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Robbing the Cradle: The Rockefellers Support of Planned Parenthood

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ASMANYPROLIFERSMAYALREADYKNOW, SOMEOF AMERICASRICHESTMENAREARDENTSUPPORTERSOFPlanned Parenthood and its allies. George Soros, worth a measly $4 billion, established the Program onReproductive Health and Rights, which has given millions to proabort causes. Ellen Chesler, author ofWoman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, is director of the Soros-backed program. Bill Gates, valued at $76 billion, has given $57 million to the United NationsPopulation Fund; almost $14 million to International Planned Parenthood; $4 million to the PopulationCouncil and millions more to other related causes. Ted Turner, valued at $79 billion, earmarked $1billion from 1997 to 2007 for UN health and population control efforts and is reportedly close tocreating a new film and television production company committed to making documentaries about

ecological responsibility and population control.

The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, possessing assets of $13 billion, is almost exclusivelyconcerned with population control and similar issues. And finally, Warren Buffet, currently worth $28billion, plans to dedicate almost his entire fortune, once he and his wife die, toyou guessed itpopulation control. Already, the Buffet Foundation has committed $20 million to IPAS(International Project Assistance Services), makers of the handheld abortive suction pump; $2 million toFamily Health International; and an additional $1.4 million to Planned Parenthood. The Foundation alsohas intimate ties with the Population Council, inventors of NORPLANT and holders of the U.S. patentrights to RU486.

The largesse of these contemporary cradlerobber barons, however, fails to measure up to the granddaddyof them all: John D. Rockefeller. Accounting for time and inflation, Rockefeller would be worth anastounding $200 billion today. Founded in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundations vaguely stated mission isto promote the wellbeing of mankind throughout the world. For both John D. and the Foundation,wellbeing was defined primarily in a physical and economic sense. Unfortunately, Rockefeller thusapproached the problem of global poverty as if he were a shepherd caring for his flock. For Rockefeller,the proper care of sheepor, in this case, sheeplerequires nothing more than an equalization of supplywith demand. If supplyi.e. food, water and spacecannot meet demand, supply must be increased anddemand must be decreased. The Rockefeller Foundation has used this twopronged approach to greateffect. The supply shortage has been addressed by improving the quality of life for many through

advanced medical practices and increased crop yields. The demand problem has been solved by cullingthe herd via birth control and abortion.

Our Cause: Sanger and the Rockefellers

From its inception, the Rockefeller Foundation was at the vanguard of the birth control movement. Oneof the Foundations first official acts was to take over and expand the Bureau of Social Hygiene. TheBureau had been founded two years earlier by Rockefeller Junior, with the stated intention ofinvestigating the evils of prostitution. In 1913, the Foundation formally took charge of the Bureau andgave it the task of conducting research and education on birth control, maternal health, and sex

education. Cettie, Juniors mother and John Ds wife, eagerly furthered the project by giving $25,000to promote instruction in social hygiene for female students around the country. At least as early as

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1924, under the leadership of Katharine Davis, the Bureau began funding Margaret Sangers proposal forbirth control clinical studies by the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.

The Rockefeller family also took a very personal interest in Margaret Sangers activities, as thefollowing excerpt from a September 1930 letter to Abby Rockefeller, Jr.s wife, reveals:

I wish you could come down and visit us some morning or afternoon in the near future. I

know how you may hesitate to do this thinking of publicity, etc., but I wish to assure youthat nothing of the kind would happenThe object of this letter, however, was not to tellyou my woes, but to thank you for your help and your fine interest, and to tell you howmuch I appreciate it at this particular time.

Apparently, this friendship between Sanger and Rockefeller only grew stronger throughout the years. AsAbbys biographer notes, Margaret Sanger was one of the last of her friends in Arizona to see her[before Abbys death]. After Abbys death, Sanger wrote to Rockefeller Jr., to express her condolences:It was such a joy to me to have had a nice laughing talk with Mrs. Rockefeller the morning you left forNew York. I felt then how fortunate you and your children were to have had good rich years of hercare and companionship her silent backing of our cause gave me great confidence through the years ofdarkest night.

The Rockefeller Foundation, to this day, continues to provide significant support to Planned Parenthood.The International PP Medical Bulletin, for example, is primarily underwritten by the Foundation and iseven linked to the Rockefeller Foundation website. The Foundation has also sponsored New YorkUniversitys Margaret Sanger Papers Project. Most importantly, the Rockefellers determined the verytenure of U.S. and international discussions about birth control and abortion. First, through fundingpopulation research and control initiatives at prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Baylor, CaseWestern Reserve, Chicago, the University of Chile, Columbia, Cornell, Hacettepe University in Turkey,the University of Michigan, North Carolina, Princeton, Tulane and the University of Washington. And,

second, through the establishment of the Population Council, the worlds first truly global populationcontrol foundation.

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