We give Sanger appropriate "due" in our "Patriot's History of the United States." In fact, I think we are the ONLY U.S. survey to ever mention her looney ideas.
"We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity." --Faye Wattleton, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1986
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"If your parents are stupid enough to deny you access to birth control, and you are under 18, you can get it on your own. Call Planned Parenthood." --Planned Parenthood advertisement, Dallas Observer, Jan. 30, 1986
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"There are only 2 basic kinds of sex: sex with victims and sex without. Sex with victims is always wrong. Sex without is ALWAYS right." --You've Changed The Combination, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.
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"The question of whether or not to sell ourselves to men is a false one: The real question is how to sell ourselves in the way that is least destructive to ourselves and our sisters. Prostitutes don't need our condescension. What they need is our alliance. And we need theirs." --The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women's Health Collective, p 113
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"Sex is too important to glop up with sentiment. If you feel sexy, for heaven's sake admit it to yourself. If the feeling and the tension bother you, you can masturbate. Masturbation cannot hurt you and it will make you feel more relaxed." --The Perils of Puberty, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.
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"At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth control without the consent or knowledge of your parents. So, if you are 14, 15 or 16 and you come to Planned Parenthood, we won't tell your parents you've been there. We swear we won't tell your parents." --Planned Parenthood employee lecturing students of Ramona High School, Riverside, Calif., April 21-22, 1986