tives, we prefer policy of immediate steri- CHAPTER VIII. "Dangers of Cradle Competition" "..Eugenics is chiefly valuable in its negative aspects...it shows us that we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all... These basically vicious, racist opinions could never be a matter of the foundation on which we base our national policy on the contrary! Within the next five years the federal government will spend more than one billion dollars in taxes to promote these ideas. For you see, Mr. Chairman, these quotes were taken from the works of Margaret Sanger, founder of the American Birth Control League which today we know as Planned Parenthood-World Population. Today, some fifty years later, the Sangerite revolution is complete the Sangerite philosophy or way of life has formed the basis of federal policy in the area of population control and socalled "family planning" a pleasant-sounding euphanism for birth control (including contraception, sterilization and abortion.) – The Sangerite programs and policies have become federal programs and policies. Despite a concerted effort to overhaul the public image of the Sangerite Movement between the years of 1920 to mid-1960's to tone down its original eugenics roots and hedoristic basis of sexual activity, the Movement has appeared to come full circle following the January 22nd Supreme Court decision on abortion. It is a matter of public record that Planned Parenthood World Population and its affiliates sees abortion as a key to eliminating physically or mentally defective unborn children as a tool to reduce welfare rolls and as a most necessary and efficient method of population control, i.e. the regulation of family size by government. Large families are an athema, as is so perfectly reflected in Planned Parenthood's brochure So you finally had a boy? which characterizes parents of large families as being immoral and selfish since their example "may kill us all in a few generations". (Attachment C) The story of the rise of the Sangerite anti-life philosophy to that of national policy though basically a complex and lengthy one, may be said to have developed from "an idea" to "an institution" via eight plateaus, each somewhat overlapping a total time span of more than 50 years. First Plateau 1920-1940 Second Plateau 1940-1960 Third Plateau 1960-1968 Fourth Plateau 1965-1969 Fifth Sixth Plateau 1970 A FEW INDIVIDUALS "crying in the wilderness" These SMALL GROUPS, working together informally, then as SMALL ORGANIZATIONS, some help of venture capital from FOUNDATIONS. These small nucleus groups include the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Population Reference Bureau, the Population Council, the Ford Foundation. MASS MEDIA coverage, in order to achieve respecta- BILLS introduced into Congress this activity being carried on by leaders within Congress such as the late Senator Gruening or outside Congress by individuals like William Draper, recently appointed U.S. delegate to the World Population Conference in Bucharest. CRYSTALLIZATION OF OPPOSITION In the United States the Catholic Church remains the singular institution opposed to population control in all forms including abortion. APPOINTMENT of one or more High Level ADVISORY COMMIS- Seventh Plateau 1970 Eighth 57-782 0-76-3 Key Additional Congressional hearings, culminating in The last plateau had been reached by the Sangerites one. service provided by researchers and the pharmaceutical industry, government agencies at all levels - local/state/federal, professional groups such as medical societies, foundations, etc. As I said the Supreme Court abortion decision was an inevitable All the cliches of that decision - terms like "unwanted children", "a woman's right to control her own body.", the population explosion stem from the Sangerite ethic. It represented the culmination of more than half a century of dedication and tireless efforts by the Sangerites and the Malthusians to convince the American public of the righteousness of the CAUSE and to elevate the SANGERITE-MALTHUSIAN philosophy to that of Public Policy. This final achievement is portrayed quite candidly in this book Breeding Ourselves to Death Story of the Hugh Moore Fund by abortion leader Lawrence Lader. the In the section on gaining Congressional Support, former N.Y. Senator Kenneth Keating, then newly appointed National Director of the Population Crisis Committee tells about eating in the Senate Dining Room where he could spread the gospel of family planning among old friends, particularly among the Republican leadership. This fight to influence by other population control leaders in Congress goes on today. CONCLUSION But what does all this have to do with this subcommittee hearing on the Human Life Amendment? Simply this For more than a year the Hogan-Helms Human Life Amendment and similar bills have been