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Planned Parenthood keeps killing them softly
Dan Fitzpatrick
Issue date: 7/23/08 Section: Forum
It can be traced back to Margaret Sanger, founder of the American Birth Control League (which became PP). Sanger was a major proponent of eugenics and strongly believed that members of the "unfit" classes should not be allowed to reproduce. To this end, Sanger loudly promoted birth control, especially among Blacks and the poor, and though Sanger herself was against abortion, calling it a "barbaric" taking of life, it's little surprise the organization and movement she helped launch have embraced it so totally. Abortion is simply the logical conclusion of the mentality Sanger promoted. This mentality holds that women cannot control themselves and would be unfit mothers, so they should, respectively, use contraception to sterilize fertility and undergo abortions to prevent them from ever having a child. Sanger herself seemed to admit as much in a 1957 interview, saying, "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit."
None of this is intentional in today's feminism and abortion industry; it's simply been unthinkingly integrated into it. Combined with the liberal entitlement and noblesse oblige philosophies that already undermine the Black community's ability to thrive under its own power, this bigoted view of women and Blacks has deadly consequences.
As author Jonah Goldberg points out, "Abortion ends more Black lives than heart disease, cancer, accidents, AIDS and violent crime combined. African Americans constitute little more than 12 percent of the population but have more than a third (37 percent) of abortions... Nationwide, 512 out of every 1,000 Black pregnancies end in an abortion. Revealingly enough, roughly 80 percent of PP's abortion centers are in or near minority communities." And the trend will only continue in Northeast Portland.
None of this is intentional in today's feminism and abortion industry; it's simply been unthinkingly integrated into it. Combined with the liberal entitlement and noblesse oblige philosophies that already undermine the Black community's ability to thrive under its own power, this bigoted view of women and Blacks has deadly consequences.
As author Jonah Goldberg points out, "Abortion ends more Black lives than heart disease, cancer, accidents, AIDS and violent crime combined. African Americans constitute little more than 12 percent of the population but have more than a third (37 percent) of abortions... Nationwide, 512 out of every 1,000 Black pregnancies end in an abortion. Revealingly enough, roughly 80 percent of PP's abortion centers are in or near minority communities." And the trend will only continue in Northeast Portland.
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buffybioe
Kevin
posted 7/23/08 @ 6:54 AM PST
Dan Fitzpatrick, you are an idiot. Do you really think that the entire of the proportion of patients that come to PP for STI treatment are the same folks that go there for contraception? I find it much more likely that those who come for the former do so because they didn't for the latter. (Continued…)
Renee
posted 7/23/08 @ 9:53 AM PST
Mr. Fitzpatrick,
I am a healthy, 24 year old white female who has graduated from college and will soon be moving to Portland to pursue further education. (Continued…)
wellerl
Lisa
posted 7/23/08 @ 11:37 AM PST
Dan, you are so selfish. If you feel negatively about PP and want to write an article about it, use solid (complete) facts to support your opinion, not facts that you can add assumptions to in order for them to fit your story. (Continued…)
Azriella
Azz
posted 7/23/08 @ 5:39 PM PST
Great article!! It's nice to see a more realistic view of abortion for once. People are so quick to approve of women's rights through abortion, but disregard the idea that fetal women have rights too! Can you imagine if amazing people like Helen Keller, Beethoven, and Einstein had been aborted because it was just too inconvenient for their mothers?! Maybe someone aborted the one who would find the cure for cancer. (Continued…)
Freedom fighter
Freedom fighter
posted 7/23/08 @ 7:22 PM PST
Although I appreciate the small print after Mr. Fitzpatrick's emesis,
warning readers that the Barometer does not necessarily agree with his
opinions,I would think that a University paper would check his facts. (Continued…)
wellerl
Lisa
posted 7/23/08 @ 9:59 PM PST
Azz~
Setting aside all opinions of abortion, this article was embarrassing because of the fabrication of "facts", and the misuse of quotes that he took out of context. (Continued…)
Nicole T.
Nicole T.
posted 8/06/08 @ 6:58 PM PST
Dan do you realize how many people you could be hurting by writing this kind of stuff? People who have open minds and open hearts and then you go tear down a group of people and an organization with skewed facts? What if someone actually believes what you say? Bashing Planned Parentood and lying is only going to give rise to more bigots like you. (Continued…)
Lopez
posted 8/26/08 @ 10:05 AM PST
To all those PP supporters with open minds and open hearts, I think you should also open your wallets to take the burden off the rest of the tax payers. (Continued…)
AL walker
AL
posted 10/20/08 @ 3:59 PM PST
I just can't believe people still think this way. Mr. Fitzpatrick, you may have been wanting to get a rise out of people for this article. but I think you're a liar, a bigot and a racist. (Continued…)
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