Bryan Fischer
Planned Parenthood's unvarnished racism
By Bryan Fischer
A seven-state investigation conducted last summer by a student magazine at UCLA, The Advocate, revealed the presence of an ugly strain of racism in Planned Parenthood affiliates, including Planned Parenthood of Idaho.
An actor, posing as a racist donor, called Planned Parenthood development centers and asked that his donation be used to abort African-American babies in order to "lower the number of black people."
According to the magazine, every branch — including Idaho's — agreed to process the racially earmarked donations, and none expressed concern about the racist reasoning for the donation.
Just when we thought Idaho was finally shedding its image as haven of racial bigotry, along comes Planned Parenthood.
It turns out that blatant racism is alive and well in Idaho, but it's not coming from the Aryan Nation types — it's coming from the local affiliate of a far-left organization that performs more abortions than anyone in America.
If Idaho is in fact a haven for white racism, it turns out that Planned Parenthood and not Richard Butler is to blame.
(Richard Butler was a notorious white supremacist who was run out of his Aryan Nation's compound in northern Idaho in the early part of this decade.)
Ms. Kersey's conduct in the phone conversation is reprehensible. She should immediately be fired, and since her thinking clearly represents the thinking of Planned Parenthood, it might be best if the organization closed its doors and left the Gem State altogether. Idaho is too great for hate and racism.
Idaho didn't have room for Richard Butler and shouldn't have room for Planned Parenthood.
The press release issued by the magazine contains a partial transcript of the conversation between the actor and Autumn Kersey, the Vice-President of Development and Marketing for Planned Parenthood of Idaho. At one point, the actor says, "the less black kids out there the better." Kersey's response? Unbelievably, she laughs and says "understandable" — not once but twice!
The phone conversation was recorded, which is perfectly legal since Idaho is a single-consent state. Here are excerpts from the phone conversation:
Transcript of telephone conversation with Autumn Kersey, Vice-President of Marketing and Development, Planned Parenthood of Idaho:
Idaho Donor: Wonderful. I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
PP Rep: Absolutely.
Donor: Like the black community for example?
PP Rep: Certainly.
Donor: The abortion — I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
PP Rep: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose
.
Idaho donor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
PP Rep: Yes, absolutely.
Idaho donor: And we don't, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
PP Rep: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Idaho donor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college
PP Rep: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited, and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.
(To listen to the whole transcript, visit www.LAadvocate.com/pp; complete transcript below.)
IVA phone calls to Ms. Kersey have not been returned. I wonder why.
Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials are scapegoating Ms. Kersey, and painting her as a racist renegade in an organization as pure as the driven snow. (Hmm...perhaps a poor metaphor under the circumstances.)
Yet Ms. Kersey's racism is evidently systemic, woven into the fabric of the organization, since not a single one of the seven Planned Parenthood affiliates turned down the donations, agreeing to earmark them for the killing of black babies.
This makes Planned Parenthood complicit in what amounts to racial genocide.
The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a well-known proponent of eugenics, a program designed to cull those she considered unfit and racially undesirable from the larger population.
She said in 1921 that eugenics is "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." At another point, she lamented "the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
The slogan of the eugenics movement was "more children from the fit, less from the unfit." When Ms. Sanger referred to "the fit," she was thinking of White Europeans. When she referred to "the unfit," she was thinking of everybody else, meaning people of color.
Today's Planned Parenthood, obediently marching in lockstep with Sanger's racist vision, has located 79% of its clinics nationwide in minority neighborhoods. About 35% of all abortions are performed on blacks, even though they comprise less than 13% of the population. Almost half of all black pregnancies are aborted.
Planned Parenthood receives almost $300 million in taxpayer funds to carry out its genocidal mission.
Perhaps this revelation of its unvarnished racism will prompt Congress to reconsider whether it ought to be fleecing ordinary Americans to the tune of more than a quarter billion dollars a year to fund the modern equivalent of the KKK.
Complete transcript:
PP: Good afternoon, this is Autumn.
Donor: Hello, Autumn, I'm interested in making a donation today.
Autumn: Fantastic!
Donor: What about abortions for the underprivileged minority groups?
Autumn: Oh, absolutely. We have, um, in fact, uh wonderful, fantastic news. We just received a very generous donation to our women in need fund.
Donor: Wonderful. I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
Autumn: Absolutely.
Donor: Like the black community for example?
Autumn: Certainly.
Donor: OK, so the abortion...I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose.
Autumn: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that you wanted your gift to be used to help (an) African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that that gift was earmarked specifically for that purpose.
Donor: Great. Because I really face trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids being disadvantaged, you know, against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name, you know.
Autumn: Mmhmm, absolutely.
Donor: So that's definitely possible.
Autumn: Oh, always, always.
Donor: So I just wanna — can I put this in the name of my son?
Autumn: Absolutely.
Donor: Yeah, he's trying to get into colleges, and he's going to be applying, you know, he's just...we're just really big...he's really faced troubles with affirmative action.
Autumn: Mmhmm
Donor: And we don't, you know, we just think, you know, the less black kids out there the better.
Autumn: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Autumn: Um David, let me, if I may, just get some sort of specific general information so we can set this up the right way. You said you wanted to put it in your son's name, and you would like this designated specifically to assist (an) African-American woman who's looking to terminate a pregnancy.
Donor: Exactly, and yeah, I wanna protect my son, so he can get into college.
Autumn: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, um, um, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited, and I wanna make sure I don't leave anything out.
Seven-State Investigation Organized By UCLA Students Shows Evidence of Racism at Planned Parenthood — Christian Newswire
The Advocate: Winter Quarter 2008 (see article, p. 4)
YouTube — Planned Parenthood Racism Investigation (includes audio of actual phone conversation with Autumn Kersey of Planned Parenthood of Idaho)
© Bryan Fischer
A seven-state investigation conducted last summer by a student magazine at UCLA, The Advocate, revealed the presence of an ugly strain of racism in Planned Parenthood affiliates, including Planned Parenthood of Idaho.
