Martin Luther King’s niece to Starbucks: If you oppose racism, stop funding Planned Parenthood

Civil rights leader and pro-life activist Alveda King says Starbucks is missing an important part of its racial bias training by not addressing its partnership with Planned Parenthood. The abortion corporation receives funding via Starbucks matching gifts program, but King says that’s still too complicit with the abortion giant. Abortion is a leading killer of African Americans, and Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, in an effort to weed out what Sanger deemed “the unfit” members of society.

In her oped piece for the Washington Times, King writes in part:

READ: 78% of abortions in New York City were black and hispanic babies

Indeed, the Guttmacher Institute shows even with the abortion rate declining overall, the highest number of abortions come from African Americans.

The Centers for Disease Control notes this disparity in its reports, as well:

As King notes:

It begs the question: how can the coffee business take a stand nationally against racial injustice and yet continue to provide matching funds or any sort of funding to the racially biased abortion business?

In fact, a Live Action investigation showed that when a “Live Action investigator calls Planned Parenthood posing as a racist donor wanting to give a racially motivated donation intended to abort only black babies. The caller clearly expresses a racist agenda of wanting to ‘lower the number of blacks in America,'” but that did not discourage Planned Parenthood staff from accepting the money.

Donating to Planned Parenthood in any manner not only aids with perpetuating racism, but it also aids child sexual abusers, as Live Action’s new docuseries reveals.

Sex Abuse Cover Up at Planned Parenthood - Overview

Starbucks, however, told the Washington Examiner it does not deliberately fund the abortion business. The Examiner reports:

Starbucks doesn’t explain why “most” 501(c)(3) designated nonprofits have to include abortion funding. While it’s certainly a problem Planned Parenthood is even allowed to continue to have charity status, the use of the word most by the coffee business implies that it would be possible to eliminate Planned Parenthood from that list. Instead, it appears it is simply one wealthy corporation funding another.