Links to Planned Parenthood

Any right-thinking group would shudder to be associated or linked with racists philosophers. But the IFPA is the Irish Member of International Planned Parenthood Federation. They are also linked to the United Nations Population Fund. Who and what is International Planned Parenthood.

International Planned Parenthood Federation :

• It is a multi-national corporation active in 133 nations.

• Is funded extensively by tax-payers money in most of the countries they occupy.

• Have refused to distance themselves from the coercive population control in China and Third World countries. IPPF give assistance to the Chinese government to forcibly sterilise and abort peasant women. A factory which supplies IUD which are forcibly fitted into women is funded by the IPPF.

• The IPPF use Third World women as guinea pigs e.g. the IPPF implanted Norplant into Bangladeshian women which caused heavy bleeding and death. Recently women in the village Gazaira have asked to have the Norplant removed but they have been refused. The reason being: the Norplant device is on trial for 5 years.

• The Irish Family Planning Association, which is a full member of the IPPF, promoted the Dalkon Shield IUD in the 70's and 80's. Consequently thousands of Irish women are suing the makers of this IUD because it has damaged them irreparably. The IFPA has made no apology to Irish women.

• Dr. Benjamin Viel of the IPPF said in 1971 "It will be difficult to control world population if contraception methods are not combined with abortion."

The IFPA's former Chairperson, Noeleen Hartigan, was a board member since 1996, and has represented the organisation at IPPF European Regional Council meetings since 1998. Former IFPA Honorary Treasurer Robert Durie serves as Treasurer of the IPPF European Network, and is a member of the IPPF's Governing Council. IFPA Director Ruth Ennis is also on the IPPF's Governing Council

A former IFPA Chairperson and current IFPA Honorary Legal Counsel Catherine Forde, has also served as Honorary Legal Counsel to IPPF, attended the ICPD conference in Cairo and developed the IFPA Charter on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

The IFPA has participated actively in the international work of IPPF, and their members have regularly held office within the Federation. They have participated, on an ongoing basis, in providing bi-lateral technical assistance.

It also includes Professor W Prendiville who is also a member of the Adelaide Hospital Society who defended that Society's Green Paper Submission to the government which promoted abortion. In their submission the Society made eugenic statements about the people of Tallaght. This is quite typical of the type of statement IPPF makes on a regular basis.To begin with, the submission of the Society is laden with ambiguities and euphemisms.

"An exceptionally high proportion of women in Tallaght are of reproductive age and many of these are single. These women are at especial risk of having a crisis pregnancy, and we wish to be prepared to deal with this as comprehensively as possible, within the law."

RACIST IDEOLOGY OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD

"We should hire three or four coloured ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street Milton, Massachusetts

"There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer."
Margaret Sanger, October 1926 Birth Control Review

"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race." "Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent Multiplication of this bad stock."
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review

IFPA LINKS TO UNFPA

On October 12th 1999, the day marking 'baby 6 billion', a full page ad in The Irish Times, sponsored by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), called on "Irish Government to increase funding for family planning worldwide" as well as increased Overseas Development Aid. The IFPA is trying to generate increased public support in Ireland for a global organisation called the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). The UNFPA is one of the foremost worldwide advocates of China's population control programme, which includes forced abortion and sterilisation and has been accused of sending deadly abortion suction devices and other abortifacient supplies to refugee camps worldwide.

Ireland's IFPA is a full member of IPPF and now admits to being the UNFPA's "partner agency in Ireland". (Briefing Pack : Women and Children First - Information and Action on Family Planning Worldwide" IFPA 1999)

The IFPA stated that it was seeking to build "public support and awareness of UNFPA" and called on the Irish Government to increase "its contribution to UN agencies such as the UNFPA. In its Irish Times ad, the IFPA stated: "A 1997 UNFPA / MORI poll showed that most Irish people support the provision of family planning services and advice in developing countries". Were the Irish people who took part in this survey informed of all the facts about this matter before they gave their views?