<p>Following last week&rsquo;s protests in Charlottesville, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) is claiming a link between white nationalists and pro-life groups. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;THREAD: White supremacists at #Charlottesville have close ties not just to Trump, but GOP &; anti-choice groups,&rdquo; the organization tweeted on Wednesday. Earlier that day, the NARAL argued that white supremacists and anti-choice groups &ldquo;both want to control women&rsquo;s bodies.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The organization points to white nationalist Matthew Heimbach, founder of the &ldquo;Traditionalist Worker Party.&rdquo; Heimbach, who attended the Charlottesville rally, has encouraged people to participate in the March for Life event. ;</p>
<p>The NARAL argues that white supremacists promote &ldquo;anti-choice&rdquo; policies because these policies &ldquo;disproportionately harm women of color.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>In truth, the pro-life movement discourages black women from getting abortions because it is morally opposed to abortion and concerned about the high rates of abortion in black communities. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The foundation of the #prolife movement is respect 4 the inherent dignity of every person regardless of race, creed, disability, politics, etc.,&rdquo; tweeted March for Life president Jeanne Mancini on Wednesday. ;</p>
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<p>The claim that pro-lifers are linked to white supremacists is ironic because the founder of Planned Parenthood could easily be called a white supremacist. ;</p>
<p>Margaret Sanger strongly believed that every woman is entitled to sexual pleasure, and that every woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. For these and other reasons, she opened a birth control clinic in 1916. ;</p>
<p>Sanger was also ;an enthusiastic racial-eugenicist with an overarching vision for what she called &ldquo;race improvement.&rdquo; She ;lamented America&rsquo;s &ldquo;race of degenerates&rdquo; and insisted the nation must be purged of its &ldquo;human weeds&rdquo; and the &ldquo;dead weight of human waste.&rdquo;</p>
<p>With the goal of refining the &ldquo;gene pool,&#8221; Sanger established the American Birth Control League in 1921; in 1942, the organization&rsquo;s name was changed to Planned Parenthood. ;</p>
<p>In 1926, Margaret Sanger delivered a speech to the women&#8217;s branch of the KKK. She later wrote about the speech in her 1938 biography:</p>
<p>&ldquo;Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women&rsquo;s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey,&rdquo; she wrote (can you imagine if these words were said by a Republican today??). ;</p>
<p>The following year, working on what she termed &#8220;The Negro Project,&#8221; Sanger wrote ;the following in a letter to colleague Dr. Clarence Gamble: &ldquo;We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>One of Sanger&#8217;s favorite slogans was: &ldquo;Birth Control: To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>To this day, Planned Parenthood kills a far higher percentage of unborn African-American babies than it does white babies. ;</p>
<p><strong>Additional Note: ;</strong>I looked into the Planned Parenthood website to see whether or not the bio on Margaret Sanger references her speech to the KKK. It ;references the speech with this note: &ldquo;In the 1920&rsquo;s, the KKK was a mainstream movement and was considered a legitimate anti-immigration organization with a wide membership that included many state and local officials. At that time, it defined its enemies as Blacks, Catholics, and Jews.&rdquo;</p>