"Planned Parenthood and Media TIME BANKS" Richard K. Manoff, ad man for Planned Parenthood and a member of Dr. Louis Helman's Population Committee, has complained that despite the approval of the Advertising Council, some stations have turned down his broadcast spots. In a statement carried in Advertising Age (10/30/72), Manoff suggested that Congress require radio-tv stations to set aside 10% of their total commercial time for public service information on such things as family planning, education, etc The public service "time bank" would be administered by a non-political, new public corporation. This system could be used by such "starved" governmen programs as HEW's family planning services, Manoff suggested. (Editor's note: Just a little bit of humor, folks!) "Law and Population Programme" In 1970, the Agency for International Development contracted with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University (administered with the co-operation of Harvard University) to establish a Law and Population Programme, at a cost of $640,000. With its main thrust directed at the development of a reporting network on legal data from developing nations, the Programme has also conducted seminars and initiated in-depth national studies on how the law effects human fertility behavior (ex. laws restricting distribution or importation of contracep tives or laws prohibiting contraceptive sterilization and/or abortion.) Currently, it is compiling and analyzing country monographs and in co-operation with UNESCO is sponsoring an inter-regional workshop to teach "population dynamics" in law schools. Programme Director Luke T. Lee also serves on the United Nations Fund for Population Activities enabling the agency to co-ordinate its activities on an international scale activities which will culminate in the 1974 World Population Conference for which the Programme is preparing reference documentation. While the earlier newsletters of the Programme repeatedly emphasized the U.N. declaration that family planning is a basic human right, the developing orientation of this group is clearly directed along population control lines in which all means of fertility control including abortion, sterilization and contracep tion are supported by law. For example, the May 1973 newsletter briefly described the legal maneuvers of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) at its Indian Ocean Regional Seminar at the University of Ceylon in July, 1972 at which time the IPPF recommended that countries in the region set up special committees to study the feasibility of liberalizing present laws regarding "pregnancy termination". Such an admission is of critical importance to pro-life agencies since the U.S. Agency for Internation Develop ment is the major source of funding for the IPPF. Secondly, the IPPF has maintained that where abortion is illegal, its policy is merely to insure medical aid in cases of incomplete abortions backed up by contraception provisions. (See Abortion - Classification and Techniques, published by the IPPF, 18-20 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4PW, England Price $1.00). The IPPF is currently funding Law and Population Projects in Latin America including a Mexican venture begun in 1972. ACTION LINE Pro-life attorneys and other legal personnel may obtain additional information on the Programme by contacting Mr. Lee at Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 02155. "Rockefeller Foundation and Abortion and Dr. Know-LES!' On March 14, John H. Knowles, President of the Rockefeller Foundation addressed the National Advisory Council of the Center for Family Planning Program Development, in New York City. The CFPPD is the Technical Assistance Division of Planned Parenthood-World Population. The subject: An affirmative Response of the Health System to the Supreme Court Abortion Decision. According to Dr. Knowles, the key ingredients in securing implementation of the S.C. mandate involves (1) an informed public policy and (2) an effective action program. Thus enabling a capacity load of from 1,200,000 to 1,800,000 killings a year throughout the nation to take place. Part of the public education program would include promoting the advantages of the early detection of the presence of the child within the womb and then as promptly and efficiently as the "health services" could react, destroying that child, with tax funds if necessary. While forcing anyone to have an abortion or to perform an abortion is not indicated by the S.C. decision, Dr. Knowles suggests that the "service" must be available and accessible to those who need and want them. Unless communities take the necessary steps to make abortion facilities readily available and accessible, it is “unfortunately", predictable that legal and other pressures will be brought to bear to compel the existing institutions (including hospitals and health institutions with religious affiliations) to meet community needs. RF and Population Control In the June 1973 issue of RF Illustrated, Dr. Allan C. Barnes, Vice-President of the Rockefeller Foundation attacks the problem of how to reach "the ignorant, the uneducated, and the lowly motivated" with the New Malthusian Gospel according to the new