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By: Mr. Vince Mcdonald
Course Instructor: Mrs. Kristen O’Neil
Course Sociology 101
THE HISTORY OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD
ObjectivesExplain Planned Parenthood’s Eugenic
PlotProvide Research that exposes Margaret
Sanger (The founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America) controversial actions
To provide research that explains why Planned Parenthood facilities were in poor urban areas
Show video of Margaret Sanger discussing her real intentions and motives
Planned Parenthood’s Eugenic PlotIn 1927 Buck vs. Bell a Supreme Court
Case a law was passed in Virginia to sterilize any citizen who were “deemed feeble minded, insane, idiotic, or epileptic”(Sanger, 2007).
This law and practice was followed by other states, while some states opposed this law.
60,000 were sterilized during this eraWhich included poor Caucasians , African
Americans, and other minority groups
Eugenic PlotEugenicist financed Planned Parenthood
CentersTo help to control the population of poor
destitute minorities and poor Caucasians The aim was to limit or exterminate these
individuals and families from reproducing
Research that exposes Margaret SangerThe Negro ProjectIn 1939, Margaret Sanger’s vision of
eliminating African Americans emergedSanger merged with Proctor and Gamble
who supported her visionGamble developed a memo entitled
“Suggestions for Negro Project”
What did Sanger and Gamble Suggest?They feared black leaders would uncover
their plotSanger and Gamble appealed to influential
African American religious leaders and social workers to help deploy their plot
“ We don’t want the word to get out, they we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to their more rebellious members” (Sanger, 1939).
Research explaining why Planned Parenthood facilities were in poor urban areas
Racial Purity and Cultural CleansingMargaret Sanger opened first birth
control clinic in 1916Since 1973, Abortion has reduced the
population by 25%(klannparenthood.com)Almost 80% of its facilities are located in
Minority neighborhoods(klannparenthood.com).
African Americans make up 13% of the American of population, they have 30% of abortions
Video of Margaret Sanger discussing her real intentions and motives
Hitler got his ideas from the Eugenics Movement in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MY9ZvQ0F2Y
Referenceswww.blackgenocide.org/sanger.htmlwww..sodahead.com/united-states/the-
negro- projects- by-Margaret- Sanger(2007). Eugenics, Race and Margaret
Sanger Revisited: Reproductive Freedom for Hypatia, 22(2), 210-217. Retrieved from E-Journal database on July 20,2010
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