- Human life has absolute value. Money should never be placed before life.
- The abortion industry is a business; women are the consumers. Money-making is the goal of the industry.
- Discuss the devastating effects of legalized abortion on society. Who are the victims? Everyone.
- Women are left with post-abortion trauma, and society becomes callous to violence as a result.
One thing all abortionists agree on - abortion is a lucrative business.
Margaret Sanger
1879-1966 - Founder and Hero of Planned Parenthood The founder of Planned Parenthood remains a controversial figure, even decades after her death.Sanger saw abortion and birth control as a way to control “human weeds.” She viewed the poor and the immigrants as “reckless breeders.”
Some quotes from Margaret Sanger:
- “Birth control - more children from the fit, less from the unfit.”
- “Birth control - to create a race of thoroughbreds.”
- “We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the negro population.”
- “No woman or man shall have the right to become a parent without a permit for parenthood.”
Margaret Sanger was a major figure in changing American attitudes about abortion and population control.
Pro-Life activists point to her widely published views as proof that her vision of “birth control” was really an attempt to limit the elements of the population she considered undesirable -- racial minorities and others she labeled “feeble-minded.”
In 1916, she founded the Brownsville, NY clinic; PPFA dates its founding from this clinic.
Sanger found the American Birth Control League and publishes the journal The Birth Control Review, Sanger found the Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan.
From 1931-1936 Sanger was involved with National Committee for Federal Legislation for Birth Control, based in Wash.. DC.
In 1939, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) re-united Sanger to the ABCL.
In 1942, the BCFA is renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Eugenics
“Eugenics” literally means “well-born.”The major eugenics organization in America was the American Eugenics Society (AES) whose name was changed in 1974 to the Society for the Study of Social Biology. Sanger had many organizational connections to the AES.
There were two major branches of eugenics- positive, which sought to have the eugenically “fit” have more children
- negative, which discouraged or forced the eugenically “unfit” from reproducing.
Sanger was only a negative eugenicist.
One would think that any organization founded by Margaret Sanger would attempt to eradicate her memory and escape any association with her ideas. To the contrary, Planned Parenthood eulogizes Sanger.
Its leaders continue to praise Sanger as a heroine and the pioneer of reproductive rights.
Planned Parenthood Now
- PPFA’s and IPPF’s organizational ties to the eugenics movement did not end with Sanger’s death.
- In 1997, PPFA identified its “core clients” as “young women, low-income women, and women of color” - typical eugenic targets.
- PPFA promotes family planning and abortion for the poor as cost-saving measures. Eugenicists have always argued that, if the poor and “unfit” were to have fewer children, the country would save money.
- PPFA offers prenatal testing to determine if the child has genetic defects. Then a “search and destroy” abortion can be performed.
- PPFA is the largest abortion provider in the nation and the most prominent abortion promoter in the world. Its clinics perform 11% of the total abortions in the US (153,367 abortions in 1996) and refer for another 55,000.
6% of PPFA’s revenue comes from its clinics; another 34% comes from government grants and contracts.
In its 1998-1999 fiscal year, The PPFA annual report states $176.5 million was received in government grants and contracts.
75% of that comes from the federal government and the remainder from state and local governments.
PPFA reported in its Annual Report that it currently has net assets totaling $536.3 million.
It increased its net assets by $131.5 million in just one year.
According to the 1998-1999 annual report, affiliates of the PPFA performed 167,928 abortions in 1998, an increase of nearly 3,000 over 1997.
In addition to being the nation’s largest abortion performer, Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s leading abortion promoter.
Among the activities touted in its 1998-99 annual report are:
- filing 10 lawsuits against state bans on “certain abortion procedures” (partial-birth abortion) and getting permanent injunctions in seven states (AZ, FL, KY, MT, NJ, and VA) and restraining orders in two other cases
- obtaining an injunction against a Montana law requiring parental involvement in a minor’s abortion decision and a 24-hour waiting period
- lobbying members of Congress to get them to change their votes on abortion services for military personnel overseas and to vote against the Child Custody Protection Act
- fighting w/ Congress to restore funding to “family planning” programs-nationally (Title Ten) and internationally
PPFA doesn’t detail how much it spent strictly on abortion advocacy or advertising. However, its budget indicates it spent $20.3 million on “public policy” in the 1998-99 fiscal year and an additional $30.9 on fund-raising (fund-raising ads and appeals are often more advocacy than they are pleas for money).
PPFA reports that within four months of launching its teen website, teenwire.com, it received “nearly 100,000 visits a month and 300 sex-related questions each week.” This is the website that recently offered the following advice to teens concerning their parents and sex:
“Your job now is to start paying attention-take the useful, smart stuff you’ve learned from your folks and kick the crap to the curb.”
Seeing this on PPFA’s website certainly points up the insincerity of Planned Parenthood’s highly touted programs facilitating “parent-child communication.”
Discuss why abortion services differ from medical services and the aftermath of abortion.
Baby Body Parts - A New Industry
Aborted fetuses are being dissected alive, harvested and sold in pieces to fuel a vast research enterprise.Opening Lines, A Division of Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., is a wholesale trafficker in fetal parts from American clinics. It is located in West Frankfort, Illinois.
Opening Lines was founded in 1989 to “maximize the utilization of fresh fetal tissue we process.”
The full-color, glossy brochure offers researchers “the highest quality, most affordable, and freshest tissue prepared to your specifications and delivered in the quantities you need when you need it.”
Life Dynamics, Inc., a Denton, Texas-based pro-life group was approached about two years ago by an abortion-clinic insider who uses the pseudonym “Kelly” because she reportedly fears for her life.
Kelly was at the time working for Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF) head-quartered in Laurel Maryland. She said her job was to procure fetal tissue for research. When babies started arriving alive for dissection, she went to Life Dynamics.
Kelly quit her job last spring and provided Life Dynamics with fetal-tissue order forms from researchers throughout North America, plus commercial price lists for babies and baby parts from two private companies that act as brokers between abortion clinics and researchers.
This evidence offers a glimpse into a world of vast, crassly competitive commerce in human tissue.
It links abortion, especially late-term partial-birth abortion, to the booming industry in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
The traffic in aborted babies flows throughout the nation into respected, even tax-funded, laboratories.
While Congress and the president continue to wrangle over the federal funding for fetal-tissue research, the research itself is not illegal.
However, the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 made it a federal felony for any person to “knowingly, for ‘valuable consideration,’ purchase or sell the organs and bodies of aborted children.”
The U.S. House of Representatives on November 9, 1999 approved by voice vote a “Sense of Congress Resolution” (H.R. 350) calling for “hearings concerning private companies that are involved in the trafficking of baby body parts.”
On March 9, 2000, the House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health and the Environment held a hearing on the recently discovered “business” of the trafficking of organs and parts of aborted babies.
Reps. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Chris Smith (R-NJ), and Tom Tancredo (R-CO), have led the effort to expose the truth about this practice.
Little new information was gained from the hearing, but promises were made to begin Department of Justice and FBI investigations into the possibility of illegal trafficking of babies’ bodies.
