{"id":247092,"date":"2021-06-24T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=247092"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:22:02","slug":"exposing-acog-medical-organization-supports-abortion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/exposing-acog-medical-organization-supports-abortion-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing ACOG: The medical organization that supports and covers for the abortion industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which has been actively pushing<\/a> to do away with safety protocols on the abortion pill and which has updated its own recommendations<\/a> to remain in lockstep with the abortion industry, was not founded as a pro-abortion organization. The ACOG’s move toward decriminalizing abortion began in the 1960s and ultimately ended with the organization officially supporting unrestricted abortion on demand.<\/p>\n

While the ACOG touts itself as a medical organization, it functions as a support and cover for the abortion industry while receiving funds from multiple abortion groups.<\/p>\n

The ACOG is anything but impartial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years, the ACOG has issued numerous practice bulletins and committee opinions supporting abortion rights.\u00a0In 2014, the ACOG\u2019s political arm\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0committee opinion<\/a>\u00a0which affirmed the importance of abortion training \u201cto increase the availability of trained abortion providers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ACOG began to\u00a0fund<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health<\/a>, where abortionists are trained, and it is\u00a0currently working to expand access to the abortion pill (Mifeprex), even going so far as to sue the\u00a0U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a>\u00a0(FDA) to lift its long-held Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Systems (REMS) safety requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The ACOG is stridently\u00a0pro-abortion<\/a>\u00a0and is\u00a0funded<\/a>\u00a0by radical abortion organizations, including Ibis Reproductive Health (funded<\/a>\u00a0by U.S. abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories)\u00a0and by<\/a>\u00a0the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a Danco investor. The ACOG recently\u00a0received<\/a>\u00a0$1.4 million from the Buffett Foundation \u2014 funder of many pro-abortion efforts worldwide \u2014 and has received hundreds of thousands from the foundation every year for several<\/a> years. Unsurprisingly, Buffett was also one of the first\u00a0investors<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Danco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the ACOG didn’t start out as radically pro-abortion.<\/p>\n

The takeover of ACOG by abortion radicals and eugenicists<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ACOG was originally founded in 1951 as the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology before its renaming in May of 1956. Meetings regarding the idea of forming such a group began in the early 1940s.<\/p>\n

Researcher Nancy Aries, who\u00a0authored<\/a>\u00a0a study on ACOG\u2019s abortion evolution,\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0that, \u201cin 1959, ACOG issued\u00a0The Manual of Standards in Obstetric\u2013Gynecologic Practice<\/i>. The section on abortion advised that abortions \u201ccover only those cases where the death of the mother might reasonably be expected to result from natural causes, growing out of or aggravated by the pregnancy, unless the child is destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1960, ACOG fellow Alan F. Guttmacher, a board member of Planned Parenthood who took the\u00a0helm<\/a>\u00a0as President in 1962, told media that an ACOG committee had begun a\u00a0fact-finding expedition<\/em>\u00a0to liberalize abortion laws.<\/p>\n

According to Aries, \u201cIn 1961, a second request was made to establish an Ad Hoc Committee on Therapeutic Abortion. This was an effort to have ACOG respond to the American\u00a0Law Institute\u2019s [ALI] model abortion law that sought to broaden the concept of medically indicated abortion.\u201d\u00a0Research\u00a0edited<\/a>\u00a0by Linda Greenhouse and Riva Siegel claimed that the ACOG even influenced the state of Oregon to expand ALI\u2019s language \u201cto include a sociomedical\u00a0ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

ALI\u2019s language eventually became the outline for the infamous Roe v. Wade<\/em> Supreme Court\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0which forced legalized abortion upon every state in the nation.<\/p>\n

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American Law Institute, Model Penal Code on Abortion (Image: Chicago Tribune, 1966)<\/p><\/div>\n

The president of ACOG around this time (1962) was\u00a0Nicholson J. Eastman, who also\u00a0served<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Chairman of Planned Parenthood Federation of America\u2019s National Medical Council as well as on a\u00a0Population Council<\/a>\u00a0committee.<\/p>\n

In 1966, Alan Guttmacher was seated on a panel at an ACOG annual meeting discussing the decriminalization of abortion \u2014 and that same year, the ACOG\u00a0moved<\/a>\u00a0to liberalize abortion laws.<\/p>\n