- Even Planned Parenthood could not rely on the liberal media to be effective in covering the truth about Margaret Sanger indefinitely.
Omar Khayyam, the Rubaiyat could have been writing about the Washington Post
The moving finger writes, and, having writ, moves on. Not all your piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line”. (Omar Khayyam, the Rubaiyat)
WSJ’s excerpt from 16 years ago by Planned Murderhood
Posted below is an item from the Wall Street Journal’s “Notable and Quotable” feature — an excerpt from a “fact sheet” published by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. back in 2004. (bold our emphasis)
Against the background of today’s “Cancel Culture”, which seeks the obliteration of America’s history and removal of all statues and memorials to the people and events that ‘made America Great”, including the Founders and the US Constitution, Planned Parenthood staunchly remains ‘proud’ of its founder, Margaret Sanger. The repugnant Ms. Sanger had genuine contempt for her fellow Americans who didn’t quite meet her ‘high’ standards (including innocent yet unborn babies) and most certainly held racist views. If there is one influence that deserves to be erased from the history of this great nation, in our opinion, it is Margaret Sanger’s. dlh
Wall Street Journal’s Notable & Quotable:
From “ Opposition Claims About Margaret Sanger,” an October 2004 “fact sheet” published by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.:
“Although Sanger uniformly repudiated the racist exploitation of eugenics principles, she agreed with the “progressives” of her day who favored
“• incentives for the voluntary hospitalization and/or sterilization of people with untreatable, disabling, hereditary conditions
“• the adoption and enforcement of stringent regulations to prevent the immigration of the diseased and “feebleminded” into the U.S.
“• placing so-called illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, and dope-fiends on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct
“Planned Parenthood Federation of America finds these views objectionable and outmoded. Nevertheless, anti-family planning activists continue to attack Sanger, who has been dead for nearly 40 years, because she is an easier target than the unassailable reputation of PPFA and the contemporary family planning movement. However, attempts to discredit the family planning movement because its early 20th-century founder was not a perfect model of early 21st-century values is like disavowing the Declaration of Independence because its author, Thomas Jefferson, bought and sold slaves.”
In truth she was a racist and Planned Parenthood continues the implications of her views today targeting Black communities with their abortion businesses.
And now that a large Planned Parenthood affiliate has decided to admit Sanger’s racialist eugenic views and distance itself from it:
Washington Free Beacon:
PolitiFact Silent After Planned Parenthood Repudiates Margaret Sanger’s Racism
Fact-checker branded Republicans liars for pointing to PP founder’s KKK ties
PolitiFact is not saying whether its “fact-check” claiming Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was not racist still holds up in light of the organization’s largest affiliate admitting Sanger had racist views.
The fact-check, published on Oct. 5, 2015, addressed a claim made by then-presidential candidate Ben Carson. Carson, now the HUD secretary, said, “Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. She believed that people like me [black Americans] should be eliminated, or kept under control.”
PolitiFact called Carson’s claim “false.”
“While Sanger indeed supported the eugenics movement, substantial evidence shows that she was not racist and in fact worked closely with black leaders and health care professionals,” PolitiFact said. It said that Carson’s claim “bears no relation to historical reality.”
But Sanger’s problematic relationship to the eugenics movement is back in the spotlight after Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) renounced her this week, removing her name from a Manhattan clinic. PPGNY’s move was supported by the national organization.
Merle McGee, chief equity and engagement officer for PPGNY, told the New York Times, “The biggest concern with Margaret Sanger is her public support for the eugenics medical philosophy which was rooted in racism, ableism and classism.”
PolitiFact did not respond to requests for comment on updating the fact-check.
A fact sheet released by Planned Parenthood in 2016 acknowledged that Sanger made a speech about birth control at a Ku Klux Klan meeting in 1926.
“Sanger’s passion to spread and mainstream birth control led her to speak to any group interested in learning how to plan their reproduction. Planned Parenthood strongly disagrees with Sanger’s decision to address an organization that spreads hatred,” the sheet stated.
Sanger also endorsed the forced sterilization of disabled or untreatable people, as well as limiting immigration to prevent the influx of “feebleminded” people into the United States. These views aligned her with other progressives of the time.
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List told the Washington Free Beacon that PolitiFact‘s stance reflects the media’s generally soft coverage of Planned Parenthood.
“PolitiFact is likely too stubborn to admit that they got it wrong, but what further proof do they need when Planned Parenthood itself is finally admitting their founder is a racist?” the group said. “The media gave Planned Parenthood a pass on this for decades, despite mounds and mounds of evidence to the contrary.”
