It's never been on a billboard, but the proof copy of a sign is still getting plenty of attention.
It quotes Planned Parenthood's Founder Margaret Sanger saying, "We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
The group behind the sign is the Flint Area Right to Life and Black Americans for Life.
They wanted to put it up south of downtown Flint on Saginaw Street near I-475 during Black History Month.
"That's a direct quote of hers," says Judy Climer, director of Flint Area Right to Life.
She says it's a historical quote and perfectly acceptable for the public.
"It's deception by keeping her quote quiet because no one really wants to know that Planned Parenthood is behind this," says Climer.
Prolife advocates say the words speak for themselves, however Planned Parenthood says they are taken out of context.
Desiree Cooper, director of communications and media relations for Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan says, "She did not want the organization to be characterized in that way."
Cooper says Sanger was saying there was misinformation about birth control in that day, that it would wipe out entire races, and that she did not want that information spread.
"It is not black history to put up something that says that people don't want the black race to be on the planet. It's the opposite and it's insulting," says Cooper.
"If you read her biography, she was very much tied to the Ku Klux Klan, to the Nazis, to Hitler. She very much wanted thoroughbreds. That's the word she used, thoroughbreds, and the way to make that happen was to eliminate minorities. She called them weeds in the garden of life," says Judy Climer, director of Flint Area Right to Life.
Planned Parenthood says these criticisms are from groups twisting Sanger's words and taking them out of context.
The group admits Sanger was a product of her time and embraced some ideas that are not considered popular today.
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10 comments:
I was told long, long ago it was a plan of blacks to over populate and take over by multiplying. Then mexicans came to US and screwed that plan, and family or planned parent hood was not on there #1 priority. It kind o back fired but is working in their advantage now. Look at the idiot president we have now. Look at all the highways and affirmative action we have. Soon whites will be minority and this will be cool. We can then have white history month.
10:14 you are an idiot.
and on top of being an idiot is horribly racist.
The statistics in regard to abortion blacks are 12% of the population and 35% of the abortions. Sangers plan is working well. Despite the fact that blacks are being exterminated they continue to vote in Progressive Democrats that want to expand abortion by making it taxpayer funded. Vote for those who want to eradicate you.
If you take the time to study actual history and not leave it up to the maim stream media you will find it was the democrat party who fought against civil rights since slavery.
3:07 I guess that means that 65% of abortions are white. You think they are voting Republican?
Thats a LOT of quotations that are "taken out of context", don't ya think? Sounds like they uncovered some uncomfortable things about that lady...
you might call 10:14 a racist but he is right... whites will soon be a minority in this country. Keep letting illegals in and having babies this country will be mor hispanic than anything else.
Drew you are a moron. Statistically black women are 3 times more likely to have an abortion than whites, and Hispanics are 2 times more likely. You have a typical progresive liberal grasp on interpreting statistics.
looks like a great 2012 presidential campaign slogan to me! the plain truth hurts sometimes they say.
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