Planned Parenthood Founded to Eliminate Blacks

Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted. Such ideas were common among intellectuals who considered themselves “progressive” at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.193

March Of Dimes Is Evil

Founded in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the March of Dimes is one of the world's premier private-sector health and medical associations.  Dedicated to the prevention of birth defects, it raises millions of dollars each year for education, research, and service.  It works to improve maternal and newborn health.  It makes basic clinical grants to hospitals and universities for perinatal and genetic study programs.  It sponsors medical conferences, coordinates symposia, and publishes literature.  Since it successfully led the fight to cure polio during the early fifties, the March of Dimes has become a symbol of hope for millions of parents all around the globe.  But it has also placed itself at the forefront of the Planned Parenthood movement.

Since the early sixties, it has increasingly turned its attentions away from curing genetic disorders and birth defects to detecting and eliminating them.  As a result, amniocentesis and abortion have become its chief concerns, consuming a vast majority of its funding.  Instead of trying to solve the problem of birth defects, the March of Dimes now disposes of those problems by funding "search and destroy" missions.

Eighty-eight percent of all March of Dimes geneticists favor abortion-on-demand.  Seventy-one percent argue that if amniocentesis diagnostic tests prove a child to be defective, he should be terminated regardless of the stage of pregnancy.  A large number even revealed that hey were involved in live fetal experimentation and fetal harvesting.  This despite the persistent claims of the organization that it is "abortion neutral."

The connection between the March of Dimes and Planned Parenthood is not just philosophical.  Many faithful donors would be shocked to discover that the money they have given over the years to "help fight birth defects" has actually wound up in Planned Parenthood coffers.  In 1980, for instance, the March of Dimes gave more than $0.5 million to a Planned Parenthood abortionist for a major research project.  The results of the study, published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, have been widely heralded in pro-abortion circles and selectively circulated by Planned Parenthood affiliates all around the country.

In response to prolife criticism of its close relationship with Planned Parenthood, the national office of the March of Dimes called its critics "ideological zealots eager to invent new enemies."  Today, the kinship between the two groups is friendlier than ever.  They display and distribute each other's literature.  They refer clients back and forth to each other's programs.  They cooperate in sponsoring genetic research and perinatal medical conferences.  And they support each other in their political lobbying efforts.


George Grant, Immaculate Deception: The Shifting Agenda of Planned Parenthood, p.139-140 (1996)  [And things haven't changed a bit.]

Margaret Sanger's Legacy

In her book Women and the New Race, Margaret Sanger asserted that "the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."  Today, Planned Parenthood's commitment to that philosophy is self-evident.  The organization is the world's number-one abortion provider.  It has aggressively fought the issue through the courts.  It has made killing infant members of large families its highest priority.  Bad seen brings forth bitter harvest.  The legacy continues.

George Grant, "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," p.63

Planned Parenthood's Lack of Ethics

Ninety-five percent of the women surveyed said that their Planned Parenthood counselors gave "little or no biological information about the fetus which the abortion would destroy."  Eighty percent said that their counselors gave "little or no information about the potential health risks which might follow the surgery."  Sixty-eight percent felt that "the procedure was not described with any degree of depth or clarity."  Eighty-nine percent said that their counselor was "strongly biased in favor of the abortion."  That is not exactly the kind of track record you would expect from those who proudly march under the banner of "choice." 

George Grant, Immaculate Deception: The Shifting Agenda of Planned Parenthood, p.57

Murderer Margaret Sanger

As the champion of the proletariat, Stalin saw to the slaughter of at least fifteen million Ukrainian kulaks.  As the popularly acclaimed Il Duce, Mussolini massacred as many as four million Ethiopians, two million Eritreans, and a million Serbs, Croats, and Albanians.  As the wildly lionized Fuhrer, Hitler exterminated more than six million Jews, two million Slavs, and a million Poles.  As the founder of Planned Parenthood and the impassioned heroine of feminist causes celebres, [Margaret] Sanger was responsible for the brutal elimination of more than twenty million children in the United States and as many as one and a half billion worldwide.

