Herman Cain is a fan of brevity. The businessman-turned-candidate has a penchant for answering complex questions with simple answers, adding a touch of finality to let us all know he’s said all there is to say on the matter. “I’m 100% pro-life. End of story.” “The Cain Train takes the high road. End of history.” Research by the nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute disputes Cain’s assertion that the majority of Planned Parenthood clinics were in black neighborhoods. A Guttmacher study found that 63 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are in majority white neighborhoods, while just 9 percent are in majority black neighborhoods. It is true that black women have abortions at much higher rates than white women, but Cain looks to this statistic as suggesting that Planned Parenthood is aggressively attempting to prevent blacks from reproducing, instead of looking at the larger problem. Inner-city black women often do not have access to affordable contraception, and Planned Parenthood is often the only option these women have for family planning. Only 3 percent of Planned Parenhood’s services are abortion; the vast majority of services include counseling, sex education, contraception and STI testing. Margaret Sanger was a supporter of reproductive rights for women, and opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in 1921. She was a supporter of negative eugenics, which discouraged people considered undesirable from reproducing. But eugenics and genocide are not synonymous — though negative eugenics was a rationale for the Holocaust, Sanger spoke out against euthanasia of those deemed undesirable to reproduce. And though Cain correctly pointed out that “Sanger founded one of the precursors to Planned Parenthood,” he failed to note that the clinic that Sanger opened was in a predominantly white neighborhood in Brooklyn. Though Margaret Sanger played a large role in the creation of Planned Parenthood, it is not fair to blanketly equate her politics to that of the organization in 2011. Cain grossly distorts the mission of the reproductive rights movement in the United States — to provide contraception so women can plan for their health and control when they have or don’t have children. PolitiFact, a website that researches politician’s statements to determine their validity, gave Cain’s remarks about Sanger and Planned Parenthood it’s lowest rating – “Pants on