Republican presidential candidate Ben
Carson speaks at the National Sheriffs’ Association presidential forum,
Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Planned Parenthood Clinics Are Set Up To Control The Black Population Says Dr. Ben Carson
By Nigel Boys
In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “
Your World with Neil Cavuto,”
63-year-old retired neurosurgeon and GOP presidential candidate, Ben
Carson, said that Planned Parenthood sets up abortions clinics in black
neighborhoods to “control that population.”
Tying the nation’s leading provider of abortions to eugenics, then
eugenics to Hillary Clinton, the author and political pundit who retired
from Johns Hopkins hospital told Cavuto, “Well, maybe I’m not objective
when it comes to Planned Parenthood.”
The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, had a history of
eugenics and racist policies and he knew all about her deliberate
attempts to curb the black population, said Carson. “And one of the
reasons you find most of their clinics in black neighborhoods is so that
you can find ways to control that population,” he added.
The Hill
reports that the Detroit, Michigan native also disputed claims that
de-funding Planned Parenthood would harm women’s healthcare.
“Well, certainly women’s health is an important issue,” the White
House hopeful in the upcoming 2016 election said. “There are a lot of
women’s health organizations that don’t engage in abortion, by the way,
so by no means is it a do-or-die situation.”
“I believe that abortion and paying for abortion with federal funding
when so many people are against it is just not the right thing to do,”
Carson said. Pointing out that Clinton says she admires Sanger, he added
people should read about Sanger’s history. “Look up and see what many
people in Nazi Germany thought about her, a great person.”
In an appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor,” Carson confirmed that he
believes Planned Parenthood concentrates its clinics in black
neighborhoods. The number one cause of death for black people is
abortion, he told guest host Eric Bolling, according to
Fox News.
After the release of a series of undercover videos, allegedly
demonstrating how Planned Parenthood is in the business of selling fetal
body parts, the organization has come under fierce scrutiny and demands
to cease its federal funding. Carson believes that the important
questions to be asked should be: “Why is that happening?” and “What can
be done to alleviate the situation?”
“One of the ways they’re able to perpetrate the deceit is because
people are not informed,” Carson said on the show. “The more people are
informed, the less likely these kinds of things [are].”
Carson also told Cavuto that he was willing to have a discussion
about when life begins, when he was asked about his views on de-funding
Planned Parenthood in the light of the undercover videos.
“Certainly once the heart starts beating. Certainly at that point,”
Carson said. “If we are willing to open up the discussion, both sides, I
think we can come to accommodation.”
According to the
National Review,
in her 1922 book “The Pilot of Civilization,” Sanger wrote: “The lack
of balance between the birth-rate of the “unfit” and the “fit” [is]
admittedly the greatest present menace to the civilization…”
“The example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the
feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken, should not
be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit, and
therefore less fertile, parents of the educated and well-to-do classes,”
Sanger continued. “On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is
how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and
physically defective.”
Life Dynamics found in a 2011 study of the zip codes of every
abortion or abortion-referral facility in the U.S., that the majority of
these facilities were overwhelmingly located in zip codes with minority
populations well above the state average. The pro-life organization
reported that out of 94 facilities in Texas, 72 of those were located in
zip codes with disproportionate black and/or Hispanic populations.
The study’s author noted, “There is not one state in the union
without population control centers located in ZIP codes with higher
percentages of blacks and/or Hispanics than the state’s overall
percentage,” according to the National Review.
Fetus by Marvin X
Mama, please don't kill me
don't you see
I got your eyes
Mama, please don't kill me
don't you see
I got my daddy's hands, head feet
Mama, please don't flush me down the toilet
I might be a prophet
come to save the world
Mama, please
don't kill me.
--Marvin X
from Liberation Poems for North American Africans, Marvin X, Al Kitab Sudan Press (Black Bird Press), 1983.
The Truth
About MARGARET SANGER
(This article first appeared in the January 20, 1992 edition of Citizen magazine)
How Planned Parenthood Duped America
At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New
York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the "black" and
"yellow" peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S.
Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control
League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as
Planned Parenthood.
Sanger's other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated
racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author
of The Rising Tide of Color against
White Supremacy.
Stoddard
was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices
of the Third Reich as "scientific" and "humanitarian." And Dr. Harry
Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke
of purifying America's human "breeding stock" and purging America's
"bad strains." These "strains" included the "shiftless, ignorant, and
worthless class of antisocial whites of the South."
Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of
sterilizing those she designated as "unfit," a plan she said would be
the "salvation of American civilization.: And she also spoke of those
who were "irresponsible and reckless," among whom she included those "
whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their
numbers." She further contended that "there is no doubt in the minds of
all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be
stopped." That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment
of Sanger considered "unfit" cannot be easily refuted.