buried in the House, where Representative Don Edwards has refused to hold hearings, and in the Senate hearings are dragged out month after month to get Senators and Representatives through the November watershed without a floor vote on such as the HLA. Obviously there is no sense of urgency about the matter, with the exception of a handful of dedicated men, the Congress doesn't appear to be the least concerned that its inaction will result in the death of hundreds of thousands of unborn children. The fact that millions of federal tax dollars are used to promote a myriad of anti-life schemesfrom direct abortion payments (Medicaid-ADC) to the research development and promoting of new abortion techniques to the indoctrination of young children of an anti-life ethic appears to raise no particular concern at family planning authorization or appropriation hearings. Equally obvious is the fact that under these conditions we will have a difficult time getting a Human Life Amendment passed by both Houses. of Congress and on its way to the states for ratification. My purpose here today is to point out the current committment of the Federal Government including this Congress to the anti-life establishment, and briefly how such a committment was obtained and at what price. Mr. Chairman, this Congress OWES its vigorous support for a Human Life Amendment which would protect Human Life from conception until natural death to the American people. The Coalition would agree that the Hogan-Helms Amendment or the newer Roncallo Amendment would provide such protection. Apart from the merit of these amendments themselves, we feel that Congress should recognize the fact that through its indifference, ignorance and its inability to withstand the pressures of the anti-life movement, it must bear its share of guilt for the 1972 Abortion decision, and its share of responsibility in seeing a Human Life Amendment is passed to protect the unborn child. Your responsibility, Mr. Chairman, in this matter is very plain. to educate As for our part, I believe the Coalition and the Pro-Life Movement in the U. S. will continue to fight at all levels including the Halls of Congress and yes, even in Senate dining rooms and to promote an ideal that is as revolutionary in our day as the Sangerite ideal was fifty years ago. That ideal is based on the sanctity and innate goodness of all human life. Thank you. Vol. 1 - No. 1 U.S. COALITION FOR COALITI September, 1972 Mrs. Randy Engel, Editor WASHINGTON, DC FOR LIFE Newsletter Latest followup of the antilife Rockefeller Commission involves the U.S. Office of Educa tion, and the non-profit company known as Population Education, Inc. which was created by the commission and produced the propaganda film of commission findings and recommendations. Population Education, Inc. is directed by Christian N. Ramsey who served as a Vice-Chairman on Presidential Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. On June 5 and again on July 27, the U.S. Coalition for Life contacted the Office of Education for a list of population oriented environmental education projects the agency spon. sored in 1971 and 1972. According to Walter Bogan, Director of the Office of Environmental Education (OE), six projects were selected in 1972. ZERO POPULATION GROWTH REPRESENTATIVES were used as councils. Among the six projects listed was a $50,000 grant to the Population Education, Inc., Christian Ramsey, Director for the purpose of providing supplemental curriculum material for secondary school in population education. The grant was funded under the Cooperative Research Act P.L. 83-531. Another smaller grant of $4,000 was awarded to the FargoMoorehead Chapter of ZPG for a rural pilot project on man's activities and life styles on the environment which included the establishment of environmental booths and exhibits at state and county fairs. A complete list of these grants are available from the USCL. QUESTION HOW MUCH LONGER ARE THE PRO-LIFE FORCES OF THIS NATION GOING TO CONTINUE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO USE TAX FUNDS TO SUPPORT AND ABEIT THE ANTI-LIFE FORCES???????? HJR 837, the Congressional flip-side of S. J. Res. 108 on population stabilization has been circulated to the full House by Congressmen Morris Udall (AzD) and Frank Horton (NYR) who are currently scouting for co-sponsors. The House bill has been referred to the Government Operations Committee. Pro-Life leaders should request that their names be put on the Committee's mailing list to be notified when hearings are to be scheduled and should begin preparing their testimony both oral and written. Excellent back ground material can be found in Declaration of U.S. Policy of Population Stabilization by Voluntary Means, 1971, a compilation of the Senate hearings on SJR 108. Order from U.S. Printing Office, Washington, Doc. 