The Death of Planned Parenthood?

Given that Planned Parenthood is one of the greatest promoters of death around the globe, it is fitting that we may be witnessing the death of this nefarious organisation. If not its death, we are certainly seeing its long-overdue meltdown because of widespread adverse reaction to it.

Just this week the US House of Representatives voted to scrap funding for PP.  House members approved the amendment by Congressman Mike Pence by a vote of 240-185. The debate now moves to the US Senate. It has been a horror month or two for the organisation, and this is just icing on the cake for pro-life forces.

PP in the US has been caught red-handed engaging in all sorts of horrific activities of late, including trying to cover up sex trafficking, offering abortion to minors, engaging in life-threatening botched abortions, breaking various laws, and seeking to discredit whistleblowers.

Things didn’t help PP very much when young pop sensation Justin Bieber said this week that he was pro-life. In an interview for Rolling Stone he said, “I really don’t believe in abortion. It’s like killing a baby?” And a new national survey found that 53 per cent of American voters consider abortion morally wrong most of the time, while just 32 per cent say it is morally acceptable most of the time. Another 15 per cent of Americans are undecided.

No wonder PP CEO Cecile Richards has called it “the worst attack – ever.” While she may call it an attack, many others would describe it as an attempt to get some truth and light into this deceptive and dark organisation, to expose the many shameful activities which regularly take place there.

Then there was the recent defection of a PP leader who spilled the beans on her former employer. I have written up Abby Johnson’s important story elsewhere: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2011/02/04/a-review-of-unplanned-by-abby-johnson/

But the real question that needs to be asked is why wasn’t the heat turned up on PP years ago? It has been around since 1916, and has been pushing appalling philosophies, policies and practices ever since. We have known for decades what a horrific outfit this is, yet few have spoken out against it.

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Several important books exposing PP had been written a few decades ago. Back in 1988 George Grant wrote a very important expose of the movement, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Adroit Press). A revised edition came out in 1992.

This thoroughly researched and documented volume really lifted the lid on the ugly world of PP. This is how he begins his description of the group: “Planned Parenthood is the world’s oldest, largest, and best-organized provider of abortion and birth control services.” No wonder it is so often referred to as ‘Planned Barrenhood’.

He continues, “it has expanded dramatically into a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate with programs and activities in one hundred thirty nations on every continent. In the United States alone, it employs more than twenty thousand staff personnel and volunteers in over eight hundred clinics, nearly two hundred affiliates, and more than fifty chapters in every major metropolitan area, coast to coast.”

Another lengthy and important critique of PP came in 1991 with Blessed are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood by Robert Marshall and Charles Donovan (Ignatius). Their volume also thoroughly documented the insidious agenda of this radical social engineering organisation.

Anyone reading these two books (each one running to 400 pages) would not only become a mini-authority on PP, but would see why concerned citizens have long sought to expose the diabolical workings of this group. It has been one of the most destructive and dangerous groups to operate freely for the past century.

Margaret Sanger

One cannot really understand the horrific agenda of PP without knowing something about its founding. Unfortunately most people know nothing about this, and PP is careful not to let the public know too much about its actual beginning. But we all need to know about PP’s founder, Margaret Sanger.

This is not the place to provide a detailed look at Sanger. Suffice it to say that she was a radical eugenicist, pro-abortionist, racist, socialist, atheist, and coercive utopian. She proudly championed promiscuity and ‘free love’; sex education for the youngest of children; radical feminism; forced sterilisation for those she considered to be less than human; and segregation of inferior classes and races.

But letting her speak in her own words may be the best way to demonstrate her malevolent ideology. Her own writings and speeches are mind-boggling, and they show just what a monstrous worldview she held to. This explains why PP has been such a force for evil in the world. Consider just a few select quotes:

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

“Birth control: to create a race of thoroughbreds.”

“Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to an earthly paradise.”

“We who advocate Birth Control … lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. The eugenist also believes that a woman should bear as many healthy children as possible as a duty to the state. We hold that the world is already over-populated. Eugenists imply or insist that a woman’s first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state.”

“We prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.”

“In the early history of the race, so-called ‘natural law’ reigned undisturbed. Under its pitiless and unsympathetic iron rule, only the strongest, most courageous could live and become progenitors of the race. The weak died early or were killed. Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness and other lofty and worthy sentiments, which interfere with the law of natural selection. We are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates.”

