Black Pro-Life Group Upset Abortion Business Joins Civil Rights Coalition

Life News ^ | 1/22/07 | Steven Ertelt

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An African-American organization is upset that the nation's top abortion business has been included in a civil rights coalition. Members of Project 21 say they are outraged that Planned Parenthood recently became a member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).

Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie says Planned Parenthood advocates abortions -- particularly in the black community.

"How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly to hasten the demise of black people?" Massie asked in a statement LifeNews.com received.

"People of conscience should be appalled and outraged by this alignment," he added.

The LCCR is a political coalition of almost 200 groups representing liberal racial, gender, age, disability and religious special interests as well as labor unions. The group is known for its opposition to judicial nominees who adhere to an orginalist interpretation of the Constitution.

In announcing the new affiliation, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington president and CEO Jatrice Martel Gaiter said her group and the LCCR now "share a dedication to promoting human rights" as well as alleged "committed to justice and equality.

LCCR president Wade Henderson added that Planned Parenthood was "one of the nation's leading health care advocates" and that "health care reform is the next frontier for the civil rights movement."

However, Massie said that promoting abortion doesn't square with the pro-life values most black Americans hold dear.

In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released in August of 2006, 70 percent of black Protestants said that abortion should be prohibited or eliminated.

"The civil rights movement in America has been stifled for many years by poor leadership and an inability to focus on the real issues that hinder progress," Project 21 member Djana Milton said about Planned Parenthood's membership.

"By getting into bed with a nearly billion-dollar organization so vocal in professing its desire to increase risky behaviors without an eye to consequences, the LCCR has taken a giant step backwards in promoting true civil rights in America," Milton added.

ACTION: Express your disappointment to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights at 1629 K Street NW, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20006 or call 202-466-3311. You can send an email message by going to http://www.civilrights.org/about/contact_us

Related web sites:
Project 21 - http://www.project21.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - http://www.civilrights.org

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Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie says Planned Parenthood advocates abortions -- particularly in the black community.

"How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly to hasten the demise of black people?" Massie asked in a statement LifeNews.com received.

It's staggering how so many in the civil rights movement fail to see the implicit racism of the left.

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[trisham]

They should be. Wasn't one of the original stated goals of PP eugenics?

[Emmett McCarthy]

Absolutely right. Kill off the "lower races" as well as other various "defectives". Another outfit complicit in this is, sadly, The March of Dimes, which figures the best way to "prevent birth defects" is to kill off the defectives.

[trisham]

It's hideous. I'm surprised more aren't outraged.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Margaret Sanger (1883-1966)
Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." ~ Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

On blacks, immigrants and indigents:

"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.

On sterilization & racial purification:

Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

On the right of married couples to bear children:

Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932

On the purpose of birth control:

The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:

"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

And there's lots more here if you can stomach it:

http://dianedew.com/sanger.htm

[dljordan]

"They should be. Wasn't one of the original stated goals of PP eugenics?"

Brainchild of Margeret Sanger.

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[AuH2ORepublican]

"In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released in August of 2006, 70 percent of black Protestants said that abortion should be prohibited or eliminated."

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Yet how many black Democrat Congressmen (or white Democrat Congressmen from black-majority districts) have pro-life voting records? Exactly zero. Sanford Bishop of Georgia sometimes votes pro-life, but is by no means a pro-lifer.

[JoeFromSidney]

Another outfit complicit in this is, sadly, The March of Dimes, which figures the best way to "prevent birth defects" is to kill off the defectives.

I used to use the March of Dimes as an example in one of my classes. They made the mistake of solving the problem they were founded to solve. Instead of going out of business, they found a new one: birth defects are forever.

[Elyse]

"How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly to hasten the demise of black people?" Massie asked in a statement LifeNews.com received.

Although I'm happy that they are taking this stand, I think this statement is a little over the top. It has shades of the 'government gave black people crack' conspiracy to it.

This was never a sinister plot to exterminate just black babies. I think this movement was actually driven by young white women who found it 'inconvenient' to be pregnant. In the end it affects us all adversely, so let's not make it into some racist conspiracy.

[tomcorn]

This is a colossally silly argument.

[Sloth]

This was never a sinister plot to exterminate just black babies.

I think you need to learn more about Margaret Sanger.

[loboinok]

Margaret Sanger continually shows up in the company of other racists. In fact, she was the guest speaker at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Silverlake, N. J. in 1926.[1] Not only did she not disassociate herself from these racist views, her own writings leave little doubt as to her sympathies. In implementing a plan called the "Negro Project," that was designed to sterilize Blacks and reduce the number of Black children being born in the south, Sanger wrote: "[We propose to] hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And 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." [2]

Margaret Sanger and her organization began to be primary sponsors of abortion rights during her lifetime. But because she had associated herself with Adolph Hitler, praising him for his racial politics of eugenics, she changed the name of American Birth Control League to Planned Parenthood during WWII in order to disguise her racist past.[13] Today, her organization, Planned Parenthood, is still in the forefront of advocating abortion as a means of eliminating the unwanted and "unfit." Not only does the organization perform thousands abortions each year, it also receives 100's of millions of tax dollars each year through Federal and State Governments.[14] And rather than being in the forefront of a woman's right to choose, International Planned Parenthood is a primary advocate for the Chinese Government's policy of forcing women to have abortions against their will, and it also advocates for the sterilization of Third World non-Whites across the globe.[15] It seems that PP is "pro-choice" when trying to impress the U.S. media, but anti-choice in the actual implementation of its world-wide agenda.

