CPR Report (v.2)

A weekly review of culture, politics, and religion.

Culture

Will the rise of DVRs, like TiVo, make network programming obsolete? "Newer TiVo boxes can connect directly to the internet. Since they are internet enabled, they can download internet content. Combine that with the hard-drive and on-demand abilities, and Tivo is now a television network. Maybe even the television network."

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RightWingTrash is a new blog dedicated to "celebrating conservative thought in film, music, literature, and other lowlife pursuits." The content so far tends to be heavy on 70's pop culture, including a review of Black Sunday ("Black Sunday—both the film and the equally fine ’75 novel—isn’t afraid to have a Mossad agent bending the rules and defying our government just to defend a sporting event that isn’t even soccer.") and Marvel Comics answer to blaxsploitation, Luke Cage. The site contains some mild profanity and PG-13 themes but the one thing that I found truly offensive was finding that David Hasselhoff played the starring role in "Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." (John Schroeder and Bill Wallo are probably reaching for the smelling salts right now.)* Fortunately, the "movie still remains unavailable on any video format."

*I've always liked the Nick Fury character though I've come to prefer the Samuel L. Jackson-inspired revision in Marvel's "The Ulitimates." I also liked Powerman (aka Luke Cage) and Iron Fist, the Crockett and Tubbs of superheroes.

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I have four sure-fire predictions for the upcoming television season: Lost will be confusing, Veronica Mars will be criminally underrated, Jack Bauer will be torturing suspected terrorists, and the guy who thought up this advertising campaign will be fired:

In September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast. The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as "egg-vertising," hinting at the wordplay they have in store. Some of their planned slogans: "CSI" ("Crack the Case on CBS"); "The Amazing Race" ("Scramble to Win on CBS"); and "Shark" ("Hard-Boiled Drama."). Variations on the ad for its Monday night lineup of comedy shows include "Shelling Out Laughs," "Funny Side Up" and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”
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Speaking of dumb advertising, Wal-Mart--which manages to achieve wild success while being terribly bland brand image--has rolled out a My Space-style social networking site, The Hub. Teens register to be "hubsters" (hipsters, hubsters, get it?) and are encouraged to "SCHOOL YOUR WAY" as in, "I'll school my way by looking hot in my Wal-Mart clothes to school to catch a cute boy's eye. ..." As Dave Barry would say, "I'm not making this up..." (HT: Ypulse)

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The long-awaited adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged may finally be nearing production. The rumors are that the movie will be made into a trilogy and that Angelina Jolie will play Dagny Taggart (a brilliant casting decision, in my opinion).

I never could make it all the way through that book, though I adored The Fountainhead. Like The Catcher in the Rye, Rand’s tale of uncompromising architect Howard Roark appealed to my adolescent egotism. Now I look back and think that Roark, like Holden Caufield, comes off as an obnoxious jerk. Which, come to think of it, is how most male teens are for most of puberty. (HT: In the Agora)

Politics

Planned Parenthood has a heading on their website titled “Terrorists and Extremist Organizations.” If you’re expecting to see a list that includes the KKK, Al Qaeda, Hamas, or Black September, then you obviously don’t know PP. So who do they consider “terrorists and extremists”? Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Americans United for Life, Feminists for Life, etc.

I’m a bit surprised they didn’t just go with the reductio ad Hitlerum, but then Adolph was only pro-choice when Aryans weren’t involved so maybe that isn't really fitting. Still, its rather ironic that a group responsible for the deaths of millions of human beings has the audacity to call groups “terrorists and extremists” simply because they oppose the destruction of members of our own species. (HT: Go Pundit Go)

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Tim O'Reilly recently attended a seminar on long term thinking hosted by The Long Now Foundation. He quotes a closing comment that sums up both why I don't have much faith in government planning and why I don't give much credence to conspiracy theories that require governmental collusion: "People see a lot of seemingly irrational behavior and they assume there must be some hidden agenda driving it. What they don't realize is that having an agenda requires long-term thinking, and there isn't any going on."

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“Suppose a knife-wielding thug breaks down your door and convincingly announces that he will kill you and your family,” says William Vallicella. “You grab a gun and kill the intruder as he lunges at you. A couple of rounds hit him in the chest and he collapses dead at your feet.” Were you in the wrong for using excessive force? That is the claim that many try to make when the door that gets knocked belongs to Israel. What these critics miss, argues Vallicella, is that "the aggressor is wholly in the wrong, and the defender wholly in the right."

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Overheard: "I was having lunch with a couple of Libertarians one day when they lamented that their crowd had too many loonies; what's more, one could make a safe bet, they said, that the loonies came to libertarianism through [Ayn] Rand."

Religion

Amy from The A-Team blog has a great quote from Charles Lamb (1775-1834) on giving thanks for the simple pleasure of life, including the gifts of literary genius: "I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts--a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?"

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David Wayne, in another superb post, quotes his mentor who was chastised with the admonition "you don't believe man has any significance." I think many Christians--particularly those of us who believe in total depravity--fall into this trap of denigrating humanity. But as David points out, God is very man-centered. He recognizes that there is the danger in evangelicalism of becoming too wrapped up in our own situation but he correctly notes that we could use some "refining of the rhetoric" is the "God-centered vs. man-centered dichotomy." I agree that it can create a false dichotomy. If we are truly "God-centered" then we will share the concerns of God. And if God is "man-centered" then we too must share God's focus on man's role in his redemptive plan.

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In the 200 years prior to 1985, only seven Catholics have served on the Supreme Court. Today five of the nine justices are Catholics. Robert F. Cochran, Jr. asks "Why So Many Catholic Justices on the Supreme Court? Why Now?" His reasons--an adherence to natural law, subsidiarity, and religious freedom--are dear to my neocalvinist heart. (HT: SmartChristian)

| July 18, 2006 | | Comments [96]

96 Comments

jd writes:

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only nut who loved Holden Caulfield only to figure out that he was a spoiled self-centered jerk. Unfortunately, that book and its central character had an undue influence on my life. I think that I subconciously emulated Caulfield for a while in my high school and college days. I'm not sure I understand why, since he is such a disagreeable character. I suppose it's because Caulfield felt everything so sharply and powerfully, without restraint. Someone considered making a movie of Catcher with Bob Dylan as the protaganist. That makes sense because Dylan was the original "voice without restraint" with "tongues on fire."

It's a rather humbling thought: that I spent part of my youth emulating someone that I never met, doing it almost completely unintentionally, only to find out that he made me a more complete jerk.

Here's a thought: I believe that the Holden Caulfield mentality--feelings trump everything--is one of the driving forces behind young people supporting liberal causes. It was true for me.

