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This article is part of a series. Read Part Two here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the co-founder of one of the country’s first legal abortion facilities, Horace Hale Harvey III, died<\/a>. Harvey had founded the Women\u2019s Medical Group (later renamed Women\u2019s Services) in 1970 in Manhattan; at that time it was the largest freestanding abortion facility in the world.<\/p>\n

But it is Harvey’s co-founder in the abortion business \u2014\u00a0staunch environmentalist Barbara Pyle \u2014 who, while only briefly mentioned in tributes to Harvey, ideologically influenced an entire generation of children.<\/p>\n

Barbara Pyle<\/h3>\n

As Live Action News previously reported<\/a>, Pyle told the New York Times in a 1971 interview<\/a> that the abortion facility was her idea. \u201cWhen abortion became legal here, I wrote to Hale and said, \u2018Why don’t we start a clinic?\u2019 I knew all about it from the research I’d done in England,” she said. “He sent me $30,000 and that’s what it took\u2014two months\u2019 supplies and everything, drugs, medications, pumps and everything. I figured we would make Hale’s money back in six weeks and we did.\u201d Once it opened, Pyle served as the facility administrator, while Harvey was the medical director.<\/p>\n

But Pyle’s abortion advocacy appears to be overshadowed by her advocacy for environmentalist causes. Also a filmmaker and the recipient of numerous awards, the work she is most known for is a cartoon beloved by millennials: Captain Planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Working with population control advocate Ted Turner (the founder of TNT, TBS, and CNN), Pyle co-created and was executive producer of “Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” using it as a way of indoctrinating children into environmentalism. She told the New Yorker<\/a> in 2021 that she specifically created the characters on the show to be multicultural as a means of influencing as many people as possible, including pushing for an international audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen an episode is set in India, it\u2019s set in India, and it\u2019s not some white person\u2019s perspective of India. When it\u2019s in Zimbabwe, that\u2019s Zimbabwe. People can recognize themselves, which is the first key to get people to relate to characters. Television is the best medium to use. Now, perhaps, and maybe in the future, it will be TikTok. I don\u2019t know,” she said, adding, \u201cBasically, the trick is, how do you change the way people think? That\u2019s what I had to do….\u201d<\/p>\n

And it worked: “Captain Planet” was massively successful, ranking #1 in the ratings for five straight years, with over 100 episodes airing in over 100 countries. But what were children being taught in those episodes? It was far from the generic “don’t litter” or “recycle your plastics.” Children were also being indoctrinated with a pro-population control agenda.<\/p>\n

Population Bomb<\/h3>\n

At least two episodes involved combatting overpopulation.<\/p>\n

The first, titled “Population Bomb,” aired in the first season of the show. In it, Captain Planet warns the Planeteers that the world has too many people, and family planning is needed to combat the problem, with New York City used as an example of the dangers of an overpopulated society. It is described as dirty, crowded, and noisy.<\/p>\n

A building even crumbles because there are too many people in it, which further drives home the need to stop people from having too many children. The episode even notes, with a positive spin, how some countries put mandatory limits on how many children couples can have.<\/p>\n

One of the Planeteers, Wheeler, fights back against this idea; he argued that no one can dictate to him how many children he does or doesn’t have.<\/p>\n

Angry, Wheeler goes windsurfing during a storm and is knocked unconscious. He dreams of an island called “Miceland” filled with anthropomorphic mice, who lecture him about how the mouse population grew out of control, depleting the island’s natural resources and destroying the island.<\/p>\n

Wheeler recounted his nightmare to the other Planeteers, as well as a warning given to him by one of the mice: “My people and I are doomed. But yours can still be saved. Don’t let this happen to you. Don’t let there be more people than your world can hold.”<\/p>\n