By: Mr. Vince Mcdonald Course Instructor: Mrs. Kristen O’Neil Course Sociology 101 THE HISTORY OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Objectives Explain Planned Parenthood’s Eugenic Plot Provide 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 Plot In 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 era Which included poor Caucasians, African Americans, and other minority groups

Eugenic Plot Eugenicist financed Planned Parenthood Centers To 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 Sanger The Negro Project In 1939, Margaret Sanger’s vision of eliminating African Americans emerged Sanger merged with Proctor and Gamble who supported her vision Gamble developed a memo entitled “Suggestions for Negro Project”

What did Sanger and Gamble Suggest? They feared black leaders would uncover their plot Sanger 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 Cleansing Margaret Sanger opened first birth control clinic in 1916 Since 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

References projects- by-Margaret- Sanger (2007). Eugenics, Race and Margaret Sanger Revisited: Reproductive Freedom for Hypatia, 22(2), Retrieved from E-Journal database on July 20,2010