http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/30/356754/cain-planned-parenthood-genocide-black-babies/
Cain Smears Planned Parenthood: Accuses Group of ‘Genocide,’ Says Its
Goal Is To ‘Kill Black Babies’
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/30/356754/cain-planned-parenthood-genocide-black-babies/>
By Judd Legum <http://thinkprogress.org/author/judd/> on Oct 30, 2011 at
3:37 pm
Today on Face The Nation, GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain claimed
that Planned Parenthood wants to “kill black babies
<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-20127628/face-the-nation-transcript-october-30-2011/?pageNum=4&tag=contentMain;contentBody>”
and is part of an organized effort to commit “genocide” against the
black community:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Okay. I want to ask you, since we’re on the subject
of abortion, it was at one point back there when the question of
Planned Parenthood came up and you said that it was not Planned
Parenthood, it was really planned genocide. *Because you said
Planned Parenthood was trying to put all these centers into the
Black communities because they wanted to kill Black babies–*
**
*CAIN (overlapping): Yes.*
SCHIEFFER: –before they were born. *You still stand by that?*
**
*CAIN: I still stand by that.*
SCHIEFFER: Do you have any proof that that was the objective of
Planned Parenthood?
CAIN: *If people go back and look at the history and look at
Margaret Sanger’s own words, that’s exactly where that came from.
Look– look up the history. So if you go back and look up the
history– secondly, look at where most of them were built.
Seventy-five percent of those facilities were built in the Black
community.*
Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/30/356754/cain-planned-parenthood-genocide-black-babies/
Both of Cain’s proof points are demonstrably false.
Cain’s statement about the location of Planned Parenthood clinics is
wildly inaccuate. According to a study by the Guttmacher Institute from
January, “Fewer than one in 10 abortion clinics are located in
predominantly African-American neighborhoods
<http://www.guttmacher.org/media/evidencecheck/2011/01/19/Guttmacher-Advisory.pdf>,
or those in which the majority of residents are black.”
Politifact previously evaluated the Cain’s claim that Planned Parenthood
was created to “kill black babies” and deemed it “a ridiculous, cynical
play of the race card
<http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/apr/08/herman-cain/cain-claims-planned-parenthood-founded-planned-gen/>.”
In 2004 and 2006 Cain led a radical group that produced radio
advertisements accusing Democrats of wanting to kill “black babies.”
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/24/168633/herman-cain-led-radical-group-that-accused-democrats-of-wanting-to-kill-black-babies/>
Cain himself provided the voiceovers for some of the ads.
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