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Mery Dennett helped found the National Birth Control League (NBCL) and led the organization from 1915 until 1918. The NBCL disintegrated in 1919 as Mary Dennett created a new organization, the Voluntary Parenthood League (VPL), which became the principal rival of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL) during the 1920s.
She was not the founded of planned parenthood however you put it. She was mearly the most controversial person in a bunch of women who brought these organizations to existence and because her additional beliefs can be attacked, pro-lifers have decided she was the founding member so that they can attack the entire movement by proxy.
Her eugenic beliefs have nothing to do with any of the philosophies and services offered by every single modern descenent organzation.
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Unsavory tactics? How is advocating against something you sincerely regard as murder "unsavory?" I grant that if they try to present themselves as a completely unbiased party, that would be wrong, but how is their perspective harming anyone?
Then read again:
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What happens at a CPC?
CPCs have used tactics intended to delay and even harass or intimidate women from having abortions. For example, CPCs have been known to extend the waiting period for pregnancy test results to expose women to their anti-choice or religious propaganda. While women wait, CPCs often present them with videos and pictures depicting gruesome and graphic images of bloody and dismembered fetuses that have allegedly been aborted as a scare tactic in their effort to compel women not to have abortions.20
When the pregnancy results are revealed they may be presented in ways that are ambiguous21 or even false.22 Women also have received unwanted calls at their homes from CPCs urging them to not have an abortion following a visit, a clear violation of their privacy.23
What kinds of misinformation do CPCs give women?
Although many CPCs claim to provide options counseling both over the phone and in person,24 in reality they do not provide women with information about their full reproductive health options. For example, women are told that some birth control methods, especially emergency contraception (also known as the morning after pill), are actually abortifacients.25
s mislead women about abortion procedures. Women are told that abortions are painful, life-threatening procedures that will leave them with long-term emotional, physical, and psychological damage.26 They are often told that having an abortion will put them at higher risk for developing breast cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, infertility, and other serious medical conditions.27
Dishonest, unsavory, illegal, disgusting, ..... All of the above.
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I strongly disagree here. Planned Parenthood does not present keeping the fetus as as viable an option as abortion. Them trying to present themselves as unbiased is at least as wrong as CPCs attempting to do so, if such a thing occurs.
A lie told by those very same people resorting to unsavory tactics.
Planned parenthood is just that. They help women decide if parenthood is right for them and if not what choice would they prefer. What happens is that because they don't tell women that having the child is the only option they get accused of not providing any option. Thats hardly surprising considering that their critics only consider 1 option so it seems reasonable that they believe their opponents favour only 1 option as well.
Lies and misinformation are the bread and butter of the religious pro-life movement so they see dishonesty everywhere they look.
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Violating confidentiality? Do you mean neglecting to report statutory rape and other crimes? Planned Parenthood has been known to do so.
That is
upholding confidentiality if you understand the word. Planned parenthood protects the confindentiality of their patients even if it conflicts with the law as does all medical professions and legal professions as well.
Lets talk about women going into CPCs and when it seems they may still want to get a pregnancy then their names are "accidentily" leaked whereby theu suffer harrasing phonecalls night and day as well as people miraculously showing up on their doorstepo telling them they will butn in hell.
Once again I will side with the organization dedicated to helping women rather then the one comitted to stopping abortion at all costs.
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Birth is natural, although it may be an assisted. A doctor performing an abortion is decidedly not so.
Really? Ancient cultures have recipes for contraceptives and abortificants going back to the start od recorded history. Primitive cultures such as the yanomamo practice infanticide as birth control. The males decide if they can handle more children in the tribe and if they can't then they simply leave the infant on the jungle floor to meet its fate.
Abortion is as old as humanity and far older then religion.
That still doesn't address the fact that birth carries with it health risks to the female just as severe.
Dying is natural too. So what?
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