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The results were disturbing.
An actor, posing as a donor, made a call to Planned Parenthood of Idaho, requesting that his donation go towards the elimination of African-American children. "[I]...think the less black kids out there the better."[i]
The Planned Parenthood representative responded, "Understandable, understandable," and accepted the donation without protest. All seven state chapters of Planned Parenthood agreed to process the faux donations which were offered on racist grounds.
While it is reprehensible that Planned Parenthood would willingly accept money from avowed racists, it is consistent with the organization's history.
Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 (which later became known as Planned Parenthood). From the beginning, the organization was steeped in the pseudoscience of eugenics, which was popular at the time. Eugenics advocated the sterilization and "culling" of "lesser specimens" from the gene pool, in order to "improve" the human race through selective breeding.
This bigoted and unscientific mindset was engrained into the ABCL by none other than Sanger herself. In 1939, she put forth an initiative to covertly target African-American children. In a letter to the Southern director of the Birth Control Federation of America, Sanger wrote, "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."[ii]
Though today, Planned Parenthood's website claims to "welcome everyone -- regardless of race, age, sexuality, disability, or income,"[iii] its history--both recent and otherwise--indicates just the opposite.
The desire to play God and the ability to do so degrades the sanctity of life--it rationalizes the murder of the unborn, and devalues those who are deemed "unfit."
The "service" offered by Planned Parenthood is the cheapening of God's greatest gift. Planned Parenthood says "life is only valuable so long as we consider it to be useful."
Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself."[iv]
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