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Planned Parenthood

It is interesting to see how Margaret Sanger and the Planned Parenthood Federation sought to control the World's Population using eugenics into the 1950's. Many claim that 'eugenics' are still desired, though in today's politically correct atmosphere, they must be more careful with their wording. Note the plans they made, and that Mary Calderone (SIECUS) was the medical director of Planned Parenthood Federation from the onset. There is a who's who of names at the bottom of this page, of directors, associates etc.



Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, proposed an "American Baby Code (ABC)," which included the following articles;

"Article 3. A marriage shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth."
-- Margaret Sanger. "The American Baby Code." The American Weekly, May 27, 1934, pages 3 and 4. Quoted by Randy Engel during United States Senate hearings entitled "Declaration of U.S. Policy of Population Stabilization By Voluntary Means, 1971." Special Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Labor & Public Welfare, United States Senate, 92nd Congress, First Session, on S.J.R. 108, August 5, October 5, 8, and 14, and November 3, 1971.

"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.




Courtesy of NYU



THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA (1942-1962)

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At a special membership meeting on January 29, 1942, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) changed its name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). The BCFA was established in 1939 through a merger of the American Birth Control League and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau engineered by the management firm of John Price Jones, Inc. The name change reflected a redefinition of the organization's goals from family limitation to child spacing. While PPFA continued to function as the largest birth control organization in the country, it sought to position itself as a more mainstream and moderate organization committed to a broad range of programs related to reproductive health.

Under the leadership of National Director D. Kenneth Rose of the John Price Jones Company, the PPFA expanded its programs and services through the 1940s, adding affiliate organizations throughout the country. By the end of the Second World War, the Federation was no longer solely a center for birth control services or a clearing house for contraceptive information but had emerged as a major national health organization. PPFA's programs included a full range of family planning services, including marriage education and counselling, and infertility services. The leadership of PPFA, largely consisting of businessmen and male physicians, endeavored to incorporate its contraceptive services unofficially into regional and national public health programs by emphasizing less politicized aspects, such as child spacing. During the 1950s, the Federation further adjusted its programs and message to appeal to a family-centered, more conservative post-war populace, while continuing to function, through its affiliated clinics, as the most reliable source of contraceptives in the country.>/p>

From 1942 until 1962, the last year of Sanger's active participation in the birth control movement, PPFA concentrated its efforts on strengthening its ties to affiliates, expanding public education programs, and improving its medical and research work. It continued to operate a Negro Service and other rural health projects in the South through the early 1940s and working in conjunction with the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau (MSRB) and regional agencies, tested new contraceptives in the field. PPFA also gave financial assistance to the MSRB in return for the use of research facilities and its participation in cooperative research projects. By 1960, visitors to PPFA centers across the nation numbered over 300,000 per year. That number increased by a third in 1961 when the anovulant pill was introduced in most of the affiliated clinics. However, PPFA was not able to increase the number of its clinics in those years.

PPFA began focusing greater attention on global population issues in the 1950s as new concerns arose over the political, social and cultural implications of over-population in Asia and other parts of the world and became active in international birth control work through its membership in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which Margaret Sanger helped to found in 1952. National interest in population problems, spurred by the Draper report in 1959 (recommending U.S. assistance to foreign governments seeking population reductions), and the 1960 presidential elections, prompted PPFA to devote even more of its resources to international work, enlarge its training programs for visiting foreign doctors, and send field workers outside the U.S.. In 1961, the population-crisis debate, along with funding shortages, convinced PPFA to merge with the World Population Emergency Campaign (WPEC), a citizens' fund-raising organization that grew out of the IPPF-Western Hemisphere Region.

In changing its name to PPFA, the Federation signalled its shift away from Sanger's feminist focus on women's quest for reproductive freedom. Though she objected to the abandonment of birth control", a term she identified in name and spirit as reflective of women's empowerment, and characterized the organization as complacent and overly cautious, Margaret Sanger did agree to serve as the honorary president of PPFA. She also served on the board of directors and, until the mid-1950s, on the Long Range Planning Committee. Sanger still constituted the primary link between the PPFA and many of its major financial contributors. However, her work with PPFA focused largely on efforts to develop an oral contraceptive pill (Sanger helped arrange funding for much of the early research on the anovulant pill) and on PPFA's international work. Not until the mid-1960s did PPFA reassert its primary commitment to championing women's reproductive rights.


