{"id":128447,"date":"2016-10-17T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T17:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=128447"},"modified":"2016-10-17T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T17:08:05","slug":"where-did-planned-parenthood-motto-every-child-wanted-child-lead-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/where-did-planned-parenthood-motto-every-child-wanted-child-lead-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did Planned Parenthood’s motto, “every child a wanted child,” lead us?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cEvery child a wanted child.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Planned Parenthood celebrates a century of eugenics and abortion, this popular slogan<\/a> sums up the vision of the most idealistic abortion advocates. If women are spared the burden of \u201cunwanted\u201d children, the argument goes, they will be free to pursue education and economic opportunities and welcome \u201cwanted\u201d children only when they are stable enough to support them. \u201cUnwanted\u201d children grow up in loveless, broken homes and become a menace to society. \u201cWanted\u201d children have the resources to enjoy tennis lessons and SAT prep. Or so the thinking goes.<\/p>\n

Such fanciful theories seem to find scientific support from such studies as the analysis of the precipitous drop in the crime rate in the 1990s popularized in Freakonomics<\/em>. Authors Steven Levitt and John Donohue theorized that the drop in the alarming crime rate seen in the 1990s could be attributed in part to the legalization of abortion in 1973. In other words, the \u201cunwanted\u201d children were never born. Just when you think this statistical argument of dubious certitude<\/a> has breathed its last, Orange is the New Black<\/em> resurrects it<\/a> and you\u2019re confronted by the same tired argument from an abortion supporter.<\/p>\n

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