A coalition of black pastors, activists and leaders has challenged the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to oppose a "slick racist" – Margaret Sanger – and her life's work, the abortion-industry leader Planned Parenthood.

Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union and one of the leaders protesting at this week's NAACP convention in Cincinnati, said, "the biggest struggle for civil rights today is for the civil rights of the unborn child."

Gardner said she is hopeful the protest will show the NAACP how many black Americans have very strong feelings about this issue.

"Hopefully it will provide to members and those upper-level people in the organization that this is extremely important … that Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded," she said.

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The issue isn't hard for her supporters to explain: Nearly half of black babies conceived in America today are aborted, and a black woman is three times more likely to have an abortion than her white counterpart.

"It's very disappointing that the NAACP has not taken a leadership role in making this horrible practice a thing of the past," she said.

Planned Parenthood recently was revealed to have expressed a willingness to accept financial donations that would target the destruction of an unborn black, too.

The responses from Planned Parenthood offices were recorded by a California pro-life activist who staged telephone calls from people purportedly wanting the donate money in their stated desire to eliminate blacks.

Their work is documented on YouTube in Part 1:

And Part 2:

One "donor" told Planned Parenthood, "There are definiately too many black people, so I'm just trying to do my part."

"OK, whatever," was the Planned Parenthood response. "For whatever reason, we'll accept some money."

In the same video, a man called Planned Parenthood of Idaho asking if he could donate money specifically to fund an abortion for a black woman. The caller explained that his son was having difficulty getting into college due to affirmative action quotas, and he thought it would be better if there were fewer black people around.

The director of development for Planned Parenthood there, Autumn, replied, "Understandable," and asked for general information because she had never received such a request and was "very excited."

The National Black Pro-Life Union said it has contacted NAACP national headquarters as well as Sen. Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee for president, to let them know this is an issue important to black Americans.

"It's so important to save the lives of these children. And it seems that the NAACP … [may be] no longer relevant," officials said.

In January, WND reported on Gardner's criticism of Obama for not "decrying" the number of black babies Planned Parenthood aborts.

With 164 affiliates and 915 clinics, Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country.

"We are here to rally the NAACP – to make our voices heard as we shout in unison – all across this great nation that the struggle is not yet over! The evil hand of racism is still at work in this country and living in the bowels of Planned Parenthood," Gardner said in remarks prepared for the rally.

"Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a slick racist. She initiated an evil plot to eliminate the Negro population called the Negro Project in 1939," she said. "Planned Parenthood was founded in hate and racism and we know that still today. It has not strayed from its racist roots."

She called PP "a billion dollar baby killing machine that receives the bulk of its blood money from the vicious dismembering and killing of innocent children.

"And one-third of those billion dollars comes from you and me – the taxpayer. The question of the day is: Why are we forced to pay well over 300 MILLION dollars to an organization that is overtly racist and drenched in the blood of black folks."

WND reported earlier when Gardner was joined by Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., in a march in Washington urging political candidates not to accept any of the $10 million that Planned Parenthood has pledged to contribute to election campaigns because it targets minorities.

WND also has reported previously on the work of Lila Rose, editor of the Los Angeles-based Advocate, who conducted the undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood. It was her work that unveiled the race-biased comments from several Planned Parenthood officials.

In an Ohio situation, a wire report characterized those recorded interviews as "prank phone calls." The report also quoted a spokeswoman for the "health care provider" saying they were just an "attempt to portray Planned Parenthood as racist."

The Associated Press report said the caller to a Columbus, Ohio, clinic "asks a receptionist if he can make a donation that will be used to underwrite abortions on minorities because there are 'definitely way too many black people in Ohio.'"

The response from Planned Parenthood's employee? "OK, whatever."

Columbus Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Stephanie Tresso later told the AP the conversation took place, but accused the callers of "just another attempt … to discredit the organization."

Rose told AP the conversations simply reflected Planned Parenthood's agreement with racist requests.

 

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Black pastors protest Planned Parenthood 'racism'

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Christina Miller is an intern for WND