(The
following is a reprint of the
STOPP's essay "Why We
Oppose Planned Parenthood")
"Why We Oppose Planned
Parenthood."
Planned
Parenthood is not a benevolent organization trying to strengthen women's rights.
It is a cold, calculating group intent on spreading the Humanist religion,
luring our children into their web of premarital sex and unlimited abortions,
reducing the population of minorities in particular and filling its coffers with
the profits from sales of birth control devices.
PP COMES BETWEEN PARENTS and
CHILDREN
Planned Parenthood pushes what it calls “confidential services” for minors,
meaning that PP will provide all types of “reproductive services” to young
girls, including potentially dangerous prescription medication and invasive
surgery, without their parents’ knowledge. In its 1993-1994 Annual Report, PP
bragged of its “unswerving commitment to confidentiality.”
In most states, PP assigns teens a “code name” so that PP can call the girls at
home and pretend to be a girlfriend. (Recently, the code names in Springfield,
IL; Chicago, IL; and Kingston, NY; were Heather, Nancy and Lucy, respectively.)
As long ago as 1979, the Sunday Independent newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, PA,
reported that Planned Parenthood was transporting high school girls out of town,
during school hours, to get abortions without the parents being notified.
Planned Parenthood will give minor girls Norplant, Depo-Provera shots, and even
abortions without their parents’ knowledge.
PP DOES NOT OPPOSE TEENAGE SEX
Planned Parenthood does not view teenage sex as wrong. PP is upset only if sex
results in “unwanted” births. Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs are
not about telling children how to avoid sex. They are, rather, designed to
indoctrinate our children into what PP calls “responsible sexuality.” By this PP
means it is okay for kids to have sex as long as they avoid pregnancy; or if
they do get pregnant, have an abortion.
Former PP president Faye Wattleton confirmed this in the Los Angeles Times, on
October 17, 1986: “[Planned Parenthood is] not going to be an organization
promoting celibacy or chastity.”
The current PP president, Pamela Maraldo, in an article in the March/April 1993
issue of Family Planning World, condemned abstinence-only sex ed programs as
“unacceptable.” She endorsed, instead, the position of former United States
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who said, “We’ve taught our children in
driver’s education what to do in the front seat, and now we’ve got to teach them
what to do in the back seat.”
PP SPREADS RELIGION OF HUMANISM
Planned Parenthood is dedicated to spreading the religious doctrine of Humanism
as defined in the Humanist Manifestos (I and II).
PP has consistently refused to give our children a clear message of “right” and
“wrong.” It seeks not to educate our children in moral values, but to
indoctrinate them into the Humanist philosophy that proclaims there is no
objective moral code, and that right and wrong can be decided solely by the
individual.
In the Los Angeles Times article quoted above, Faye Wattleton said, “[Planned
Parenthood’s] concern is not to convey ‘shoulds’ or ‘should nots.’”
Fearing that moral people on school boards may lead to schools teaching our
young children right from wrong, Pamela Maraldo said, in the article referred to
above, “...we must bring an immediate halt to the aggressive infiltration of
local school boards by the religious right.”
Any school program endorsed by Planned Parenthood will give children complete
information on how to have sex. The children will be given no moral guidance in
a PP program and will be told they can do it or not do it depending on how they
feel. While this concept of no absolute rights or wrongs may be embraced by some
people in the world, it is rejected by most. Most people subscribe to religious
principles that recognize a supreme authority over life and a set of divinely
inspired principles on which our behavior must be conditioned. Parents who
support STOPP are among this latter group and, therefore, oppose all PP programs
for teens.
PP POSES A DANGER TO WOMEN
Planned Parenthood runs a business providing birth control devices to its
customers. Although PP is officially a non-profit organization, IRS regulations
allow it to make profits on parts of its operation. PP does make a profit on its
sale of birth control devices and seems to operate more to protect that income
than its clients.
A primary example of this is their provision of birth control pills. The Pill
has long been a major income producer for PP.
At the Third Annual AIDS Conference in Washington in June 1987, Dr. Frank
Plummer of the Kenya Medical Institute reported that oral contraceptive users
appear to be less resistant to AIDS than non-users. Still PP refused to get
teenage girls and others off the Pill.
Then, Family Planning Perspectives (Vol. 25, No. 6, p. 243) reported: “Women who
are seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and use the pill are
more likely than nonusers to have HIV present in their cervical secretions, and
may be more likely to infect their sexual partners.” The AGI story goes on to
say: “The presence of HIV in cervical secretions was nearly 12 times as likely
among pill users as among non-users.”
Still, PP refused to tell its customers to get off the Pill to reduce the risk
of AIDS. If PP were really concerned about women, it would stop selling the
Pill. However, this would mean about an $85,000,000 decrease in PP income.
This same disregard for women can also be seen in Planned Parenthood’s handling
of the Norplant problem. In 1993 and 1994, numerous lawsuits were filed by
Norplant users over the side effects of the implants and the difficulty of
removal. Yet PP not only continues to make this device available, it still
implants it in minors without parental knowledge.
In his book The Destiny of the Black Race,
black author Carlisle John Peterson devotes the greater part of two chapters to
the racist nature of PP. He gives many examples, including Sanger’s notorious
“Negro Project” of the 1930’s.
Looking at PP’s abortion statistics gives more evidence of its racist nature. PP
has an overall clientele spread that is 74% white and 26% minorities. Yet PP’s
1992 Service Report revealed that its abortion customers were 57% white and 43%
minorities! It is clear, then, that PP targets minority customers for abortions.
