'Black Children an Endangered Species'? Provocative Pro-Life Billboard

"Not knowing" about Sanger has proven deadly to the black community and to unborn babies numbering in the millions.

BETHPAGE, TN (Catholic Online) - Georgia Right to Life recently sponsored a provocative billboard campaign that says black children are an "endangered species." The campaign, unique to Georgia, combines the contentious race and abortion issues and has people all over the country discussing both.

Steve Osunsami of ABC News reported that the pro-life supporters behind the campaign, the designer and sponsors, were themselves members of the black community. "My people are dying, and nobody cares that my people are dying," said Catherine Davis of Georgia Right to Life.

These pro-life advocates say they are simply drawing attention to the fact that abortion and Planned Parenthood have always been racially motivated against minorities, as its intention, specified by Planned Parenthood´s founder Margaret Sanger, was to exterminate and sterilize blacks and other minorities who were "genetically inferior races" (The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger, 1922).

Included in the recent ABC News report were figures revealing that of the 35,088 abortions in Georgia in 2008, 20,909 were by black women, compared to 9,954 by whites (Ga. Dept. of Health). The CDC also reveals disturbing statistics. Nationally, although black women are 1.5 times more likely to get pregnant, they are 3 times more likely to get an abortion. These statistics fuel speculation among pro-life supporters, like the National Black Pro-life Union, that blacks and minorities are being specifically targeted.

But Beverly Guy-Sheftall, a women's history and feminist thought professor at a historically black women's college, disagrees that the numbers mean anything except that blacks need better access to birth control in the first place, and called the strategy a gimmick. "To use racist arguments to try to bait black people to get them to be anti-abortion is just disgusting," said Guy-Sheftall.

"These one-issue approaches that are not about saving the black family or black children, it's just a big distraction," she said. "Many black people don't know who Margaret Sanger is and could care less." Unfortunately, that might be true. "Not knowing" and "caring less" about Margaret Sanger, however, has proven deadly to the black community, and to unborn babies numbering in the millions.

Through the foundation of her American Birth Control League in 1921, Sanger launched "race hygiene" initiatives, opening facilities in predominantly black, immigrant and poor areas of New York City, a strategy that would become standard for the League that later became Planned Parenthood. She then publicized the League´s initiatives through an appearance at the 1926 Ku Klux Klan rally, New Jersey.

Her next project, the 1939 Negro Project, was a population control drive through the League to abort and sterilize blacks, recruiting black preachers to lead the indoctrination and promulgation of her population control message, a method still used in the black community because, "[t]he most successful educational approach to the Negro" Sanger said, "is through a religious appeal" (Sanger to Dr. Clarence Gamble).

The aim of the Negro Project was to ensure non-reproduction and use of birth control devices among blacks because, "...we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all" (Pivot of Civilization, Sanger).

Catholics and others who sought to serve that community through charitable means were derided by Sanger: "Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease...Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks [of people] that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant" (Pivot of Civilization, Sanger).

Pro-abortion advocates and Planned Parenthood, worldwide, continue to deny their ties to Sanger´s racially motivated eugenics ideology while simultaneously promulgating her philosophy as the resolution to poverty, the global overpopulation myth, economic convenience and total sexual liberation.

Sanger´s hatred for "forced motherhood," Catholicism, and charity itself has pervaded our social and political systems, so that Planned Parenthood´s contraception and legalized abortion policies are a billion dollar industry that keep Sanger´s clearly stated eugenics ideology alive, intact, and devastatingly effective.
 
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Sonja Corbitt is a Catholic Scripture teacher, study author and speaker. She is a contributing writer for Catholic Online. Visit her at www.pursuingthesummit.com and www.pursuingthesummit.blogspot.com. 

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