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It's intersectional. It's partially white ignorance, most whites didn't see the shit Black women go through; the voices of white women were elevated because of their whiteness so their own concerns came first in the public discourse; Black women were rationally reluctant to raise their own voices in the face of white terrorism; Blackness has been coded as masculine and male by white society to better superexploit their physical labor; increasing the population of Black labor was no longer seen as desirable by white society after the end of slavery, Black women were doubly undesirable for both being Black and giving birth to Black babies; white women believed they could easier acheive their own liberation by focusing only on themselves and excluding Black women.
Angela Davis keeps mentioning "All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave" so I probably should read that at some point.
I don't know about doing it on purpose, but the Tuskegee syphilis experiment comes to mind as one of the ways the result was that. You can also argue that condemning black people to poverty and misery through policing the black body (by segregation, white terrorism, objectification, etc.) is a way to make sure they weren't able to exercise their reproductive rights freely. Really hard to have a fulfilled family life when everything you've ever known regarding your own body is brutalization.
while modern Planned Parenthood has more-or-less moved beyond its racist roots, the organization's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist and aligned herself with racist arguments to further the cause of birth control.
so, yes, white people did try to control, or at least influence, the reproductive decisions of black women.