{"id":246772,"date":"2021-07-02T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246772"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:44:28","slug":"exposing-acog-population-control-influenced-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/exposing-acog-population-control-influenced-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing ACOG: Population control enthusiasts influenced organization’s abortion advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)\u00a0was not always supportive of abortion, but the shift to full-blow abortion advocacy began shortly after its founding in 1951. The organization’s helm was quickly taken by those involved with Planned Parenthood<\/a>, the “endemically racist<\/a>” Population Council<\/a>, and the American Eugenics Society<\/a> (AES). By\u00a01968<\/a>, its leadership had\u00a0moved<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0approve<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0American Law Institute\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Model Penal Code to decriminalize\u00a0abortion<\/a>.\u00a0By then, the ACOG was led mostly by men connected to eugenics-based organizations.<\/p>\n

Below is a listing of some these ACOG leaders, who were strong proponents of eugenics and population control:<\/p>\n

William F. Mengert, MD<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was one of the founders of ACOG in 1951 (known then as the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology) and was the ACOG’s president from December 14, 1954, through December 13, 1955.\u00a0He wrote a book on ACOG’s history in which he acknowledged his own connections to Planned Parenthood of Chicago. He became a member of that Planned Parenthood board by 1970.<\/p>\n

Nicholson J. Eastman, MD<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0served as ACOG president from April 26, 1961 to April 3, 1962. Prior to this, Eastman served\u00a0as\u00a0Chairman of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) National Medical Council and had been named an honorary president of Planned Parenthood in 1954.<\/p>\n

Following his term as ACOG president, in 1963,\u00a0the Ford Foundation<\/a> appointed<\/a> Eastman a consultant to their department on population programs. The foundation\u00a0funneled<\/a> millions to the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, which became the Center for Reproductive Sciences, the Center for Human Male Infertility, and the Center for Population and Family Health. This institute was run by another ACOG president, Howard C. Taylor, Jr., who served<\/a> with Eastman in 1964 on a Population Council committee.<\/p>\n