[van-discuss] Re: [van-announce] JOB POSTING: Planned Parenthood needs Recep

[Geordie Birch]

said mike bug (on 2002-11-15),

> No, planned parenthood is pro-choice, I worked in the same office as them in
> Calgary a few years ago, and they were most definetely pro-choice. I'm sure
> it's the same here. Maybe you're mixing them up with Birthright or
> something?

there's lots of great paranoid-conspiracy stuff re: PP and the Bush
family.

one such link: http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_2.html

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Then Papa Bush ran into a completely unexpected problem. At that time, the
old Harriman eugenics movement was centered at Yale University. Prescott
Bush was a Yale trustee, and his former Brown Brothers Harriman partner,
Lawrence Tighe, was Yale's treasurer. In that connection, a slight glimmer
of the truth about the Bush-Harriman firm's Nazi activities now made its
way into the campaign.

Not only was the American Eugenics Society itself headquartered at Yale,
but all parts of this undead fascist movement had a busy home at Yale. The
coercive psychiatry and sterilization advocates had made the Yale/New
Haven Hospital and Yale Medical School their laboratories for hands-on
practice in brain surgery and psychological experimentation. And the Birth
Control League was there, which had long trumpeted the need for eugenical
births -- fewer births for parents with "inferior" bloodlines. Prescott's
partner Tighe was a Connecticut director of the league, and the
Connecticut league's medical advisor was the eugenics advocate, Dr.
Winternitz of Yale Medical School.

Now in 1950, people who knew something about Prescott Bush knew that he
had very unsavory roots in the eugenics movement. There were then, just
after the anti-Hitler war, few open advocates of sterilization of "unfit"
or "unnecessary" people. (That would be revived later, with the help of
General Draper and his friend George Bush.) But the Birth Control League
was public -- just about then it was changing its name to the euphemistic
"Planned Parenthood."

Then, very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign, Prescott Bush was
publicly exposed for being an activist in that section of the old fascist
eugenics movement. Prescott Bush lost the election by about 1,000 out of
862,000 votes. He and his family blamed the defeat on the expose. The
defeat was burned into the family's memory, leaving a bitterness and
perhaps a desire for revenge.

In his foreword to a population control propaganda book, George Bush wrote
about that 1950 election: "My own first awareness of birth control as a
public policy issue came with a jolt in 1950 when my father was running
for United States Senate in Connecticut. Drew Pearson, on the Sunday
before Election day, 'revealed' that my father was involved with Planned
Parenthod.... Many political observers felt a sufficient number of voters
were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth controllers to cost him
the election...."

Prescott Bush gave a graphic description of these events in his "oral
history" interview at Columbia University: "In the 1950 campaign, when I
ran against Benton, the very last week, Drew Pearson, famous columnist,
was running a radio program at that time.... In this particular broadcast,
just at the end of our campaign [Pearson said]: "I predict that Benton
will retain his seat in the United States Senate, because it has just been
made known that Prescott Bush, his opponent, is president of the Birth
Control Society" or chairman, member of the board of directors, or
something, "of the Birth Control Society. In this country, and of course
with Connecticut's heavy Catholic population, and its laws against birth
control ... this is going to be too much for Bush to rise above. Benton
will be elected. I predict."

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