Phillip writes:

The list of entities condemned as terrorists by Planned Parenthood reminds me of the list I came across a few weeks ago: Americans for the Separation of Church and State named their top 10 conservative enemies. http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8253&abbr=cs_

jd writes:

reduction ad Hitlerum. YES!! I didn't know that someone had coined a term to describe it. That is one of the traits of the lefties that has so enraged me lately. There is a radio talk show host named Thom Hartmann who has a penchant for comparing Bush to Nazis and Hitler (also compares Falwell and Robertson to bin Laden). He does it in all seriousness and the moonbats call him in patronizing, smarmy agreement. The intellectual bankruptcy of these guys is truly maddening. I used to try to call him (I could always get through because no one was listening), because I wanted his listeners to know that at least one person was listening who thought Hartmann was a kook. But now I can't stand to listen to him.

Boonton writes:

Is jd still a complete jerk? Inquiring minds want to know? Does he still blame a book for making him so? It seems being a conservative means pretending all your problems are caused by an all powerful liberal-elite instead of your own failings.

Boonton writes:

I too liked the Fountainhead but never got around to reading Atlas Shrugged. I think her idea is good in its proper dose. Sometimes people get lost in other people's problems that they don't even realize they are killing themselves. This isn't the type of altruism where a person decides themselves to help another person...this is the type of parasitic relationships people get themselves into where they allow themselves to be a victim of someone else's selfishness.

A proper dose of that is more than enough IMO.

jd writes:

"Is jd still a complete jerk? Inquiring minds want to know? Does he still blame a book for making him so? It seems being a conservative means pretending all your problems are caused by an all powerful liberal-elite instead of your own failings."

There is little doubt that I'm still a complete jerk. The difference is that I now know that it's only my fault. If I hadn't figured that out I would still be a liberal. Or I could have kept smoking pot and drinking--same thing, in effect.

Gina R Johnson writes:

I agree with Boonton. We were talking about this Sunday in our leadership small group, the part about parasitic relationships, and helping people without allowing them to burn you out. But, hold up a minute. Howard Roark a jerk? No way! I absolutely LOVED "The Fountainhead". The Roark character gave me a bit of perspective on valuing my own ideas and thinking with my own brain. I was in an organization at one point in my life that was heavily into "groupthink". God, that was scary!

Boonton writes:

"Or I could have kept smoking pot and drinking--same thing, in effect."

I think we can smoke pot and drink without being a jerk. Perhaps jd would like to join with me in applying for a research grant to study this possibility! Maybe even Joe can join us. If Bush keeps the ban on stem cell research in place they'll be extra money the NIH will have to find a home for!!!!

Russell Smith writes:

This is how I, a Gen-xer, came to read the Catcher in the Rye. I really liked Field of Dreams -- enough so to read the novel upon which it was based, Shoeless Joe. In the book the James Earl Jones character is JD Salinger. I couldn't help but think of the main character's wife in the movie -- how inspired she was by this book that was being banned -- how jazzed she was about the 60s. So I thought that The Catcher in the Rye must be this powerful exciting book -- I picked it up but couldn't finish it -- Caufield struck me immediately as a jerk! I guess it must have been a baby boomer thing to find it inspiring. Frankly I think that in a generation, the book will be forgotten.

Now, I've never read Ayn Rand -- is she worth reading in anticipation of the film?

Bryan K Mills writes:

I say yes to reading Rand. I liked Atlas Shrugged more than The Fountainhead. Not that I'd want to live through it, but I've often daydreamed what it'd be like if the producers quit and left everything for the looters. My favorite (completely unrealistic) daydream: Bill Gates calls a press conference. "Ladies and Gentlemen of the world. You win. You're right. Microsoft is a morally bankrupt, evil corporation. To atone, be it known that from this point forward Microsoft is no more. All of our products will cease working tomorrow and will no longer be available. We apologize for the pain and suffering we've inflicted on the world and hope that our withdrawal will be a first step toward global healing."

On another note, if you like fantasy fiction, Terry Goodkind is very Randian. Especially in Faith of the Fallen.

Patrick (gryph) writes:
Planned Parenthood has a heading on their website titled “Terrorists and Extremist Organizations.” If you’re expecting to see a list that includes the KKK, Al Qaeda, Hamas, or Black September, then you obviously don’t know PP. So who do they consider “terrorists and extremists”? Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Americans United for Life, Feminists for Life, etc.

Actually I think its more a matter of bad website design. The heading of "Terrorists and Extremist Organizations" appears above two sections, one devoted to extremist organizations, the other to a section on people that have murdered, bombed, etc., abortion doctors and providers . They open that section with a quote instead of a sub-heading. (click on the link at the bottom of the quote)

tgirsch writes:

What these critics miss, argues Vallicella, is that "the aggressor is wholly in the wrong, and the defender wholly in the right."

The thing that this misses is that in the intruder analogy, it is the aggressor who is shot. The better analogy would be if the homeowner shot the intruder's roommate. This isn't to say that Israel doesn't have a right to respond, but how they respond and against whom is important.

As to the "terrorists and extreme organizations," even I object to this classification. Those groups that advocate violence against women, doctors, and clinics should rightly be classified as "terrorist groups," but these should be a wholly separate category from "extreme organizations" who use things like harassment and misinformation as tactics. Which is to say, it's fair to classify FoF (for example) as an "extreme organization," but unfair to classify them as "terrorists." By lumping the two groups together, PPH makes an unfair guilt-by-association accusation. It's wrong when groups I disagree with do it, and it's equally wrong when groups I agree with do it.

President Bush doesn't have a ban on stem cell research. He only has a ban on using federal funding for unborn babies on stem cell research. The collossal ignorance on this topic stuns me, even Glenn Reynolds seems clueless despite having all the information in front of him.

jd writes:

Boonton wrote:

"I think we can smoke pot and drink without being a jerk."

That's what all pot smokers, drinkers and liberals say.

"Perhaps jd would like to join with me in applying for a research grant to study this possibility! Maybe even Joe can join us."

Typical liberal solution. Do something self-destructive and then let someone else pay for it.

Ben Albin writes:

“Terrorists and Extremist Organizations.” If you’re expecting to see a list that includes the KKK, Al Qaeda, Hamas, or Black September, then you obviously don’t know PP. So who do they consider “terrorists and extremists”? Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Americans United for Life, Feminists for Life, etc.

This coming from a group whose founder, Margaret Sanger, was herself an extremist and a racist. She founded Planned Parenthood as an ethnic cleansing machine.

http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0302.htm

jd writes:

Russell Smith:

In my defense, and those of us baby boomers who believed we loved the book and Holden Caulfield: we were probably between 16 and 19 when we read it. I doubt that's true of you. Still, I am fascinated that this book has had a profound effect on so many people. I was not aware of the connection between Field of Dreams and Catcher. That alone must arouse your curiosity about its impact. Anyone have any further thoughts on why the book was so influential?

tgirsch writes:

Christopher:
Glenn Reynolds seems clueless despite having all the information in front of him

You say this as if it surprises you, as if you think this is somehow the exception, rather than the rule...

