1973 and since that time, over 14 million black babies have been killed. This number represents the death of over twice as many black infants as have succumbed to Aids, accidents, heart disease, cancer and violent crimes combined. The number of black babies being aborted each day numbers over 1,450. Nearly half of all terminations of pregnancy in America are for black women, though blacks represent only 12% of the population. According to statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute (in 1997), black women were two times more likely to abort their child than Hispanics and three times as likely as white females.

I want to point out my personal basis regarding Planned Parenthood first so one has no doubts. I previously have spent countless hours during a number of years of volunteering at my local Planned Parenthood. In teaching groups to both adults and adolesents about Sexually Transmitted Diseases, many were referred there for testing, primarily to do price concessions. The Planned Parenthood clinic in my community did not offer abortion services. One day, during a health fair my two young daughters needed to use the restroom and as I strolled through the building, I picked up several phamplets. Utterly devastated at what I saw in print which was political hatespeak, I vowed to never enter their doors again. I also contacted all my legislators and gifted each with a copy of the brochures in question. For an organization receiving taxpayer dollars to politicize issues as they did was simply unthinkable and intolerable. This motivated me to learn more about the inception and goals of Planned Parenthood. It is something which every man, woman and child should be aware.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, which evolved from the roots of another organization, has a dispicably colorful history of racism and was enmessed in the eugenics movement of that day. In The Birth Control Review, in 1919, she announced "More children from the fit, less from the unfit - that is the chief issue of birth control." The cover of the November 1921 issue read, "Birth control: To create a race of thoroughbreds," were Sanger's words. In the article, "Abortion and the African-American: Is it Genocide?, it is cited,

"Some groups, she thought, were 'inferior races' and 'human weeds' that needed to be curbed. Sanger said she believed there was an 'ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."

In 1939 the Clinical Research Bureau merged with the American Birth Control League to become the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA). Sanger was the chairman and formed a Division of Negro service. In 1938, she disclosed her rationale for forming The Negro Project, stating

"The mass of Negroes,particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase amoung Negroes,even more than among whites, is from the portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly."

In a letter from Sanger to Dr. Clarence Gamble, member of the BFCA's board, she outlined her action plan for her pet Negro Project,

"From my experience where I have been in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts.

They do not do this with the white people, and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which I believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people."

"The minister's [sic] work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. 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."

Gamble responded in a memorandum,

"There is a great danger that we will fail because the Negroes think it a plan for extermination. Hense let's appear to let the colored run it."

Co-director of Houston's black anti-abortion group, Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), Akua Furlow states the emphasis of Planned Parenthood was altered from black sterilization to black abortion. She also maintains that "the African-American pro-life community has been effectively excluded from the media." LEARN also released that 78 percent of abortion clinics are located in or near minority communities. Over one-hundred Planned Parenthood school-based clinics opened in the 1980's and "all were in black, minority, or ethnic schools. None were opened in a suburban, middle-class school."

Also a promoter of eugenics was the Ku Klux Klan. Both the Imperial Wizard Dr. Hiram Evans and Earnest Cox cited works from the eugenics field. Cox stated in an article published in the Eugenics News in 1936, "that all blacks of 'breeding age' should be deported to Africa."

What is to be done about the fragile state in which we find the unborn black child? Once we realize the undergirding racist philosophy which motivated the penning of abortion law in this country, the very least that should be done is to strip tax dollars from the agency of death, Planned Parenthood.