Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood

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Thoroughly researched, carefully written, and comprehensively documented, Grand Illusions has already made its mark as the single best-selling volume of all time on Planned Parenthood's role in the controversial matters of abortion and sex education. No other book has so thoroughly surveyed the divisive issues, dominating personalities, legal and judicial precedents, educational and political initiatives, social consequences, and global impact of this organization and the great ...
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Overview

Thoroughly researched, carefully written, and comprehensively documented, Grand Illusions has already made its mark as the single best-selling volume of all time on Planned Parenthood's role in the controversial matters of abortion and sex education. No other book has so thoroughly surveyed the divisive issues, dominating personalities, legal and judicial precedents, educational and political initiatives, social consequences, and global impact of this organization and the great debates it has engendered worldwide.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780963346926
  • Publisher: Adroit Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1993
  • Pages: 409

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xxiii
Preface to the Fourth Edition: Grand Evasions xxv
Introduction: Ad Vitum 1
Part I The Illusion
1. In the Heat of the Fight: A Wild State 11
Facing the Anomaly
In the Belly of the Beast
Hell's Ballad
Insomnia's Clarity
2. Sex, Lies, and Political Correctness: A Flash in the Pan 23
Back to the Future
The Flash Gordon Worldview
Scientific Mumbojumbo
Survival of the Nastiest
Human Weeds
Unsocial Welfare
Prophet, Priest, and King
A Cosmic End Run
3. Without a Choice: The Empire Strikes Back 49
Fomenting Backlash
Apostles of Ignorance
Champions of Choice?
Closed Worldview
Mythology
Part II The Legacy
4. Bad Seed: The Historical Legacy 67
Growing Up Wrong
The Winter of Her Discontent
The Woman Rebel
Sex Education
Planned Parenthood Is Conceived
The Continuing Legacy
5. Machiavellian Medicine: The Scientific Legacy 85
The Medical Risks of Abortion
The Innovation Illusion
The Medical Risks of Birth Control
The STD Illusion
Medicine and the Lost Legacy
Sexual Balance
Conclusion
6. Human Weeds: The Racial Legacy 113
The Planned Parenthood Connection
Racism and Abortion
Racism and Sterilization
Scientific Racism
The Theology of Racism
Conclusion
7. Selling Sex: The Educational Legacy 125
The Shocking Betrayal
The Business of Revolution
The Sex Education Illusion
Defining the Terms
Backwards Deal
Brazen Lips
Conclusion
8. Robber Barons: The Financial Legacy 147
Soaking the Taxpayer
Highway Robbery Made Easy
If at First You Don't Succeed ... Sue
At Mammon's Shrine
Money Laundering: Establishment
Planned Parenthood and Parents: Expansion
Through the Back Door: Recruitment
The Day Draws Nigh
Conclusion
9. Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Institutional Legacy 167
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Program Sweepstakes
The United Way
The March of Dimes
Corporate Philanthropy
Family Foundations
Unholy Alliances
Conclusion
10. The Camera Blinked: The Media Legacy 183
Why Don't We Know?
The Seven Deadly Sinners
RU-Kidding?
News and Truth
The Press as a Moral Force
The Cloak of Conspiracy
Conclusion
11. Global Reimaging: The International Legacy 203
Evangelistic Zeal
A New World Order
Colonizing the Globe
The Commission Reversed
Conclusion
12. A Divine Tragedy: The Religious Legacy 221
In the Beginning
The Betrayal
The Balak Strategy
Reaping the Whirlwind
Achan in the Camp
Conclusion
13. Corporate Reinvention: The Final Legacy 239
A Poison Pill
The Reinvention Trap
Victoria's Secret
Bad to the Bone
Part III The Obsolescence
14. Slaying Dragons: A Commitment 253
The Light of Day
Alertness
Steadfastness
Courage
Strength
Love
Character in Context
Conclusion
15. Idols for Destruction: A Strategy 277
Church and State
The Prophetic Church
The Priestly Task
The Schools
The Media
Local Governments
The Legislature
The Courts
The Bureaucracy
Paying the Piper
Tearing Down the High Places
Conclusion
16. Altars for Construction: An Agenda 311
The Brass Tacks
Almsgiving
Prayer
Fasting
"Where the Rubber Meets the Road"
Conclusion
17. This too Shall Pass: A Promise 331
Part IV Resources
Appendix A The Faithful Witness: Making a Presentation 335
Appendix B Pro-Life Activism: A Social Gospel? 339
Appendix C Select Bibliographic Resources 347
End Notes 365
Index 423
About the Author 431
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 29, 2000

    This is THE book on Planned Murderhood

    I book explains clearly what many of us knew about the roots and progress of Planned Murderhood. I recommend it for both pro-lifers and pro-abortion people.

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