St. Paul. "Do not tell me what the Old Testament says, because the Old Testament was written on the flat side of the curve" (referring to world population growth chart), suggests Dr. Barnes, who sees the problem as not merely one of making birth control available but one of getting people to do as they are told. The combined population control budget for Ford-Rockefeller grants in 1972 was $23 million. Grants to 26 social scientists and legal scholars from the Ford-Rockefeller Foundation in 1972 totalled $647,702 for a variety of population projects involving the effects of the U.S. income tax on fertility patterns to motivations for delayed marriage in Hong Kong. Some 1972 Rockefeller grants which may have special interest for pro-lifers include: $ 25,000 - Operating costs of Citizens Committee on Population Growth and the American Future. $ 25,000 - To the Population Crisis Committee for their special population report. $ 5,900 - To the family planning program of Emory University, Georgia publishers of TRUE TO LIFE, the true confession birth control-abortion magazine. $ 86,000 - Grant to the Planned Parenthood Association of MARYLAND for population education in the BALTIMORE schools. $500,000 - To the Population Council for "new Approaches" to conception control. $ 50,000 - To the James Madison Constitutional Law Institute for programs in population law. $ 98,000 - Grant to Wake Forest University for RESEARCH IN REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY. "The Playboy Foundation" Citing its role in aiding "the right-to-abortion movement" the Playboy Foundation listed the following orgainzation as grant recipients: Association for the Study of Abortion (ASA), the Illinois Citizens for Medical Control of Abortion, the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), Women's National Abortion Coalition (WNAC), Center for Constitutional Rights, and Texas Citizens for Abortions. Additionally, the Playboy Foundation supplied the Supreme Court with copies of an article by Professor Means on the history of abortion in both English and American Law, which was quoted in the Court's Texas opinion. (Playboy, May 1973, p. 71). Now who said the Supreme Court didn't do their homework? "Population Control through Home Economics" The American Home Economics Association has signed a three-year contract with the Agency for International Development (USAID). In 1971, AID awarded a grant of $118,000 to the AHEA to assess "needs and opportunities" for home economics associations and institutions in developing countries to provide family planning concepts and information. When field surveys proved "so enthusiastic" AID increased its first year funding in order to support three family planning workshops in 1972 at Lincoln, Nebraska, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. Participants in the workshops were home economics students from developing countries studying in the United States. The workshop format centered on (1) Community Experiences - designed to develop "population awareness" (2) Home Country Studies - population trends showing need for family planning material made available to students and (4) Spreading the Information - students project in area of population. The theme of the three-year AID funded project is "A Quality Life Through Family Planning" in which the concept of family planning will be integrated with home economics programs. The International Family Planning Project PACKET is available in English and Spanish editions for $2.00 each. Order from: AHEA, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. The packet includes a brochure "The Time is Now! Home Economics and the World's Population Problem". References and publications listed in the AHEA Project bibliography will provide a fairly comprehensive list of anti-life agencies in the United States, both private and governmental. These sheets are available upon request from the AHEA. Prolife references are conspicuous by their complete absence from the AHEA material. "Child Welfare League Policies" The Consortium on Early Childbearing and Childrearing operates under the aegis of the Child Welfare League of America (Suite 618, 1145-19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036) and is funded by the Federal Government. The Consortium's two major concerns are (1) the prevention of pregnancy in adolescence and (2) the development of comprehensive services for school-age parents. A variety of workshops, conference and consultation services come under its sponsorship. In its Winter, 1972 issue of SHARINGS, Planned Parenthood's legal brain, Harriet Pilpel discusses the legal rights of young people - legal rights pertaining to contraceptive services and abortion. With one exception, the views expressed in this particular issue are similar to those of Miss Pilpel. The excep tion appears to be that of Linda Jenstrom, of the Consortium. However, for the record, it should be noted that under the revised Child Welfare League Association standards we read: Recognition of availability of birth control and legal abortion. Thus the league's interest in child abuse and child protection does not extend to occupants of the mother's womb. Though the information concerning SHARING is