Herman Cain, one of the frontrunners in the Republican presidential primary, charged Planned Parenthood with offering only insincere adivce to girls considering abortion, in addition to reiterating his sometimes unclear pro-life position.
After declaring that he is pro-life, without any exceptions for cases of rape and incest, Cain defended his claim that “planned genocide” would be a more accurate name for Planned Parenthood.
“If people go back and look at the history and look at [Planned Parenthood founder] Margaret Sanger’s own words, that’s exactly where that came from,” Cain said during an interview with CBS’s Bob Schieffer, adding that “she didn’t use the word genocide but she did talk about preventing the increasing number of poor Blacks in this country by preventing Black babies from being born.”
Wwhen Schieffer asked if he sees “any advantage” to Planned Parenthood counselling “with so many Black babies born out of wedlock,” Cain dismissed the idea. He said the group “would rather for the young lady to come in and say they want to get an abortion and facilitate that.” More than that, Cain said that “Planned Parenthood isn’t sincere about wanting to go try to counsel them not to have abortions.”
Planned Parenthood denounced Cain for using “inflammatory and divisive language based on race to push an ideological agenda.”
You can see the video of Cain talking about Planned Parenthood here.