Patrick (gryph) writes:

Planned Parenthood really isn't calling groups like FoF "Terrorists". As I pointed out above, its misleading web design at fault. You can find the list of "terrorists" at the link below the section on extremist groups.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/ontherecord/otr-archive-anti-tactics.xml

If you follow that link you will find an article entitled: "Anti-Choice Tactics and Terrorism" which does outline some terrorists activities on the part of some anti-choice groups.

The should have put the sub-heading on the main page, not the following. Thats all there is to it.

tgirsch writes:

JD:
That's what all pot smokers, drinkers and liberals say.

Frankly, there's not much that's more jerk-like than making broad generalizations about groups you don't like.

Ben:
This coming from a group whose founder, Margaret Sanger, was herself an extremist and a racist. She founded Planned Parenthood as an ethnic cleansing machine.

Christ, almighty, that tired old lie again? KTK sums it up best:

It is true that Sanger supported the “positive eugenics” movement of her day - encouraging healthy couples to have children - but she vigorously opposed “negative eugenics” programs of sterlization or coercion not to have children. She explicitly insisted that every woman, without exception, must have the right to determine whether to have children, and how many. She thus made birth control and women’s reproductive autonomy one of the strongest forces against forced sterilization or negative eugenics.

Ben Albin writes:

Read Dan Flynn's "Intellectual Morons," its all in there. He even admits that the qoute is taken out of context. It doesn't change the fact that she was trying to breed a perferct human (in her eyes) through birth control and abortion clinics, refering to those humans she did'nt like as weeds. She was an evil woman with an agenda.

Terence Moeller writes:

This is just Hitleriffic! Plannedbarrenhood, the organization that has systematically destroyed more human life than any government on earth, one has lead the way in eugenics, organ harvesting, and infanticide adds meaning to the word "reductio ad terrorum." Any organization that dares to call killing babies exactly what it is, killing babies, makes their list of the top 15 "terrorist organizations." Note that not one of them has ever been involved in terrorist activities -- unless the left thinks that impugning the reputation of Sponge Bob qualifies.



American Life League (ALL)
Americans United for Life (AUL)
Christian Coalition
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Eagle Forum
Family Research Council (FRC)
Feminists for Life of America (FFL)
Focus on the Family
Human Life International (HLI)
Life Dynamics Incorporated (LDI)
Missionaries to the Preborn
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)
Operation Save America (formerly known as Operation Rescue)
Pro-Life Action League (PLAL)
STOPP International, aka STOPP Planned Parenthood

Boonton writes:

Microsoft is a morally bankrupt, evil corporation. To atone, be it known that from this point forward Microsoft is no more. All of our products will cease working tomorrow and will no longer be available. We apologize for the pain and suffering we've inflicted on the world and hope that our withdrawal will be a first step toward global healing."

I've been using Firefox...I doubt the loss of Explorer would cause any significant heartache. The loss of Windows might hurt teenage video game addicts but 90% of my computing is getting to an Internet browser or using Excel (for which Open Office is almost an acceptable substitute for). Bill Gates shrugging would yield little more than a shrug from me in return.

Typical liberal solution. Do something self-destructive and then let someone else pay for it.

Ahhh but the beautify of this plan is to get someone else to pay for it BEFORE we do something self-destructive!

"I think we can smoke pot and drink without being a jerk."

That's what all pot smokers, drinkers and liberals say.

Ahhh but there are few worse jerks than those who never did those things and go around telling people who have how evil they were.

Chris Lutz writes:

KTK and Tgirsch, I don't know where you are getting your facts about Sanger.

A Plan for Peace - Sanger, 1932
d. 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.

f. To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

I guess you consider this positive eugenics since the "dysgenic" have a choice. Segregation or strerilization.

Wikipedia:
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.

Sanger saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" children from being born and living a disadvantaged life, and dismissed "positive eugenics" (which promoted greater fertility for the "fitter" upper classes) as impractical.

Sounds like she didn't support or at least found ineffective the concept of "positive eugenics."

The Pivot of Civilization
But modern society, which has respected the personal liberty of the individual only in regard to the unrestricted and irresponsible bringing into the world of filth and poverty an overcrowding procession of infants foredoomed to death or hereditable disease, is now confronted with the problem of protecting itself and its future generations against the inevitable consequences of this long-practised policy of laiser-faire. The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately....Moreover, when we realize that each feeble-minded person is a potential source of an endless progeny of defect, we prefer the policy of immediate sterilization..."


Boonton writes:

Sounds like she didn't support or at least found ineffective the concept of "positive eugenics."

In most cases better human beigns come from raising them in better environments...not making above average humans pump out more babies and below average pump out less. Or another way of saying it, if you want another Tiger Woods your better off training a kid in golf from as early as possible than you are simply trying to get Tiger to marry the world's best female golfer.

Needless to say Chris has nicely demonstrated that people believed things nearly a century ago that turned out to be wrong.

Terence Moeller writes:

tgirsch writes in defence of Sanger:

". . . . that tired old lie again? KTK sums it up best:

"It is true that Sanger supported the “positive eugenics” movement of her day - encouraging healthy couples to have children - but she vigorously opposed “negative eugenics” programs of sterlization or coercion not to have children. . . She thus made birth control and women’s reproductive autonomy one of the strongest forces against forced sterilization or negative eugenics."

Gasp! Is this just a nice woman encouraging healthy couples to have babies, or the same Margaret Sanger who proposed the American Baby Code that states, "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood"?

The more diabolical Margaret Sanger quotes are hard to explain away -- either in or out of context:

1. "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.

2. "The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.

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


5."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 described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

6. "Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.

7."Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.

8. As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation....
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.

9. "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.

10. "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.

11. Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the Population Congress with the aim, "...to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."

So that's what they meant by "freedom of choice" ???

Boonton writes:

Hmmmm, I thought freedom of choice was a modern contemporary motto of the...well...pro-choice movement. Again is the point here that people nearly a century ago got some things very wrong? That's not much of an observation, sort of like telling us the old ladies at the nursing home couldn't beat you in the arm wrestling competition.

Chris Lutz writes:

Again is the point here that people nearly a century ago got some things very wrong?

According to tgirsch, who cites KTK, Sanger stood against "negative" eugenics. As Terence, others, and myself have pointed out, Sanger was a supporter of "negative" eugenics and found "positive" eugenics to be, at best, worthless. So, the point has been to correct an incorrect historical statement made by tgirsch. It also does much to dispell the spin offered by PP.

Interestingly enough, those people "who got some things very wrong" were the same ones decrying the opposition of Christians and others to their "scientific" agenda of bettering mankind.

Boonton writes:

Well if this is a historical debate that's all well and good. AS for modern day PP, aside from their statements about Sanger I see little relevance. Few organizations would look very good today if judged by the opinions and statements of their founders.

ex-preacher writes:

I think it's worth remembering that many intelligent, moral people (including many Christians) besides Margaret Sanger supported the idea of eugenics in the early 20th century. Among the advocates were Alexander Graham Bell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Theodore Roosvelt, Winston Churchill, and W.E.B. DuBois. It was thought of as a sane and humane way of dealing with birth defects and unwanted pregnancies. The wikipedia article points out that the US 1924 immigration law - which virtually shut down all immigration, especially from Eastern Europe - was justified in part over concerns about diluting all-American blood. Hospitals run by "good Christians" and good Christian judges in the South cooperated in sterilizing African-American criminals, wayward women, and the mentally retarded.

