{"id":172378,"date":"2017-09-28T14:18:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172378"},"modified":"2018-12-08T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:46:12","slug":"planned-parenthood-always-making-sure-fewer-people-have-children-heres-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-always-making-sure-fewer-people-have-children-heres-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood has always been about making sure fewer poor people actually become parents — and here’s proof"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1966, Planned Parenthood<\/a>‘s medical director, Alan Guttmacher<\/a> (a former VP for the American Eugenics Society and founder of the\u00a0Guttmacher Institute<\/a>), proposed a blueprint to force taxpayers to pay for birth control access for the poor. Elected to Planned Parenthood’s national board in 1962, Guttmacher believed (as did many eugenicists) that the poor needed access to birth control.<\/p>\n

But while publicly, the messaging was one of empowering others to make “choices,” the real motivation was population control. Guttmacher once told the New York Times<\/a>, “The main goal of our program is not just to limit population, but to give everyone the same opportunity for quality medical care.” Note that Guttmacher acknowledged population control as one of the goals, but clothed it in the same type of messaging used by modern-day Planned Parenthood: the language of access to “health care” or “medical care.”<\/p>\n

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NYT Birth Control Group Offers Plan For Free Services to Millions, 2\/10\/1966<\/p><\/div>\n

Planned Parenthood’s ultimate goal was to convince the public that taxpayer-funded “family planning” — directed at preventing births among the poor — would save the taxpayer money. And, just like today, the nation’s largest abortion<\/a> provider accomplished this goal with the help of politicians on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson lent his support to taxpayerfunded “family planning” efforts, stating in a speech that for every five dollars spent on population control, more than a hundred would be invested in economic growth. The scheme to promote the use of taxpayer dollars as a way to “reduce costs” was detailed in the film Maafa21<\/a>:<\/p>\n