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Organizational Structure, Major Departments and Committees:
Affiliates (Membership):
State and local planned parenthood organizations which were certified by the Federation. PPFA required that the constitution, by-laws and policy of an Affiliate organization be consistent with that of the Federation. Each Affiliate appointed two delegates to represent it at all member meetings, including the annual membership meeting. Affiliates received a variety of assistance from the Federation -- depending on their staff size and budgets -- including educational materials, visits from field workers, and program proposals. Rules and regulations governing Affiliate members and the process of affiliation changed periodically and resulted in a fluctuating number of Affiliates. The Federation also encouraged various forms of individual membership.
Board of Directors:
Usually consisted of between 45 and 75 state representatives and directors-at-large who were responsible for the management of the Federation, including the appointment of officers, the adoption of the annual budget, and the supervision of the national director and committees.
Budget and Finance Committee:
Approximately 9 or 10 members, including several officers, directors, and appropriate committee chairman who recommended an annual budget and were responsible for investing the Federation's funds.
Clergymen's Advisory Committee:
National Committee that coordinated relations between PPFA and the religious community. Specifically, the Committee worked with the National Council of Churches, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the World Council of Churches, among other groups. The Committee also assisted in developing educational materials and issued public statements on religious support for family planning.
Executive Committee:
Approximately 10 members, usually including directors, several officers, and committee chairman who managed the organization and retained the powers of the Board of Directors between directors' meetings.
Field Committee:
Delegates representing each Affiliate member. The Committee coordinated relations between the Federation and its affiliates, reviewed policies governing affiliation, and recommended new members to the Board of Directors.
Field Department/Field Service:
Field workers primarily visited local committees and state leagues to help improve and develop their programs. The Department also coordinated field work projects such as the Negro Project, and other rural health projects, including work with migrant workers; and supervised committees such as the Clergymen's Committee, the Committee on Work with Negroes, and the Social Work Advisory Committee.
Fund Raising Committee/Campaign Committee:
Approximately 7 members, including the Budget and Finance Committee chairman and officers and directors who coordinated the Federation's annual fund-raising campaign.
Human Fertility:
Published articles about research on contraception, sterility, and other biological aspects of reproduction. The journal was initially published from 1935 until 1939 by the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau under the title Journal of Contraception. The journal was discontinued in 1945.
Long Range Planning Committee:
Developed the program of the organization, working closely with the other committees, along with providing proposals for revisions to the by-laws and constitution.
Medical Committee:
Medical professionals ranging in number from approximately 12 to 25 who were responsible for developing all phases of the medical program, including formation of medical procedures and policy, the formulation of a research program, and the appointment of a medical director and National Medical Council. The Committee also worked to win the endorsements of and improve relations with national medical organizations.
Medical Council/National Medical Advisory Council:
Considered issues of broad policy and advised the Federation on specific medical problems.
Medical Department:
Under the direction of the Medical Committee and medical director, carried out educational campaigns in medical and nursing schools and public health departments, field demonstrations and testing of new contraceptive products, and the development of educational materials on contraception and infertility, among other work.
National Advisory Council:
A small group of prominent citizens organized to advise PPFA and improve the public image of birth control. The Council was disbanded and replaced by the Medical Advisory Council shortly after the Federation changed its name in 1942.
Nominating Committee:
Approximately 5 members (including at least two directors) who were responsible for nominations to the Board of Directors.
Public Information Department/Publicity/Education:
Provided news releases, scripts, articles, pamphlets, and other educational material for the general public and the press; assisted local committees and state leagues with securing speakers; produced educational films, exhibits and public outreach programs; and handled public relations problems.
Research Committee/Biologic Research Committee/Social Research Committee:
Experts in their field who proposed and helped supervise various research projects, and allocated funds for research conducted outside of the Federation. The research committees also organized symposiums and conferences.
Special Projects Department:
Coordinated the Negro Project (Division of Negro Service) which supervised demonstration projects in black communities in the South, including Berkeley County, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee; and worked to publicize health problems of African Americans and the scarcity of contraceptive services in black communities. The Special Projects Department also organized the Clergymen's Committee and supervised the Public Progress Committee, which undertook letter writing campaigns and funded specific programs at the Federation. The Department was phased out in 1943 when its chief administrator, Florence Rose, left the Federation.
Staff and Officers:
A national director, medical director, approximately 9 officers, and a small administrative staff that fluctuated in number. The national director was responsible for the administration, interpretation and development of the Federation's program; for personnel decisions; and for overseeing much of the fund-raising. The medical director was responsible for developing medical programs in accordance with the Medical Committee. The officers generally consisted of an honorary chairman, a chairman of the Board of Directors, president (later changed to chairman), vice presidents (varied in number; later changed to vice chairman), a secretary, and a treasurer.
PPFA's organization structure included many other smaller and short-term committees and councils, including: Annual Meeting, Nurses, Personnel, Post-War, International, By-Laws Revision, Lasker Awards, Travel, Manuals and Policy Revision, Minorities, Directorship, Headquarters, Review, Affiliates, Public Relations, PPFA-MSRB, and Study Committees, among others.