somewhat dated, the Coalition is bringing it to Pro-life attention because of the Office of Child Development's Parenthood Education program which will effect 500,000 teenagers in 500 school districts by September 1973 as a "pilot" project. In addition to "parenthood" courses, existing programs, such as home economics are expected to be altered to include the course also. Head of the program is W. Stanley Kruger. The curricu lum materials were prepared by the Education Development Center of Cambridge, Mass, with a more than $570,000 grant from the Office of Child Development. Additionally $500,000 in grants was made to several national voluntary youth-serving organizations. We will publish this listing in our next mailing. ABORTION SEMINARS "Advance in Death Technology - Abortion Symposiums" On In May 16, 1970 the Society for Humane Abortion sponsored the FIRST AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM ON OFFICE ABORTIONS in San Francisco. Seventy-two people attended, 42 of whom were physicians. The panelists included attorney Richard Bowers, founder of ZPG and currently on the Board of Directors of NPG; SHA President, Patricia T. Maginnis, abortionist W. J. Bryan Hernie, D. O. of Grove, Oklahoma, David B. Cheek, M. D. of the Pacific Medical Center of San Francisco and NARAL V. P. Lana Clarke Phelan. John Lang, represented the Berkeley Tonometer Company, manufacturers of Berkeley vacuum aspiration machines - vibrodilator probes and vacurettes. The following comments were selected from the proceedings of the symposium... Following the showing of "Uterine Aspiration" prepared in the Dept. of Ob-Gyn at the University of Michigan Medical Center, the audience asked Mr. Lang what pressure he recommended for aspiration. He replied: "All you can get. The Berkeley machine should be set for maximum vacuum...73. Holding the vacuum down to minus 55-60 may not accomplish evacuation." When questioned about the advantages of the vibrodilator, Dr. Gregory Sinith who claimed his experience to be with 150 abortions stated: "Well, you can't live without it once you've used it..." When Dr. Cheek was asked if he told his abortion patients about the risks (informed consent) he replied, "No. Would you?' and explained that informed consent "is the worst kind of consent you can get" because you are telling the patient the expectancy of trouble..." Asked about the use of non-anxiety provoking words by a Planned Parenthood worker, Dr. Cheek said he didn't use the word scrape but rather "we're going to take out some tissue..." The abortionists in the audience complained that while they were operating all they wanted to on Saturdays and Sundays, they were often stymied by the lack of nurses and anethesiologists to which Dr. Nancy McCall replied, "Yes. We have a problem of a lot of up-tight nurses who for some reason or other won't help, and if those happen to be the same ones on call, we're up a creek." Speaking on attitudes about pain control, Dr. Cheek claimed that "The sooner we get rid of those laws, and make abortion a common sense extension of contraceptive care, the easier the problem of pain control will become." Symposium participants and moderators included: E. James Lieberman, M.D. Psychiatric Consultant, Preterm Clinic, Washington, D.C. Sadja Goldsmith, M.D., Director of Teenage Services, P.P.-W.P. Sarah Lewit, Biomedical Division, Population Council, N.Y. Speaking on the role of preparing the patient, Dr. Goldsmith of P.P. says she uses the analogy that (up to about six weeks gestation) "an abortion is something like bringing on a period." She also tells her young patients that "When I was about your age I had an abortion; and later on when the time was right, I had children." According to Dr. Goldsmith, who later describes abortion techniques with Dr. Alan Margolis, the young teenager wants to see someone as a model to make having an abortion acceptable. However, the question of doing too many abortions was raised by abortionist Dr. Joseph Blanchard who admitted that at first he could do twelve abortions a day, but that he found the procedure to be too big of an emotional drain. Now he doesn't schedule any more than two saltings and four vacuums in any one day. In a discussion of techniques and procedures using paramedics, Dr. Bernard Nathanson of Women's Services, N.Y. stated that he ran into strong resistance against using paramedical abortionists when he spoke in and around Harlem and other black areas of N.Y.C. "I was virtually stoned out of every one of these meetings... nobody was going to experiment on them ... they wanted doctors and only doctors..." Regarding the status of minors seeking abortions, Dr. Rosen of John Hopkins stated that "any female in our state, once pregnant (the youngest I have seen was eleven and onehalf) is, in the eyes of our law, not a minor, but an adult. It is neither necessary or obligatory to inform her parents about an abortion..." Dr. A. Frans Koome summed up the proceedings very well when he said, "The whole question of abortion is pretty much a matter of economics..." Dr. Harvey Karman (Los Angeles) Dr. Ronald J. Pion and Harry J. Levin Univ. of Hawaii According to Dr. Potts, IPPF, those people who use fairly reliable contraceptive