A Planned Parenthood staffer excitedly accepted a donation from a caller who wanted his funds earmarked for women aborting black babies. The problem is the caller was an actor and the donation wasn’t real. What is very real was the racist reaction to the donation offer from the PP staffer who took the call.
After asking that the donation go to abort black babies in his son’s name, the caller stated, “…we just think, you know, the less black kids out there the better.” To which the PP staffer laughed and said, “Understandable, understandable… Excuse my hesitation, um, um, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and I wanna make sure I don’t leave anything out.“
Once the the audio and transcripts of the call were made public by The Advocate, a right-to-life student magazine at the University of California-Los Angeles, Planned Parenthood predictably apologized for the bad judgment of its staffer. But there is no indication that the staffer was fired or even disciplined.
Critics have long accused Planned Parenthood of concentrating their efforts in the black community and targeting other minorities.
Read the transcript of the call after the break.
- Autumn Kersey of Planned Parenthood in Boise:
Good afternoon, this is Autumn.
Donor: Hello, Autumn, I’m interested in making a donation today.
Kersey: Fantastic!
Donor: What about abortions for the underprivileged minority groups?
Kersey: Oh, absolutely. We have, um, in fact, uh wonderful, fantastic news. We just received a very generous donation to our women in need fund.
Donor: Wonderful. I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group – would that be possible?
Kersey: Absolutely.
Donor: Like the black community for example?
Kersey: Certainly.
Donor: OK, so the abortionI can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose.
Kersey: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that you wanted your gift to be used to help (an) African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that that gift was earmarked specifically for that purpose.
Donor: Great. Because I really face trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids being disadvantaged, you know, against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name, you know.
Kersey: Mmhmm, absolutely.
Donor: So that’s definitely possible.
Kersey: Oh, always, always.
Donor: So I just wanna – can I put this in the name of my son?
Kersey: Absolutely.
Donor: Yeah, he’s trying to get into colleges, and he’s going to be applying, you know, he’s justwe’re just really bighe’s really faced troubles with affirmative action.
Kersey: Mmhmm.
Donor: And we don’t, you know, we just think, you know, the less black kids out there the better.
Kersey: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable. … Um David, let me, if I may, just get some sort of specific general information so we can set this up the right way. You said you wanted to put it in your son’s name, and you would like this designated specifically to assist (an) African-American woman who’s looking to terminate a pregnancy.
Donor: Exactly, and yeah, I wanna protect my son, so he can get into college.
Kersey: All right. Excuse my hesitation, um, um, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and I wanna make sure I don’t leave anything out.
Transcript released by The Advocate
WOW talk about getting caught red handed..but thats really sad man.
Actually it just sounds like the Autumn was agreeing to just get that money.
Thats terrible for someone to even think that, I don’t believe in it but to each it’s own I have 3 kids of my own & as much as they drive me crazy I don’t regret any of them!! I see that baby in the pic & it just touched my heart to the point I hurt for that baby cause it didn’t ask to be here no child does for that matter, the worst part of this whole situation is the worker from planned parenthood saying “understandable” what is understandable about that??
Uhm, she works for Planned Parenthood, what do you expect?!
From the partial transcript it appears that “Autum” was happy to get a donation .. it was more than likely a LARGE sum and she was excited at the amount … notice she didn’t comment on his baited statements … she just wanted that Coin ….
What???? OH MY , I can’t believe they went along with it like it was alright .
I think people are reaching with this one. I don’t think she did anything wrong.
She didnt even catch that he made a mistake. First he said he had just had a baby THEN he turns around & says the child is applying for college…..I guess she was just happy to get a donation. I dont know if she agreed with him or not but she’s going to have a hard time defending herself with the laughing. I would have froze & looked at the phone……..
I think that she was just going along with it for the donation as well Milly. She does not own Planned Parenthood so she does not have the right to turn down mother regardless of whats behind it.It is a very sad case though,I think she was uncomfortable and not sure how to handle it.I did’nt even know that they gave “complimentary” abortions for the underprivleged. I personally have never been to a abortion clinic so that was a shock to me. However I do not knock a woman’s right to choose,just nort for me.
You can get an abortion scholarship?????
You can get an abortion scholarship?????
Hello!!!! I bet some homegirls don’t know about this yet.They done put some sh** in the game now lmao
sandra, i just don’t see a problem here. planned parenthood supports abortion and they appear to earmark funds. everyone in the gifts and grants business knows you take a donor’s money as fast as they give it, don’t ask questions, and don’t piss them off.
somebody called this girl playing games and she appeared to handle it well. would we have liked somebody to instead curse the caller out and hang up the phone?
To me it doesn’t appear that the caller was egging him on or anything, but it’s hard to tell by reading it, opposed to hearing teh actual tape. But, from what I read it sounds like she handled the request as professionally as possible. She stuck to teh basics. The name of the donator and the specific group that the money should be earmarked for. And, based on her statements it’s not abnormal for people to donate to specific groups. The laughing was probably a nervous reaction. Exactly what did she do to warrant disciplinary action?
yeah that was nothing but a girl trying to get a donation and she was not negative just trying to keep the caller at ease….
I feel what you guys are saying about she did nothing wrong but I still feel the whole situation is screwed up if that was an actor trying to bait her in so to speak but even the way he went about it was stupid, Im sorry that was crazy to me & then to see that baby in the pic just escalated it!!!
wellll, for those of you who don’t know about the founding of planned parenthood, here’s a little history lesson. pp was founded by margret sanger, a proponent of eugenics-that pseudo science that gave rise in the 1930’s master plan of hitler’s. sanger and many like minded intellectuals felt the poor were ill-suited for most aspects of life they themselves enjoyed and aggitated for the sterilization of the poor. but publicly she is remembered as an advocate for birth control for all women regardless of race.
well, some would say the proof is in the pudding…look at our community. Some of us do need to stop having kids that we neither want or can take care of. Why get up in arms because you hear someone (that is presumed white) say it. I see it everyday.
How many of you have adopted a poor black orphan ?
I am going to research this story more before I comment…hopefully listen to some audio.
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the actual call are on youtube for both the ohio and idaho planned parenthood orgs
here’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJVPVh5TWo
I have to agree with andriceb there are plenty of girls out there under the age of 20 with no job no education and 3 kids. Who’s paying for them. We are. Sad enough a lot of these girls are minorities. There are planned parenthoods in white neighborhoods as well.
I also have to agree with andriceb and miamore73. There are way too many young girls having babies they don’t want or are incapable of taking care of. Weather you agree with it or not abortion exsist, and blacks are not the only ones exercising it as an option.