PP is like the KKK of sex. PP wants sex to be all "white".
I'm speaking metaphorically, I mean "white" not in the sense of race, but in the sense of an inhumane "purity". A purity that is in reality unacheivable except through extreme desensitation, and meaness. That metaphor for "white" is an ancient one.
So the PP is the KKK of sex.
PP founder Sanger was not even metphorical about it: she sought to eliminate or nearly eliminate the black race -- a subhuman race in her eyes -- by eugenics, by *PLANNING*.
The modern PP is at the surface certainly not about racial purity, and they are indeed driven by a hot desire, a longing, an unfilled need to *control* sex and sexuality. They are far more sexual purists. But the racial aspect is still there, sublimnated, but there. Look at their boards, at their supporters.
How can one say that PP is all about 'controlling' sexuality, when in fact is is the right wing extremists who, in my view, want to stick their noses in the bedrooms?
What is wrong with 'planning' one's life? The right loves to use the phrase 'personal responsiblity', and I see using contraception as a perfect expression of personal responsibility.
We all have to plan our lives, do we not? We get educations, we manage our finances, we set goals and work toward them...why should childbearing be any different? Note that I am referring to contraception, not abortion.
On the one hand the extreme right chastised those who just have children willy-nilly, and yet on the other hand is quick to condemn anyone who takes control of their body/fertility. What's up with that?
As for nature having control over a woman's body and not the woman, please. You manage your weight, don't you? You manage your alcohol intake, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc., so why is reproduction any different? Because, at the end of the day, extreme groups desperately want to control citizen's sexual practices.
BTW PP, whilst founded by Sanger, who was an advocate of eugenics, does not espouse anything resembling that incredibly sick and unfortunate philosophy. I received health care as a young adult from PP, when I was poor and had no health insurance, and they were the ones who found dysplasia (precancer) and gave me the appropriate treatment for that. If it weren't for them I could have gotten cervical cancer and died in my 20s.