Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

On this day in 1916, the first birth control clinic in America was opened in Brooklyn, New York.

Margaret Sanger, a nurse who worked among the poor on the Lower East Side, founded the Brownsville Clinic, which was later renamed after her.

Sanger would later found Planned Parenthood, the organization that would lead America into an era of child killing.

An estimated 64.5 million babies have been killed since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand in 1973.

Though the Dobbs decision would overturn Ro, abortion had already, as Ryan Anderson and

Alexandra DeSanctus have effectively argued in their book, poisoned basically every aspect of

our culture.

At the heart of Sanger's views was a deep and incipient racism that continues to express in the work

of the organization that she founded. An avowed advocate of eugenics, Sanger famously launched

what was called the Negro Project to reduce or eliminate the black population by encouraging

sterilization and birth control. Though the context of her exact words are debated,

Sanger once described the project this way, quote,

We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,

and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

End quote. Whatever her intent with that language, her legacy is straightforward.

While African Americans make up about 14% of the U.S. population,

as of 2021, 28% of all abortions are from black women, compared to just 6.4% of white women. Black moms are somewhere

between three and five times more likely to have an abortion than white moms. In New York

City, thousands more black babies are aborted than are born each and every year. In his book,

How to Be an Anti-Racist, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 45

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