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A study of Planned Parenthoods dishonesty about Margaret Sanger - Part Two
By Valerie Jane | July 6, 2008
Planned Parenthoods website has a page dedicated to their founder, Margaret Sanger. It reads more like an explanation of her belief’s and an attempt to convince others of her greatness.
On this website they try to justify Sanger’s involvment in “The Negro Project”.
“We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
Sanger was aware of African-American concerns, passionately argued by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s, that birth control was a threat to the survival of the black race. This statement, which acknowledges those fears, is taken from a letter to Clarence J. Gamble, M.D., a champion of the birth control movement. In that letter, Sanger describes her strategy to allay such apprehensions. A larger portion of the letter makes Sanger’s meaning clear:It seems to me from my experience . . . 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. . . . 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. . . . His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister’s 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 (Sanger, 1939, December).
This was the hardest to research because this letter to Dr. Gamble is in the “Sanger Manuscripts” available only at Smith’s College in Massachusettes. However, feminist Linda Gordon was kind enough to give us the quote in her book “Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of birth Control in America.” One Page 332:
It seems to me from my experience….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. His work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister’s 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.
The bold is the sections left out by Planned Parenthood. The words that were left out give a clearer picture of what Margaret Sanger really intended.
Why would Planned Parenthood leave out 18 words? It surely wasn’t to save space.
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July 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
wow, I never knew about those “Left Out” words…interesting…
July 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I remember reading that.. Planned Parenthood’s organization is based on lies, so this is certainly no different! Thank you for posting about this, valerie!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Well, if one is trying to “save face” and make one’s founder look more reasonable and politically correct than she actually WAS…then of course, you’d delete those phrases.
This woman was a eugenicist, racist, and incredibly prejudicial person. Those comments prove it. Not because she refers to African-Americans as “Negroes” or “colored” but because of her attempted manipulation of the race itself.
And it seems to have worked. How often do you hear an African-American minister denouncing abortion?