Planned Parenthood is So Far Right Even Republicans Shouldn’t Support It
Episode 34 min 27s

Planned Parenthood is So Far Right Even Republicans Shouldn’t Support It

In this eye-opening discussion, we delve into the controversial history and current practices of Planned Parenthood. From its eugenic origins to modern-day concerns, we explore:

* The shocking founding mission of Planned Parenthood

* Current statistics on abortion rates in minority communities

* Financial controversies and allegations of fraud

* The organization's pivot to gender transition services

* The presence of Planned Parenthood at political conventions

* A vision for reforming Planned Parenthood towards pronatalist goals

* The potential for IVF and genetic testing services

* Critiques of population modeling and fertility projections

Join us for this thought-provoking conversation that challenges common perceptions and proposes unconventional solutions to demographic challenges.

[00:00:00] And we should probably go into that. It's original mission was to genetically cleanse the United States of black people. In 1939, Singer began the Negro project the mission of the Negro Project was to put black doctors and nurses in charge of birth control clinics to reduce the mistrust that black individuals had about Getting sterilized.

So 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion facilities are located in minority communities, even still. Yeah. The one that I used to go to was. Yeah. And if you look right now abortion through Planned Parenthood has reduced the black population in America by 25 percent since abortion was legalized in 1932. They've received 1. 78 billion in taxpayer money between 2019 and 2022. , I think a lot of the people making these donations, I think they receive a lot of support.

Small grassroots nations as well. Believe what I believed. Remember, I grew up in these progressive communities. I attended Planned Parenthood. My mother worked at a Planned Parenthood that, you know, I've come from, I come from a long line of Planned Parenthood supporters, [00:01:00] and we just thought that they were there to support women, just to help women plan families right now the Democratic National Convention is taking place

and Planned Parenthood is present. Offering abortion pills and vasectomies. And in there, no, no, no, no, not just offering, offering for free. . I want like afterwards a thing where like, there's two Planned Parenthood guys.

It's like. Driving out from the DNC, pull off their masks. And it's like, just like really Republican superheroes. Like, I can't, I didn't know they turned to each other. I cannot believe that just worked. We just drove up to the DNC with a sterilization ban. He said, free sterilization. And they marched their youth out there.

Bang, bang, bang, bang. Spayed and neutered.

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Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to be talking about an organization that I imagine your perspective on has changed pretty dramatically over your political evolution. And that organization is Planned [00:02:00] Parenthood. And I remember the moment where like you and I had like the biggest realization personally around Planned Parenthood was when we were trying to get pregnant.

For the first time, yeah, in 2016. You were really struggling with it. I it was, it was hard, you know, it was like, Oh my God, how are we going to make this happen? Right? And so you, coming out of Prague culture, you're like, Oh, who helps people get pregnant? Planned parenthood, right? Yeah. It's all about planning your parenthood.

Yeah. They're all about, you know, what? When you're going to have kids, when you're not going to have kids, you know, and so we're going to go to Planned Parenthood and they're going to have like services that will help me get pregnant, right? Yeah. Yeah. What did they tell you when you went to them with this?

We, we don't do that. Yeah, they, they told me they don't do that. They, they only really do the, they're a unidirectional pipeline. And this even was something that was [00:03:00] echoed in a recent free press article on Planned Parenthood being the largest provider of testosterone in the United States to trans.

Female to male individuals before we, before we go further with this, I, I want to read a little quote here. So people understand how big it is as a provider of this mind blowing. Here's a quote planned. Parenthood has in less than a decade become the country's leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, according to insurance claim data in 2015, around two dozen

of their clinics began offering this service. Now it's available at nearly 450 locations.

Insurance claim information provided to the free press by the Manhattan Institute shows that there are at least 40, 000 patients. Who went to Planned Parenthood for this purpose last year alone, a number that has risen tenfold since 2017 and is continuing to rise. The largest portion, about 40%, were 18 to 22 year olds.

So, when people are like, [00:04:00] Planned Parenthood is like a small player in this stuff, or not a lot is happening here. Just Planned Parenthood does 40, 000 gender transitions a year of young, young people, 18 to 22 year olds. You know, this is horrifying. Horrifying. Well, what's also really horrifying is As is pointed out at the end of this article when one of the women being interviewed for this article who did get assistance and transitioning from Planned Parenthood decided that it was actually really bad for her.

And she wanted to go back to being female and consulted them on, okay, well, this isn't working out like the. The side effects, you know, the symptoms I would, you know, they were only warned about basically two symptoms or something. And in the two hour consultation she got before she was given testosterone to take, which was, you know, obviously profoundly impactful on her body and health.

I think vaginal dryness and one other thing she [00:05:00] was warned about, obviously tons more things happened. She wanted off, she went back to them and said, Hey, this was a lot more complicated than you said. It was going to be, what do I do? They're like, we don't have a protocol for that. I don't know. Which I think shows this, like, Planned Parenthood is kind of a lie.

Yeah, they do the abortions, and they do the birth control, but they don't do the family planning when you actually want to have kids. They do the transitioning out of your birth gender. But they don't help you D transition. And that's, that's where it becomes an inherently and deeply flawed organization, because if it did what I thought growing up as a normal progressive did, which is aid people with the reproductive health and general women's health, that's fantastic.

And sometimes that involves quite frequently that involves birth control, absolutely. They helped me for example, when I was, was, when I was an adolescent choose, which birth control was going to be most effective also [00:06:00] with acne. I loved that. That was so cool, but it was birth control, right? You know, it, it wasn't like if there were instead a fertility boosting drug that would also help me with my acne, I doubt that they would have been the ones to help me out if you know what I mean.

And so I mistakenly thought that they were there for general women's health and for my wellbeing when instead they are a unidirectional. Sterilizing organization. Because of course, what does testosterone do as well? Yeah. Sterilize women. Yeah. What are the puberty blockers do? They sterilize people.

And I should note here Planned Parenthood allows people to get on a gender transition pathway at 18 without parental consent. That's why they see the big flood of people at 18. Well, because in the United States, that is when you reach adulthood and you don't, you're no longer under the care of a guardian.

Yeah. Do you remember how young 18, do you remember like 18, I believe, or

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