The Original Agenda of Planned Parenthood

My wife and I are enrolled in a program put on by Familia called The Splendor of Love. We meet once a month with a few other couples to discuss a book written by Fr. Walter Schu called, The Splendor of Love, John Paul II's Vision for Marriage and Family. This book is an explanation of John Paul II's Theology of The Body. Tonight, while reading the material for next month, it reminded me of some interesting information about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, that always bears repeating for those who aren't aware of it.

Margaret Sanger was heavily involved in the eugenics movement in New York before the founding of Planned Parenthood, which was originally called the American Birth Control League. The basic philosophy of the eugenics movement is the improvement of the human race through the reproductive sciences. Sanger took this to extremes by declaring certain members of society genetically superior, and proposing to weed out the unfit with birth control. It is unnatural selection, where the elites decide who is fit for reproduction.

Fr. Schu includes one telling quote from a private letter Sanger wrote to Clarence Gamble dated October 19, 1939.

"The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Obviously, Sanger was no great champion of women's rights as she is ofter made out to be. She was firmly behind your right not to reproduce if you were poor, a minority, or otherwise what she determined was a burden to society. Judging from her words, she would not have supported your right to reproduce unless you were deemed fit. But who separates the fit from the unfit? Soon you are trampling all over basic human rights, to say nothing of moral law.

Fr. Schu includes many other damning quotes in his book. Most are taken from Sanger's 1922 book Pivot of Civilization. It would probably make for interesting reading if you could keep yourself from becoming ill in the process.

The question today is whether Planned Parenthood's agenda has really changed all that much over the years. They have more tools now to achieve their goals with abortion and the morning after pill to go along with birth control, but the main thrust is still an attack on the basic right to life.

Birth control is a gateway to abortion and euthanasia. Blinded by narcissism, advocates of these methods are attempting to play God. Soon they are happily skipping down the slippery slope, and making these decisions for others. For their own good of course, all the while selectively weeding out those segments of society they deem unfit. Seems like back door genocide to me! Pray that they don't deem you unfit.