Ed Jones: Planned Parenthood's Toll On Blacks

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With the anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22, it is important to look at the impact that abortion has had on the black community, and at the legacy of Margaret Sanger, the controversial eugenicist - and onetime president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Sanger believed in socially engineering a better race of people. She stressed birth control and abortion as tools "to create a race of thoroughbreds" by stopping the handicapped, mentally ill and minorities from breeding. In "A Plan for Peace" she proposed a congressional department to "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."

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Ed Jones: Planned Parenthood's Toll On Blacks

Sanger's ideology led to the creation of Planned Parenthood in 1916.

Planned Parenthood began primarily to promote birth control and fight against the Com...

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