methods are more likely to use abortion than any other group and the availability of legal postconception fertility control reinforces interest in family planning and increases the credibility of family planning programs. Dr. Potts suggested that abortion when combined with traditional contraceptive methods was safer than either abortion or use of orals alone. Dr. Pion, playing the semantics game suggests that the termination procedure is similar to an "endometrial biopsy" for which very little patient preparation is necessary. Discussion of the advances in death technology included demonstration of various vacuum machines and discussion of current and new abortion techniques including vacuum aspiration, use of hand and foot pumps (Goldsmith), modified bicycle pump (Potts), chemical abortifacients (Pion), the "supercoil" (Karman), and electric probes (Pion). On the subject of pre-aspiration procedures, the author" reports that "Dr. Ravenholt proposed that it might be feasible to use a jet injector similar to that used in mass innoculations "in administering paracervical anesthesia. (from: Contraception, an international journal published by Geron-X, Inc. Box 1108, Los Altos, California 94022. Subscription rate. $30.00 per year) All of the above symposiums reveal the classic anti-life mentality of the abortion establishment. To obtain file copies write: Society of Humane Abortion, Box 1862 San Francisco, First American Symposium on Office Abortions - $2.00 Abortion in the Clinic and Office Setting $1.00 per copy "Abortion - The Freedom Not To" On May 30, 1973 a dozen representatives of national religious, civil liberties and women's organizations appeared in Washington, D.C. to protest Federal health legislation which would permit any hospital or any other facility funded by the Federal government to refuse to allow abortions and/or sterilizations in their institution. Among those in attendance at a news conference to discuss the protest was Carol Foreman of the Women's Equality Action League. Mrs. Foreman is perhaps better known in her position as the Executive Director of Rockefeller's Citizens Committee on Population Growth and the American Future. The other agencies represented were: American Civil Liberties Union YWCA NOW⚫ Planned United Methodist National Women's Parenthood Church of the Brethern National Council of As of July 2, 1973, nine lawsuits to compel public hospitals to perform abortions are already in full swing with plans being readied for the rest of the nation. Prime movers are the ACLU and NARAL. Current target states are New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana. The action was predicted in the January 1973 USCL Newsletter following the evaluation of OPERATION LAWSUIT relating to sterilization. "Planned Parenthood School Scandal Breaks in Maryland” On February 9, 1973 the public spotlight was turned on procedures used for obtaining secretive abortions for minors, when a young girl developed a serious infection resulting from a saline abortion requiring that her parents be informed of the operation on their child. Involved in the controversy were public school personnel, Montgomery County (Md.) public officials, Planned Parenthood and various abortion clinics. It was confirmed that an average of 10 minor girls PER WEEK were given preliminary tests in Montgomery high schools by a representative of the County Health Department called into the schools by either the school nurse or a counselor. Should the pregnancy test prove positive, the girls are referred to the Planned Parenthood Association by the County Health Department employee. Planned Parenthood then carries out the scheduling of the abortions in Baltimore and elsewhere. At no point in the procedure are parents notified of the action up to and including the abortion fee which is paid by the county. Under the system, members of the high school staff, teachers and nurses are given the option of referring students to parents or a minister or doctor or school nurse when they seek contraception and/or abortion assistance. In Maryland as of mid-1971 minors can obtain abortion, contraception and venereal disease treatment without parental consent or knowledge as the result of the passage of State Senate Bill 201. Senate Bill 690 has been introduced which would require that persons under the age of 16 obtain parental consent before receiving the above "services". Montgomery County curriculum on contraception and abortion if approved will begin with 13 year olds this Fall. Pro-life action has been lead by Parents Who Care (PWC) of Bethesda and Chevy Chase, Maryland. MEXICO FOREIGN NEWS "Los Supermachos Brings Congressional Inquiry" The funding by the Agency for International Development (USAID) of the blasphemous Spanish birth control comic book, Los Supermachos which features a Mexican woman kneeling before a statue of the Blessed Mother praying 'Little Virgin, you who conceived without sinning, teach me to sin without conceiving.' has prompted a Congressional inquiry into the agency's population activities. Congressman Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin has asked for a full explanation of the matter from Dr. John A. Hannah, head administrator of AID. Following