![]() Interestingly, Guttmacher also stated in 1970, “We look forward to the time when our clinics can be closed, when the government can fund enough money to serve the poor and research new birth control methods.” In a sobering warning, George Herman ended the CBS report on the passage of Roe with these words: “If the experience of New York State is any guide, America will eventually have one abortion for every two births.” It must never be the primary method of birth control.” ( Source: AMA Congress on Environmental Health, May 4-5, 1970 speech by Alan F. Seventy per cent of the illegal abortions in the country are performed by reputable physicians, each thinking himself a knight in white armor.Īt the same event, Guttmacher asked for liberalization of abortion laws, but not for outright repeal, stating, “To allow abortion on demand would relegate man to the status of the bull.” Guttmacher later said that, “Abortion should be a back-up procedure for failed or failure-to-use effective contraception. The American Eugenics Society pushed the ideals of eugenics – that some people were “fitter” than others – and “ sponsored eugenic health exhibits… a board titled ‘Some people are born to be a burden to the rest,’ on which lights were set to blink at periodic intervals representing how often a ‘defective’ was born in the United States (rapid blinking) and how often a ‘high grade’ individual was born (slow blinking).”Ī 1967 article in the Harvard Crimson quoted Alan Guttmacher speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum, stating that most abortions prior to legalization were performed by “reputable physicians” – something that was downplayed as advocates pushed legal abortion as being safer than illegal abortion: ![]() Alan Guttmacher – President, Planned Parenthood, December 4, 1967, Harvard Law School Forum) “… I would abort mothers already carrying three or more children…I would abort women who desire abortion who are drug addicts or severe alcoholics…I would abort women with sub-normal mentality incapable of providing satisfactory parental care…”(Source “Abortion: The Issues”, Dr. ![]() The “dignity of women”? An interesting phrase to use, given the fact that Guttmacher was also a Vice President for the American Eugenics Society, and said just six years earlier at a 1967 forum at Harvard Law School:
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