{"id":173700,"date":"2017-10-26T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=173700"},"modified":"2017-10-26T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:29:48","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-president-admits-abortion-giant-isnt-parenthood-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-president-admits-abortion-giant-isnt-parenthood-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood president admits abortion giant isn’t about parenthood or women’s health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent W Magazine interview<\/a>, former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton spoke about the founding of Planned Parenthood, about her own philosophy on “reproductive rights,” and about sexuality in the womb (yes, really).<\/p>\n

Wattleton, a registered nurse, expanded Planned Parenthood\u2019s health services for women during the time of her presidency from 1978 to 1992 (just before current president and political organizer Cecile Richards took over and health services began to plummet). Much of Wattleton\u2019s interview is a string of run-on sentences, but one thing is clear: Wattleton is a true believer in Planned Parenthood\u2019s mission… and that mission is not<\/em> women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

In speaking about Planned Parenthood as an organization, Wattleton admits, \u201cInterestingly, Planned Parenthood was started by a woman who wasn’t so concerned about parenthood as she was about women’s sexual and reproductive liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Margaret Sanger<\/p><\/div>\n

This is very true, and it is refreshing to hear someone so closely associated with Planned Parenthood admitting that Margaret Sanger\u2019s motivation was not<\/em> actually women\u2019s health or parenthood (unless you count the fact that she believed<\/a> people should have to petition eugenics boards to obtain licenses to be parents in the first place). Sanger\u2019s motivation was indeed \u201cwomen\u2019s sexual and reproductive liberation,\u201d and she opposed religion because of this<\/a>, viewing religious teachings on \u201cchastity and sexual purity\u201d as \u201cfoolhardy.\u201d (This disdainful view on abstinence is even reflected in Planned Parenthood\u2019s modern sex education programs.) However, when it came to sexual liberation, only those deemed most fit were truly to be liberated when it came to reproduction. It was considered undesirable for poor women and women of color to reproduce; Sanger’s goal was to cull their population<\/a>. Wattleton, a woman of color herself, seems totally blind to this and to the history of Sanger\u2019s Negro Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wattleton was raised by her minister mother and insists that her own \u201cwork [with Planned Parenthood] really informed my values quite deeply in a religious grounding, in the view that we must extend compassion, but also, that we have to understand that everyone doesn\u2019t have the same life, and that the government should not dictate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This dubious claim \u2014 that abortion work (otherwise known as killing actual human beings in the womb) can be somehow motivated by a religious inclination to help humanity \u2014 has been made numerous times by those in the abortion industry. Abortionist Willie Parker kills preborn children created in the image of God every day while\u00a0claiming to be a practicing Christian<\/a>. Abortionist Curtis Boyd, who operates the infamous late-term abortion chain, Southwestern Women\u2019s Options<\/a>, claims to be<\/a> an ordained Baptist minister-turned Unitarian who \u201cask[s] that the spirit of this pregnancy be returned to God with love and with understanding\u201d when he aborts children. Abortion is not an act of love or understanding, as this video animation of a D&E abortion demonstrates:<\/p>\n