“[Woman’s] instincts are fundamentally creative, not destructive. But her sex-bondage has made the dumb instrument of the monster she detests. For centuries she has populated the earth in ignorance and without restraint, in vast numbers and with staggering rapidity. She has become not the mother of a nobler race, but a mere breeding machine grinding out a humanity which fills insane asylums, almshouses and sweat shops, and provides cannon fodder that tyrants may rise to power on the sacrifice of her offspring.”

Just as horrendous are these quotes from other writers she allowed to be published in her Birth Control Review:

“The propagation of the unfit must be suppressed, and the accumulation of the debris which encumbers society must be prevented. Science has relieved us of famines and epidemics; science could rid us of the multiplication of degenerate types doomed to lives of wretchedness and incapacity. By what means? Malthus no doubt could show us the way.” -Henry De Variguy

“Godspeed the day when the unwilling mother, with her weak, puny body, her sad, anaemic unlovely face, and her dependent whine, will be no more. In that day, we shall see a race of American thoroughbreds, if not the superman.” -Anna E. Blount, M.D.

“The good preacher ‘thanks God that Susannah Wesley [mother of John Wesley] was not the kind of woman’ who refuses to do her full duty in the line of babies. He wishes this country ‘had a million mothers like Susannah Wesley.’ It has. There are probably several million just as thoughtless and improvident as she was. The country is full of foolish women who continually bring into the world babies … I might point out to Dr. Cadman that most of Susannah’s babies were of no use. Only John and Charles amounted to a hill of beans. The rest were nonentities, like all the Washington brood except George.” -Charles Hiram Chapman

“The plain and simple truth is that they [children] are born needlessly. There are still far too many births for our civilization to look after adequately; we are still unfit to be trusted with a rising birth rate. Our civilization at present has neither the courage to kill them outright quickly, cleanly and painlessly, nor the heart and courage and ability to give them what they need.” -H.G. Wells

Given these quotes, it is not at all surprising that Sanger was closely associated with the Nazi doctors and the eugenicists which Hitler employed to enact his Final Solution. She fully endorsed their use of euthanasia, abortion, sterilisation and infanticide.

And it is her organisation that American taxpayers have been subsidizing for decades. The sooner this miserable organisation is put out of action the better. We should all have learned to reject eugenics from the disastrous attempt to establish the Third Reich – but we seem to be such slow learners.

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17 Replies to “The Death of Planned Parenthood?”

  1. Klanned parenthood are nothing but an evil, evil organisation.
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    I certainly hope their days are over. But I fear it will be back in a new disguise, peddling their death wares as being good for the environment, lest we overrun it and leave it bare like a field after a plague of locusts. The argument of “The world is over populated and the earth is warming up because of it..” is still doing well on various forums and social networks. After a while it just permeates into your mind without you knowing, and you start agreeing with it. Very clever technique.

    There is another way de-population is happening and that is with GMO food. There has been quite a few reports that some GMO corn sent to a few third world countries, contained a synthetic contraceptive or sterilisation agent. If your a poor country you don’t have much choice, you eat or starve. Death of the next generation by stealth.
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    According to a French publication, J`ai Tout Compris, Robert McNamara, former USA Secretary of State and head of the World Bank was quoted as stating: “One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness”.

    All out assault. By stealth.

    Jeffrey Carl

  2. Thanks for the enlightenment Bill. Sanger was one sick female. Planned Parenthood seems to be founded on the principles of the nazi extermination camp. I hope revelations about this beast of a woman do cause the death of the organisation.
    Rachel Smith

  3. Planned Parenthood was caught in a magnificent “sting”. Two devoted pro-life youngsters, with a hidden camera did mock interviews with workers at Planned Parenthood, asking questions and getting “advice” about ways to organise sexual activities with minors. When the first sting was aired on TV, PP said it was a “one off” and claimed they sacked the “offender” involved, only to be confronted with other TV clips containing similar evil “advice” from employees, and showing what a bunch of hypocrites PP are. That great effort was the initiative of young pro-lifers, not politicians, but it forced the latter to act. Also, it has always amazed me how people of many different stripes have the idea that being a member of a reasonably large family is not conducive to achieving some success in life. Years ago I remember I was involved in a discussion on these matters with a fairly large mixed group. One fellow, who I happened to know was an only child (which of course, wasn’t his fault) apparently assumed that because I held the position of General Manager of the local radio station, it followed that I must have had a charmed life. In response to one of my comments, he said to me “Anyhow Frank, you wouldn’t know what it is like to be poor”. For some reason or another, following my reply to his comment, he appeared to go somewhat quiet for the remainder of the evening. I said to him “I was the youngest of 5 children brought up on a widow’s pension.”
    Frank Bellet, Petrie Qld

