Planned Parenthood has hit back at rapper Kanye West’s allegations that the organisation was doing the “devil’s work” alongside white supremacists, pointing out that the billionaire music mogul was “offensive and infantilizing”.
During an interview with Forbes Magazine the eccentric presidential aspirant highlighted some of his policy pillars one of which was his opposition to abortion. West said the organization is ‘placed in cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.’
In a strongly worded response, Nia Martin-Robinson, who is Director of Black Leadership and Engagement at Planned Parenthood said that some of the inferences made by the rapper were worrying.
“Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have access to the best medical care available. Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing,” Nia’s statement read.
Kanye’s stance seemed to be at odds with wife Kim Kardashian who has in the past voiced her support for Planned Parenthood. In an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians which aired in 2017, Kim voiced her admiration of the organisation.
“The perception of Planned Parenthood is that it is an abortion clinic; that is nothing what it is like,’ enthused Kim in the episode, praising the group, while her sister Khloe stated that she was pro-choice.
She also added: “Hearing that first hand [women’s stories] really made it real for me”
In an interview on Wednesday however, Kanye seemed to directly contradict his wife’s views, bizarrely claiming that Planned Parenthood was doing the devil’s work at the instigation of white supremacists. Far right groups are notoriously anti-abortion.
“I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the bible,” he said.
Also Kim is yet to speak on her husband’s comments. The rapper, who said he might have contracted Covid-19 earlier in the year, said he was also staunchly against vaccines.
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed…So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious.
“That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven.
“I’m sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it. Next question,” he said.
