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Con Fact Check: Sanger - Planned Parenthood Claims
Why do conservatives keep repeating falsehoods? Is it that they are prone to propaganda?
Why do conservatives keep repeating falsehoods? Is it that they are prone to propaganda?
Quotes « Margaret Sanger Papers Project Research Annex
Although Sanger allied birth control with the eugenics movement that was popular in her era, Planned Parenthood in no way encouraged abortion among black communities. In fact, none of Sangers clinics performed abortions before Roe v. Wade in 1973. Racism in the world of family planning tended to express itself in the reverse: blacks were often excluded from clinics offering birth control services. Here at the Sanger Papers, we frequently write about the issue of race in our newsletters and publications. Cathy Moran Hajo, associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers, has recently addressed this in her book, Birth Control on Main Street (2010). There were a handful of clinics that serviced specifically black communities, but these received little assistance from white activists. Cains suggestion that 75% of clinics were in black neighborhoods is completely unfounded. Whatever the activists personal beliefs about race may have been, writes Hajo, there was no grand program to exterminate nonwhites or the poor.
Myths « Margaret Sanger Papers Project Research Annex