  4. My daughter recently got hold of a copy of one of Sanger’s books. She said that the moment she opened the package she could actually feel the evil without even opening the book. She quickly read it and got rid of it.
    Unfortunately Planned Parenthood is funded by many big US Foundations all of whom are pro-abortion so I would not be surprised if these Foundations pick up the slack if the Senate votes to cut the funding.
    Madge Fahy

  5. PP’s ‘respectability’ is a tribute to the ‘verbal virtuosity’ of its spokespersons, the media, and the intelligentsia which, collectively if not individually, promoted the idea that killing the unborn, under some euphemised title, was the ‘answer’ to the mother’s ‘distress’.
    The Day of Reckoning could not come to a more deserving group.
    Arthur Hartwig

  6. What never fails to amaze me about people like Sanger and her neophytes is that they are extremely critical of social mores which have withstood the test of time, and provided humankind with many benefits. All they can contribute to society, by way of contrast, are philosophies which are not new, and which have always proved to be disastrous throughout history.
    What is more amazing is that people continue to be hoodwinked by their sophistry. Will we ever learn the lesson; or is it axiomatic that we will always be compelled to re-invent the wheel??
    Dunstan Hartley

  7. Hi Bill,

    Thanks for the article! Can I make a request along a similar vein? would there be any chance that you could do an article on contraception? – particularly your thoughts on how Christians might go about thinking Biblically about it?

    Blessings,
    Isaac Overton, ACT

  8. Thanks Bill,

    I thought that may have been the case! but my search on your blog wasn’t turning up a result.

    In relation to the article that you penned earlier (which was very helpful by the way), do you have any resources (webpages, books, info) on the Billings/NFP method that you could point me in the direction of?

    Many thanks,
    Isaac Overton

  9. What is worse is that the Australian government is also paying PP millions. That needs to stop as well.

    Life Network Australia is calling on the Australian Federal Government to immediately stop all donations to the international abortion giant, Planned Parenthood. Last year the Federal Government gave them $9,000,000 of Australian taxpayer’s money

    http://lifenetworkaustralia.designexperts.com.au/_blog/Abortion_in_Australia/post/LNA_calls_on_Australian_Govt_to_scrap_funding_to_Planned_Parenthood/

    Paul Wakeford

  10. Have long known of Margaret Sanger and her evil agenda. The works of satan reveal themselves quite plainly over time to those who are not blinded or deafened to the truth.
    As we continue to work and pray against all the attacks against life in our time, we are comforted to know that Jesus has come to make the blind see and the deaf hear.
    That said, we need to be aware that we all have our part to play in His plan and prayerfully discern what that part is and then get on with it!!

    Anna Cook

  11. I think one of the big issues is the propaganda argument. Pro-choicers don’t believe any statistics, stories, pictures, etc put out by the pro-life groups and vice versa. When you dismiss the other side simply because they are the other side you will never have a balanced view of the subject. It amazes me that people still believe an unborn baby is a blob of cells even with all our medical technology that clearly shows otherwise. Photos of aborted foetuses are offensive and photo-shopped. Statistics are doctored. In short if someone doesn’t want to hear the truth no amount of evidence is going to make a difference.

    As far as population control is concerned there is no moral difference between killing unborn babies and killing disabled, homeless, poor, or otherwise undesirable people to keep the population down. If killing born people isn’t the answer to population controls then abortion isn’t the answer either. (Not that I believe population is the problem).

    Kylie Anderson

  12. We are seeing the first signs of a rollback of the horror situation that we find ourselves in since Roe vs Wade. It’s up to us all to ensure that this is the beginning of the turning tide against pro-abortion forces, the culture of death, and the promotion of promiscuity & perversion. There is a momentum gathering – let’s use it! Spiritual: pray it out of existence – Practical: Let’s lobby our pollies to rid Australia of this blight. And it is up to us, to NOT let it re-appear in some other guise.
    Garth Penglase

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