Whenever the discussion of Planned Parenthood comes up, inevitably someone trots out the canard that Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, was a eugenicist who set up the whole shebang out race hatred for African-Americans.
Whereas, in fact:
a. Sanger was, indeed, a eugenicist (as were any number of prominent and misguided individuals and scientists in the early 20th Century), but explicitly rejected racial eugenics.
b. Sanger was actually a lot more interested in birth control than abortion (indeed, she saw birth control as, correctly, a way to decrease abortion and infanticide).
And, of course, Sanger died almost half a century ago, so it's not like she's secretly behind the scenes cackling maniacally over her mythical racial superiority master race plan.
Not that I expect repeating all of that will do any good for the True Believers, but at least it will give me something I can refer to by URL next time it comes up.
(More at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf)
Is Abortion an African-American Genocide? The Problem with Conservatives Citing Margaret Sanger