None of that justifies eugenics, it just puts the statements and actions of Sanger into context.

ex-preacher writes:

I think it's worth remembering that many intelligent, moral people (including many Christians) besides Margaret Sanger supported the idea of eugenics in the early 20th century. Among the advocates were Alexander Graham Bell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Theodore Roosvelt, Winston Churchill, and W.E.B. DuBois. It was thought of as a sane and humane way of dealing with birth defects and unwanted pregnancies. The wikipedia article points out that the US 1924 immigration law - which virtually shut down all immigration, especially from Eastern Europe - was justified in part over concerns about diluting all-American blood. Hospitals run by "good Christians" and good Christian judges in the South cooperated in sterilizing African-American criminals, wayward women, and the mentally retarded.

None of that justifies eugenics, it just puts the statements and actions of Sanger into context.

ex-preacher writes:

sorry for the double post

Mumon writes:

Planned Parenthood has it right. People who have been critically following Dobson and his cult for years understand that he's an unbalanced, emotionally disturbed man who displays paranoid tendencies and unresolved sexual issues. Then again some people here might take that as a compliment...

Meanwhile, Joe Carter's fearless leader has helped ignite a conflagration in the Middle East leading to the deaths of thousands of born people, the bankrupting of the USA, the impoverishment of New Orleans, the theft of billions of dollars, but those zygotes are people too to him...

It's not for nothing that the average American thinks that folks like Joe Carter have seriously misplaced priorities.

Boonton writes:

Those that balk at evaluating Sanger's belief in context of her times are likely to be the first to leap to the defense of the Founding Father's who owned slaves by referencing the 'context of their times'.

candyinsierras writes:

If one reads Ayn Rand, be prepared that the structure of her writing rests on her philosophies. Wikipedia describes her philosophy of Objectivism as follows:

Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality, that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception, that they gain knowledge by processing the data of perception using reason
or "non-contradictory identification", that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest", and that the only social system consistent with such a morality is laissez-faire capitalism.

You quoted Tim Reilly as follows on long term thought processes in the government: "People see a lot of seemingly irrational behavior and they assume there must be some hidden agenda driving it. What they don't realize is that having an agenda requires long-term thinking, and there isn't any going on."

I would say there is a long term, well thought out agenda to create a socialistic government and that many foundations are able to accomplish their goals through educational propaganda, business practices, and various means of manipulation. It doesn't take much research to see this happening.


Boonton writes:

candy,

I think you are giving people too much credit. Society is very complicated, too complicated IMO for anyone to manipulate it with a hidden or secret agenda. Instead most large scale changes in society are diven by the countless small scale interactions of millions of individuals.

If you wanted to argue that there is an underlying dynamic to human nature that pushes for socialist-like policies I think that might be a valid argument (there are also clearly dyanamics that push in the opposite direction, too, IMO).

Chris Lutz writes:

Those that balk at evaluating Sanger's belief in context of her times are likely to be the first to leap to the defense of the Founding Father's who owned slaves by referencing the 'context of their times'.

No one here has claimed that her views were somehow out of context with her time. The objections have been to the mischaracterization of her views by tgirsch and KTK. Their attempt to show her as some enlightened soul only concerned about positive eugenics is refuted by her own words on the subject.

None of that justifies eugenics, it just puts the statements and actions of Sanger into context.

I agree that there is a context to her statements. However, trying to distort what she believed is not legitimate. My goal was and is not to discuss the context, but to simply point out that this is what she believed.

tgirsch writes:

Chris Lutz:

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. A mea culpa of sorts (but not completely) on Sanger. In further reading, it looks like KTK is going with a different definition of "positive eugenics" than the Wiki is, and I'll defer to the latter.

Sanger's views on eugenics were unfortunately not uncommon at the time, but even if she did indeed support forced sterilization and/or segregation, it's still grossly unfair to characterize her as a "racist"; she was certainly no more so than anyone else of her time (when racial segregation was the rule rather than the exception), and was probably less so. There's no evidence that Sanger supported eugenics and/or abortion and/or sterilization to eliminate "inferior races," and she explicitly rejected euthanization of the "dysgenic," as per the same Wikipedia article you link.

But all of that aside, even if the worst allegations against Sanger are all true, this sort of guilty-by-long-past-association argument is quite irrelevant. If it were relevant, we could just as easily continue to associate the Catholic Church with Naziism, the NRA with the KKK, the Democrats with racial segregation, etc. What's important is what these organizations stand for and advocate today, not the more sordid parts of their past.

All of this is to say that it's unfair to characterize Sanger as a "racist" who founded PPH to advance "ethnic cleansing," and that even if this were a fair characterization, it would be of little relevance to the modern organization, which advocates strictly voluntary birth control, abortion, etc.

Terence Moeller writes:

Can any of the apologists for Planned Parenthood on this forum determine which of the five statements below were made by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and which were made by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf"? This is only a
test . . . nothing personal.

1. ". . .we prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is ' absolutely prohibited ' to the feeble-minded."

2. "To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted. . . to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives. . ."

3. "The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind" .


4."Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents."


5. "This is in keeping with the humanitarianism which, to avoid hurting one individual, lets a hundred others perish. The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind".







Boonton writes:

Can any of the apologists for Planned Parenthood on this forum determine which of the five statements below were made by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and which were made by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf"? This is only a test . . . nothing personal.

Trick Question!!!! Hitler spoke and wrote only in German, all your quotes are in English!


Also it is well known that Hitler sometimes drank coffee AS DOES PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH!!!!!!!

Chris Lutz writes:

Sanger's views on eugenics were unfortunately not uncommon at the time, but even if she did indeed support forced sterilization and/or segregation, it's still grossly unfair to characterize her as a "racist"...

I agree that there really is no proof in her writings that she was a racist. However, her definition of who was "unfit" and therefore should be prevented from reproducing pretty much included a large precentage of the minority population. Based on that, it's easy for people to assume she was some sort of racist (I don't necessarily believe that, BTW). Also, her magazine while under her editorship, Birth Control Review, sometimes contained racist commentary. Finally, a lot of the people she associated with were pretty racist. So, really it's guilt by association in a lot of ways. But, there is no direct evidence that she was a racist and I wouldn't call her one without it.

There's no evidence that Sanger supported eugenics and/or abortion and/or sterilization to eliminate "inferior races," and she explicitly rejected euthanization of the "dysgenic," as per the same Wikipedia article you link.

She may not be a racist, but she did support eugenics, etc. to, at a minimum, reduce the human weeds. She was an equal opportunity eugenicist.

