Catholic College: "Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland: How Are They Making A Difference?"

John Carroll University ^ | March 18, 2002

[Diago]

http://www.jcu.edu/research/scholarship/schedule.htm

Wednesday, March 20, 2002 John Carroll University 216-397-1886

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. paper/panel presentation (O'Dea Seminar Room 3, LSC)

Contemporary Social Issues in American Society
Moderator: Dr. Phyllis Braudy Harris, Sociology

(D.5) Contemporary Social Issues in American Society: Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland: How Are They Making A Difference?

Kimberly DeSimone, Undergraduate Student; Dr. Susan O. Long, Department of Sociology, Faculty Advisor.

Planned Parenthood is a nationwide, official not-for-profit organization whose main goal and purpose is "to promote family planning and to assure reproductive freedom for all through advocacy, education, and healthcare."

The purpose of this research project was to find out if Planned Parenthood is making a social change in the Cleveland area, and if so, how they are going about making this change. To examine Planned Parenthood's influence on social change in the Greater Cleveland area, their community outreach program, which is operated in collaboration with Cleveland Works, was the focus of the study.

From this research it was concluded that Planned Parenthood has a significant impact on the Greater Cleveland area by contributing to social change through the individual, by informing the uninformed, and by providing healthcare to those who are in need.

[Rightwing Canuck]

Email sent - waiting reply on why this is taking place at a bloody Jesuit school.

[Notwithstanding]

Planned Parenthood: eliminating society's problems before they are born (can we help it if a disproportionate number of our corpses are black?)

[Cicero]

Someone should alert them to this particular talk.

I have read a book by the keynote speaker, Fr. John O'Malley, and he is a genuine, distinguished scholar. The rest of the papers look pretty innocuous, too. There's just that one title that you have found that indicates something stinky in the Sociology department.

I'm not sure what's to be done about it, because sometimes a direct attack will merely entrench the person who is attacked. But it wouldn't hurt to write a few POLITE letters to the president of the university inquiring about it and saying that it doesn't seem appropriate for a Catholic university to be sponsoring such obviously politicized, seemingly unscholarly, as well as un-Catholic papers. It sounds more like advocacy than real scholarship.

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