Kanye West Says Planned Parenthood Was Arranged By ‘White Supremacists To Do The Devil’s Work’

Kanye West Says Planned Parenthood Was Arranged By ‘White Supremacists To Do The Devil’s Work’

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Kanye West, who announced his intention to run for president on Saturday, said in a Forbes interview Wednesday that he believes "Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil's work“ ⁠“” adding to a long-standing claim anti-abortion activists have made that the women's health organization perpetuates racist ideals because its founder Margaret Sanger was a proponent of eugenics.









Kanye West meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in 2018.



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Planned Parenthood has long refuted the claims that it was founded on racist ideals and alluded to the allegation in a recent statement announcing its new CEO and president Alexis McGill Johnson, saying that it "has publicly committed to reckoning with its history, investing in work aimed at engaging communities of color, and improving Planned Parenthood's health care delivery.“ 







Much of the controversy stems from a 1939 letter Sanger wrote about her effort to open clinics in the rural south, which she called "The Negro Project.“







Sanger recruited Black leaders to support the project and, in the letter, she said