George Grant, "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," p.46 (1992)

Abortion Is a Lucrative Business

Don’t let the ant-life activists fool you.  Abortion is a lucrative business, not a compassionate service.  In 2012 America’s abortion giant Planned Parenthood raked in $542 million of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars.  With your money they performed 327,000 abortions.  The Susan B. Anthony List, a national pro-life organization, published an analysis of Planned Parenthood’s annual report, which revealed abortion accounted for 93 percent of their supposed “family-planning” services.  Meanwhile, adoption referrals accounted for only 0.6 percent of their total services.

Chelsen Vicari, “Distortion: How the New Christian Left is Twisting the Gospel & Damaging the Faith, p.113  (2014)

Truth About Planned Parenthood

The truth is that from its very inception Planned Parenthood has sought governmentally imposed population control measures -- mandatory measures carefully designed to deny women and their families the freedom to choose.  Over the years it has proposed that authorities implement such things as "compulsory abortion for out-of-wedlock pregnancies," federal entitlement "payments to encourage abortion," "compulsory sterilization for those who have already had two children," and "tax penalties" for existing large families.

George Grant, Immaculate Deception: The Shifting Agenda of Planned Parenthood, p.56

Sex Education Illusion

The truth is, Planned Parenthood's sex education programs have backfired, actually increasing teen pregnancies.  According to its own survey, conducted by the Louis Harris pollsters, teens who have taken "comprehensive" sex education courses have a fifty percent higher rate of sexual activity than their "unenlightened" peers.  And yet the courses had no significant effect on their contraceptive usage.  The conclusion, one that even Planned Parenthood researchers have been unable to escape, is that sex education courses only exacerbate the teen pregnancy problem. . . . 

In 1970 fewer that half of the nation's school districts offered sex education curricula and none had school-based birth control clinics.  Today more than seventy-five percent of the districts teach sex education and there are more than one hundred clinics in operation.  Yet the percentage of illegitimate births has only increased during that time, from a mere fifteen percent to an astonishing fifty-one percent.

In California, the public schools have required sex education for more than thirty years, and yet the state has maintained one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the nation.

According to the Harris poll, the only things that effectively impact the teen pregnancy problem are frequent church attendance and parental oversight, the very things that Planned Parenthood has been railing against for three-quarters of a century -- the very things that sex education courses are designed to circumvent.


George Grant, "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," p.32-33


This citation is dated from 1992; imagine how much worse it has gotten.

How Effective Is Birth Control?

According to its own reckoning, [Planned Parenthood’s] program of birth control fails miserably to do the one thing it is supposed to do: inhibit unwanted pregnancies.  The annual in-use failure rate of the Pill is as high as 11 percent.  For the diaphragm, the normal failure rate is nearly 32 percent.  For the intrauterine device (IUD), it is almost 11 percent.  For “save sex” condoms, it is more than 18 percent.  And for the various foam, cream and jelly spermicides, it can range as high as 34 percent.  That means that a sexually active fourteen-year-old girl who faithfully uses the Pill has a 44 percent chance of getting pregnant at least once before she finishes high school.  She has a 69 percent chance of getting pregnant at least once before she finishes college.  And she has a 30 percent chance of getting pregnant two or more times.  If she relies on “safe sex” condoms, the likelihood of an unwanted pregnancy while she is in school rises to nearly 87 percent.  In other words, the Planned Parenthood system virtually guarantees that women will get pregnant and that they will then be “forced” to fall back on the birth control linchpin: abortion.

George Grant, Immaculate Deception: The Shifting Agenda of Planned Parenthood, p.20

Pro-Choice?

The truth is that from its very inception, Planned Parenthood has sought mandatory population control measures -- measures carefully designed to deny the freedom to choose.  Over the years it has proposed that our government implement such things as "compulsory abortion for out-of-wedlock pregnancies," federal entitlement "payments to encourage abortion," "compulsory sterilization for those who have already had two children," and "tax penalties" for existing large families.


George Grant, "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," p.25