What's important is what these organizations stand for and advocate today, not the more sordid parts of their past.

Yes and no. If they have admitted their past errors and shown that they have changed, then I would agree. PP though seems to not want to admit that it's founder was an influential figure in eugenics. Although they do have a page refuting the racism claim.

...it would be of little relevance to the modern organization, which advocates strictly voluntary birth control, abortion, etc.

The problem is that PP seems to target poor blacks (approximately 1/3 of all African-American babies are aborted). I know that since blacks represent a large underclass, this can be explained. Yet, it is along the same lines as Sanger's original "unfit" criteria. Plus, when you look at it from the viewpoint of Sanger promoting eugenics and abortion, and PP promoting unrestricted abortion, most people aren't going to see PP as really making a big change whether it's methods are voluntary or involuntary.

Finally, I really don't need to use Sanger to blast an organization that supports the unrestricted killing of the unborn.


Boonton writes:

The problem is that PP seems to target poor blacks (approximately 1/3 of all African-American babies are aborted). I know that since blacks represent a large underclass, this can be explained. Yet, it is along the same lines as Sanger's original "unfit" criteria.

Errr how is this evidence that African-Americans are targetted by PP? Do you have evidence that PP attempts to target blacks for abortion marketing campaigns? My impression of the situation is that well off whites (and blacks) use private obgyn doctors for abortion and birth control. To the degree that you'll find more PP offices in poorer areas that is due to the fact that private physicians are often not an option for the poor (also it is more affordable to rent office space in a poor area than an upscale area).

most people aren't going to see PP as really making a big change whether it's methods are voluntary or involuntary.

I'm not so sure you are a good judge of what 'most people' see. In my opinion there is a huge, HUGE, HUGE difference between voluntary and involuntary birth control and abortion.

I don't think there are any serious organizations in the US that advocate involuntary birth control or abortion anymore. In China they do have involuntary abortion and birth control but no serious organization has advocated it here in modern times. I have heard some individuals advocate things along these lines. Ironically they often tend to be Conservatives rather than Liberals and this tends to be barroom type assertions such as, "anyone on welfare should be made to be sterilized" or whatnot. I never heard of this feeling growing beyond this point to actually become a political platform.

Jeff Blogworthy writes:

Eugenics is the natural consequence of the Darwinian worldview. There is no good or bad - only good or bad traits and the people (higher animals) who have them. That these traits should be conciously weeded out is axiomatic. Such pesky facts make Darwinists uncomfortable of course, causing an obvious logical dilema. Eugenics is immoral - but wait, there is no such thing as morality, morality is simply a human construct forced upon us by rigid religionists - but eugenics is immoral. Squirm monkeys, squirm. It's the same old garbage we face again today: so-called "science" devoid of ethics. One would think we could learn something from the past.

Catez writes:

Who is impugning Spongebob? I prefer him way more than Ayn Rand (I find her boring).

Terence - seriously, have you thought of making that a blog post. Those quotes are extremely thought provoking.

Joe - I actually stopped to comment to say tanks for the great post. I really enjoy the way your sense of humour shows through too.

Catez writes:

I meant thanks, not tanks. LOl.

Bryan K Mills writes:

Slight shift in topic.

Could a pro-choice (I used your term for it, even!) person please explain to me the logic (and fervor) behind allowing minors to have abortions without parental consent? My children can't have an aspirin at school without me signing a form, but if a minor gets pregnant PP (et al.) will happily shuttle her off to the clinic without bothering to inform the parents.

In what universe does this make any sense whatsoever?

Terence Moeller writes:

For those of you who have convinced yourselves that the modern day PP is substancially different from the philosophy of their founders, it is time to take another test. Determine which of the following statements were from modern representitives of PP and which came from the 1930s founders.

1. "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."

2. Stated goals:
• 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.

3. "... 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."

4. "Unwanted pregnancy is transmitted sexually, is socially and emotionally pathologic ... and has many other characteristics of the conventional venereal diseases. The incubation time, defined as the period between exposure (mid-cycle coitus) and the development of initial symptoms (usually missed menses), averages approximately two weeks."

5. "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."

6. "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."

7. "[Pregnancy] is an episodic, moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents.

8. 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."

9. "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."

10. "We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity."

11. "No such thing as a constitutional "right to life" exists for anyone, born or unborn."

12. "... incest between adults and younger children can also prove to be a satisfying and enriching experience. Incestuous relationships can and do work out well."

13. The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

14. "Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems."

15. "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."

Test takers, if you selected the first 13 of 15 quotes as representing the modern PP, you were correct.

jd writes:

C.S. Lewis had major battles with H.G. Wells. Wasn't HG Wells romantically involved with Margaret Sanger? I know that's guilt by association but it's interesting that Sanger is associated with one of the people that C.S. Lewis thought was "bent."

Second question. Was there a character in That Hideous Strength (or anywhere in the space trilogy) which was based on H.G. Wells? It's obvious that Dr. Frost was based on Sigmund Freud. Maybe Fairy Hardcastle was based on Margaret Sanger (leather-clad, cigar smoking).

jd writes:

Terence, your last post was incredible. However, I suspect that there are posters here who will want to defend PP.

Your antagonists are completely out of their league and don't appear to know it. Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are outrageous, yet tgirsch and Boonton are able to ignore the stench to make some questionable debating points.

Terence Moeller writes:

Catez:

"Who is impugning Spongebob? I prefer him way more than Ayn Rand (I find her boring).Terence - seriously, have you thought of making that a blog post. Those quotes are extremely thought provoking."

It was Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family who impunged the reputation of Sponge Bob by questioning his sexual orientation. It was an absorbing debate that put him on the Planned Parenthood terrorist watch list.
The scores on the Sanger/Hitler test quotes are still being tabulated, but I will give you a hint. Three out of five belong to Sanger.

Jeff Blogworthy, has a facinating blogsite and is welcome to post the test there anytime. But Jeff, don't expect any replies. The results would be too revealing.

A brief testimonial: I have three kids, none of them were planned and the first was concieved out of wedlock. All three are incredibly gorgeous. Number one son is a Pan American jiu-jitsu silver medalist and presently in Rio competing in the world JJ championships. Number two son is also State JJ champion and highschool validictorian. Number three daughter is a validictorian and 2 time state champion in beach olympics.
So what?
None of them would be here if I believed the
nazi-esque propaganda of planned parenthood. My wife was brought to PP, without my knowledge during her first pregnancy. I thank God that she was not brainwashed by them. And I will spend the rest of my days opposing them in whatever way I can.



Jeff Blogworthy writes:

Terrence,

Thanks for the compliment. I have let my blog go of late in favor of other interests. It is a shame, because I actually had a pretty good traffic stream at one time. Maybe I'll take a notion to pick it back up some day.

As to this statement:

It was Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family who impunged the reputation of Sponge Bob by questioning his sexual orientation.

