Chanting “you must take off bust”, the agency said Sanger, a reliable dogmatist, does not have any position on the list of good guys respected among the prove.
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Officials at the National Portrait Gallery say they won’t remove the bust, which has been on display since 2010. Black pastors say the bust is an affront to the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as to the African American community. Days after widespread protests against the group, E.W. Jackson, a conservative Christian minister and Virginia lawyer, led the rally in Washington urging the removal of the Sanger bust. He says the Smithsonian’s placement of the bust alongside Martin Luther King Junior and Rosa Parks is a slap in the face. Hence why she was such a promoter of birth control and forced sterilization. Sanger’s disdain for blacks, minority groups, and the diseased and disabled birthed America’s largest abortion chain, which profits off the killing of the weakest and most vulnerable. Pro-life advocates who attended the event included Star Parker, Bishop Harry Jackson, Lila Rose, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Brent Bozell, and Ryan Bomberger. Many anti-abortion groups claim that Sanger wanted to eliminate the black race altogether, and argue that Planned Parenthood continues to work toward this goal by opening abortion clinics in primarily black neighborhoods.
Jackson said he has collected 14,000 signatures demanding Sanger’s removal.
Live Action President Lila RoseLive Action President Lila Rose with Star Parker, founder of CURE.
National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet “respectfully” declined their request.
The “Struggle for Justice” is supposed to honor trailblazers who were “champions of justice”.
It’s certainly true that Sanger had ties to eugenicists – as well as some strong beliefs about the nature of reproduction that are disturbing in today’s context. Sanger was a welcome speaker before KKK audiences. She adds that the Washington, D.C., gallery is dedicated to history, which she says isn’t always pretty.
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The letter also notes that the founder of Planned Parenthood has become an even more polarizing figure since the release of a series of undercover videos that have revealed the organization’s apparent practice of selling body parts from aborted babies. The website acknowledges her “association with the eugenics movement” but asserts that eugenics was a philosophy “that for a time was endorsed by numerous era’s prominent thinkers”.