a national press release by the Coalition on June 30, demanding a public apology from Dr. R. T. Ravenholt who administers the AID Office of Population Affairs, Dr. Ravenholt was asked for a statement by the Washington Press. Response: No comment. For the record, the comic book was ordered by the Panamanian Health and Population Ministries on Nov. 15, 1972 and funded by AIDat a cost of $1,100 under Title X of the Foreign Assistance Act. The AID grant is also under investigation by the Justice Department based on pro-life charges of violation of Church and State. EVERY CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR should be sent a copy of the Los Supermachos cover with details of AID funding and a request that he support a FULL Congressional inquiry into the anti-life activities of the Agency for International Development's Abortion-Sterilization-Population Control programs abroad. Coalition Los Supermachos reprints are available at cost: 20 cents each. USCL No. 132. Editor's Note: The origin of Los Supermachos is Mexico. On December 12, 1972, the Mexican Bishops issued a Pastoral letter on Responsible Parenthood in which they welcomed the government's announced Family Planning Program and laid special emphasis on the married couple's inalienable right to decide its family's size in accordance with the concrete circumstances of their lives. (Full text available from the Division for Latin America of the USCC.) According to a ZPG report, the author of this booklet, Lic. Octavio Colmenacres says he received a letter of congratu lations from the head of the family planning office of the Mexican government's Secretariat of Health and Assistance. Additionally, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has its anti-life rear in full gear in Mexico and there have been an assortment of statements on the use of Mexican women to test new "contraceptive" agents which will probably be abortifacient in nature. The Coalition thus commends the following sobering reflection by Anthony Zimmerman of Japan to the Mexican bishops and other pro-life colleagues at home and abroad as well: in the context of today's INSTANT POPULATION CONTROL programs, which are detonating abortion explosions all over the world, a Bishop might find himself, sadly, the camp of pro-abortionists from the moment he joins the anti-population clique. He might be excused because of ignorance; but we hope that Bishops will not be ignorant, to the detriment-and death-of the unborn. Dreamers and naive people might still believe that it is possible to launch a national population control policy successfully via mass media, the manipulation of public opinion, and economic inventives, with the expectation that no great increase in abortions will follow; but country after country has exploded the dream. THE HARD FACT IS THAT ANTI-BIRTH POLICY AND ABORTION IS A PACKAGE PURCHASE: YOU CAN'T BUY ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER..." from A Criticism of Assumptions and Objections of the Manila Population Seminar May 9, 1973 Nagaya, Japan CANADA "Children's Aid Society - Vanguard for the Unborn" The Children's Aid Society and all such societies should come forward to speak on behalf of the rights of the unborn and the sanctity of all human life. "Let us protect the unborn, intact and deformed. Let us protect the unborn, illegitimate or high-born. Let us protect the unborn, wanted or unwanted. Let us proclaim as a Children's Aid Society that we are for life and preservation of life." These stirring words were taken from a 34-page Brief to the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Children's Aid Society prepared by David Dehler of Ottawa, a legal advocate for the unborn child. A summary of the Brief is available from the Coalition. (USCL Reprint No. 128-50 cents) Retarded Patients and Sterilization and Abortion Counselling Writing in the Canadian Family Physician, March, 1973 issue, Mr. Charles W. Smiley, the chief social worker at the Rockwood Mental Retardation Unit of Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Kingston, Ontario attempts to provide some basic guidelines to family physicians in the area of the retarded and sterilization and abortion counceling. The two main areas of concern of Mr. Smiley center upon (1) the improvement of the retarded patient's physical and emotional health by eliminating or limiting the stress of child bearing and rearing and (2) the PRIMARY prevention of potentially severe mental retardation in certain high risk pregnancies. According to Mr. Smiley, retarded persons capable of liv ing in the community are almost always willing to be sterilized or have therapeutic abortions". If the IQ of the patient is under 55, consent must be obtained from the family, or if no next-of-kin is available the superintendent of the institution in consultation with another medical person. Among the recommendations offered are that sterilization and abortion be recommended and be easily available for retardates when their IQ is less than 55. This should apply also to retardates with an IQ range of 55 to 70 where significant emotional instability factors are present. Grounds for abortion also include "deleterious effect" on the health of the mother |