Recently, I had the opportunity to interview a few women at Times Square in New York City. It was an amazing experience sharing the real story behind how Planned Parenthood started and what their agenda has always been for black and brown communities.
I spoke to a few women who were pro-choice and had never heard about the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. They did not know about her eugenicist goal to, in her own words, “exterminate the Negro population.” These women only knew a partial truth about Planned Parenthood and believed that Planned Parenthood was on their side as African American women — providing their community low cost, needed services.
When they heard about the fact that not only was Planned Parenthood a eugenicist-based organization, but was no longer offering services they promote at the same rates, the truth behind this organization became clear.
HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS
This is what I told them:
Taxpayer funding to the abortion giant has increased by 245% from $202 million received in 2000 to nearly $700 million in its [2022-23] report. And these services have also all gone down [from their peak highs]:
Prenatal care – down 80%
Adoption referrals – down 65%
STI testing and treatment – down 15%
Contraceptives – down 44%
Breast screenings – down over 80%
Total screenings including Pap tests – down 79%
Client numbers – down 34%
Planned Parenthood now commits over 228 abortions for every one adoption referral, and 62 abortions for every one prenatal care service they provide.
They are in the business of killing babies… and unsurprisingly… abortions have gone up 100% [in the past 25 years].
Planned Parenthood’s most recent report for 2023-24, released just two weeks ago, shows a record 402,230 abortions and a 291% increase in funding.
Planned Parenthood is killing babies and providing transgender services to children. They are killing black babies at such disproportionate rates that we are now facing extinction. This is a true human rights crisis.
And the marketing to black communities is intentionally deceptive, using black images on social media campaigns, using black artists to promote our own extinction, and using black inner city women to appear to be concerned. All the while the services they claim to give are drastically in decline.
DELIVER MY PEOPLE
For the past 20 years I have made it my mission to share the truth about abortion and Planned Parenthood’s goals to target my people with extinction to as many in my community as possible.
As the fourth great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, I realize this is beyond me. This is a family calling to deliver my people from genocide.
I have also learned that when we share the truth about abortion with the black community in a kind, loving, and compassionate manner that acknowledges the underlying issues causing women to choose an abortion, they respond with the appropriate emotions of shock, anger and disappointment.
Like the women I interviewed, they immediately begin to ask, “What can we do to change this?”
The women I spoke to were some of the brightest in our community, from Historically Black Colleges and Universities like Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University. They understood how their people had been targeted in times past. They understood how black women were experimented on by the medical industry in the past. And they understood how their community needed services such as prenatal care due to our high maternal mortality rates.
But they did not know about the fact that this targeting continues today through organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the modern day plantations of America who convince the masses that they really care.
They did not know — not because they were ignorant, but because they were sold a well-marketed lie. This is the same way slave masters of the past were able to promote slavery as acceptable.
Visitors from the north would come see the plantations and the masters would dress everyone up, forcing them to pretend like they were enjoying their experience and being bettered by the institution of slavery.
My fourth great-aunt fought to save her people from this institution of slavery; she fought to help work with those who were opening the eyes of the masses against deceptive marketing campaigns.
NARRATIVE vs. TRUTH
I’m now fighting to change the narrative and tell the truth about how abortion is oppressing the black community.
It is an intentional, deliberate attempt to rid our nation of a people who have provided so much as American citizens. We cannot allow this to happen and we must fight together to market truth in love.
That day in Times Square — surrounded by skyscrapers, the faces of the nations, lights, and excitement — I could not help but think about a time when more black babies were being aborted than born in New York City. Thankfully, that statistic has changed. Together, we can see more of these sad abortion statistics change as we create more awareness.
If the women I talked to could drastically change their minds in a matter of seconds, how many more black men and women will change their minds when we share the history behind Planned Parenthood in a winsome way?
When I told these women that transgender services were being provided at a higher rate than needed services such as prenatal, STI testing and treatment, breast screenings, or Pap smears, one woman responded, “I don’t think those services should be provided to children whatsoever.”
When I told another woman the history of Planned Parenthood and the foundation of their organization, she responded, “It’s terrible.”
This reflects how black women feel when they get the opportunity to see more than well marketed images.
This is what happens when we calmly and lovingly share the truth about Planned Parenthood.
CALL TO ACTION
The time is now to save the black community from extinction. I’m asking you to be a social media ally to the black community. Join me in calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood until our homes and communities are restored to their former glory.
Bio: Jade A. Lee, the 4th great grand niece of Harriet Tubman, is the author of “The Ferguson Dilemma: Healing America’s Racial Wounds,” founder of the international missionary organization, Convergence Movement, and is an advocate for the black community and racial healing. Jade is currently obtaining her PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on Africana women and empowerment through Ethiopic history.
