Michael Wolfe

This is not an article I enjoy writing. It made me sick when I heard about it and I had to look it up before I could believe it was true. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proponent of family planning. More specifically Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood. In fact, so much so that he won the organization’s Margaret Sanger Award back in 1966. King not only embraced the organization, but actually equated racist Margaret Sanger’s fight to legalize baby slaughter with Black freedom! It breaks my heart. I had always divided between King’s message socially and economic, having disagreed severely with him on matters of economics. But having found this out, I can no longer in good conscience claim such a division. Margaret Sanger’s dream was of eugenics. That King would have accepted such an award from such an organization is abhorrent. Margaret Sanger had an evil dream about little black girls and boys that was nothing at all like the beautiful dream King so eloquently described of black and white children.

According to the release on Planned Parenthood’s website, the award citation stated the following:

“Facing jail, abuse and physical danger, Dr. King’s unceasing efforts — in behalf of all Americans — to win freedom for the Negro people parallel closely Mrs. Sanger’s fight over the last half-century for the emancipation of women from the burdens of perpetual child-bearing and the emancipation of children from a future of poverty and hopelessness.”

This is sick. Freedom for Black people is NOTHING like the fight for legalized slaughter of children. One was just and the second was evil. “Emancipation from perpetual child bearing?” Did they even read what they wrote? Did King read it? How could he accept such an award? Not only did he accept it, but here are some excerpts from his acceptance speech (emphasis mine):

There is a striking kinship between our movement  (civil rights) and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist — a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern.

 

The Negro constitutes half the poor of the nation. Like all poor, Negro and white, they have many unwanted children. This is a cruel evil they urgently need to control.

 

Some commentators point out that with present birth rates it will not be long before Negroes are a majority in many of the major cities of the nation. As a consequence, they can be expected to take political control, and many people are apprehensive at this prospect. Negroes do not seek political control by this means. They seek only what they are entitled to and do not wish for domination purchased at the cost of human misery. Negroes were once bred by slave owners to be sold as merchandise. They do not welcome any solution which involves population breeding as a weapon. They are instinctively sympathetic to all who offer methods that will improve their lives and offer them fair opportunity to develop and advance as all other people in our society.

For these reasons we are natural allies of those who seek to inject any form of planning in our society that enriches life and guarantees the right to exist in freedom and dignity.

King considers family planning (a la planned parenthood) essential! He considers “population wars” immoral, but has no problem with innocent blood being spilled in so called clinics! Did not the good Reverend know the verse: Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

In case Planned Parenthood didn’t understand how much King loved their efforts, he wrote the following thank you letter to the chairman of the Executive Committee of the PPFA — World Population Emergency Campaign:

Dear Mr. Canfield:

 

Words are inadequate for me to say how honored I was to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award. This award will remain among my most cherished possessions. While I cannot claim to be worthy of such a signal honor, I can assure you that I accept it with deep humility and sincere gratitude. Such a wonderful expression of support is of inestimable value for the continuance of my humble efforts.

 

Again let me say how much I regret that at the last minute urgent developments in the civil rights movement made it impossible for me to be in Washington to personally receive the award. My wife brought glowing echoes of the wonderful reception and impressiveness of the total occasion.

 

I am happy to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award and I can assure you that this distinct honor will cause me to work even harder for a reign of justice and a rule of love all over our nation.

Sincerely yours,

Martin Luther King Jr.

It caused King to want to “work harder” for justice! Where is the justice in murder? Didn’t the good Reverend know the passage:

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. (Proverbs 6:16-19)

The raw immorality of abortion coupled with the scheme of Eugenics espoused by Margaret Sanger, which served as inspiration for the National Socialists, should abhor any man who claims to know the scriptures, let alone an ordained minister!

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(2 Corinthians 6:14)

Given King’s embrace of Sanger and her perverse and wicked organization, it would do well to celebrate this Martin Luther King Day by praying specially for the unborn in the urban communities targeted by Sanger’s murderous organization, for the women lied to about “masses” of cells or “non-life” in their wombs, and for the women who courageously and against the odds and expectations work to rise above their circumstances choosing life over the convenience of death. They deserve the prayers and support of men and women of faith among our churches and worship centers. It is the height of injustice, classism and racism to deny someone the right to live merely because they are born in lowly circumstances. King may have claimed the moral high ground when he proclaimed his dreams of black and white children together in harmony but his moral plateau was surrounded by the blood filled valleys of Planned Parenthood and the lives unlived by untold numbers of the poor black children targeted specifically by Ms. Sanger in her quest euphemistically entitled “reproductive freedom” and “population control.”

 I have a dream that one day racist Margaret Sanger’s murderous organization would be starved of government funding and societal support and would wither away and die. I am sorry that King didn’t share the same dream.

Source: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-4728.htm 1/15/2012