For the first time in over one-hundred years, Planned Parenthood will not have an operating facility on New York City’s Manhattan Island.
The abortion provider has announced plans to sell and close its headquarters located at 26 Bleecker Street in the SoHo neighborhood of the city.
Planned Parenthood of New York City has been operating at the address since 1992. For decades, the city even co-named the street after Margaret Sanger, the racist eugenicist who started the organization in 1916. It took until 2022 for city officials to scrub her name from street signs after the hypocrisy of her record became too much to defend.
“We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” Sanger once said. Speaking to the Ku Klux Klan, Sanger declared, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Some apologists for Sanger have actually suggested awful statements such as those were “a rhetorical tool rather than a personal conviction.”
Planned Parenthood is suggesting the closure of its Manhattan flagship location is economically and strategically driven.
According to Wendy Clark, president of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, “It is a building that requires more and more expensive maintenance, and it’s not designed to support the health care needs of the future.”
The organization is listing the property for $39 million. It plans to “ redirect those resources to health centers in historically underserved communities.”
Translation: The abortion giant is targeting poor and minority populations.
Contrast the destructive and evilness of activity that’s been plotted and executed at 26 Bleecker Street these last decades with what was originally carried at out the property.
Back in 1857, a woman named Elizabeth Blackwell opened the “New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children” there – a facility that would have seemed like only a pipe dream just years earlier.
Elizabeth was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children. Her father was a Quaker and abolitionist. They eventually emigrated to America, Sadly, her father soon died, which forced Elizabeth, along with her mother and two sisters, into teaching.
But the Lord was at work. He always is.
It was while teaching that a dying friend told Elizabeth her ordeal and even fate would have been made much easier had her doctor been a woman. Only there was no such thing back in the 1840s. Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to be the first.
So, that’s what she did. Despite widespread criticism and prejudice, Elizabeth was admitted to Geneva College, now Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She graduated top of her class and became the world’s first Doctor of Medicine.
After opening the Bleecker Street facility, Dr. Blackwell would go on to open a medical college in New York City and eventually return to England where she served as professor of gynecology at the new London School of Medicine for Women.
It’s the tale of two women, two organizations – and one historic Manhattan address.
Two organizations, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and Planned Parenthood – one used to serve and the other guaranteed to cause the suffering and death of countless preborn babies.
Two women, Elizabeth Blackwell and Margaret Sanger – one pioneering to save life and the other scheming to take them.
One address, 26 Bleecker Street, the site of life saving and affirming care back in the late 1800s – and eventually the home for the grim and gruesomeness that is Planned Parenthood.
Let’s continue to pray that Planned Parenthood’s retreat from Manhattan marks the beginning of the end for the organization that has traded in death and deceit for over a century.
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