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October 2020 – Planned Parenthood [PP] of Greater New York announced its plans to remove the name of its founder Margaret Sanger from one of New York’s key PP buildings, calling it “a necessary and overdue step to … acknowledge [PP’s] contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color.”

Though Sanger is known for her goal of eliminating the Black population, National Planned Parenthood celebrates her efforts, and until 2015, gave an annual award bearing her name.

The decision to blot out the Sanger name applies to only one clinic. But, for many, the mere acknowledgment speaks volumes.

In response, Abraham Hamilton, host of AFR’s The Hamilton Corner, expressed a message for PP: “If you recognize that Sanger sought to ‘exterminate the Negro population,’ sterilize those she called ‘human weeds,’ and prevent those she deemed ‘genetically inferior’ from reproducing, you have to do better than a building name change. You still kill babies! That’s her legacy!”

dailywire.com, 7/21/20; onenewsnow.com, 7/22/20