In reading her papers, it is clear Sanger had bought into the movement. Some contend her involvement was for political reasons - to win support for birth control. Historians seem to disagree on just how involved in the eugenics movement she was. She also talked about birth control being used to facilitate "the process of weeding out the unfit of preventing the birth of defectives." In the United States, eugenics intersected with the birth control movement in the 1920s, and Sanger reportedly spoke at eugenics conferences. Eugenics was taken to its horrifying extreme during the Holocaust, through forced sterilizations and breeding experiments. The idea was that the human race could be bettered through encouraging people with traits like intelligence, hard work, cleanliness (thought to be genetic) to reproduce. It's a shame that a doctor, who should understand the barriers black women face accessing high-quality preventive and reproductive health care services, would pander so clearly to anti-abortion extremists on the right."Įugenics was a discipline, championed by prominent scientists but now widely debunked, that promoted "good" breeding and aimed to prevent "poor" breeding. "Does he think that black women are somehow less capable of making the deeply personal decision about whether to end a pregnancy than other women?. On Fox News Wednesday, Carson was asked about Democrats' criticism that Republicans who want to defund Planned Parenthood are waging a "war on women." He responded: Here's a closer look at Carson's comments:
He was also in the news this week after reports surfaced that he once used aborted fetal tissue for research. Carson, a famed neurosurgeon turned Republican presidential candidate, has been a vocal opponent of the group.
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Planned Parenthood has been a target on the campaign trail after a series of sting videos was released alleging the organization illegally profits from selling aborted fetal tissue. The organization is a presidential-campaign target.īen Carson alleged in an interview with Fox News Wednesday that Planned Parenthood puts most of its clinics in black neighborhoods to "control the population" and that its founder, Margaret Sanger, "was not particularly enamored with black people." A Planned Parenthood location in New York City.
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