In addition to lowering the minority population through abortions, PP also
pushes sterilization among minority groups. In his book Grand Illusions, George
Grant wrote:
Lydia Jones, a Title X and Medicaid-eligible welfare mother of four went to the
Planned Parenthood clinic near her home and discovered that “free” government
programs can be a good news-bad news proposition.“ They told me that if I wanted
to take advantage of their medical services I would have to undergo
sterilization,” she said. “The counselor just kept lecturing me about how I
needed to do this, and that I should have done it a long time ago. She told me
that my children were a burden to society. Well, let me tell you, I love my
children. And they’re a burden to no one. My two oldest are in college, working
their way through. My other two are straight-A students and bound for
scholarships. I may be poor, and I may be Black, but I’m not going to be bullied
by these people into despising the heritage God has given me.” Lydia walked out
[of Planned Parenthood]. According to a February 26, 1994, San Diego
Union-Tribune story, PP opened a modern medical facility in the poor
neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico, to provide free sterilizations for Mexican
women. This facility is contributing to the demise of the native Mexican
population.
PP IS LARGEST PROMOTER OF SURGICAL ABORTION
From its beginning, Planned Parenthood has been an organization that championed
surgical abortion. In many of its plans and documents, PP talks about the need
for abortion as “a necessary back-up for contraceptive failure.”
Planned Parenthood opposes every attempt to put even the slightest restriction
on abortion. In 1989 it opposed a Massachusetts bill which would have made
sex-selection abortions illegal.
Planned Parenthood “counseling” is geared towards getting pregnant women to
abort their babies. Paula Molloy of Philadelphia tells of going to PP when she
was pregnant and of the type of counseling she received. Paula said:
I found myself pregnant and went to the only place I knew—Planned Parenthood.
There, the counselor began her coercive methods. I did not have any intention of
signing myself up for an abortion. The counselor asked me what I was planning to
do. I was not sure. The counselor said, “Surely you’re not planning on having
this child, you can’t even afford our clinic let alone a baby.” She started to
tell me the cost of baby clothes, food and medical expenses. She then said: “Do
you want to end up on welfare? You have your whole life ahead of you. You won’t
be able to travel or pursue a serious career.” I told her my parents would help.
She asked me how old they were and how many children lived at home. After I
answered, her comment was “Are you not being selfish to place this burden of
responsibility on your parents? They have already raised their children and it
was their turn to enjoy each other.” I then asked about adoption and she started
to talk about child abuse cases. Then she added that I was on the pill and the
fetus would suffer serious medical and physical complications. I made an
appointment for the abortion that day.
This type of “counseling” occurs frequently at PP. A study made public by the
U.S. Government’s General Accounting Office in 1989 reported that 35.2% of
pregnant patients who go to PP centers have abortions, as compared with just
5.7% of patients who go to all family planning clinics. In addition, the GAO
found one PP clinic where 86.4% of pregnant women had abortions!
In 1993, PP ran more than 100 abortion facilities in the United States and
performed 134,277 abortions. This represents almost 9% of all the abortions in
the country!
PP IS POPULATION-CONTROL GROUP
Despite all its rhetoric about being a “women’s health agency” or an “advocate
for poor women,” PP is first and foremost a population-control organization.
According to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Federation
Declaration of Principles, 1980, p. 12, one of the five general goals of PP is
“to combat the world population crisis by helping to bring about a population of
stable size in an optimum environment in the United States.”
The PPFA 1993-94 Annual Report also bragged: “In February 1994, PPFA launched a
new initiative to ensure Planned Parenthood’s continuing leadership in global
population issues.” It is called the Global Vision Project. PP’s activities in
sterilization and abortion can rightly be traced to its intense desire to reduce
population growth.
PP USES OUR MONEY TO PROMOTE ITS AGENDA
Planned Parenthood receives large amounts of government monies to spread its
philosophies. PPFA receives $150 million from American taxpayers. Thus, we are
being forced to pay for its outrageous programs and its attacks on our youth.
To defeat Planned Parenthood, we need your help. We invite you to join us in
this task. Please pray for our work. To keep informed about PP send $25 for a
one-year subscription to The Ryan Report. END
©
1995 STOPP International
Planned Parenthood
Thanks Anti-Terri GOP Voters
NewsMax | March 31, 2005
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, the director of
public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida sent an
e-mail to advocates for the abortion operation telling them how to "express your
appreciation" to Florida Republican senators who split with the GOP leadership
by voting against a bill intended to save Terri Schiavo, according to David
Bereit, national director of American Life League's STOPP International.
The message listed the
names and contact information for the six senators.
In a Wednesday, March 30,
phone conversation with David Bereit, the Planned Parenthood executive admitted
to sending the e-mail and said, "We just felt that it was pretty courageous of
them (the six senators) to do what they did, and it's always a good idea to
thank legislators when they do something you like."
When asked by Bereit about
the specifics of the measure, the abortion clinic employee admitted, "I really
am not sure exactly what the legislation said," but explained that she sent out
the e-mail because, "I think probably the majority of our supporters feel that
there should not be government intrusion, that the court should be the ones
handling this issue, as it has, and so that's why I did it."
"It shouldn't surprise
anyone that Planned Parenthood and its supporters think the courts should
ultimately decide who lives and who dies in America," Bereit explained. "After
all, it was the courts that forced abortion upon America, giving Planned
Parenthood the ability to make over $100 million a year by terminating innocent
children."
Bereit added, "This is
just one more example of why people across America are uniting to oppose Planned
Parenthood and its destructive agenda.
"Apparently Planned
Parenthood isn't content with killing 244,628 innocent children in the last year
through abortion. Now the harmful organization is telling its advocates how to
thank elected officials for voting against a measure aimed at saving the life of
Terri Schiavo." END
Margaret
Sanger (1879-1966) was a hateful racist. She is the founder of Planned
Parenthood. This video evidences that racism is still alive and cruel in
today's abortion industry. 
