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 thier 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 & 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 & 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.
PP IS RACIST
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.
c 1995 STOPP International
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