Packers Foundation Grant Has Unintended Racial Implications
By Anna DeMeuse, Pro-Life Wisconsin Communication Director
In response to Pro-Life Wisconsin’s condemnation of the recent news that the Green Bay Packers Foundation awarded grant funds to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Aaron Popkey, Director of Public Affairs for the Packers, stated:
"The grant you reference is for Planned Parenthood of Milwaukee’s Cuidándonos Creceremos más Sanos (CCmáS) program, which means ‘growing healthier together.’ It is dedicated to reaching Latino families in southeastern Wisconsin, an underserved population, with language and culturally specific health education they would not normally receive. The Packers and the foundation certainly understand there are individuals who disagree with some aspect of one or more of the 2,800 organizations that have been supported since 1986. The organization respects those views. Grant applications are considered specific to their initiatives and do not necessarily imply endorsement of other actions by the organizations."
Unfortunately this initiative (CCmáS) is not only tied to the state’s largest abortion provider, but furthermore continues to perpetuate the systemic racism that Planned Parenthood has promoted for over a century—something the Green Bay Packers Foundation has seemingly overlooked. “The Green Bay Packers Foundation's defense of their egregious donation to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin shows just how out of touch they are with the reality of what Planned Parenthood stands for,” says Anna DeMeuse, Pro-Life Wisconsin Communications Director.
About 370,000 Hispanics currently reside in Wisconsin—comprising approximately 6% of the state’s population. Since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, the annualized number of Hispanics aborted in Wisconsin is an estimated 32,188. That number is 8.6% of current Hispanic persons missing because of abortion.*
*Estimated based on Wisconsin Department of Health Services Induced Abortion Report 1998-2017. Demographic data on induced abortions in Wisconsin is unavailable from 1973 - 1997.
According to the Department of Health Services Demographics Summary of Wisconsin’s Hispanic Population, “The majority (60%) of hispanics live in the southeastern region of Wisconsin, [and] more than 36% of Wisconsin hispanics live in Milwaukee County.” Yet, Hispanic birth rates have seen a steady decline in the past few decades. Why? Because organizations such as Planned Parenthood continue to target minority groups and push birth control and abortion.
TELL THE GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION THAT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROFIT OFF THE KILLING OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE SHOULD NEVER RECEIVE A CENT.
Planned Parenthood was founded upon the racist ideals of Margaret Sanger in 1916.
For Planned Parenthood’s founder, the issues of birth control and eugenics were inseparable, and she promoted them both wholeheartedly in her writings. Sanger strongly advocated for negative eugenics, which discouraged “unfit” people from reproducing in an attempt to “improve” the human population.
In 1920, Sanger wrote that birth control is “nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.” In 1925 she went on to speak of the “unfit” as “meaningless, aimless lives which cram this world of ours, hordes of people who are born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions. All that they have said has been said before; all that they have done has been done better before. Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.”
Today Planned Parenthood continues to cultivate this same racist mentality by targeting minority groups and even explicitly accepting donations for the abortions of babies of certain races. Planned Parenthood has tried to paint its public image as an organization that aids underserved populations, when in reality it works diligently to target minority groups, continue the sexualization of generations, and increase the demand for abortion.
The CCmáS initiative funded by the Green Bay Packers Foundation is not serving the Latino population of southeastern Wisconsin. If Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin truly wants to help, it can refrain from killing 8.6% of the Hispanic population as it has done for nearly five decades.
We at Pro-Life Wisconsin strongly urge the Green Bay Packers Foundation to take a closer look at what they are really supporting before they consider funding a racist organization that destroys innocent human life at a rate of 4,639 babies each year in Wisconsin.
PETITION
Pro-Life Wisconsin asks that pro-lifers across Wisconsin call out the Green Bay Packers Foundation (GBPF) for their egregious support of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Sign your name to the petition below, and tell GBPF that organizations that profit off of the killing of innocent human life should never receive a cent.