An actor, posing as a racist donor, called Planned Parenthood development centers and asked that his donation be used to abort African-American babies in order to "lower the number of black people."
According to the magazine, every branch — including Idaho's — agreed to process the racially earmarked donations, and none expressed concern about the racist reasoning for the donation.
Just when we thought Idaho was finally shedding its image as haven of racial bigotry, along comes Planned Parenthood.
It turns out that blatant racism is alive and well in Idaho, but it's not coming from the Aryan Nation types — it's coming from the local affiliate of a far-left organization that performs more abortions than anyone in America.
If Idaho is in fact a haven for white racism, it turns out that Planned Parenthood and not Richard Butler is to blame.
(Richard Butler was a notorious white supremacist who was run out of his Aryan Nation's compound in northern Idaho in the early part of this decade.)
Ms. Kersey's conduct in the phone conversation is reprehensible. She should immediately be fired, and since her thinking clearly represents the thinking of Planned Parenthood, it might be best if the organization closed its doors and left the Gem State altogether. Idaho is too great for hate and racism.
Idaho didn't have room for Richard Butler and shouldn't have room for Planned Parenthood.
The press release issued by the magazine contains a partial transcript of the conversation between the actor and Autumn Kersey, the Vice-President of Development and Marketing for Planned Parenthood of Idaho. At one point, the actor says, "the less black kids out there the better." Kersey's response? Unbelievably, she laughs and says "understandable" — not once but twice!
The phone conversation was recorded, which is perfectly legal since Idaho is a single-consent state. Here are excerpts from the phone conversation:
Transcript of telephone conversation with Autumn Kersey, Vice-President of Marketing and Development, Planned Parenthood of Idaho:
Idaho Donor: Wonderful. I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
PP Rep: Absolutely.
Donor: Like the black community for example?
PP Rep: Certainly.
Donor: The abortion — I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
PP Rep: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose
.
Idaho donor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
PP Rep: Yes, absolutely.
Idaho donor: And we don't, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
PP Rep: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Idaho donor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college
PP Rep: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited, and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.
(To listen to the whole transcript, visit www.LAadvocate.com/pp; complete transcript below.)
IVA phone calls to Ms. Kersey have not been returned. I wonder why.
Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials are scapegoating Ms. Kersey, and painting her as a racist renegade in an organization as pure as the driven snow. (Hmm...perhaps a poor metaphor under the circumstances.)
Yet Ms. Kersey's racism is evidently systemic, woven into the fabric of the organization, since not a single one of the seven Planned Parenthood affiliates turned down the donations, agreeing to earmark them for the killing of black babies.
This makes Planned Parenthood complicit in what amounts to racial genocide.
The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a well-known proponent of eugenics, a program designed to cull those she considered unfit and racially undesirable from the larger population.
She said in 1921 that eugenics is "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." At another point, she lamented "the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
The slogan of the eugenics movement was "more children from the fit, less from the unfit." When Ms. Sanger referred to "the fit," she was thinking of White Europeans. When she referred to "the unfit," she was thinking of everybody else, meaning people of color.
Today's Planned Parenthood, obediently marching in lockstep with Sanger's racist vision, has located 79% of its clinics nationwide in minority neighborhoods. About 35% of all abortions are performed on blacks, even though they comprise less than 13% of the population. Almost half of all black pregnancies are aborted.
Planned Parenthood receives almost $300 million in taxpayer funds to carry out its genocidal mission.
Perhaps this revelation of its unvarnished racism will prompt Congress to reconsider whether it ought to be fleecing ordinary Americans to the tune of more than a quarter billion dollars a year to fund the modern equivalent of the KKK.
Complete transcript:
PP: Good afternoon, this is Autumn.
Donor: Hello, Autumn, I'm interested in making a donation today.
Autumn: Fantastic!
Donor: What about abortions for the underprivileged minority groups?
Autumn: Oh, absolutely. We have, um, in fact, uh wonderful, fantastic news. We just received a very generous donation to our women in need fund.
Donor: Wonderful. I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
Autumn: Absolutely.
Donor: Like the black community for example?
Autumn: Certainly.
Donor: OK, so the abortion...I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose.
Autumn: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that you wanted your gift to be used to help (an) African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that that gift was earmarked specifically for that purpose.
Donor: Great. Because I really face trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids being disadvantaged, you know, against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name, you know.
Autumn: Mmhmm, absolutely.
Donor: So that's definitely possible.
Autumn: Oh, always, always.
Donor: So I just wanna — can I put this in the name of my son?
Autumn: Absolutely.
Donor: Yeah, he's trying to get into colleges, and he's going to be applying, you know, he's just...we're just really big...he's really faced troubles with affirmative action.
Autumn: Mmhmm
Donor: And we don't, you know, we just think, you know, the less black kids out there the better.
Autumn: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Autumn: Um David, let me, if I may, just get some sort of specific general information so we can set this up the right way. You said you wanted to put it in your son's name, and you would like this designated specifically to assist (an) African-American woman who's looking to terminate a pregnancy.
Donor: Exactly, and yeah, I wanna protect my son, so he can get into college.
Autumn: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, um, um, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited, and I wanna make sure I don't leave anything out.
Seven-State Investigation Organized By UCLA Students Shows Evidence of Racism at Planned Parenthood — Christian Newswire
The Advocate: Winter Quarter 2008 (see article, p. 4)
YouTube — Planned Parenthood Racism Investigation (includes audio of actual phone conversation with Autumn Kersey of Planned Parenthood of Idaho)
© Bryan Fischer
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