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