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Post 06 Dec 2011, 10:03 am

A couple of weeks ago the New Yorker had this fantastic 11 page article on the history of Planned Parenthood. It was written so that the politics of the time was woven throughout the article. I learned so much about how the politics of reproduction changed over time. Sanger was a socialist, but she was forced out, and PP was largely bi-partisan ranging toward conservative from the 50-70s (Barry Goldwater and Dwight Eisenhower had roles in the organization.) Even Roe V Wade didn't break the organization along political lines. That didn't happen until the 1980s.

I would normally post a link to the article, but it is hidden behind paywall. I have put together this pdf for easy reading for those who might be interested:

http://gmjanes.freeshell.org/ppf.pdf

It's long, but if it's a topic that interests you, it's very worthwhile.
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Post 08 Dec 2011, 7:08 am

Wow, and the strange politics of reproduction continues with the very public cat-fight (can I say that?) between Sebelius and the head of the FDA, Margaret Hamburg.

With Ms. Sebelius’s decision on Wednesday, the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters


More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/health/policy/sebelius-overrules-fda-on-freer-sale-of-emergency-contraceptives.html?hp
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Post 14 Sep 2015, 11:07 am

I remind those participating in the planned parenthood discussion of this New Yorker article I posted a few years ago. If you don't know anything about the history of Planned parenthood, it's an essential read.

http://gmjanes.freeshell.org/ppf.pdf
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Post 14 Sep 2015, 2:07 pm

Thanks George for the article ...when the abortion debate becomes about solving a problem and not about controlling/punishing wayward women, we'll solve it. Modern day witch-hunting...
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Post 15 Sep 2015, 9:37 am

The article that was behind a paywall 4 years ago is now free to all apparently:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/birthright-jill-lepore

In 1946, more than thirty-two hundred Jewish and Protestant clergy signed a resolution in support of Planned Parenthood. In the nineteen-fifties, the organization was run primarily by men interested in population control. Barry Goldwater was an active supporter of Planned Parenthood, and his wife served on the board in Phoenix. In 1956, Sanger, who had retired, wrote to a former national director, “If I told or wrote you that the name Planned Parenthood would be the end of the movement, it was and has proven true. The movement was then a fighting, forward, no fooling movement, battling for the freedom of the poorest parents and for women’s biological freedom and development. The P.P.F. has left all this behind.” Sanger was bitter, but she was right. Birth control, as the historian David Kennedy once argued, was a liberal reform often turned to conservative ends.
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Post 28 Mar 2017, 5:20 am

Bump for Dr Fate. It's a fascinating example of how politics and movements evolve.