The History of Planned Parenthood

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916 by
  Margaret Sanger
• The first birth control clinic she opened up was
  in Brooklyn New York

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• She was in trouble with law and was arrested on
  one occasion for distributing birth control
  material in New York City
• She had previously been indicted on charges when
  she had distributed birth control information
  through the mail.

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger actively promoted eugenics and
  pro-eugenic ideas.
• She had her own Periodical called the Birth
  Control Review where she promoted her ideas of
  eugenics

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• In this periodical as well as in others she often
  made remarks about how the human race would be
  better off if certain groups of human beings did
  not reproduce

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• In a 1924 issue of her Periodical The Birth
  Control Review she stated,
• How are we to breed a race of human
  thoroughbreds
• unless we follow the same plan? We must make this
  country into a garden for children
• instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with
• human weeds.3

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• She also made other similar remarks in a book she
  wrote that came out in 1923 called Woman and the
  New Race
• In this book she stated that Birth control
  itself, often denounced as a violation
• of natural law, is nothing more or less than
• the facilitation of the process of weeding out
  the
• unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or
  of
• those who will become defectives (p. 229).

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger also promoted the ideas of
  quarantining and sterilizing those members of the
  human race who might have tainted genes or
  objectionable traits that could be transmitted
  to offspring
• These kinds of thoughts and attitudes were also
  found in Nazi Germany

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• She also gave a talk to Ku Klux Klan members.
• She admitted to this in her autobiography in 1938
• She also admitted that her entire lifes work was
  to promote Birth Control

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Quotes from Margaret Sanger
• On blacks, immigrants and indigents"...human
  weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human
  beings who never should have been born."
   Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization,
  referring to immigrants and poor people

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• On sterilization racial purificationSanger
  believed that, for the purpose of racial
  "purification," couples should be rewarded who
  chose sterilization. Birth Control in America,
  The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy,
  p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech
• On the right of married couples to bear
  childrenCouples should be required to submit
  applications to have a child, she wrote in her
  "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April
  1932
• On the extermination of blacks"We do not want
  word to go out that we want to exterminate the
  Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs
  to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's
  Body, Woman's Right A Social History of Birth
  Control in America, by Linda Gordon

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• On respecting the rights of the mentally illIn
  her "Plan for Peace," Sanger outlined her
  strategy for eradication of those she deemed
  "feebleminded." Among the steps included in her
  evil scheme were immigration restrictions
  compulsory sterilization segregation to a
  lifetime of farm work etc. Birth Control Review,
  April 1932, p. 107
• On adulteryA woman's physical satisfaction was
  more important than any marriage vow, Sanger
  believed. Birth Control in America, p. 11
• On marital sex"The marriage bed is the most
  degenerating influence in the social order,"
  Sanger said. (p. 23)

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Sanger espoused the thinking of eugenicists --
  similar to Darwin's "survival of the fittest" --
  but related the concept to human society, saying
  the genetic makeup of the poor, and minorities,
  for example, was inferior. Pivot of Civilization,
  by Margaret Sanger, 1922, p. 80
• On mandatory sterilization of the poorOne of
  Sanger's greatest influences, sexologist/eugenicis
  t Dr. Havelock Ellis (with whom she had an
  affair, leading to her divorce from her first
  husband), urged mandatory sterilization of the
  poor as a prerequisite to receiving any public
  aid. The Problem of Race Regeneration, by
  Havelock Ellis, p. 65, in Margaret Sanger Father
  of Modern Society, p. 18. Ellis believed that any
  sex was acceptable, as long as it hurt no one.
  The Sage of Sex, A Life of Havelock Ellis, by
  Arthur Calder-Marshall, p. 88

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• On eradicating 'bad stocks'The goal of
  eugenicists is "to prevent the multiplication of
  bad stocks," wrote Dr. Ernst Rudin in the April
  1933 Birth Control Review (of which Sanger was
  editor). Another article exhorted Americans to
  "restrict the propagation of those physically,
  mentally and socially inadequate."

