"The black-power movement had a far-reaching program, including demands for prison reform, economic self-sufficiency, and rights to employment and housing. Between 1969 and 1973, in criticizing white racism, a number of movement members also began to attack legal abortion. Attacks on birth control and abortion tended to feature in much larger narratives about efforts on the part of the United States to "herd [black people] into small, overcrowded areas called ghettos" or to "cut back on welfare."' In 1969, Brown made the argument that birth control was "genocide." Dick Gregory, a leading black comedian, expressed concern about the issue in a much-debated article in Ebony Magazine. The Black Panther, the official publication of the BPP, criticized the legalization of abortion in New York in 1970, and equally scathing essays continued to appear throughout the early 1970s. Jesse Jackson of Operation Breadbasket also took a strong stand against legal abortion."