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Planned Parenthood Rejects Cain Claim Abortion Clinics Are Aimed at Black 'Genocide'

Planned Parenthood is fighting back against a claim by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain that abortion clinics are put in African American communities as part of a "planned genocide" to kill black babies before they are born. Cain stood by his statement when questioned about it on Sunday, saying he would direct people to the words of Margaret Sanger , the late founder of Planned Parenthood and a supporter of eugenics. "Seventy-five percent of those facilities were built in the black community. In Margaret Sanger's own words, 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," Cain told CBS' "Face the Nation.""It is simply unacceptable for those who oppose legal abortion to use inflammatory and divisive language based on race to push an ideological agenda," Veronica Byrd, director of African American media for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund said in a statem...

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