Sunday, August 30, 2015

How False Narratives of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women

by Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check

In the wake of the attacks by the Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood’s origins and its founder, Margaret Sanger, have once again become the center of conversations regarding Black women and abortion. And since anti-choice fanatics seem utterly incapable of making an honest argument in support of their position that Black women should be forced into childbirth rather than permitted to make their own decisions about what to do with their bodies, they resort to lies, misinformation, and half-truths about Sanger and the organization she founded.

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