While Planned Parenthood's current apologists try to place
some distance between the eugenics and birth control movements, history
definitively says otherwise. The eugenic theme figured prominently in
the Birth Control Review, which Sanger founded in 1917. She
published such articles as "Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics" (June 1920),
"The Eugenic Conscience" (February 1921), "The purpose of Eugenics"
(December 1924), "Birth Control and Positive Eugenics" (July 1925),
"Birth Control: The True Eugenics" (August 1928), and many others.
These eugenic and racial origins are hardly what most
people associate with the modern Planned Parenthood Federation of
America (PPFA), which gave its Margaret Sanger award to the late Dr.
Martin Luther King in 1966, and whose current president, Faye Wattleton,
is black, a former nurse, and attractive.
Though once a social pariah group, routinely castigated by
religious and government leaders, the PPFA is now an established,
high-profile, well-funded organization with ample organizational and
ideological support in high places of American society and government.
Its statistics are accepted by major media and public health officials
as "gospel"; its full-page ads appear in major newspapers; its
spokespeople are called upon to give authoritative analyses of what
America's family policies should be and to prescribe official answers
that congressmen, state legislator and Supreme Court justiices all
accept as "social orthodoxy."
Blaming Families
Sanger's obsession with eugenics can be traced back to her
own family. One of 11 children, she wrote in the autobiographical
book, My Fight for Birth Control, that "I associated poverty,
toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts,
jails with large families." Just as important was the impression in her
childhood of an inferior family status, exacerbated by the
iconoclastic, "free-thinking" views of her father, whose "anti-Catholic
attitudes did not make for his popularity" in a predominantly Irish
community.
The fact that the wealthy families in her hometown of Corning, N.Y., had relatively few children, Sanger took as prima facie
evidence of the impoverishing effect of larger families. The personal
impact of this belief was heightened 1899, at the age of 48. Sanger
was convinced that the "ordeals of motherhood" had caused the death of
her mother. The lingering consumption (tuberculosis) that took her
mother's life visited Sanger at the birth of her own first child on Nov.
18, 1905. The diagnosis forced her to seek refuge in the Adirondacks
to strengthen her for the impending birth. Despite the precautions, the
birth of baby Grant was "agonizing," the mere memory of which Sanger
described as "mental torture" more than 25 years later. She once
described the experience as a factor "to be reckoned with" in her
zealous campaign for birth control.
From the beginning, Sanger advocacy of sex education
reflected her interest in population control and birth prevention among
the "unfit." Her first handbook, published for adolescents in 1915 and
entitled, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, featured a jarring afterword:
It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and
poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is
to stoop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose
inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into
the world children whose parents cannot provide for them.
To Sanger, the ebbing away of moral and religious codes over
sexual conduct was a natural consequence of the worthlessness of such
codes in the individual's search for self-fulfillment. "Instead of
laying down hard and fast rules of sexual conduct," Sanger wrote in her
1922 book Pivot of Civilization, "sex can be rendered effective
and valuable only as it meets and satisfies the interests and demands of
the pupil himself." Her attitude is appropriately described as
libertarianism, but sex knowledge was not the same as individual liberty,
as her writings on procreation emphasized.
The second edition of Sanger's life story, An Autobiography,
appeared in 1938. There Sanger described her first cross-country
lecture tour in 1916. Her standard speech asserted seven conditions of
life that "mandated" the use of birth control: the third was "when
parents, though normal, had subnormal children"; the fourth, "when
husband and wife were adolescent"; the fifth, "when the earning capacity
of the father was inadequate." No right existed to exercise sex
knowledge to advance procreation. Sanger described the fact that
"anyone, no matter how ignorant, how diseased mentally or physically,
how lacking in all knowledge of children, seemed to consider he or she
had the right to become a parent."
Religious Bigotry
In the 1910's and 1920's, the entire social order–religion,
law, politics, medicine, and the media–was arrayed against the idea and
practice of birth control. This opposition began in 1873 when an
overwhelmingly Protestant Congress passed, and a Protestant president
signed into law, a bill that became known as the Comstock Law, named
after its main proponent, Anthony Comstock. The U.S. Congress
classified obscene writing, along with drugs, and devices and articles
that prevented conception or caused abortion, under the same net of
criminality and forbade their importation or mailing.
Sanger set out to have such legislation abolished or
amended. Her initial efforts were directed at the Congress with the
opening of a Washington, D.C., office of her American Birth Control
League in 1926. Sanger wanted to amend section 211 of the U.S. criminal
code to allow the interstate shipment and mailing of contraceptives
among physicians, druggists and drug manufacturers.
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