About The Author Mike Perry is a free-lance writer and historian. He is currently writing a book describing the Nazi indoctrination of German youth; it is tentatively entitled From the Tenderest Years. THE HISTORY OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD We are merely walking down the path that Mrs. Sanger carved for us. --DR. ALAN GUTTMACHER, PRESIDENT OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD, 1962-74. Planned Parenthood is powerful. It has the enthusiastic support of influential organizations and extensive connections inside the government. It invariably gets favorable coverage in the news media and each year it receives large sums of money from taxes and community charities. Yet...