Presidential candidate Ben Carson calls out Planned Parenthood for targeting black communities

GOP Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson recently announced his opinions on abortion and Planned Parenthood. He claims the organization particularly targets black communities.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, criticized the founder of Planned Parenthood,  Margaret Sanger, saying that Sanger was "a great believer in eugenics, and believed that certain people were like weeds that needed to be controlled."

"Margaret Sanger believed that certain people, including blacks, were inferior and that the way you strengthen society is you get rid of them," Carson further explained.

A group of black pastors demanded for the Smithsonian Institution to remove a bust of Sanger on display as part of a "champions of justice" exhibition on the civil rights movement.

"Perhaps the Gallery is unaware that Ms. Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies, an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as 'the feeble minded;' speaking at a rally of Klu Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers," wrote the Pastors.

Last week, Carson charged Planned Parenthood of specifically setting up facilities in black communities. "One of the reasons you find most of their clinics in black neighborhoods is so that you can find ways to control that population," he said.

"I think people should go back and read about Margaret Sanger who founded this place - a woman who, by the way, Hillary Clinton says she admires," Carson continued. "Look up and see what many people in Nazi Germany thought about her - a great person."

ABC News host Martha Raddatz claimed that fewer than 5 percent of Planned Parenthood facilities are within minority dominant areas. In contrast, a study contucted by the Life Issues Institute found that almost 4 out of 5 Planned Parenthood centers are within walking distance of minority communities.

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