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== Planned Parenthood and Charges It Still Carries Out Racist and Eugenic Policies ==
== Planned Parenthood and Charges It Still Carries Out Racist and Eugenic Policies ==
Critics of Planned Parenthood charge that it has a history of racist and eugenic policies. <ref>http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/PPHISTRY.TXT</ref>
Critics of Planned Parenthood charge that it has a history of racist and eugenic policies. <ref>http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/PPHISTRY.TXT</ref>
A critic of Planned Parenthood wrote:
"In the latter half of the 1960s, Planned Parenthood and similar groups spent
millions of dollars promoting the idea that the U.S. was in the midst of a
dangerous population explosion. The idea was so absurd it could be disproved
in five minutes at any public library. Caught up in the hysteria, however,
the nation's news media never questioned why groups were warning of a
"population bomb" in the midst of plummeting birth rates.
Among friends, Planned Parenthood officials described the real situation. On
August 11, 1965, Dr. Robert Nelson, Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of
metropolitan Washington, spoke at the Senate "Baby Boom" hearings. He noted
that in Washington, DC, "the less well-off economic section birth rate is
29/1000 and going up; the rate of the economically more secure group is
16/1000 and going down."[31] (As if to underscore his point, the rioting in
the Watts ghetto broke out that same day.) All the public warnings of a
"population explosion" hid the real agenda, reducing the birth rates of
socially troublesome groups. The problem was compounded by a third factor,
the "sexual revolution" of the late 1960s. High rates of promiscuity meant
still more troublesome births in both the white and black communities."
==References==
==References==