Reproductive Racism
Lila Rose and James O’Keefe meet with Brad to discuss their recent undercover call placed to Planned Parenthood. James posed as a father desiring to donate money to Planned Parenthood and requested his donation to be exclusively used to abort an African American baby. What was their intention for placing such a call?
Margaret Sanger is the founder of Planned Parenthood and the author of the Negro Project. In 1939 Sanger proposed this project with the goal to control the African American population. “The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Plan for Black Americans,” written by Tanya L. Green, describes Sanger as hand picking well educated and prominent black leaders to bring her message to the African American community.
According to Planned Parenthood, in 1930 Margaret Sanger teamed up with W.E.B. DuBois and other African American leaders to support the opening of a family planning clinic in Harlem, New York. The clinic provided birth control to the community and was staffed by a black physician and a black social worker. This was the beginning of what some call, reproductive racism.