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PPFA Staff, Officers, Board and Select Committee Members:
Abbott, Lois Pennypacker - Board of Directors
Abrams, Ray H. - Board of Directors
Adams, Margaret C. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Field Committee
Aitken, Katharine - Administrative Staff?
Ames, Amyas - Board of Directors
Ammidon, Hoyt - Executive Committee
Anderson, Samuel W. - Board of Directors
Andrews, Mrs. Walter P. - Board of Directors
Arffman, Leo - Assistant Director of Fund-Raising
Armstrong, Mrs. C. Dudley - Board of Directors
Atlee, Elinore - Administrative Staff
Babcock, Caroline Lexow - Board of Directors
Baird, Janet - Public Information Department
Bangs, Catherine Clement - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Lasker Award Committee
Banks, Mrs. Henrine Ward - Board of Directors
Barclay, Elizabeth M. - Board of Directors
Barnes, Carolyn Payne - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Barnes, Janet W. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Barstow, Rev. Robbins W. - Board of Directors
Baruch, Margot - Administrative Staff
Bastedo, Helen W. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee; Chairman, Affiliates Relations Committee; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Baum, Margaret Hays - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Field Committee
Bean, Lillian - Director of Fund-Raising
Behnke, John A. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Personnel Committee
Bernard, Laura Pincus - Administrative Staff?
Best, Winfield - Assistant to Director; Director, Public Relations/Information and Education
Bigelow, Mrs. Herbert H.- Board of Directors
Blagden, Mabel Whitney - Vice President; Board of Directors
Blair, Virginia - Board of Directors
Blair-Smith, Dallas - Treasurer; Board of Directors
Blaisdell, Mrs. Allen C. - Board of Directors
Blanchard, Mary Hillyer - Field Organizer
Borden, Mrs. Richard - Board of Directors
Breed, Frances - Administrative Staff?
Briggs, Eleanor Morse - Assistant to Director
Broaddus, Mrs. T. Nash - Board of Directors
Browne, Jane C. - Administrative Staff
Brownlee, James F. - Board of Directors
Bruce, John McKamey - Board of Directors
Buchman, Myron I. - Board of Directors
Bunker, Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Burdick, C. Lalor - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Burke, Helen - Administrative Staff
Cabot, Blake - Director, Public Information Department
Cabot, Henry B. - Board of Directors
Calderone, Mary Steichen - Medical Director
Calhoun, Mrs. Ernest N. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Callaway, S. Rodger - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee
Campbell, Catherine Hartshorn - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Campbell, Lorraine Leeson - President; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Canfield, Cass - President; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Canfield, Jane - Board of Directors
Carr, Mrs. Robert A. - Board of Directors
Carroll, ? - Administrative Staff
Cassard, Mrs. Edward - Board of Directors
Chase, Ilka - Board of Directors
Chase, W. Rowell - Board of Directors
Child, ? - Field Organizer
Clark, Mrs. Gaylord Lee - Board of Directors
Clayton, Will L. - Board of Directors
Clisby, Vesta J. - Board of Directors
Coffin, Henry Sloane - Chairman, National Clergymen's Advisory Council
Colgate, Gilbert - Vice President; Treasurer; Board of Directors
Collisi, Harrison S. - Medical Director
Compton, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors
Condit, Hortense B. ? - Board of Directors
Conry, Mrs. Clifford - Board of Directors
Cook, Charles - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Cooper, Nathaniel H. - Chairman, Medical Committee
Copeland, Lammot DuPont - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors
Cowles, Sage F. - Board of Directors
Craig, Mrs. David R. - Board of Directors
Cushman, Howard - Director of Public Relations
Cushman Jr., Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Cutler, Mrs John W. - Board of Directors
Dalrymple, Mrs. John S. - Board of Directors
Darrach, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Dawson, Mrs. Rapier - Board of Directors
Day, Rufus S. Jr. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
De Beck, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Derby, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Dickinson, Robert Latou - Vice President; Board of Directors
Dixon, Arthur - Board of Directors
Dodge, Eva F. - Associate Medical Director
Draper, William H. Jr. - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
DuPont, Katharine L. - Secretary; Board of Directors
DuPont, Pierre S., 3rd - Vice President; Board of Directors
Eastman, Nicholson J. - Chairman, National Medical Council
Ecsedy, Marlee M. - Administrative Staff
Elliott, Elmira - Board of Directors
Elting, Victor - Board of Directors
Emerson, Haven - Chairman, National Medical Council
Ettenheim, Mrs. George - Board of Directors
Ewenstein, Janice - Administrative Staff
Fairchild, Henry Pratt - Vice President; Board of Directors
Fansler, John B. - Board of Directors; Vice President
Ferguson, Frances Hand - President; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, International Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee; Chairman, Field Committee
Ferguson, Mrs. Walter - Board of Directors
Fleet, Mrs. S. Douglas - Board of Directors
Forsling, Elizabeth - Board of Directors
Fox, R. K. Jr. - Board of Directors
Freedheim, Mrs. Eugene H. - Board of Directors; Chairman, By-Laws Committee
French, Mrs. Graham - Board of Directors
Gamble, Clarence James - Board of Directors
Garver, Chauncey B. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Garwood, Miriam F. - Field Service Representative
Gibson, T. K. - Board of Directors
Gill, L. - ?
Gillespie, Mrs. George E. Jr. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Affiliates Committee
Goetting, Betty-Mary - Board of Directors
Goldstein, Rabbi Sidney E. - Board of Directors
Goodhue, Francis A. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Gray, Naomi Thomas - Administrative Staff; Field Service Representative
Grubstein, ? - Board of Directors
Guthrie, Molly Danforth - Board of Directors
Guttmacher, Alan F. - President; Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Medical Committee
Guyer, David - Board of Directors
Gwinn, David Marshall - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Hadley, Katherine Blodgett - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Public Information Committee
Hale, Grace - Field Representative
Hamlin, Mrs. Hannibal - Board of Directors
Hampton, Marion - Administrative Staff
Handloser, Mrs. R. F. - Board of Directors
Harris, Mrs. Leon A. Jr. - Board of Directors
Harrison, Mrs. Joseph Jr. - Board of Directors
Harrison, Pauline L. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Hart, Mrs. Lawrence - Board of Directors
Hartman, Carl G. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Biological Research Committee
Harvey, Dorothy D. - Board of Directors
Hellman, Louis - Board of Directors
Hemingburg, Alphonse - Board of Directors
Henshaw, Paul S. - Director of Research
Herz, Herbert - Executive Committee; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Hessel, Mrs. Sidney A. - Board of Directors
Hildreth, Mrs. H. Rommel - Board of Directors
Hill, Mozell C. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Social Research Committee
Holden, Frederick C. - Vice-president; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Holladay, Mrs. A. Randolph - Board of Directors
Holland, Jerome H. - Board of Directors
Hommel, Mrs. Carlton L. - Board of Directors
Howland, Nancy - Administrative Staff
Huse, Penelope B. P. - Public Information Department
Ingalls, Mabel S. - Board of Directors
Ives, Kenneth A. - Treasurer; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Jaffe, Frederick S. - Assistant Director, Public Relations/Information and Education Department
Janney, Mrs. L. A. - Board of Directors
Johnson, Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Johnson, Mrs. J. Burlin - Board of Directors
Jones, Eleanor Dwight - Vice President; Board of Directors
Joshel, Vera M. - Administrative Staff
Kammen, ? - Administrative Staff
Katz, Arthur Joel - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Kelly, Nicholas - Board of Directors
Kennedy, William T. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Medical Committee
Kennedy, Mrs. Donald S. - Board of Directors
Kerns, Rolland E. - Board of Directors
Kingsley, Elizabeth S. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman
Kinsolving, Rev. Arthur B. - Board of Directors
Kleeman, Richard P. - Board of Directors
Klein, Alice Campbell - Administrative Staff
Kling, L. E. - Medical Director
Knight, Mrs. Richard B. - Board of Directors
Kyle, Richard S. - Executive Committee
Lamont, Florence Haskell Corliss - Board of Directors
Langford, Mary - Field Service Representative
Lasker, Mary Reinhardt - Executive Committee; Secretary; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Latshaw, John - Board of Directors
Lawrence, L. - Board of Directors
Lazarus, Hattie. W. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Leake, Chauncey D. - Board of Directors
Leighton, Isabel - Board of Directors
Leiss, Eleanor - Social Work Consultant
LeVan, Katherine - Field Consultant
Levy, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Lindabury, Mrs. Richard H. - Board of Directors
Lindsay, George N. Jr. - Board of Directors
Lingo, Mrs. Lord - Board of Directors
Lisle, Mrs. Richard W. - Board of Directors
Livingston, Goodhue - Board of Directors
