Idaho (U.S.) Planned Parenthood agreed to racist donation

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Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies

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[adrinna]

I guess I'm not really against taking money from overt racists to help WOC in need.

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except that.. you know.. the money is for eugenics?

...ok.. that was knee jerk

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I should add that we, as a movement, should be distancing ourselves from racism, and racists. So taking money from individuals explicitly stating their racism and racist goals does not do this.

also, I cannot imagine a WOC wanting to go to a clinic that is funded by individuals who want them to cease to exist.

Re: ...ok.. that was knee jerk

[adrinna]

I can see that if Planned Parenthood was somehow trying to convince WOC to have abortions instead of considering all of their options. However, if a WOC needed/wanted an abortion and couldn't afford it, I see it as kind of an ironic victory that this woman would get to use money from some overtly racist person in order to help her.

I agree with you about distancing feminism from racism, but if overt racists are stupid enough to think that PP is in the business of eugenics, then I'm glad they're giving their money to PP instead of using it for other kinds of evil.

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That is my concern as well. At the clinic I do defense at there were folks who were making the argument of how racist PP is...and I agreed that the beginning of it was, but asked what part of the U.S. wasn't (not to excuse it, but as a launching point) and how we need to honestly discuss openly how racist things are now to make change..... and that is when the protester huffed and walked away.
But apart from the perception of PP, I worry honestly about the WOC... here is yet another resource that they validly won't feel comfortable going to.

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I would challenge the "here is yet another resource that they validly won't feel comfortable going to" because I don't think the majority of women of color (although I will not deign to speak for all of us, a monolith we are not) are going to have a jump in feeling uncomfortable over this because we never felt comfortable in the first place - we know PP's history of eugenics, we know the racist assumptions that exist in the heads of the majority white, majority class privileged folks who work at clinics.
Thank you for stating this. Obviously as a white woman my experiences with PP (when uninsured relying on them for BC and tests, and later doing clinic defense) has been very different from other people, esp. women of color.