You have to subscribe to the Orgeonian in order to read the complete story, but I print below enough of an excerpt that you can see what's happening in this Portland case -- and how the newspaper reported much more information connecting Planned Parenthood to its eugenics schemes than usual.
Planned Parenthood wanted a new headquarters on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
David Greenberg, the group's local president, liked the site because it's in a neighborhood that needs low-cost reproductive health care. Women, mostly low-income, will come for birth control, pap smears and, yes, abortions.
Last week's debate before the Portland Development Commission, the city's urban renewal agency, was supposed to be about a building. The PDC approved the new clinic. But some opponents used it as the latest site of America's polarized abortion debate -- and beyond that, questioned why the nonprofit wanted to be in the historical heart of the African American community.
They say their case is simple: African Americans are overrepresented among abortion patients in Oregon and nationwide. But it was primarily white people making that case before the PDC.
"Their philosophy is to eliminate the poor by killing their children," said Tulsi Rogers, a lawyer who lives in Portland.
"They are rich white people who say they love the blacks, who give them the name of a street and then kill their children," said Carolyn Wendell of Voice of Catholics Advocating Life. Mary Starrett, executive director of the anti-abortion group Oregonians for Life, called it "black genocide."
A similar theme has played out elsewhere, as whites and African Americans join to fight abortion, in some cases, as a civil rights issue. White Portland opponents last week evoked the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, who speaks out against abortion, as a reason to deny the new clinic.
Elsewhere, LEARN, a New Jersey-based black activist Christian group, says on its Web site at blackgenocide.org that 3,446 blacks were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. "That number is surpassed in less than three days by abortion," they say...
