WHY
CAN'T WE LOVE THEM BOTH
by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke
CHAPTER 42
Pro-Abortion Organizations And Planned
Parenthood
NARAL
Originally, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion
Laws, this group was a prime mover in getting the first abortion-on-demand law in New York
passed. After legalization, it became the National Abortion
Right Action League, and then the National Abortion &
Reproductive Rights Action League. It has been a major force opposing the Right to Life
movement.
N.O.W.
The National Organization for Women is a national group of radical
anti-life feminists heavily influenced by the militant lesbian faction of its membership.
While claiming to seek economic and employment equality for women, its two major goals are
Reproductive Rights (i.e., abortion rights) and Lesbian Rights. Its claim to represent the
"women" of the U.S. brings a smile when it is compared to the Concerned Women
for America which has four times the members. It is often now called the National
Organization of Some Women.
ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union has been consistently
selective as to whose civil liberties it protects. Totally blind to the existence of the
preborn baby, it has served as the legal defense arm of the pro-abortion, anti-family
movement.
National Education
Association
The National Education Assn. is the largest and most
powerful labor union in the U.S. Tragically, it has embraced a wide range of radical
feminist policies, including being aggressively pro-abortion. By the mid-’90s,
because of abortion, U.S. student enrollment had stalled around 46 million. Without
abortion, it would have been over 60 million, and over one million additional teachers
would be employed. L. Roberge, The Cost of Abortion Four
Winds Publishing, ‘95, pg. 45-49
YWCA
The Young women’s Christian Association was
captured two decades ago by a group of radical anti-life feminists. Its policies today are
aggressively pro-abortion. For example, in 1973, its 26th National Convention voted
"to support efforts to provide safe abortions to all women who desire them." In
1989, it restated its policy of support for "Repeal of all laws, restricting or
prohibiting abortions . . ." There has been no essential change since that time. YWCA Position on Abortion Rights
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights
This is a collection of clergy and ‘religious’ groups who
are pro-abortion.
Catholics for a Free Choice
A tiny militant, anti-Catholic group of former Catholics financed
entirely by non-Catholic and anti-Catholic sources.
People for the American Way
This heavily funded group has carried on an effective pro-abortion
campaign in the national media under the leadership of Norman Lear.
National Abortion Federation
This is the trade association for operators of abortion chambers.
American Association of University Women
In June 1977, AAUW’s Biennial Convention voted as a priority
issue the "Right to Choose."
National Women’s Political Caucus
"From its beginning, it has been pro-abortion.
On the issue of reproductive freedom, including abortion, the Caucus remains single-minded
and strong." D. Broder, Wash. Post, A-23,
Aug. 26, 1987
Republicans for Choice
This is a wholly owned subsidiary of Planned Parenthood.
League of Women Voters
At its 1982 National Convention, on a 753 to 472 vote, it stated
that "the LWV of the U.S. believes that public policy in a pluralistic society must
affirm the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive
choices." (Ninety-two percent of their chapters agreed). It hasn’t changed.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
This is the research arm of Planned Parenthood.
Network
A group of Roman Catholic nuns who have defied their church’s
teachings and adopted a permissive attitude toward abortion.
International Planned Parenthood, Pathfinder Fund, and United
Nations Fund for Population Activity
All three have actively promoted and subsidized abortion in Third
World countries.
SIECUS
The Sex Education & Information Council of the U. S. has worked
closely with Planned Parenthood since 1970. SIECUS produces national sex education
guidelines and materials. Planned Parenthood uses these through its affiliates to target
every school district in the nation with their immoral and destructive programs.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
This is the largest, most powerful, most effective
pro-abortion,anti-life, anti-family, anti-Christian force in the U.S. and internationally.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is one of over 90
national affiliates of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London). It gets
about two-thirds of its U.S. financing through tax money, local, state, and national. It
has five regional offices, about 160 statewide affiliates, over 900 local clinics in the
U.S. Over 70 of its clinics do abortions. Its total annual cash flow is almost one-half
billion dollars ($472 million in 1995). It concentrates its efforts on abortion,
contraception, and sex education.
How many
abortions does Planned Parenthood do?
The number increases each year as it converts more of its clinics to
killing centers. In 1985 it had 51 chambers which killed 110,000. By 1994 it had 70 which
killed 134,000. Every year, it refers to other facilities almost as many abortions as it
does itself.