That is what keeps being repeated, but it is flatly untrue. Dr. Dobson never questioned the sexual orientation of a cartoon. Dr. Dodbson objected to the use of the Spongebob character, along with other beloved children's cartoon characters, in homosexual propaganda about redefining "family". The question of Spongebob's "sexual orientation" was merely a calculated misrepresentation latched onto by the political left in an effort to smear Dobson.

tgirsch writes:

Chris Lutz:
So, really it's guilt by association in a lot of ways.

I think you misunderstand. I'm not saying that the allegations of racism against Sanger are guilt by association. I'm saying that the attempts to paint Sanger as a racist/extremist are an attempt to paint PPH as guilty by their long-past association with Sanger.

She was an equal opportunity eugenicist.

And I'll not defend her support for eugenics. Nor, I suspect, would KTK.

The problem is that PP seems to target poor blacks (approximately 1/3 of all African-American babies are aborted).

You state these two things as if they were related, but I'm not entirely sure they are. Economic standing and marital status are far better indicators of who has abortions than race. Why single parenthood and poverty are more prevalent among minorities is another discussion for another time.

Unless you can present evidence that PPH actively targets African-Americans disproportionately, I don't think there's a case to be made there. One would think that the opponents of abortion could find plenty of reasons to criticize PPH without playing the race card.

most people aren't going to see PP as really making a big change whether it's methods are voluntary or involuntary.

Are you really dismissing the importance of the voluntary/involuntary divide? Egad, I hope not...

Of course, I now see Boonton has already voiced most of these objectives.

Jeff Blogworthy:
Eugenics is the natural consequence of the Darwinian worldview. There is no good or bad - only good or bad traits and the people (higher animals) who have them. That these traits should be conciously weeded out is axiomatic.

Wow, that's idiotic. Of course, it rests on the (flawed) assumption that we can even know what traits will be beneficial down the road -- which we mostly cannot. We can make guesses, but we can't know. Today's benefit can be tomorrow's detriment. One need look no further than sickle-cell anemia to figure this out.

Bryan K. Mills:
Could a pro-choice ... person please explain to me the logic ... behind allowing minors to have abortions without parental consent?

Because it's the lesser of two evils. Many pregnant teens are afraid to inform their parents that they have become pregnant, and will go to great lengths to hide this fact from them. This can, and does, lead to things like runaways, suicide, dumpster babies, illegal back-alley abortions, etc. These are not imagined problems -- they're all quite real. You may feel that these are preferable to aborion, but I do not.

jd:
Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are outrageous, yet tgirsch and Boonton are able to ignore the stench to make some questionable debating points.

I love you, too. For the record, Planned Parenthood has prevented countless more abortions than they have provided. Anecdotally, my wife was a Planned Parenthood client for years and never once had an abortion. Ditto my sister. And the same goes for any number of other people I know. In fact, of all the people I personally know who are or were PPH clients, only one ever had an abortion.

Terence:

I don't suppose you have cites, do you?

tgirsch writes:

I would like to clarify that my above characterization of teenage abortion without parental notification as the lesser of two evils in no way implies that abortion is "evil." Rather, the "evil" here is a medical procedure (of any kind) for a minor without parental notification.

Essentially, allowing minors to obtain abortions without parental consent is necessary because the alternatives are worse.

Jeff Blogworthy:
Dr. Dobson never questioned the sexual orientation of a cartoon.

True, but then the cartoon wasn't promoting homosexuality as Dobson claimed, either. It appears Dobson was misrepresenting at least as much as he was misrepresented. Which is, frankly, typical for him.

Jeff Blogworthy writes:

Terence,

P.S. What cool stuff about your family. I am sure you are understandably proud. I love the martial arts. I am a nidan blackbelt. Will we be seeing your sons in the UFC soon? Do you know Kimo? lol.

Boonton writes:

My children can't have an aspirin at school without me signing a form,...

Actually there's no law against it, the school's just nervous in case your kid has some type of aspirin allegry or something. Try this experiment, give your kid or any kid nearby $5. Send them into a store and have them buy a bottle of aspirin alone. They will not be stopped or questioned.

but if a minor gets pregnant PP (et al.) will happily shuttle her off to the clinic without bothering to inform the parents.

Many states require parents being informed. AS for parental consent, I'll give you an opposite scenero. Imagine a teen who, after listening to you elegant pro-lifers here, decides she will not have an abortion. Her parents, horrified at the prospect of their teen girl having a baby rather than going to college insist that she get rid of it. Would you say the law should let her parents force her to have an abortion against her will if abortion is legal?

Terry:
Determine which of the following statements were from modern representitives of PP and which came from the 1930s founders.

Test takers, if you selected the first 13 of 15 quotes as representing the modern PP, you were correct.

The first 13 quotes are an assortment of radical statements as well as stuff that was probably taken out of context. The last two are clearly eugenic statements while the first 13 are not. I can see the difference.

It's important to remember the eugenists were not very concerned with individual liberty or decision making. They were concerned with the 'overall fitness' of the population, measured by what they believed were objective metrics but were almost always culturally biased. Their vision is not compatatible with modern day PP.

jd
Your antagonists are completely out of their league and don't appear to know it. Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are outrageous, yet tgirsch and Boonton are able to ignore the stench to make some questionable debating points.

Yea, cut and paste, really top notch stuff there. Might as well give up now, I'm not going to google each quote backtracking to its original context, trying to piece the speaker into the PP and so on.

Terence, your last post was incredible.

You really don't get out much do you?

Terence Moeller writes:

tgirsch,

You asked for the cite of the quotes. Hope this works.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC067.HTM

If it doesn't, maybe I should spam you and get it overwith.

CHAPTER 67 — PLANNED PARENTHOOD QUOTES
American Life League
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., former Medical Director of thePlanned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).[1]

Anti-Life Philosophy.

Planned Parenthood is the greatest boon to poor women and children in the world. It is also the largest pro-family, pro-life organization in the United States. Planned Parenthood, through its many public assistance programs, helps families out of poverty by preventing unwanted pregnancies, aids women and men in preventing sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), and is a leader in helping women secure the fundamental right of controlling their own reproductive destinies.

Planned Parenthood: The Ultimate Anti-Life Organization.

Introduction.

Planned Parenthood, of all the anti-life organizations in the world, deserves special attention. PP has active branches in more than 70 countries, and tirelessly pushes its detailed anti-life agenda literally everywhere, from Alaska to Argentina, from Moscow to Mozambique, and from Boston to Buenos Aires.

PP's minions are uniformly committed to every unethical and immoral activity imaginable: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, organized atheism, incest, pornography, racism, and homosexuality, just to name a few.

All Planned Parenthood organizers and executives are stamped out of the same rotten mold. They literally cannot rise in the PP organization unless they are totally loyal to Margaret Sanger's ultimate goal of "a race of thoroughbreds."

It is literally impossible to find a Planned Parenthood worker who is pro-life.

The Quotes Speak for Themselves.