Loop, Mrs. Alan B. - Board of Directors
Lore, ? - Administrative Staff
Loth, David - Director, Public Information Department; Acting National Director
Mackie, Mrs. David I. - Board of Directors
MacLingo, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Mali, Henry J. - Treasurer; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Mali, Katharine - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Affiliates Committee
Mallinson, Mrs. Hiram - Board of Directors
Mannheimer, Mrs. Robert E. - Board of Directors
Marsh, Charlotte Delafield - Board of Directors
Martin, Mrs. John B. Jr. - Board of Directors
Masback, Harold E. - Board of Directors
Mauck, Harriett - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee
McCallum, M. E. Revell - Board of Directors
McCarroll, E. Mae - Field Representative, Special Projects Department
McClintock, Beatrice - Board of Directors
McEvoy, Ruth - Board of Directors
McGinley, Sandra M. - Board of Directors
McGreevy, Mrs. Milton W. - Board of Directors
McIntyre, James H. - Field Service Representative
McKinnon, Edna Rankin - Field Service Representative
McLane, Charles M. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Medical Committee
McLaurin, B. F. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
McPheeters, Mrs. Samuel B. - Board of Directors
Mellon, Mrs. A. E. - Board of Directors
Mendoza, Ofelia - Field Service Representative
Milam, D. F. - National Director; Board of Directors
Miles, Mrs. Rufus E. Jr. - Board of Directors
Miller, Florence - Administrative Staff, Special Projects Department
Miller, Mrs. Harlan - Board of Director
Mills, Leslie - Treasurer; Board of Directors; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Mills, Mrs. Dudley H.- Board of Directors
Mills, Mrs. George S. - Board of Directors
Mills, Mrs. James Paul - Board of Directors
Milmine, Mary P. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Minton, Mrs. Henry M. - Board of Directors
Montgomery, Charlotte - Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee
Morain, Lloyd L. - Board of Directors
Morrison, Dean - Board of Directors
Mumm, Louise N. - Director of Field Services
Munsell, Elizabeth - Board of Directors
Myers, Clifford - Director, Public Relations Department
Nelms, Agnese Carter - Board of Directors ; Vice President
Nelson, George I. - Board of Directors
Nelson, Warren Otto - Board of Directors; Chairman, Biological Research Committee
Newkirk, ? - Board of Directors
Nokes, John M. - Board of Directors
Norcross, Mrs. Hiram - Board of Directors
Norton, Roy - Board of Directors
Nuveen, Grace Bennet - Board of Directors
Nuveen, John - Executive Committee
Nyburg, Mrs. Robert S. - Board of Directors
Obre, Henry - Board of Directors
Orr, Robert D. - Board of Directors, Personnel Committee
Peters, Thomas M. - Board of Directors; Chairman Budget and Finance Committee
Phelps, Mrs. Stowe C. - Chairman, Executive Committee; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Review Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Pierce, Claude C. - Executive Committee; Medical Director
Pierson, Richard N. - President; Board of Directors
Pike, Rev. James - Chairman, Clergymen's Committee
Pillsbury, Eleanor Bellows - President; Vice Chairman; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Fund-Raising Council
Plimpton, Pauline Ames - Board of Directors
Pool, Beekman H. - Assistant Director
Pool, Mrs. Beekman H. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Information Committee
Potter, Rose - Executive Committee
Prentice, Miriam - Administrative Staff
Procope, John L. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Minorities Committee
Pugh, Dorothy - Board of Directors
Reid, Ira DeA. - Board of Directors
Renner, Renee - Administrative Staff
Rice, Otis R. - Board of Directors
Rice, Smith - Board of Directors
Richardson, Mark E. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Treasurer
Riddle, Estelle M. - Board of Directors
Ringrose, A. - Administrative Staff
Robertson, Mrs. N. G. - Board of Directors
Robie, Mrs. Theodore R. - Board of Directors
Rock, John - Board of Directors
Rodman, Julius - Administrative Staff
Rogers, Helen E.? - Board of Directors
Rogers, Maud - Director of Field Service; Acting Director of Fund-Raising
Romberg, Margaret - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Roper, Elmo - Board of Directors
Rose, D. Kenneth - National Director; Board of Directors, Executive Committee
Rose, Florence - Director of Special Projects; Administrative Staff
Roseberry, Eleanor -Social Work Consultant; Field Service Representative
Roth, Edith - Assistant to the National Director
Rothschild, Carola Warburg - Vice President; Secretary; Board of Directors
Rutledge, Doris L. - Administrative Staff
Rutledge, Peggy - Administrative Staff
Saltzman, Charles E. - Board of Directors
Sanger, Margaret - Honorary President/Chairman; Board of Directors
Scheidemann, M. - Administrative Staff
Schieffelin, Bayard - Board of Directors
Schilling, Francis W. - Chairman, By-Laws Revision Committee
Schneider, ? - Administrative Staff
Schumacher, Mrs. Fred W. - Board of Directors
Scott, Katherine Miller - Executive Committee; Vice President; Board of Directors
Scribner, Charles Ezra - Chairman; Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Scull, James H. - Director of Public Information
Secor, Mrs. G. R. - Board of Directors
Seissler, ? - Administrative Staff
Selinger, Mrs. M. A. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Senior, Clarence - Board of Directors
Shamburger, L. L. - Board of Directors
Shepard, Mrs. Frank P. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Shuman, Anna Jane Phillips - Board of Directors
Smillie, Wilson G. - Chairman, Lasker Award Committee
Smith, James Hopkins, Jr. - Board of Directors
Smith, Mrs. Gordon H. - Board of Directors
Snodgrass, Marie - Board of Directors
Snyder, Margaret - Research Assistant
Solomon, Edward - Executive Committee; Chairman, Social Research Committee
Spencer, Georgia C. - Board of Directors
Spingarn, Hope Malik - Assistant Director/Director, Public Information Department; Educational Consultant
Starr, Martha Jane - Board of Directors
Stern, Jerome - Administrative Staff
Stern, Mrs. Julius Long - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Annual Meeting Committee; Chairman, Information and Education Committee
Stewart, Margaret M. - Social Work Consultant
Stewart, Mrs. Roy - Board of Directors
Stockstrom, Gladys - Board of Directors; Chairman, Study Committee
Stone, Abraham - Vice President; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Stopford, Mrs. Robert M. - Chairman, Annual Meeting Committee
Stott, Mrs. Louis L. - Board of Directors
Straus, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors
Strauss, Donald B. - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Chairman, Information and Education Committee
Stuart, Ida L. - Administrative Staff
Stubblefield, Mrs. D. W. - Board of Directors
Suarez, Evelyn - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Information Committee
Taylor, Jeanette J. - Executive Committee; Secretary; Board of Directors
Test, Alfred L. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Thetaz, Marius - Administrative Staff
Thomas, Mrs. Owen - Board of Directors
Tompkins, Sally Bates - Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Education Committee
Townend, Mrs. Henry - Board of Directors
Trane, Mrs. James - Board of Directors
Tree, Ronald - Vice-President; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Trent, Kathryn - Director, Field Department
Trent, William Jr. - Board of Directors
Trisko, Jean - Field Service Representative
Trowbridge, Rev. Cornelius P. - President; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Turlington, Lee F. - Board of Directors
Tyler, Edward T. - Board of Directors
Upham, John H. J. - President/Chairman; Board of Directors; Chairman, National Medical Council
Valentine, Mrs. Alan - Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Van Slyck, Lucia Norton - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Social Work Advisory Committee
Van Vleck, Joseph, Jr. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Personnel Committee
Vanderbilt, William H. - Board of Directors
Vogt, Johanna Von Goeckingk - Administrative Staff
Vogt, William - National Director; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Wallace, Mrs. Richard H. - Board of Directors
Ward, Mary Van Ellen - Board of Directors
Ware, H. Hudnall - Board of Directors
Weir, Roslyn C. - Board of Directors
Wells, Mrs. Herbert C. Jr. - Board of Directors
Whelpton, Pascal K. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Whitelaw, Mrs. John B. - Board of Directors
Wile, Ira Solomon - Chairman; Executive Committee
Williams, Ben C. - Board of Directors
Williams, C. Dickerman - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Finance and Budget Committee
Williams, Mrs. I. T. - Board of Directors
Willson, Edith E. - Board of Directors
Wilson, Eileen - Assistant to National Director
Wilson, John P. Jr. - Board of Directors
Wilson, Mrs. Gerald - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Winslow, C. E. A. - Vice President; Board of Directors
Wohlforth, Mildred Gilman - Public Relations Department
Workum, Emily Harneill - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Public Relations Committee; Chairman, Field Committee
Workum, Fifield - Board of Directors
Worthington, Mrs. Union - Board of Directors
Wright, Cecil Damon - Assistant to the Director; Executive Committee
Wright, Mrs. R. Stephens - Board of Directors
Young, Whitney M. Jr. - Board of Directors
Zulandi, Connie - Administrative Staff


