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The Population Council, the eugenics organization credited with bringing the abortion pill (RU-486) to the United States, turns 65 this month — but it is nothing to celebrate. In 1952, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council and served as the organization’s first president. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Inc., was incorporated following Rockefeller’s Conference on Population Problems, “…to stimulate, encourage, promote, conduct and support significant activities in the broad field of population.” Like its founder, the Population Council’s other members were concerned about population issues — and, like other population organizations such as Planned Parenthood,...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is locked in a standoff with the Internal Revenue Service, preferring to risk its tax exemption rather than hand over documents for an I.R.S. review that the civil rights group contends is politically motivated. While it is rare for an organization to defy the I.R.S. openly, the N.A.A.C.P. is not the only group that believes it is being made a government target for its positions on issues. Roughly a dozen nonprofit organizations have publicly contended that government agencies and Congressional offices have used reviews, audits, investigations, law enforcement actions and the...

"Gay" Groups Join SIECUS, Planned Parenthood To Attack Abstinence Funding by Linda P. Harvey A campaign opposing federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs is being organized by a coalition of pro-abortion groups joined by advocates of homosexuality. Advocates for Youth (AFY), a radical group promoting "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender" practices for teens and children, held a December conference in Washington to kick off a campaign to undermine federal abstinence funds provided under Title V of the Welfare Reform Act. The $50 million in annual funding, first provided in 1996, is matched with three state dollars for every four...