I respect what Planned Parenthood has evolved into. But here's what my research tells me: It's founder, Margaret Sanger, supported the racist theories of both Charles Darwin and Nazis.
I'll find my research paper from African American history class if you need me to, but she definitely believed in Darwin's survival of the fittest theory and eugenics theories that said "unfit" and "inferior" people shouldn't have children. Inferior was also synonymous with poor. Darwin, we know, said black people were less evolved than the other races and were genetically inferior, based on factors such as the shape of our heads and our smaller brains.
Eugenicists espoused racial supremacy and “purity,” particularly of the “Aryan” race. Eugenicists hoped to purify the bloodlines and improve the race by encouraging the “fit” to reproduce and the “unfit” to restrict their reproduction. They sought to contain the “inferior” races through segregation, sterilization, birth control and abortion.
Granted, she came up at a time women weren't allowed to use contraception or birth control. So she is lauded for championing women's rights...but she also wanted to help make sure a certain population of babies weren't born, period.
Sanger is from Corning, NY. Her first clinic was in Brooklyn. Put it together.
With that said, many institutions in this country were founded by people with racist beliefs and slavery money...
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