In her op-ed for the New York Times, Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said her organization would stop making excuses for its racist founder, Margaret Sanger. What she meant is that she wants her friends inside the Beltway and in the leftist media to stop talking about Sanger so the organization can quietly continue carrying out its genocide in the black community, while also giving lip service to the Black Lives Matter movement and helping to portray abortion as the very best of things on television and in film.
There is no disputing that Sanger thought black people were inferior and wanted to prevent them from ever being conceived. Planned Parenthood finally acknowledging that doesn’t mean anything as long as the organization carries on with its genocide of the black community through abortion.
The pro-life movement and the National Black Pro-Life Coalition have been talking about Planned Parenthood’s racism for decades. The shocking statistic that black women have more than one-third of all abortions despite making up just 13% of the population has fallen on deaf ears time and time again. It’s also no secret that some 80% of abortion killing centers set up shop in minority communities, but we are the ones accused of being racist for pointing it out.
For a time, more babies were being aborted than born in New York City. That should have been front-page news and on every network, but it was ignored. The media gallery was empty for the opening of the trial of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who preyed on black women and murdered their born-alive infants in Philadelphia for years, despite virtually everyone knowing about it.
When Planned Parenthood in Chicago let Tonya Reaves bleed for more than three hours after a second-trimester abortion before transferring her to a hospital, where she later died, most of the media that did report it took pains not to point fingers. The fact remains that most women who die from botched abortions are women of color. “Black lives matter” unless you are a victim of the abortion industry. Then, you’re a local news story, at most.
Planned Parenthood is almost always in the vanguard of court battles opposing abortion business regulations that would make the procedure less deadly for women. But an industry the byproduct of which is dead babies doesn’t care much about their mothers. Especially their black mothers.
Under the current administration in Washington, $50 million in federal Title X funding is being restored to Planned Parenthood. Those funds, which were cut off by President Donald Trump, can’t be used for abortion, but they have been, and will be again, used to sterilize and contracept black men and women. The dream of Margaret Sanger lives on.
My friend, Vernon Jones, who hopes to win the Republican primary for the Georgia statehouse, told me America needs more than empty words from Planned Parenthood’s well-paid mouthpiece.
“Margaret Sanger set out to eradicate the black community through genocide,” Jones said. “She believed black people were defective from birth, and she set out on a mission to sterilize black men and women and abort black babies. She spoke to the women of the Ku Klux Klan. Today, Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider, but it’s time to sterilize, abort, and eradicate Margaret Sanger, the racist organization she founded, and their memory.”
Planned Parenthood has renamed its Margaret Sanger Award and changed the moniker of its Manhattan flagship abortuary, both meaningless gestures. And while McGill Johnson insists her New York Times piece isn’t “virtue signaling,” that’s exactly what it is. She’s telling us the organization now recognizes that racism is bad while assuring us its attempts to annihilate the black community will continue unhindered but now with a veneer of wokeness.
I agree with my friend Vernon Jones. It’s time to cancel Planned Parenthood and begin the hard work of reclaiming what Margaret Sanger and her successors stole from us. We’ll never get our babies back — I lost two myself to abortion — but we can begin to recognize that black abortion benefits only Planned Parenthood and its bottom line.
Evangelist Alveda King is a pastoral associate of Priests for Life and leads its outreach Civil Rights for the Unborn. A niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., she has authored many books, including King Rules and How Can the Dream Survive if We Murder the Children.
