I disagree with there being a total absence of knowledge and skill to rival planned parenthood. There are a number of women’s referral and counseling services that perform the same function as PP without recommending abortion and without the same level of federal funding.
And they
were around with Planned Parenthood was?
Especially the pre-'60s abortion Planned Parenthood (BTW, federal funds cannot be used for abortions)? Back when men could impregnate their wives, and the wives could not say 'no'? Back when general practioners didn't understand female anatomy, and gynecology really wasn't much of a profession (and nothing like today).
It's that
history I was referring to!
Just like the NRA was
not lobbying the US federal government until the late '60s as well. People love to demonize the real histories of the experts when there was
no others!
They’ve also never been caught on tape advocate the harvest and sale of aborted fetus parts.
Yes, every large organization will have bad actors. Just like the Parkland shooter was a NRA sanctioned champ.
We can play that all day ... all large organizations have bad apples. Move on ...
They also don’t have a founder who argued for eugenics.
Now hold on! With this statement, you basically
confirmed you're ignorant of their history.
First off, eugenics in the '20s was
not the same as the '30s and '40s Nazi Eugenics. It was very commonly
accepted in medical science at the time that families with some diseases should consider not breeding, and consider sterilization, to prevent passing on select genes. This was
before anti-biotics and other, modern medicine.
Secondly, we are
now, today, back to talking about the
same, "eugenic" principals, regarding bacteria and superbugs, but we don't call it "eugenics." We're now calling it many other things (which is a whole post on its own).
But most argumentative ...
Back in the '20s, you had impregnation rates among the poor and sick, and all Sanger did was advocate people have the option to choose sterilization. She
never combined eugenics with sterilization -- much less forced -- but that has not stopped people from combining the two and labeling her everything from a racist to a Nazi.
PP is a dirty organization but is also very politically astute. Which is why abortion rights became women’s health because conflation is an attempt to kill the debate and make PP more palatable.
Planned Parenthood has been the authority on female health for
over a century when no other options existed and female health was largely ignored by the medical community, and women had 0 rights!
Just like the NRA has been the authority on rifles for nearly a century and a half!
The anti-PP and anti-NRA non-sense is something the sensationalist US media invented and evolved over the last half-century. Which is why I wish people would stop the sheepish BS.