68-976-0, $2.50. Another House bill HR 11226 to establish a Population Growth Institute and sponsored by Esch (MIR) has been referred to the same Government Operations Committee. McNamara's Bank has recently published its sector working paper on Population Planning, designed to help member, borrowing nations reduce their population growth rates. The filing of a demographic analysis and survey of a country's population policies or programs in their economic reports to the World Bank is now required of all developing nations who wish Bank aid. As of Jan. 1, 1972, the Bank is sending its missionaries abroad in order to set up the necessary institutional structures required to plan and administer family planning-population limitation programs. Annex 3 of the Bank's report on Contraceptive Method contains serious errors. For example, the IUD is listed as a contraceptive rather than an abortifacient agent. The section on "rhythm" mentions the calendar and temperature methods of regulating births but ommits the newer Billings Ovulation Method which has both universal appeal and applicability. None of the latter methods, however, the report notes have been used P. O. Box 315 Export, Pa. 15632 on a mass scale. For population control, the plug-or-drug approach have greater appeal. The Bank report praises the safety and efficiency of suction abortion and highlights the future of new abortifacient agents such as the vaginal prostaglandin supposi tories which "requires no regulation of sex activity and greatly reduces the need for education." This statement suggests that the Bank's oversees population aides will not trouble perspective patients' consciences with the abortifacient nature of their new magical pills guaranteed to "bring on a period". It also suggests that World Bank leaders need to be initiated into the Pro-Life facts of life. Write: Robert S. McNamara, President, World Bank Group, 1818 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20433. Population Planning, Mr. 1972 available from World Bank at no charge. It is no well kept secret that some Pro-Life groups been waiting as long as 18 months for a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service on their tax-exempt-tax deductible status. In the meantime, the Anti-Life establishment enjoys the exempt-deductible status which enables them to rack in foundation and business monies. Consider the following Citizen's Committee on Population Growth and the American Future, the newest miscarriage of JDR3rd's Commission which was created on July 1, 1972 has already obtained its tax-exempt and deductible rating from the IRS. Leaders of the Committee include Carol Foreman, former Commission aide, student Stephen Salyer, Hugh Downs, and Eleanor Norton described by ZPG as “a black woman who champions liberalization of abortion and other human rights." (USCL Reprint #101) The ZPGrowth Fund established in 1971 has been declared a tax-deductible educational foundation. Fund board members include Paul Ehrlich, Richard Lamm, Don Shaw and Rodney Shaw. ZPG's computerized Abortion Data Bank is a project of the Fund. (USCL Reprint #102) Even well-known population control lobby groups such as the Population Crisis Committee enjoy a limited favorable tax status with contributions to the Committee deductible up to 50% of the net adjusted income of the donor. The PCC is designated as a "publicly supported charitable" group operating as an educational institution in the population field. (USCL Reprint #103) Letters of inquiry into suspect IRS practices may be directed to: The Internal Revenue Service, 1111 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. as The specter of US-financed, foreign aboritoriums was raised in the Agency for International Development, Dec. 1971, Population Program Assistance report which states," legal restrictions on postconceptive fertility control are removed, for example, India in 1971, it is foreseeable that family planning program strategy will center upon the early diagnosis and relief of unwanted pregnancy, followed by provision of the contraceptive information and services needed to prevent subsequent unwanted pregnancies. "Such pregnancy-centered programs can be much more efficient than ordinary family planning programs because women who believe they may have an unwanted pregnancy will actively seek out any facility offering relief, and hence educational and promotional costs of the f.p. program can be greatly reduced, and the time from inception of the program to reduction of fertility can be minimized." "Provision of relief of unwanted pregnancy plus effective contraception, for example, sterilization, can achieve fertility reduction of more than one birth per clinic acceptor and have a powerful and rapid effect upon fertility patterns." (pgs. 34-35). PPA Report (Dec. 1971) of A.I.D. available from U.S. Govern |