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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has announced new faith leaders for its clergy advocacy board, including the president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
“Access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care — including abortion — is supported by people of all faiths,” said PPFA president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. “The Clergy Advocacy Board is a crucial part of our mission at Planned Parenthood to promote, protect and expand access to health care for all … Planned Parenthood is proud to have religious leaders of all faiths standing with us in this fight.”
When Planned Parenthood’s eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger instituted her infamous “Negro Project,” she insisted that Black ministers and doctors must be recruited to convince people from the Black community to buy into the “family planning” cause. As Live Action News previously noted, “In 1939, Sanger penned a letter to Clarence Gamble regarding her desire to use Black ministers in furthering her organization’s agenda, because, she said, ‘We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,’ and if it did, these ministers could ‘straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.’ So the idea of using religious leaders in an effort to prop up Planned Parenthood’s population control ideals has been in existence practically since its founding.
READ: Clergy to ‘ask for God’s blessing’ on Planned Parenthood abortion facility
The clergy board at PPFA has existed for decades, according to Religion News Service. However, PPFA is celebrating new additions to the board who are from states that lean pro-life. The list includes the Rev. Emily Harden of West Virginia, Rabbi Sarah Smiley of Kansas, the Rev. Katey Zeh of North Carolina, the Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters of North Carolina, the Rev. Elise Saulsberry of Tennessee, the Rev. Latishia James-Portis of Georgia, the Rev. Stephen Griffith of Nebraska, the Rev. Elle Dowd of Illinois, and the Rev. Tim Kutzmark of California.
“As a clergyperson who discovered my call to ministry within a Planned Parenthood, it was a no-brainer,” Zeh told Religion News Service. She said she felt moved to pro-abortion work while volunteering as an abortion doula at a Planned Parenthood while in seminary. “There are so few of us who are people of faith who are willing to be bold and audacious about supporting reproductive freedom because of our faith.”
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Planned Parenthood announces new clergy advocacy board members
“Access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care — including abortion — is supported by people of all faiths,” said PPFA president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. “The Clergy Advocacy Board is a crucial part of our mission at Planned Parenthood to promote, protect and expand access to health care for all … Planned Parenthood is proud to have religious leaders of all faiths standing with us in this fight.”
When Planned Parenthood’s eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger instituted her infamous “Negro Project,” she insisted that Black ministers and doctors must be recruited to convince people from the Black community to buy into the “family planning” cause. As Live Action News previously noted, “In 1939, Sanger penned a letter to Clarence Gamble regarding her desire to use Black ministers in furthering her organization’s agenda, because, she said, ‘We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,’ and if it did, these ministers could ‘straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.’ So the idea of using religious leaders in an effort to prop up Planned Parenthood’s population control ideals has been in existence practically since its founding.
READ: Clergy to ‘ask for God’s blessing’ on Planned Parenthood abortion facility
The clergy board at PPFA has existed for decades, according to Religion News Service. However, PPFA is celebrating new additions to the board who are from states that lean pro-life. The list includes the Rev. Emily Harden of West Virginia, Rabbi Sarah Smiley of Kansas, the Rev. Katey Zeh of North Carolina, the Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters of North Carolina, the Rev. Elise Saulsberry of Tennessee, the Rev. Latishia James-Portis of Georgia, the Rev. Stephen Griffith of Nebraska, the Rev. Elle Dowd of Illinois, and the Rev. Tim Kutzmark of California.
“As a clergyperson who discovered my call to ministry within a Planned Parenthood, it was a no-brainer,” Zeh told Religion News Service. She said she felt moved to pro-abortion work while volunteering as an abortion doula at a Planned Parenthood while in seminary. “There are so few of us who are people of faith who are willing to be bold and audacious about supporting reproductive freedom because of our faith.”
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Planned Parenthood announces new clergy advocacy board members