Was Planned
Parenthood always pro-abortion?
In its early years of existence, Planned Parenthood
limited itself to contraception and specifically opposed abortion. The following is a
quote from an official Planned Parenthood pamphlet :
"Is birth control an abortion?"
"Definitely not. An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is
dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when you want a child
you cannot have it. Birth control merely post-pones the beginning of life." Planned Parenthood, Aug. 1963 1 Available from Cincinnati Right to
Life, P.O. Box 24073, Cinn., OH 45224, $3. pp.
Doesn’t Planned Parenthood concentrate mostly on contraception?
In its earlier years, to a much larger extent,
Planned Parenthood clinics offered contraceptive advice and aid to married women so that
they could more responsibly plan their families. Because of this, it generated widespread
support from many areas of our society. Those days are gone. Today its clientele consists
largely of unmarried teenagers. It dispenses medically hazardous drugs (the pill) and
devices (the I.U.D.), and Norplant without parental knowledge or consent. It is the
largest provider of abortions in America, again, to teenagers without parental knowledge
or consent. It aggressively promotes sex education that, rather than reducing promiscuity,
premarital sex, illegitimate pregnancies, abortion, and venereal disease, has almost
certainly had just the opposite effect. J. Ford &M.
Schwartz," Birth Control for Teenagers: Diagram for Disaster," Linacre
Quarterly, Feb. 1979, pp. 71-811 A. Jurs, "Planned Parenthood Advocates
Permissive Sex," Christianity Today, Sept. 2, 1982
In its five-year plan, it openly stated: Our
mission is to serve as the nation’s foremost agent of social change in the area of
reproductive health and well being [emphasis theirs]. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, A Five Year Plan, 1976-1980,
p. 5
That is hard to believe. I’ve heard that Planned Parenthood is
pro-family, pro-life, and pro-child.
Their paid TV commercials say that, but their own official
documents, their leaders, and their actions say quite the opposite. In 1976, the Planned
Parenthood’s Five Year Plan (see reference above) laid out in detail what their goals
were. We quote:
- Objective #2: "Reaffirming and protecting the legitimacy of
induced abortion as a necessary back-up to contraceptive failure, and extending safe,
dignified services to women who seek them."
- Purpose: "To provide leadership in making . . . abortion and
sterilization available and fully accessible to all."
"The various activities that we undertake are not
‘separate’ and certainly not competing. Rather, they are all complementary parts
of a single national strategy" (page 5).
"Services to be made available at all clinics include . . . abortion
services (or local referral)" (emphasis in original, page 6).
- Program Emphasis #2: "Keeping abortions legal and accessible
to all persons" (page 9).
Is their emphasis still on abortion?
Since the Five Year Plan above, the Planned
Parenthood agenda is even more openly and militantly pro-abortion as outlined in their
newest action agenda. For example, in Goal #3, they state that Planned Parent-hood will
" increase the number of Planned Parenthood affiliates providing early ambulatory
abortion services." Planned Parenthood of America,
Til Victory is Won, 1982, 1984, p. 16
"To increase the availability and accessibility
of high quality and affordable reproductive health care services [abortion]" PPFA Five Year Plan 1986-1990, preamble
"Until we reach the millennium . . . Planned
Parent-hood will continue to provide not only sex education and contraception, but also
abortion." A. Moran, Exec. V.P., Planned
Parenthood of New York City, New York Times, Dec. 27, 1982
[Planned Parenthood] is not just a social or medical
service agency. It is part of a cause, a movement. One of the principles of Planned
Parenthood is that reproductive freedom is indivisible. You either have it or not.
Everybody has it or none has it." Don Weintraub,
V.P. for Int’l Affairs, PPFA, Madison, Mar. 12, 1985
Family Planning Associations should not use the
absence of law or the existence of an unfavorable law as an excuse for inaction. Action
outside the law, and even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change
. . . of fertility regulation services or specific methods." Art. 106, p. 28, Int. P.P. Fed., Nov. 1983 Planned
Parenthood has promoted a pro-abortion "comic book," geared for teenagers,
entitled Abortion Eve. On the back cover is a caricature of the "Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin" depicting a pregnant Mary with the idiot face of Mad magazine’s
Alfred E. Neumann. The caption says, "What, me worry?"
