Looking Into Past of Planned Parenthood

The president of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood, Jeanette Reese, offers in her article (“Office of Family Planning,” June 25) reasons why the people of California should be happy to spend $34.6 million of their money in order to help them keep their “clinic” doors open. One reason is that it “will save at least $400 million in future costs.”

Planned Parenthood sells itself as a caring, professional family planning organization, when in fact it is the largest abortion provider and advocate in the United States. Under the guise of “reproductive rights,” “unwanted children,” “poor mothers,” and other popular masks, Planned Parenthood continues to deceive the American taxpayer in supporting their immoral deeds.

To truly understand the goals of Planned Parenthood, it is necessary to go back and discover the organization’s roots. Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) was the founder of Planned Parenthood. She believed in the ideology of a superior breed ruling over the impure masses. Sanger considered the poor, immigrants, non-whites and certain religious groups as “reckless breeders,” saying they would eventually bring “biological destruction” upon the world. She coined such phrases as “More children from the fit, less from the unfit,” and “Birth Control: to create a race of thoroughbreds.” Hitler had the same plan. The league’s name was changed (from American Birth Control League) to Planned Parenthood in 1942 because of the negative public reaction to the eugenics program in Germany during the ‘30s and ‘40s.

Appalling as these statements are, no major leader of Planned Parenthood has yet repudiated Sanger’s comments or beliefs. On the contrary, she is upheld as a shining example.

In 1986 Planned Parenthood made over $21 million by performing abortions. Government funding, Planned Parenthood’s largest source of revenue, provides up to $91 million of taxpayer funds each year. There’s more and more and more.

THE REV. LEO JOHN CELANO

St. Michael’s Abbey

Orange