By Dave Andrusko Margaret Sanger When I read interim Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, I immediately thought of the post her predecessor (the one whom PPFA sacked for insufficient abortion militancy)...
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6.7 million dead babies–PPFA “just getting started”
By Dave Andrusko Okay, I appreciate the need to thread the needle--that is, for PPFA to acknowledge (in the most minimal imaginable fashion) some of the outrageous things its founder did and said without raining on Planned Parenthood’s parade in celebrating the 100th...
Planned Parenthood and human (in)equality
By Paul Stark October 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of Planned Parenthood. The group's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a birth control pioneer. But she didn't view "birth control" (a term she helped coin) in the same way as people today. "Birth control is nothing...
More thoughts on Margaret Sanger’s obsession with “human weeds” as we approach the 110th anniversary of the founding of Planned Parenthood
By Dave Andrusko As we discussed last week, we have a near confluence of the 40th anniversary of the life-affirming Hyde Amendment, which we celebrated on Friday, and the 110th anniversary of the life-denying Planned Parenthood Federation of America, October 16. Today...
Shining Light on the Dark Side of PPFA Founder Margaret Sanger
By Angela Franks Editor’s note. Elsewhere today we comment on the eerie juxtaposition of lightness and dark. Today is the 40th anniversary of the life-saving Hyde Amendment. Next month is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Planned Parenthood, responsible for...
Shining Light on the Dark Side of PPFA Founder Margaret Sanger
By Angela Franks, Ph.D. Editor’s note. We’ve published 20+ posts on the shocking videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Whatever benign thoughts people may have entertained about Planned Parenthood, these five videos (with more to come) prove that...
Abortion: The Ultimate Weapon in the War against Female Fertility
Editor's note. In the April 2005, edition of National Right to Life News, NRLC Education Director Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon reviewed Angela Franks's then-new book, “Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy.” What follows is Dr. O'Bannon follow-up Q&A with Ms. Franks which...
What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “100% Chance of Being Loved”
By Dave Andrusko Abortion has been legal 39 years, National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias reminds us in today’s PLP. She says, “An entire generation has been taught by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider,...
Despite best efforts of new book, the truth about PPFA Founder Margaret Sanger Grows Harder and Harder to Deny
By Dave Andrusko Six years ago, NRLC’s Director of Education Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon reviewed “Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy,” the outstanding work by Angela Franks, then a doctoral student (www.nrlc.org/news/2005/NRL04/Sanger.html). He perceptively observed,...
Dr. Angela Franks Will Conduct Two Workshops on PPFA at National Right to Life 2011
By Dave Andrusko There is without question no topic that more intrigues/angers pro-lifers than Planned Parenthood. As the largest abortion provider in the world, PPFA not only takes the lives of more than 322,000 babies annually (according to the Guttmacher...