It is the policy of Planned Parenthood to insure
that women have the right to seek and obtain safe legal abortions. Planned Parenthood has
the responsibility to provide access to high-quality abortion services. . . . Federation Policies, PPFA, Jan. 1986
Faye Wattleton, Pres. of P.P., said, "I make it
very clear. If you’re not clear where you stand on the abortion issue, if you’re
worried that birth control for teenagers encourages promiscuity . . . this [P.P] is not
the kind of outfit you’re comfortable with." "The
Faye Wattleton Comeback," P. Span, Wash. Post, Oct. 14, 1987
Planned Parenthood has aggressively defended abortion rights in the
courts in recent years, thus dropping any earlier pretense of neutrality. The most famous
case was Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, a 1990 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.
What does Planned Parenthood think of Right to Life?
They have an opinion.
"In every generation there exists a group of
people so filled with bigotry and self-righteousness that they will resort to any means
— even violence — to impose their views on society. Today, such fanatics
dominate a movement ironically called ‘the Right-to-Life,’ a movement which
threatens the most basic of all human rights." Planned
Parenthood Pamphlet, the Justice Fund, 810 7th Ave., New York, NY, 10019
But
Margaret Sanger, its founder, opposed abortion.
Not so! Not only did she favor abortion, but she proposed forced
sterilization for those whom she considered unfit to reproduce. She worked hard for a
"race of thoroughbreds" until Hitler’s similar "Master Race" made
that goal unpopular. She was a true eugenicist. For example, her April 1933 Birth
Control Review, devoted an entire edition to eugenic sterilization.
Who did she consider unfit?
Black people, Jews, Southern European immigrants
(especially Italians), but also others of "low I.Q." These
"feebleminded" people were a "menace to the race." E. Drogin, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society, CUL
Publishers, 1980, Section 1, p. 18-24
This is hard to believe!
Margaret Sanger, the famous founder of Planned
Parenthood, was supportive. She wanted "more children from the fit, less from the
unfit." Birth Control Review, vol. 3, no.
5, May 1919, p. 2
This wasn’t only related to contraceptive planning. A seditor,
she printed grossly eugenic material, approving of Hitler’s sterilization program
(see Into the Darkness, Nazi Germany Today, by L. Stoddard, p. 196). She believed
that "Negroes and Southern Europeans were mentally inferior to native born
Americans." She found these people, Hebrews, and others "feebleminded,"
"human weeds," and called them a "menace to the race." In 1933, her Birth
Control Review devoted an entire edition to eugenic sterilization. Sanger’s
famous "Plan for Peace" was almost the same as Hitler’s, even going beyond
it to suggest, in essence, concentration camps.
"When the world realized the logical
consequences of Hitler’s hereditarian-eugenic, totalitarian type of government,
Margaret Sanger’s birth-control movement had to take a quick step away from its overt
eugenic language." E. Drogin, Margaret Sanger,
Father of Modern Society, CUL Publications, 1979, p. 28
Tell me more.
Let us quote from her "Plan for Peace." This was little
more than peaceful genocide. She wanted the United States:
- "To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of
certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such
as the feebleminded as determined by Stanford-Binet I.Q. tests.
- "To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and
segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose
inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
- "To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance
for numerous offspring as may be born of feeble-minded parents by pensioning all persons
with transmissible diseases who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
- "To give dysgenic groups in our population their choice of
segregation or sterilization.
- "To apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated
persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for a period of
their entire lives. [Practically speaking, a concentration camp.]
- "[To] take an
inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals,
prostitutes, dope fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical
protection, and segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the
strengthening and development of moral conduct." (Again, concentration camps.) M. Sanger, "Plan for Peace," Birth Control Review, vol.
16, no. 4, April 1932
But I’ve read that she was a social crusader for good.
Hardly. She said, "The most merciful thing a
large family can do for one of its infant members is to kill it." 6 Sanger, Woman and the New Race
She herself was highly promiscuous and had many
lovers. She favored "free love" for women without any sexual limits but without
the burden of children. She saw "the marriage bed [as] the most degenerating
influence in the social order." 7 Kennedy, David
M. Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, London: Yale University
Press, 1970.
But Planned Parenthood wants to reduce teen pregnancies,
doesn’t it?
Let’s be specific. Planned Parenthood wants to reduce
teen births. It is not trying to reduce teen sex activity; in fact its sex
education programs do exactly the opposite.
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