March 20, 2025
Pro-Life Americans rejoiced to hear news almost too good to be true: more Planned Parenthoods are closing, including the infamous Bleecker Street location in Manhattan, New York, once known as “Margaret Sanger Square.”
The racist and known eugenics supporting Margaret Sanger’s name had long been connected with this location, until even Planned Parenthood employees disavowed their founder.
The Manhattan Planned Parenthood, once home to late-term abortions and hostile protests, is reportedly selling its property for $39 million amid financial concerns. Local sidewalk counselors with Love Life had already noticed a pattern of intermittent closings in the new year, and from the looks of the Manhattan facility’s online reviews, they weren’t too concerned about communicating it to customers.
The news of this closing is now being celebrated across the country as it is yet another telltale sign of Planned Parenthood’s greedy abortion business: customers last, profits first.
Planned Parenthood already had a dark history of eugenics through its founder, Margaret Sanger, and not much has changed since. Currently, Planned Parenthood is battling several lawsuits, including discrimination against employees of color, botched abortions, and poor working conditions – many based in New York.
In 2020, Students for Life of America (SFLA) Kristan Hawkins wrote at USA Today: “How a woman who advocated for the selective breeding of her fellow citizens came to be memorialized with those who built a country is hard to understand.”
In fact, New York City was home to the very first Planned Parenthood building, the “Margaret Sanger Clinic,” which moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It was only recently, in 2020, that Planned Parenthood admitted its founder based her work on racist beliefs, thus changing their facility’s name from the Margaret Sanger Clinic to Manhattan Health Center.
However, the name change was merely slapping lipstick on a pig.
The lack of patient care, employee mistreatment, and financial recklessness would catch up with them, and here we are at a time when even those who consider themselves pro-choice are seeing through Planned Parenthood’s ruse. In an Instagram statement, NYC for Abortion Rights admitted, “[Planned Parenthood] has repeatedly made choices that prioritize institutional interests over the urgent needs of patients.” Furthermore, employee reviews for Planned Parenthood on websites like Glassdoor are riddled with disgruntled employees, one calling it “a corporation in a non-profit trench coat.”
SFLA has a long history of serving alongside strong pro-life community advocates in Manhattan who have been dedicated to the closing of this facility for decades. Several groups, such as Sisters of Life, Franciscans Friars of the Renewal, 40 Days for Life, Students for Life groups, Sidewalk Advocates for Life, Love Life and many more, regularly processed from old St. Patrick’s to the corner of Bleecker Street and Mott Street.
The closing of such an infamous abortion vendor operation is a life-saving event. Now, thankfully, countless more women and children will be saved from this abhorrent abortion business.
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