Martin Luther King Unaware

Many people don’t know that Martin Luther King, Jr., received an award from Planned Parenthood, the Margaret Sanger Award. King apparently saw his efforts and Margaret Sanger’s as efforts to true freedom for everybody.

Tanya L. Green, a special projects writer for Concerned Women for America in Washington, had an article in the Washington Times in which she commented that King was probably unaware of the extent to which Sanger’s organization subscribed to the eugenics philosophy of the time. Sanger believed firmly that "inferior" people should not produce children. Her list of "inferiors" included poor people, drunks, and Negroes, among others. Her "family planning clinics" were predominantly located in areas populated by minorities (those "inferiors") and originally worked to make birth control acceptable. It was from there an easy step to abortions, as the same "benefits" would accrue. Many of the leaders at the time were convinced.

Green finishes her excellent article by saying, "The irony is that while King heroically struggled to win equality for blacks, another movement was working subversively to reduce the number of black children born. What better way to limit the "Negro problem" than by decreasing the number of "Negroes" -- and by persuading leaders in the black community to endorse it."

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For more articles by same author and on the topic, see the Concerned Women for America website www.cwfa.org It contains a detailed paper on the Harlem project.

Partial source: Washington Times; February 5, 2002 as quoted in the Pro-Life Infonet.