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Hi, Chris.
Thanks for asking about Planned Parenthood (PP). This is such a broad and complex topic that I really do not feel capable of addressing it in the way it deserves. But I have a responsibility to at least try to put a little dent into it and then to provide a few links for those who want to read more in-depth information.

The words you noticed that I wrote on another thread a couple of days ago were these:
"... the infamous population-control group known as Planned Parenthood ... It is so sad to see that PP has made an impression on you, since they are no friend of the "child," but rather the nation's foremost provider of abortions (about 150,000 yearly -- and rising) and other horrible things. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, PP is the single most evil organization in the world, except for satanic cults. That may sound outlandish to you now, but if you were to have a chance to study PP in depth, as I have for more than ten years, I trust that you would come to the same conclusion."

The reason I said that my words may seem outlandish is that PP has the support of people in high government office, of the media (which is 90% liberal in politics, a poll revealed), of entertainment celebrities, of people in the educational "establishment," etc.. The average American has been led to believe that it is a wonderful not-for-profit institution that exists to promote health and well-being for families. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Since PP has such powerful friends, John Q. Public and Jane Doe have little opportunity to become aware of the hidden truths. I can only scratch the surface here:

1. PP is a many-tentacled beast. Though it was started as a tiny organization in just one city, it has spread through the U.S. and then has gone international (IPPF = International PP Federation). It is now a multi-billion dollar business. The U.S. affiliate succeeds in fooling the IRS into classifying it as "non-profit," but many (leaked) documents and letters reveal that vast profits are sought and accepted from the public, mainly in exchange for contraceptives and abortions. They have a vested interest in keeping those two "services" going strong and growing. Most of their efforts are geared toward maintaining a public demand for contraceptives and abortion, so that they can remain "in the money."

2. PP is its modern name -- adopted around 1940. It was begun by a fallen-away Catholic nurse in New York City as the American Birth Control League before 1920. Since that name seemed coercive in the days of the Third Reich, it was changed to something that sounded more benevolent. (Few people know, though, that ABC openly promoted the horrible philosophy of eugenics, so closely linked with the "master-race" thinking of Hitlerism. Some people linked to ABC and to Naziism did indeed collaborate in the area of eugenics before World War II.)

3. The foundress has been made into something of a heroine, a "secular saint," although a careful investigation of her life and writings reveal her to be a racist who was attached to sexually promiscuity. Her name was Margaret Sanger. She desired to breed "a race of thoroughbreds" (her words). She wrote the following words to a doctor in 1939: ""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." But she targeted a lot more than people of color. Anyone who was poor or of low intelligence was someone she wanted to make sterile.

4. PP comes between children and their parents. It arranges to provide gynecological "services," including contraceptives and even abortions, to minors -- without their parents' knowledge. It contacts girls by phone at home using aliases and pretending to be same-age friends.

5. PP does not encourage abstinence programs, but makes fun of them. PP does not discourage sex between unmarried teenagers, but encourages it, partly out of a free-choice philosophy and partly out of financial motives. PP pushes values-free, co-ed sex education -- better called "indoctrination," considering the way things are taught. Their "education" even tries to make teens think that homosexual activity is OK (e.g., through use of books such as "Heather Has Two Mommies").

6. PP is dedicated to the "atheistic religion" known as "secular humanism," which promotes almost nothing as wrong except intolerance for their point of view.

7. PP promotes abortion like crazy. Though it calls itself "pro-choice," it only recommends one choice, the one that can enrich it. It does not encourage girls and women "in trouble" to choose adoption or giving birth, as crisis pregnancy centers do. Why would it? That would COST them money.

8. PP robs the American public blind by fooling legislators (and the current White House) into providing well over 100 million dollars per year in funding. Yes, our tax money is going into the killing of babies and other grossly immoral activities.

[There is much, much more that could be said ... but I think that you get the idea.]
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To refresh my memory, so that I could produce the notes above, I referred to an Internet page entitled "Why do we oppose PP?" It was produced by the good folks at "Stop Planned Parenthood" (StoPP) a now international organization that I first encountered in the 1980s when it was a grass-roots New York group. I have learned a great deal about PP for over ten years, in newsletters, biographies, lectures, and other sources, all exposing the terrible things that PP has done and continues to do.

If you don't go to any other link, at least please read chapters 67 and 68, about PP and Mrs. Sanger, in this encyclopedia [ http://www.all.org/encyclopedia/contents.htm]. What she said and wrote will blow your mind. If you have time, take a peek also at chapters 64, 65, and 66.

Still more detailed information about PP is available through the links at:
http://www.interlife.org/p pmain.html

A formal research paper on the work of International PP can be found at:
http://www.hli.or g/issues/pp/deception/dd.htm

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), September 05, 2000.