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For other organizations involved with PPFA, see:
BCFA for records of the preceding organization
MSRB for records of affiliated organization that served as the research arm of the Federation
IPPF for records related to PPFA's international work

For conferences associated with PPFA, see:
1948 International Congress on Population and World Resources
1952 3rd International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1953 4th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1955 5th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1957 Proposed 6th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1959 6th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1960 New Look at the Population Crisis Conference

For tributes sponsored by or associated with PPFA, see:
1961 World Tribute to Margaret Sanger
1966 PPFA International Sponsors Council Tribute

Note on sources:
The Smith College Collections Series contains a large number of PPFA records, including minutes, reports, form letters, organizational memos, and publications. This Series also contains Sanger's correspondence with PPFA officers and directors, funders, and other relevant parties. The Records of PPFA records, of which only a small number were included in this edition, are available for research in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. The Library of Congress microfilm contains a smaller collection of PPFA records, mostly concentrated between 1942 and the early-1950s. The Collected Documents Series also has some PPFA records and correspondence with PPFA officers

The Quotes below come directly from Margaret Sanger and Company in regard to abortion, family, and their ideas!


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Planned Parenthood Speaks

The Pro-Family, Pro-Woman, Pro-Society Organization, or is it?

For your convenience, we have compiled a sample list of quotes by Planned Parenthood(PP) in order to help you determine if the largest provider of abortion in the country is really pro-family, pro-woman, and pro-society at its core. These quotes are from members of PP itself, and oftentimes important members. So let's let PP speak for itself! Enjoy. . .



QUOTES BY CATEGORIES:

ON ABORTION

(Planned Parenthood at first...)

"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 postpones the beginning of life."
-- Planned Parenthood pamphlet entitled "Plan Your Children," 1963.


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"One sperm plus one egg = one baby."
-- Planned Parenthood/World Population pamphlet entitled "ABCs of Birth Control," 1973, page 4.


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(...and then...)

"In the mid-1960's, Planned Parenthood's attitude towards the unborn changed dramatically from that shown in the above quotes. It established as a firm goal the increase of abortions in its clinics from 45,000 per year to 80,000 per year."
-- Michael Schwarty, "Bringing the Sexual Revolution Home: Planned Parenthood's Five-Year Plan." America, February 18, 1978.

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"Most professionals and volunteers associated with Planned Parenthood have accepted, for a long time, the necessity of abortion as an integral part of any complete or total family planning program."
-- Richard D. Glasow, Ph.D. "Planned Parenthood 1969-1972: Assuming an Activist Posture on Behalf of Legalized Abortion." National Right to Life News, January 31, 1985, page 6.