Instead of wasting energy condemning Planned Parenthood, it is more instructive to allow this hideous organization to speak for itself. The remainder of this chapter lists just a very few Planned Parenthood quotes, divided into categories. References are included with each quote.

These revealing quotes show just how evil Planned Parenthood really is, and how long it has been deeply involved in the destruction of the unborn and of society in general. These are not isolated instances; every Planned Parenthood organization must adhere to these principles.

The following sections give examples of more than one hundred Planned Parenthood quotes on the following subjects.

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS PLANNED PARENTHOOD QUOTES REGARDING;

(1) Abortion
(2) Forced abortion and coercive population control
(3) Sex-selection abortions
(4) Pregnancy
(5) Informed consent
(6) Husband's rights
(7) Teenage promiscuity
(8) Ineffectiveness of sex education/contraception
(9) Euthanasia
(10) Incest
(11) Sex with animals (bestiality)
(12) Homosexuality
(13) Racist eugenics
(14) Religion
(15) Respecting the law
(16) Mother Teresa
(17) Those who disagree with them
(18) Children

(1) Planned Parenthood on Abortion.

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.

One sperm plus one egg = one baby.

Planned Parenthood/World Population pamphlet entitled "ABCs of Birth Control," 1973, page 4.

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.

How come they [right-to-lifers] don't get upset over a little kid having its tonsils out? That's worse than having an abortion any day!

"Abortion Eve," 1973 comic book by Chin Lyvely and Joyce Sutton, promoted by Planned Parenthood.

For all women who are faced with unwanted pregnancies, Planned Parenthood is committed to preserving the constitutionally protected right to obtain medically safe, legal abortions.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, "The Facts Speak Louder: Planned Parenthood's Critique of 'The Silent Scream'," 1985, page 1.

Until we reach the millennium when we have a perfect contraceptive, when every pregnancy is planned and all children are born wanted, Planned Parenthood will continue to provide not only sex education and contraception but also abortion.

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.

The only avenue the International Planned Parenthood Federation and its allies could travel to win the battle for abortion on demand is through sex education.

Alan Guttmacher, May 3, 1973, quoted in Humanity Magazine, August/September 1979, page 11, and in ALL About Issues, December 1979, page 2.

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.

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.

We know that the abortion issue is our issue.

Faye Wattleton, Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1984.

... it seems to me that there are clearly increasing concerns out there that we need to address ourselves to if we ultimately want to come down with the reality that in spite of all those concerns, in spite of all those changes in viability, in spite of those capacities to intercede in fetal developments, that the ultimate choice about carrying a pregnancy to term can only be made by the woman who is pregnant, we will lose it [the right to choose].

Alfred Moran, executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood of New York, at the 1983 National Abortion Federation annual meeting in Minneapolis. Quoted in National Right to Life News. "Technical Advances to Make Pro-Abortion Position Tougher." May 26, 1983, page 12.

Is the fetus alive? Is it alive? Algae is alive, and earthworms, and your appendix. Mold on the bread in the refrigerator is alive. People are not agreed on what a life is ... If you look at pictures of human, chicken, pig, and turtle embryos at the same stage of development, it is difficult to tell them apart.

Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood booklet entitled "Let's Tell the Truth About Abortion."

Note that the "Let's Tell the Truth" booklet definitively declares that "mold on the bread in the refrigerator is alive," then states baldly that nobody knows what life is. Since, according to Planned Parenthood, mold is alive and the preborn are only "potential life," mold therefore has a higher status than a nine-month preborn baby in the eyes of Planned Parenthood.

Curiously, former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton admits that the preborn are alive in her recent book:

There are many sperm cells in the [seminal] fluid. If one of them meets an egg cell inside the mother, new life can begin to grow ... If one of your friends is pregnant, ask her to let your child 'feel the baby move.' ... A baby grows in a special place inside the mother, called the uterus not in her stomach. In nine months it is born.

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.

In July of 1989, the United States Supreme Court allowed individual States to slightly limit access to abortions. Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, complained that "This decision leaves abortion to the vagaries of our residents."[2]

Several months later, Wattleton (who was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 1986) wrote in The Humanist that "We need to remove the abortion issue forever from the legislative arena. We need a universal recognition that our civil liberties are off-limits to partisan debate!"[3]

In other words, Planned Parenthood doesn't trust either the legislatures or the people to make up their own minds on issues that PP wants to declare "off limits." This is a prime indicator of a totalitarian or Fascist organization.

(2) Planned Parenthood on Forced Abortions and Coercive Population Control.

The following quotes from Planned Parenthood are especially frightening when one realizes that the first two already reflect cold reality and the others recommend forced abortions right here in the United States!

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.

It will be difficult to control world population if contraceptive methods are not combined with abortion ...

Benjamin Viel, M.D., International Planned Parenthood Foundation, 1971.

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.

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.

These two documents, of course, are an outline of the Draconian population control and one-child policy currently being vigorously enforced in the People's Republic of China. Refer to Chapter 50, "Forced Abortions," in order to see the remarkable similarity between the above documents and what is actually happening elsewhere in the world. No wonder Planned Parenthood applauds China's inhuman population control policy it was originally Planned Parenthood's idea!

Keep in mind that the above articles were intended for implementation in the United States, not in China!

(3) Planned Parenthood on Sex-Selection 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.

(4) Planned Parenthood on Pregnancy.

Unwanted pregnancy is transmitted sexually, is socially and emotionally pathologic ... and has many other characteristics of the conventional venereal diseases. The incubation time, defined as the period between exposure (mid-cycle coitus) and the development of initial symptoms (usually missed menses), averages approximately two weeks.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

In early 1966, the present writer attended a conference at which the Population Crisis Committee was trying to persuade certain groups within the National Institute of Health to give greater priority to family planning in their mental health programs. The writer and others found it somewhat embarrassing to have to confess that there was little clear evidence that unwanted conceptions were in a worse light than other conceptions.

Professor Edward Pohlman, Social Science Committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Unwanted Conception: Research on Desirable Consequences." Eugenics Quarterly, Volume 14, Number 2, 1967.

(5) Planned Parenthood on Informed Consent.

I am all for educating the American medical professional. I have rather dim enthusiasm for attempting to educate the recipients of therapy. I think the dispenser of the therapy is the person who must be educated and not the recipient ... Now, I do not think that you are going to be able to educate the American woman as to what she should or should not do with regard to the pill. I think you can educate the American doctor. He is educatable ... My feeling is that when you attempt to instruct American womanhood in this, which is a pure medical matter which I am afraid she has not the background to understand, you are creating in her simply a panic reaction without much intellectual background.

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 6,523, February 25, 1970. Pages 6,610, 6,568 and 6,572.

(6) Planned Parenthood on a Husband's Rights.

When interviewed about the rights of husbands to protect their own preborn children, Louise Tyrer, vice-president of medical affairs at Planned Parenthood, reacted in a manner typical of the utter callousness that pro-abortionists show towards any rights other than their own.

