That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I need to get to work, so here are some highlights:

1) The Negro Project was a short-lived initiative by the Birth Control Federation of America to start black-run clinics to give black families access to birth control. Why? To quote a letter from Sanger from 1946:

"The Negro race has reached a place in its history when every possible effort should be made to have every Negro child count as a valuable contribution to the future of America. Negro parents, like all parents, must create the next generation from strength, not from weakness; from health, not from despair."

Paternalistic, yes, but this doesn't sound like some plan for black genocide. Also, the Negro Project only existed for three years and barely any of the original plan survived to be put into practice.

2) Norma McCorvey only claimed to have been raped early on in the process of seeking an abortion, mostly because she thought (erroneously) that Texas law at the time allowed an exception for rape victims. By the time she got to suing the state for her right to have an abortion, she stopped using the claim that she was raped. Indeed, judicial opinions on the case don't even mention that she once claimed she had been raped, which implies that, if rape factored into why the SCOTUS, or indeed, the district courts who heard it before them, made their decisions, it evidently wasn't even worth talking about to the justices.