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Webmaster's Note: Abortion stops a beating heart. It brutally kills the developing pre-born baby. They are not choices, they are children.


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ON POPULATION CONTROL AND COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL

"I predict the possibility that eventually coercion [in population programs] may become necessary. [Such force may be required] in areas where the pressure is the greatest, possibly in India and China."
-- Planned Parenthood spokesman, quoted by Richard D. Glasow, Ph.D. "Ideology Compels Fervid PPFA Abortion Advocacy." National Right to Life News, March 28, 1985, page 5.


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Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, proposed an "American Baby Code (ABC)," which included the following articles;

"Article 3. A marriage shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth."
-- Margaret Sanger. "The American Baby Code." The American Weekly, May 27, 1934, pages 3 and 4. Quoted by Randy Engel during United States Senate hearings entitled "Declaration of U.S. Policy of Population Stabilization By Voluntary Means, 1971." Special Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Labor & Public Welfare, United States Senate, 92nd Congress, First Session, on S.J.R. 108, August 5, October 5, 8, and 14, and November 3, 1971.


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Planned Parenthood has also seriously proposed -- much more recently -- the following population control measures for the United States;

"* institute a substantial marriage tax;
* provided bonuses for delayed marriage and childbearing;
* require women to work but provide few child care facilities;
* reduce or eliminate all maternity leave or benefits;
* limit or eliminate public financed medical care, scholarships, housing, loans and subsidies to families with more than a certain number of children;
* compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies;
* stock certificate-type permits for children;
* payments to encourage contraception;
* payments to encourage sterilization;
* payments to encourage abortions; and
* compulsory sterilization for those who have had two children."
-- Memo dated March 11, 1969, entitled "Examples of Proposed Measures to Reduce U.S. Fertility by Universality or Selectivity of Impact." From Frederick S. Jaffe, Vice President of Planned Parenthood/World Population, to Bernard Berelson.

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Webmaster's note: Keep in mind that the above articles were intended for implementation in the United States, not in China! And also notice the similiarity between the forced one-child policy in China today compared to these PP propositions for the United States.



ON SEX-SELECTED ABORTIONS

"... once the state of the fetal diagnostic art moves from second to first trimester, so abortion falls within the menstrual extraction period. Planned parenthood will increasingly connote planning the sex as well as the spacing of offspring."
-- Planned Parenthood spokesman, quoted in Lisa Andrusko. "A Fact of Life: What Are "Sex-Selection Abortions?"" National Right to Life News, March 14, 1985, page 3.


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Webmaster's note: The current abortion on demand law gives the opportunity for people to have an abortion just because they don't want a girl, legally! In China and other Asian countries, this is a common use for abortion. This gives rise to one of the greatest abuses of women ever, don't worry about them voting, just take away their life(sarcasm).



ON PREGNANCY

"Unwanted pregnancy is transmitted sexually, is socially and emotionally pathologic ... and has many other characteristics of the conventional venereal diseases. -Willard Cates Jr., M.D., et al. "Abortion as a Treatment for Unwanted Pregnancy: The Number Two Sexually-Transmitted Condition." Address presented to the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, November 11-12, 1976.


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"The pill, in my opinion and that of my colleagues, is an important prophylaxis, perhaps the most important, against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses extant. That, of course, is unwanted pregnancy."
-- Alan Guttmacher, M.D., Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Senator Gaylord Nelson's (D-Wi.) Hearings on Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry, by the Senate Subcommittee on Monopoly -- Select Committee on Small Business, Part 16, page 6,572, February 25, 1970.


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"We have yet to beat our public health drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine; we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though that is the exact truth."
-- Mary S. Calderone, M.D., Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and founder, Sex Education and Information Council of the United States (SIECUS). Medical Morals newsletter, February-March 1968.

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"[Pregnancy] is an episodic, moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents."
-- Warren Hern, M.D. "Is Pregnancy Really Normal?" Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives, January 1971, page 9.

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"Opponents of oral contraceptives always talk in terms of the treatment of 'healthy women.' Those of us who have to treat women who are pregnant with an unwanted baby do not feel that she can be considered to be healthy."
-- Elizabeth B. Connell, M.D., Planned Parenthood Medical Advisory Council, New York City, 1964. Senator Gaylord Nelson's (D-Wi.) Hearings on Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry, by the Senate Subcommittee on Monopoly -- Select Committee on Small Business, Part 16, page 6,523, February 25, 1970.

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"Many parents are shocked to find Planned Parenthood giving their daughters birth control pills. The point is still under debate as to whether pregnancy is a disability, a disease, a choice or a right."
-- Rachel Cressman, Program Director, Planned Parenthood, quoted in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegram, July 20, 1978.

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"It's hard work to have a baby! Then two years of slave labor and 16 years of responsibility! You never have a moment's freedom! The simplest trip to the grocery store has to be planned like a military campaign! From the moment you decide not to have an abortion, that kid is going to determine your life!"
-- "Abortion Eve," 1973 comic book by Chin Lyvely and Joyce Sutton, promoted by Planned Parenthood, pages 14 and 15.

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Webmaster's note: The first feminists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Mary Wollstonecraft were pro-life. See, by making pregnancy into a disease, you are saying women have this "crutch" that men don't; you are saying men are "healthier, immune from this disease, superior from birth." Furthermore, you treat the developing child like trash, like an object of which you are the judge of its "disposal" or "maintenance," and you turn women against their children. For centuries, men have been jeolous of the ability of women to give and nurture life, and have been held responsible for their actions if they got a girl pregnant. But now that pregnancy is seen as a problem that can be "solved" with an abortion, men are free from the responsibility they owe whomever they impregnant.




ON TEENAGE PROMISCUITY

"We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity."
-- Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1986, Part V, page 1. Also quoted in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition: Deception." ALL About Issues, May 1988, pages 18 and 19.