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[Elyse]

I think you need to learn more about Margaret Sanger.

I'm well aware of Sanger's views on eugenics. She was one twisted woman. She tried to equate eugenics with poverty, having observed that the poor, regardless of race, have more children than the rich white folks of her time. She was just as hell bent on exterminating the poor white trash as the black people.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What about "Dollar Bill" Jefferson in NOLA ?

[Clintonfatigued]

Perhaps they can influence the outcomes in a few Democratic primaries in heavily African-American legislative districts.

[Mr. Silverback]

Why don't they just let the Klan join their council?

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[Mr. Silverback]

This was never a sinister plot to exterminate just black babies.

No, it was a sinister plot to exterminate black babies and babies descended from Southern Europeans and other "undesirables."

And tell me, where did Mr. Massie say that PP was established to only kill black children?

[Mr. Silverback]

This is a colossally silly argument.

What's silly about it? How about we have neo-Nazis join the board of the Holocaust museum, or just let the Klan take care of the King papers?

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[Nevernow]

wait wait, I need to get into Margaret Sanger love mode.

Ahem.

"But she was only doing it because they were poor black people and she thought all black people were poor and unable to advance because at the time it was popular to hate black people! You can't blame her for being a racist because LOL like everyone was doing it at the time!"

Seriously. I used to joke about a pairing like that. It's scary that my joke came true.

Of course that's because if someone was trying to rape me, I wouldn't want to say, "Let's be friends and share common goals," I would grab the closest thing I could and start beating him with it. Maybe some people out there like being exploited.

[linda_22003]

"Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932"

Maybe we shouldn't reject this one as quickly as the others. I know we can all think of examples of people who shouldn't have become parents! ;)

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"What about "Dollar Bill" Jefferson in NOLA?"

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William Jefferson was good on the cloning ban, even voting against the "clone and kill" sham substitute amendment, but other than that his record on abortion issues has been very poor. He did vote for final passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, but unfortunately voted for the sham substitute amendment with the "health of the mother" exception that wouldn't have banned a single abortion (and thus was supported by most pro-abortion Democrats). He also voted for final passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in 2004, but voted for the sham "single-victim" substitute amendment that wouldn't have charged the perpetrator with murder when he shot a pregnant woman but only the baby dies, and in 2001 he didn't even vote for final passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. On every other abortion vote, and there were dozens of others, Jefferson voted pro-abortion. Here's his voting record on abortion since 2001:
http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=275

Regarding Sanford Bishop, his voting record on abortion is far better than Jefferson's, since he voted against the sham substitute amendment to the PBA ban of 2003, against an additional hostile motion to the human cloning ban, for the Child Custody Protection Act, for the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act and for the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Still, Bishop's voting record is more towards the "pro-choice" side of the ledger. See http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=190

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[wjcsux]

Margret Sanger is deservedly burning in hell.

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[Little Bill]

I was at a morning meeting the other day and the Plant Manager asked what we did over the week end. I stated that we discussed the rifles we got as Christmas Presents, I got a real nice Custom Model 700 from my daughter.

Our commie enviro co-ordinator made a snide remark about right wingers, so I asked her, "I Marched with Dr. King, did you?"

[wagglebee]

Dr. King's niece, Dr. Alveda King has come out as a very vocal opponent of abortion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=alvedaking

[Little Bill]

I kind of got disgusted when the the poverty pimps took over. FReedom is one thing, entitlement is an other.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

It's funny, I always heard Jefferson as described as a pro-life Catholic (following in the tradition of his predecessor, Lindy Boggs). Yet another lie, it seems.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"It's funny, I always heard Jefferson as described as a pro-life Catholic (following in the tradition of his predecessor, Lindy Boggs). Yet another lie, it seems."

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A double lie, actually, since Jefferson not only is far from pro-life but is a Baptist, not a Catholic. (Although he did get an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law School while a member of Congress.)

Lindy Boggs had a pro-life voting record until the very end, though.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Killing babies is "civil rights"? That shows just how much the left (marxists) have succeeded in distorting the meaning of words for their own purposes.

[Sister_T]

Ohhh, what a cutie!!

Good graphic though. I'm not in Colorado but that is very, very good. Would be great to put that on billboards in EVERY Black community.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Argh. I don't know why I kept thinking Jefferson was a Catholic. I'm rather surprised a non-Catholic won that seat, although I don't know what Marc Morial is.