But it doesn't matter how much men scream and holler that they are being left out [of the abortion decision]. There are some things that they are never going to be able to experience fully. I say, 'tough luck.'

Quoted in John Leo. "Sharing the Pain of Abortion." Time Magazine, September 26, 1983, page 78.

(7) Planned Parenthood 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.

Notice the quote below, which is by Louise Tyrer, Planned Parenthood's assistant director of medical affairs. She is recommending birth control for girls who have not yet begun to menstruate and in this country, first menstruation occurs at an average age of 13!

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.

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.

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.

Premarital intercourse does have its definite values as a training ground for marriage or some other committed relationship ... to make everyday comparisons again, it's like taking a car out for a test run before you buy it.

Wardell Pomeroy, Ph.D. Boys and Sex. Delacorte Press, New York, 1981. Page 117. This book is used in numerous public school systems in the United States.

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.

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.

Sex is too important to glop it up with sentiment. If you feel sexy, for heaven's sake, admit it to yourself. If the feeling and the tension bother you, you can masturbate.

Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood pamphlet, "The Perils of Puberty."

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.

Masturbation is a natural and harmless expression of sexuality ... Even many church groups have modified their stand, seeing it more as a healthy, normal release of sexual tension than as the sinful, unnatural act it was once considered to be.

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.

Adolescent boys and girls would both welcome reassurance from their parents people whose values they trust that solitary sexual activity is okay. They would be even more relieved to hear that it actually has undeniable benefits.

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.

Discussing contraception which is vitally important, we stress again does not mean and is seldom interpreted by teenagers to mean that you have given permission for them to have intercourse.

[You must say] "We hope very much that you won't get sexually involved until you're mature enough to handle it, but if you ever decide to, please use one of the kinds of birth control we told you about." Once this has been said, teenagers know they need not be afraid that buying or using contraceptives is going to bring on parental wrath.

If parents do not want their children to become pregnant or to make someone pregnant while they are teenagers, they must give them information about contraception and, by so doing, give them permission to use it when they have sex.

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.

Let's assume that Freddy and Imogene are involved and they have talked about family planning and they're out at Waller Park and it's 10:30 at night and they've got about half their clothes off and they are sexually aroused and stimulated, and is Imogene going to say, "Freddy let's get our family planning. Let's drive back and we'll get my diaphragm and come back to Waller Park?" Is that ironic?

Talk given to a freshman-sophomore health class on January 7, 1983, at Righetti High School, Santa Maria, California, by Robert Webber, Director of Santa Barbara North County Planned Parenthood.

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.

Why, if they have acknowledged the ineffectiveness of sex education and contraception for teenagers (see below), does Planned Parenthood continue to advocate teenage promiscuity? There is a very logical and fundamental reason for this advocacy: Self-perpetuation. According to their Annual Service Reports, Planned Parenthood has performed more than 1,100,000 abortions since 1970 and these abortions, performed in their 55 abortion clinics, have hauled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars of revenue!

The above quotes are typical of the value-free garbage Planned Parenthood forces onto your teenagers. They are smart enough to know it is garbage, and they also know it is wrong. Perhaps the most compelling evidence of this is that Planned Parenthood's president, Faye Wattleton, would not dare send her own precious daughter into the morass that she herself has been instrumental in creating; "My daughter is ten, and like other ten-year olds, she has got the world on a string. My solace in confronting her sexual maturation is the knowledge that she attends an all-girl school, and that's exactly where I intend to keep her for as long as I can."[4]

(8) Planned Parenthood on the Ineffectiveness of Sex Education and Contraception.

Too many of us are focused upon stopping teenage sexual activity rather than stopping teenage pregnancy ... Sexuality education must be a fundamental part of the school curricula from kindergarten through twelfth grade in every school district in the country ... Easier access to contraception must be another priority access without any barriers. We must establish many more school-based health clinics that provide contraceptives as part of general health care.

Faye Wattleton, PPFA President. "Reproductive Rights for a More Humane World." The Humanist, July/August 1986 page 7.

In early 1966, the present writer attended a conference at which the Population Crisis Committee was trying to persuade certain groups within the National Institute of Health to give greater priority to family planning in their mental health programs. The writer and others found it somewhat embarrassing to have to confess that there was little clear evidence that unwanted conceptions were in a worse light than other conceptions.

Professor Edward Pohlman, Social Science Committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American. "Unwanted Conception: Research on Desirable Consequences." Eugenics Quarterly, Volume 14, Number 2, 1967.

The number of abortions per 100 pregnancies experienced, and the percentages of total reproductive wastage due to induced abortion, are from three to four times greater, generally speaking, among contraceptors than among non-contraceptors ... The results are based upon the women's own admission of the extent to which they have resorted to induced abortion. They probably understate the true facts.

Raymond Pearl, M.D., The Natural History of Population. Oxford University Press: London and New York. 1939, pages 222, 240, and 241. Dr. Pearl was a member of Planned Parenthood in the 1930s, and used as the basis of his above quote information collected from 31,949 women who had delivered in the obstetrical wards of 139 hospitals.

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.

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.

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.

(9) Planned Parenthood on Euthanasia.

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.

(10) Planned Parenthood 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.

(11) Planned Parenthood 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.

(12) Planned Parenthood on Homosexuality.

Note that, in the first quote shown below, Planned Parenthood acknowledges that sodomites are not "born that way," but instead choose to live their particular perverted deathstyle.

Most people are heterosexual. Some people choose to be homosexual or bisexual. A few adults choose not to have sexual relations, which is okay, too. We have no right to condemn a person because of his or her sexual preferences. Letting yourself be bothered by fear of homosexuality in yourself or others is irrational ...

A lot of people wonder about oral and anal sex (mouth to penis, vagina or anus; or penis to anus). Some say that such acts are perverse or degrading. Other people consider them to be a normal part of foreplay, or a substitute for intercourse. We say, no one has the right to condemn a person on the basis of that person's manner of sexual expression.

Sol Gordon, "Ten Heavy Facts About Sex" (comic book for teens), Ed-U Press, Syracuse, New York, 1975.

The chances are we all have homosexual or lesbian relatives, friends, or acquaintances ... The most positive approach to this subject is to remember that same-sex relationships may be equal to heterosexual relationships in their capacity for loving and caring.

Girls and boys need especially to be reassured that sexual play with a friend of one's own gender is fairly common and that it is not an indication of future, adult homosexuality.

Most sex educators would tell kids that oral sex is a form of sexual expression which many people find pleasurable and many others find unthinkable. Sexual behavior that is mutually agreed upon and harmful to neither partner is not considered a perversion.

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.

Planned Parenthood has recommended homosexuality as a means of population control, i.e., "Universal impact (on population): Percentage increased homosexuality."

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 PP/World Population, to Bernard Berelson.

(13) Planned Parenthood On Racist Eugenics.

No one can really interpret what Sanger meant because she's dead.

Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood. Quoted in the New York City Tribune, February 23, 1988, page 1. Also quoted in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition: Deception." ALL About Is