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"Girls who have not begun to menstruate need to be told they can become pregnant. Advise using condoms with foam if intercourse is sporadic or OCs [oral contraceptives] if is occurs regularly ... Oral contraceptives can be safely prescribed prior to menarche [first menstruation]."
-- Louise Tyrer, M.D., Vice President for Medical Affairs for Planned Parenthood. "What Every Teen Should Know About Contraceptives." Contemporary Pediatrics, October 1989, pages 68 to 82 and 94.

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"Our alternative solution is to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt. We must also relieve those who have them of their fears and guilt feelings, and we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraception measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy. We owe this to them."
-- Dr. Lena Levine. "Psychosexual Development." Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, page 10.


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"If, however, you have separated your sex and love needs ... then you could have a hundred partners and still be a perfect candidate for a good close relationship later on. So having multiple sexual partners in itself doesn't mean anything."
-- Harvey Caplan, M.D., staff clinician at Planned Parenthood/ World Population of Alameda-San Francisco. Quoted in The Joy of Birth Control by Stephanie Mills, PPFA board member.


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"Do you want a convenient warm body? Buy one. That's right. There are women who have freely chosen that business; buy one. Do you want a virgin to marry? Buy one. There are girls in that business, too. Marriage is the price you'll pay, and you'll get the virgin. Very temporarily."
-- Sheri Tepper, "You've Changed the Combination!" Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colorado, 1977, page 18.

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"No religious views, no moral standards, are to deflect the child from the overriding purposes of self-discovery, self-assertion, and self-gratification."
-- Planned Parenthood Sex Education and Mental Health Report, 1979.


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"According to Planned Parenthood, of all the health care services that teens may require, the four services most needed are abortion, contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and obstetric care. In fact, Planned Parenthood asserts that ten-year olds have the right to contraception, sterilization, and abortion without their parents' knowledge!"
-- International Planned Parenthood Foundation, Adolescent Fertility, London, 1983, page 31.

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"Our advice, the first time you see a small child fondling himself, is to take this teachable moment and try to get across the message that masturbating is something practically everyone does because it feels good, that there's nothing wrong with it, that it's okay with you (if it is), but that it is something to be done in private. . . . "Many boys, at some point in their development, make it a group event with one or more [other] boys."
-- Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986, 150 pages. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540.


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"There are certain things that you do not want to talk about to your parents. There are certain things they don't want to talk about to you. The only thing you owe anyone is courtesy. You don't owe anyone 'love.' If you think your parents are great, that's wonderful. If you don't get along, that's too bad but it's no lifetime tragedy. How you feel about them isn't nearly as important as how you feel about yourself. And if you start thinking and talking about them all the time, you may find yourself still doing it at age fifty with no one listening."
-- Sheri Tepper, "You've Changed the Combination!" Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colorado, 1977, page 18.


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Webmaster's note: Encouraging promiscuity and sex leads to sky-rocketing sales of contraceptives. More people become sexually active, abstinence becomes that "ideal, Christian dream," sex becomes that oh-so-common-topic-of-discussion-and-jokes, and abortions rise. Abortion always rises in a society that vigorously promotes contraceptives because they treat children as "unwanted products of sexual pleasure." Sigh...



ON THE INEFFECTIVESS OF SEX EDUCATION AND CONTRACEPTION

"At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraception."
-- Famous sex researcher Dr. Alfred E. Kinsey, at the April 1955 Conference on Induced Abortion, sponsored by PPFA.


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"It was recognized by conference participants that no scientific evidence has been developed to support the claim that the increased availability of contraceptive services will clearly result in a decreased illegal abortion rate."
-- Concluding statement signed by the leading sex researchers of the day at the April 1955 Conference on Induced Abortion, sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Cosigners included Alan Guttmacher, M.D.; Alfred E. Kinsey, M.D.; Christopher Tietze, M.D.; John Rock, M.D.; and Abraham Stone, M.D.


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"Evidence of rising abortion rates with the expanding use of contraceptives is now available for Korea, India, Taiwan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and some parts of Latin America."
-- Malcolm Potts, M.D. (Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation), and Clive Wood, editors. New Concepts in Contraception. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1972. Page 12.


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Webmaster's note: It's a win win situation. You sell contraceptives, you make money. Contraceptives for some reason increases unwanted pregancies. You then sell abortions, and you make even more money. It's all figured out.



ON THE RIGHT TO LIVE

"No such thing as a constitutional "right to life" exists for anyone, born or unborn."
-- Planned Parenthood lawyer Harriet Pilpel, in testimony before the United States Committee on Constitutional Amendments, March 1975.


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Webmaster's note: OU Right to Life? What a deceitful name!



ON INCEST

"... incest between adults and younger children can also prove to be a satisfying and enriching experience. Incestuous relationships can -- and do -- work out well."
-- Wardell B. Pomeroy of Planned Parenthood. "A New Look at Incest," Forum Magazine, November 1976, pages 84 to 89.

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Webmaster's note: Just a little too far for my taste. . .



ON SEX WITH ANIMALS

"I have known cases of farm boys who have had a loving sexual relationship with an animal and who felt good about their behavior until they got to college, where they learned for the first time that what they had done was 'abnormal.' Then they were upset."
-- Wardell Pomeroy, Ph.D. Boys and Sex. Delacorte Press, New York, 1981. Pages 171 and 172. This book is used in numerous public school systems in the United States.

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Webmaster's note: This guy has a Ph.D??? What school did he go to so I DON'T go there, lol.



ON RACIST EUGENICS



"First as you know, as we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader we will probably find a number of areas in which we may want to find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know ... we should be very proud of what we are and what our mission is. It is a very grand mission ... abortion is only the tip of the iceberg."
-- Transcript of the address given by Faye Wattleton, president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, at its annual luncheon in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5, 1979.


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"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
-- Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization. 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.

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"In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists (sic), one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails."
-- Margaret Sanger. Quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.

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"The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped."
-- Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth Control Conference. Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-12, 1921. Published by the Birth Control Review, Gothic Press, pages 172 and 174.


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"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
-- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

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"There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer."
-- Margaret Sanger, October 1926 Birth Control Review.


