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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by pstuart on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:12PM (#25016399)
> So was Planned Parenthood.

No it wasn't:

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/43208...

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by zdragnar on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:57PM (#25016855)
Even planned parenthood has been disavowing her:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parentho...

In her speech the morality of birth control, she openly advocated for preventing undesirables (todays' deplorables) from procreating.

Edit: NPR's cherry-picking nice sounding quotes doesn't describe the totality of the woman, her views or the organization- then, or now.

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by pstuart on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:08PM (#25016981)
But to frame it as the reason the organization was created is fallacious.
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