Remember the theme song from the original Poseidon Adventure with Gene Hackman?  There’s Got to be a Morning After was the the name of the song.

This is the morning after. Boehner compromised.  Planned Parenthood got its blood money…our money.  Let’s examine Planned Parenthood on this morning after,  in order to understand just what the Republicans compromised on.

Per the Planned Parenthood website:

Planned Parenthood is rooted in the courage and tenacity of American women and men willing to fight for women’s health, rights, and equality. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is one of the movement’s great heroes. Sanger’s early efforts remain the hallmark of Planned Parenthood’s mission:

providing contraception and other health services to women and men

funding research on birth control and educating specialists and the public about the results

advancing access to family planning in the United States and around the world

Women’s progress in recent decades — in education, in the workplace, in political and economic power — can be directly linked to Sanger’s crusade and women’s ability to control their own fertility.

Okay.  So, who is Margaret Sanger?

Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966) was a nurse. While working with poor women on the Lower East Side of New York, she decided that birth control was the way to avoid being punished with a baby.  She was influenced by watching as her mother tried to cope with her 11 children.

In 1912, Sanger devoted herself full-time to the distribution of birth control information.  The problem was, the Comstock Act of 1873 forbade distribution of birth control devices and information.  So, she wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper, The Call, and collected and published articles as What Every Girl Should Know (1916) and What Every Mother Should Know (1917).

In 1913, she went to Europe for inspiration and/or orders. Retuning from Europe, She started a newspaper, Woman Rebel. That resulted in a indictment for “mailing obscenities.,” She hightailed it to Europe, resulting in the indictment being withdrawn.

In 1914, she began the National Birth Control League. It was run by Mary Ware Dennett and others while Sanger was in Europe.

In 1916 (1917 according to some), Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States and, the following year, was sent to the workhouse for “creating a public nuisance.”

In 1927 Sanger worked with others to organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva. In 1942, after several organizational mergers and name changes, the Planned Parenthood Federation came into being.

As  the late, great Paul Harvey would say:

And now, you’re going to hear, the rest of the story:

From the website, blackgenocide.org:

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Sanger’s other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as “scientific” and “humanitarian.” And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America’s human “breeding stock” and purging America’s “bad strains.” These “strains” included the “shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South.”

Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as “unfit,” a plan she said would be the “salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike of those who were “irresponsible and reckless,” among whom she included those ” whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.” She further contended that “there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.” That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered “unfit” cannot be easily refuted.

Part of the GOP’s side of the compromise is for the Democratic Party-controlled Senate to hold a vote on continuing to federally fund Planned Parenthood.  So-called “Fiscal” Conservatives (aka, Moderates, or Squishes) are applauding Boehner for this clause, because it will put on record those who support PP.

Big, hairy whoop.  We already know who they are.

The funding of Planned Parenthood is not only  a fiscal matter, but a constitutional one, as well.  PP is a private organization being funded with our tax money, whose primary purpose is the ending of a human life.

The Stawman argument being given concerning the federal funding of PP focuses cancer screenings and other women’s services supposedly provided at the clinics. 

That dog don’t hunt.

State-run clinics, helping the uninsured, which refer women to OB/Gyn’s who will work with those who need to be seen, already handle that.

Scarlett Johansen is currently appearing in an ad for Planned Parenthood which talks about the services they provide, curiously leaves out their main purpose:  providing abortion services.

For an organization that is seemingly so proud about ending human lives, why are they not promoting it?

And, by the way, GOP, would you please tell me how much a human life is worth…in budgetary terms?