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"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review.

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"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.

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"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
-- Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also discussed in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.


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Sanger's letter was in response to a memorandum by Dr. Gamble that stated, in part; "There is a great danger that we will fail because the Negroes think it a plan for extermination. Hence let's appear to let the colored run it as we appeared to let the South do the conference at Atlanta."
-- November 1939 memorandum by Dr. Clarence Gamble entitled "Suggestions for Negro Project." Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts.

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"I cannot overemphasize the importance of utilizing Negro professionals, fully integrated into the staff of this organization. This key professional worker could interpret the program and the objectives to them in the normal course of day to day contacts; could break down fallacious attitudes and beliefs and elements of distrust; could inspire the confidence of the group; and would not be suspected of the intent to eliminate the race."
-- Dr. Dorothy B. Ferebee. "Planned Parenthood as a Health Measure for the Negro Race." Address at the 1942 Birth Control Foundation of America (later Planned Parenthood) annual meeting. Source: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Margaret Sanger Collection.

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"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children."
Sanger's credo of women's rights: "to live ... to love ... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy."
"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order."
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
-- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.

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Even Marxist theorists, though apparently blind in other areas, recognize the obviously racist nature of the programs promulgated by Planned Parenthood and the other population controllers;

"The not-so-concealed theme of some major figures in NARAL [National Abortion Rights Action League] and NOW [National Organization for Women] was that abortion should be legal because the most prolific breeders were welfare mothers from the dangerous classes ... the leader of NARAL in New York lobbied against the provisions to protect poor minority women from involuntary sterilization, and so did Planned Parenthood."
-- Alexander Cockburn, quoted in Proletarian Revolution, Fall 1989, page 28.


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Webmaster's Note: I have yet to hear an apology for these comments from PP. It is revolting that the famed hero of PP believed these things; it's no different than Hitler. I even have a hard time believe she said this. . . it's horrible!


ON RESPECTING THE LAW

"We will disobey laws requiring notification to parents of minors receiving contraceptive drugs or devices."
-- Faye Wattleton, Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Human Right to Family Planning, 1984.

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"Family Planning Associates [the 180 United States Planned Parenthood affiliates] and other nongovernmental associations should not use the
absence of law or the existence of an unfavorable law as an excuse for inaction; action outside the law, or even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change."
-- International Planned Parenthood Federation. The Human Right to Family Planning, 1984. Co-signed by PPFA president Faye Wattleton.

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"There are some laws that can and should be broken ... restrictive abortion laws ... are as obsolete and irrelevant to the contemporary world as the New York State statute which makes it a crime to have a deck of cards in an apartment within a one-mile radius of an armory."
-- Malcolm Potts, M.D., former director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). "Population Growth and Abortion," in Gerald I. Satuchni, John J. Sciarra, and J. Joseph Speidel (editors). Pregnancy Termination: Procedures, Safety and New Developments. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1979, page 424.

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"Planned Parenthood provides suggestions and assistance for bypassing and disobeying various local and national laws restricting abortion."
-- Donald P. Warwick, "Bitter Pills: Population Policies and Their Implementation in Eight Developing Countries." Cambridge University Press, London, 1982, page 64.

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Webmaster's note: This is typical of radical, totalitarian, leftist thinking. Anything must be done to uphold their ideals and anyone in the way is "taken care of." No respect is given to a democratic system if it works against them.



ON MOTHER THERESA

(Mother Teresa is revered all over the world for her tremendous efforts on behalf of the most helpless and downtrodden of the earth's citizens -- lepers, discarded children, the destitute dying, and AIDS patients. She and her Sisters have saved thousands of lives.)

"This very successful old and withered person, who doesn't look in the least like a woman, especially when she raises her clenched fists in prayer, and who, for us, is a very suspect holder of the Nobel Prize ... has become for us the symbol of all that is bad in motherhood and womanhood -- an image with which we do not wish to be associated. Mother Teresa is the perfect image of a sexless, religious woman. This is, however, not the image of womanhood that we want. Show us instead the mother or daughter who can take delight in the most enjoyable of all worldly pleasures, sexual intimacy. You, you nightmare of women! You unliberated, enslaved wives, mothers, nuns and aun-ts, what do you want from us, who have fin-ally dec-ided that we are go-ing to take control of our bodies, our children, and our destiny into our own hands? Do you not realize that you are all merely puppets of the devil?"
-- "Mother Teresa, the Woman of My Nightmares." Sexualpedagogik, the official monthly publication of "Pro Familia," the West German Planned Parenthood affiliate, March 1986.

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Webmaster's Note: Oh please, who insults Mother Theresa???

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ON THOSE THAT DISAGREE WITH THEM

"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 human rights."
-- Planned Parenthood pamphlet, "The Justice Fund," 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

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Webmaster's note: Please scroll up to the section "On Respecting the Law." Thank you.




ON CHILDREN

"[Children at our office] are both a nuisance and a safety/liability risk. Children will not be allowed in any patient service area, and they may not be left unattended in the waiting room. If a client arrives with a child or children but without a caretaker, her appointment will be rescheduled."
-- Syracuse Planned Parenthood memo, described in "PP: Kids Are a Nuisance." People Concerned for the Unborn Child Newsletter, July-August 1992, page 5.


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"Babies are not sweet little things. They wet and dirty themselves, they get sick, they're very expensive to take care of."
-- Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. "The Perils of Puberty." Denver, 1974, page 15.

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Webmaster's note: The difference between the above thinking and right-to-life thinking is that of functions v. essences, a signifcant difference in emphasis. To those above, babies are nuissances because they serve little function and are inconvenient. The right-to-life movement however, lies in awe and reverence at the wonder of life at its most vulnerable times.





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Hard to believe that such things could be said right? Well, they're true, and you can check for yourself with the provided documentation. Quotes really do speak for themselves. Please, I urge you to keep your distance from Planned Parenthood and any radical abortion promoter. And if you don't, at least always maintain skepticism towards their work...



"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." --Planned Parenthood.

How ironic?

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