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Who 'Inspired' the architects of the German
  Sterilization law?
• "The leaders in the German sterilization movement
  state repeatedly that their legislation was
  formulated after careful study of the California
  experiment as reported by Mr. Gosney and Dr.
  Paul Popenoe. It would have been impossible,
  they say, to understake such a venture involving
  some 1 million people without drawing heavily
  upon previous experience elsewhere." (2) Who is
  Dr. Paul Popenoe? He was a leader in the U.S.
  eugenics movement and wrote (1933) the article
  'Eugenic Sterilization' in the journal (BCR) that
  Margaret Sanger started. How many Americans did
  Dr. Popenoe estimate should be subjected to
  sterilization? Between five million and ten
  million Americans. "The situation in the U.S.A
  will grow worse instead of better if steps are
  not taken to control the reproduction of mentally
  handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one
  such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and
  certain in its results." (3)

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Who is Ernst Rudin?
• Ernst Rudin was director of the foremost German
  eugenics research institute (Kaiser Wilhelm
  Institute for Genealogy, in Munich, Germany). "On
  June 2, 1933, German Reich Interior Minister
  Wilhelm Frick announced the formation of an
  Expert Committee on Questions of Population and
  Racial Policy .... to plan the course of Nazi
  racial policy. The committee brought together the
  elite of Nazi racial theory Alfred Ploetz, .....
  Ernst Rudin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm
  Institute for Genealogy in Munich...." (4) On
  July 14, 1933 this committee's recommendations
  were made law, the sterilization law ("Law for
  the Prevention of Genetically Diseased
  Offspring") the start date for exercising the
  law was 1 Jan 1934. What was Ernst Rudin's
  opinion of Adolf Hitler and eugenics ('racial
  hygiene')?

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The History of Planned Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger appointed Lothrop Stoddard as a
  board member of the Birth Control League (the
  forerunner of Planned Parenthood). What did
  Stoddard think about Nazi eugenics? Author Stefan
  Kuhl writes (5)
• When the Nazis came to power, argued Stoddard,
  they started to increase "both the size and the
  quality of the population." They coupled
  initiatives designed to encourage "sound"
  citizens to reproduce with a "drastic curb of the
  defective elements." (7) Stoddard personally
  witnessed how the Nazis were "weeding out the
  worst strains in the Germanic stock in a
  scientific and truly humanitarian way.
• Stoddard also personally met with Hitler

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Planned Parenthood Today

• Planned Parenthood is currently the largest
  provider of abortions in the World.
• "We are not going to be an organization
  promoting celibacy or chastity." Faye Wattleton,
  President,  Planned Parenthood Federation of
  America, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1986 "If
  your parents are stupid enough to deny you access
  to birth control, and you are under 18, you can
  get it on your own. Call Planned Parenthood." 
  Planned Parenthood advertisement, Dallas
  Observer, Jan. 30, 1986 

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Planned Parenthood Today

• "At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth
  control without the consent or knowledge of your
  parents. So, if you are 14, 15 or 16 and you come
  to Planned Parenthood, we won't tell your parents
  you've been there. We swear we won't tell your
  parents." Planned Parenthood employee lecturing
  students of Ramona High School, Riverside,
  Calif., April 21-22, 1986

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Planned Parenthood Today

• Planned Parenthood on PregnancyPP has an
  unhealthy concept of pregnancy, as it views the
  state of gestation as an abnormal condition or
  disease. Speaking for the organization, Dr.
  Warren Hern refers to human pregnancy as "an
  episodic, moderately extended chronic condition
  ... May be defined as an illness ... Treated by
  evacuation of the uterine contents..."("Is
  Pregnancy Really Normal?" Family Planning
  Perspective, Planned Parenthood, vol. 3, No. 1,
  Jan. 1971, pg. 9) 

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• Planned Parenthood's on Homosexuality Marital
  RightsPP has encouraged homosexuality and
  advocated compulsory sterilization of all who
  have two children. (Family Planning Perspectives
  (a PP publication), June, Oct. 1970) 
• Planned Parenthood on AdoptionOf 6,000 clinic
  visit records examined from a Texas PP clinic,
  only 3 referred for adoption. (Aborting Planned
  Parenthood, by Robert H. Ruff, New Vision Press,
  1988) 

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• The Company that today manufactures RU-486, the
  abortion pill, is Roussel-Uclaf, which is a
  subsidiary of Hoechst, and Hoechst is a spinoff
  of I.G. Farben, the company that manufactured
  Zyklon-B, the gas which was used to murder the
  Jews in Auschwitz. Some might call this fact
  ironic. I would call it eerie. Peter Kreeft
  Three Approaches to Abortion

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• Youtube video Planned Parenthood Exposed
• Suggested Reading Grand Illusions by George
  Grant

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Sources

• http//www.spectacle.org/997/richmond.html
• http//www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm
• http//www.all.org/db_file/1026.pdf
• http//www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/TVCSpec
  ialRptPlannedParenthood.pdf
• http//www.tennesseerighttolife.org/human_life_iss
  ues/human_life_issues_planned_parenthood.htm
• http//www.plannedparenthood.org/montana/the-truth
  -works.htm
• http//www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
• Three Approaches to Abortion by Peter Kreeft.