Planned Parenthood comes under fire from all angles, especially from religious angles.
During a recent broadcast, television personality Pat Robertson said Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, “wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."
PolitiFact Florida heard the claim and rated it PANTS ON FIRE.
Writer Josh Gillin said it goes back to a letter written by Sanger in the 1930s saying her organization could help African Americans in communities like Harlem.
“She had espoused this idea that this was a way to lift blacks out of poverty in those communities,” Gillin said.
Gillin said Robertson misrepresented the quote.
It’s for that reason the claim received a PANTS ON FIRE rating.
SOURCES: Robertson says Planned Parenthood wanted 'Judas goat'
The 700 Club, Pat Robertson interview with Wellington Boone, Nov. 8, 2016 (comments at 20:10 mark).
Emails from Jean Baker, author of "Margaret Sanger: a Life of Passion," Nov. 10, 2016.
National Right to Life, "40 years, Planned Parenthood becomes abortion empire," winter 2013.
National Public Radio, "Fact Check: Was Planned Parenthood started to ‘control’ the black population?" Aug. 14, 2015.
Margaret Sanger, Letter to Dr. C.J. Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939.
Margaret Sanger, "The Pope’s position on birth control," Jan. 27, 1932.
Email from Chris Roslin, spokesman for Christian Broadcast Network, Nov. 10, 2016.
Email from Katherine Lozada, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, Nov. 10, 2016.
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, "Birth control or race control? Sanger and The Negro Project," Fall 2001.
PolitiFact New Hampshire, "Did Margaret Sanger believe African-Americans ‘should be eliminated?’" Oct. 5, 2015.
PolitiFact New Hampshire, "NH Rep. Bill O’Brien says Margaret Sanger was active participant in KKK," March 18, 2015."
PolitiFact Georgia, "Cain claims Planned Parenthood founded for ‘planned genocide,’" April 8, 2011.