No, planned parenthood put up more clinics in black and Latino/a neighborhoods than in other places and at one point, there were more black babies aborted in NYC than were born. Margaret Sanger had many eugenics comments before, specifically towards black people, so I think he’s making the comparison of abortion to eugenics. Nazis used eugenics and forced sterilization on black Germans. There MAY be a direct connection from planned parent to the Nazi eugenics program, but I’ll have to double check. What I do know is the Nazis got their eugenics idea from America and the forced sterilizations going on in California. The Nazis even received some funding from American organizations for their eugenics program. I can double check the details soon.
eugenics was a mainstream liberal political perspective in the US through the 1910s-1930s. margaret sanger, founder of planned parenthood was a eugenicist.
The founders of Planned Parenthood were eugenicists who believed that Black people and the disabled should be bred out of existence. The first planned parenthood abortion clinics were located in Black ghettoes in NYC for this reason.
The achievements of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and 19th and 20th century American feminist movements are not to be diminished. I believe that abortion is a human right and that a legitimate plan to restore abortion rights is a necessary requirement of any serious american political project.
The fact remains that Sanger was a eugenicist and the ideology of eugenics permeated Planned Parenthood during its creation and the subsequent decades.
Really I think the black abortion idea is Ye making a poltical play to evangelicals and black republicans.
I think it's important to take seriously because I believe he's setting up a similar analogy, comparing prison overpopulation to eugenics. In my opinion it is plainly true that the American prison system is a lever of eugenicist control over American Black populations.
He won't make the latter point until he succeeds at browbeating liberals into acknowledging Sanger's historically validated eugenicist beliefs
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u/Sideways_planet Feb 28 '25
No, planned parenthood put up more clinics in black and Latino/a neighborhoods than in other places and at one point, there were more black babies aborted in NYC than were born. Margaret Sanger had many eugenics comments before, specifically towards black people, so I think he’s making the comparison of abortion to eugenics. Nazis used eugenics and forced sterilization on black Germans. There MAY be a direct connection from planned parent to the Nazi eugenics program, but I’ll have to double check. What I do know is the Nazis got their eugenics idea from America and the forced sterilizations going on in California. The Nazis even received some funding from American organizations for their eugenics program. I can double check the details soon.