Screenshot, The 1916 Project Trailer
CV NEWS FEED // In a recent documentary about how Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, two Black Christian pastors called the organization racist and noted that abortion disproportionately affects the Black community, according to Live Action News.
Pastor John Amanchukwu and Bishop Patrick L. Wooden, Sr. of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in North Carolina appeared in the documentary, called “The 1916 Project.” Sanger was a racist and advocate for eugenics “who advocated for the controlling of certain populations through abortion, birth control, and sterilization.”
Both Amanchukwu and Wooden have been pro-life advocates for years. They have spoken previously on how Planned Parenthood disproportionately preys on Black women.
“To find the true meaning of a thing you go back to its origin: where it originated, what was the purpose, what was the intent,” Amanchukwu had told a reporter in 2020, continuing:
The purpose and intent of Margaret Sanger was to exterminate the Black race…. so every Planned Parenthood that still exists today, it has its origins — its roots — in the extermination of the Black race. I’m amazed that we’ve even allowed for Planned Parenthood to even remain. To know that in its origin, in its infancy, it was to eviscerate and eliminate — the Black race.
In the documentary, Wooden noted that very few pastors will openly speak about abortion.
“[M]any preachers today are more Democrat than they are Gospel preacher when it comes to things like preaching against abortion, the slaughter of the unborn,” he said. “Nothing is more racist in America than the abortion industry.”
Amanchukwu “echoed these sentiments,” Live Action News reported, adding that he recalled once being outside of an abortion facility and being asked by a Black man why he was “fighting a white man’s issue,”
“Now, I was taken aback when he said that because a majority of people out there praying, trying to save the babies, are white,” Amanchukwu said, according to Live Action News. “But the majority of the moms in the clinic prepared to abort their babies, they’re Black, including this gentleman’s girlfriend. But he could only see a racial issue in that I was over there with the white people, trying to worship and pray and save babies.”
The article said Black Americans made up 11.6% of the U.S. population in 2021. However, they accounted for 41.5% of abortions the same year, which is “the highest percentage of all abortions by ethnicity.”
