3. A passion to prevent the birth of “defectives,” which led to her stating in her 1932 Plan for Peace that persons from “dysgenic groups” should be given their choice of sterilization or confinement on a farm for the rest of their lives. Sanger was a member of the American Eugenics Society.
For 96 years, Planned Parenthood has been actively spreading these philosophies.
In the early years, Planned Parenthood fought to: have churches accept the use of contraception; allow sex information to be sent through the mail; and strike down all the state laws against contraception. From 1916 to 1965, it accomplished all of these goals.
Planned Parenthood also funded a search for effective contraceptives which led to the approval of the first Oral Contraceptive by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960. The advent of the birth control pill has been cited by many sociologists as the catalyst of the “free sex” era of the 1960s and 70s. This brought with it an explosion in sexually transmitted viruses and other sexually related diseases – a problem still with us some 50 years later.
In 1953, Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Lena Levine said that PP had designed its own sex education programs to teach children how to obtain sexual satisfaction before marriage – not to remain abstinent. The results of these programs became apparent in the 1980s as teen pregnancy rates skyrocketed. Today, Planned Parenthood is increasing its sex education push and, with the help tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money, has become the largest provider of sex education in America.
Never mind that it doesn’t work. Never mind that Amarillo, Texas – that threw Planned Parenthood out of the Texas Panhandle five years ago – is now reporting the lowest teen pregnancy rate since records have been kept. Planned Parenthood, like its founder, still wants everyone (married or not) to have sex.