Prescott Bush did not have anything to do with the founding of Panned
 Parenthood. However, he did have a whole lot to do with the American
 Eugenics Society, a controversial racist group with ties to Planned
 Parenthood. Sadly, because of this crap, Margaret Sanger has unjustly been
 portrayed as a racist in stilted and slanted literature concocted by various
 wing nut conspiracy cranks all around the Web. However, I point to the
 following article from April 20 (Hitler's B-Day BTW) 1992 USA Today to
 illustrate that once upon a time Prescott Bush avidly supported Planned
 Parenthood.

 MooseandSquirrel in Kansas City
 

 Bush philosophy is an `evolution' that spans career
 USA Today (Pre-1997 Fulltext); Arlington, Va.; Apr 20, 1992;
 Judy Keen;Mimi  Hall;

 Even Republicans who support abortion rights don't want Bush to shift views,
 which could be a potentially fatal election-year tactic. ``It would be the
 worst advice in the world,'' says Ann Stone, head of Republicans for Choice,
 who still prefers Bush in the White House over the Democratic options.

 The opinion of the Bush insider who's generally viewed as his most respected
 adviser on many issues is unknown. For years, there have been whispers that
 Barbara Bush secretly supports abortion rights. She won't say.

 Bush's father, Prescott Bush, lost a 1950 race for Connecticut's U.S. Senate
 seat after his support for Planned Parenthood was disclosed. In the infancy
 of his own political career, as a congressman from Texas, President Bush was
 principle GOP author of the Family Planning Act of 1970.

 Full Text:
 Copyright USA Today Information Network Apr 20, 1992

 ABORTION:WILL THE LAW CHANGE?
 THE BATTLE OVER ABORTION

 President Bush proudly calls himself ``pro-life,'' but his views on abortion
 - to use his own word - are the product of an ``evolution'' over his career.

 ``I'm pleased that my voice is part of the growing chorus that simply says,
 `Choose life,' '' he told participants in a Jan. 22, 1991, anti- abortion
 march on Washington.

 Bush adopted his firm stance against abortion in 1980, when he ran for vice
 president, to conform with the GOP platform.

 Before Ronald Reagan beckoned, Bush had said he favored Roe vs. Wade,
 the Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, and some of his relatives were
 donors to Connecticut's Planned Parenthood.

 Bush's father, Prescott Bush, lost a 1950 race for Connecticut's U.S. Senate
 seat after his support for Planned Parenthood was disclosed. In the infancy
 of his own political career, as a congressman from Texas, President Bush was
 principle GOP author of the Family Planning Act of 1970.

 He later wrote: ``We took the lead in Congress in providing money and urging
 - in fact, even requiring - that in the United States family-planning services be
 available for every woman.'' Bush's statements reveal shifts over the years:

 - ``Success in the population field ... may ... determine whether we resolve
 successfully the other great questions of peace, prosperity and individual
 rights that face the world,'' he wrote in 1973, when he was U.S. ambassador
 to the United Nations and promoting efforts to reduce population growth.

 - ``Frankly, while I have long opposed abortion, there has been an evolution
 in my thinking on the legal means by which we protect the sanctity of human
 life,'' he said in 1988.

 - ``My position has not changed. I am pro-life,'' he said at a news
 conference this month.

 His White House record is that of an abortion foe:

 - He vetoed a bill that would have let Medicaid pay for abortions for
 victims of rape and incest.

 - He has chosen mostly judges and Cabinet members who have proclaimed
 opposition to abortion.

 - He vetoed a Washington, D.C., budget because the city planned to spend
 some revenue for abortions for poor women.

 Bush supported the ``gag rule'' that prevented health workers in federally
 funded clinics from providing information about abortion.

 But last month he issued a directive exempting doctors from the 1988 rules -
 prompting gripes that he was waffling or trying to muddy the political
 ramifications of the rules.

 Even Republicans who support abortion rights don't want Bush to shift views,
 which could be a potentially fatal election-year tactic. ``It would be the
 worst advice in the world,'' says Ann Stone, head of Republicans for Choice,
 who still prefers Bush in the White House over the Democratic options.

 Michael McMonagle, executive director of the Pro-Life Coalition of Southeast
 Pennsylvania, is among abortion foes who wish Bush would be even more
 emphatic about his opposition to abortion and even more of a leader in
 legislative steps to end abortion.

 Bush could be hurt if he appears to have weak convictions on the subject,
 McMonagle says. The movement against abortion is ``losing a great public
 education opportunity by a president who doesn't want to talk about''
 abortion, he says. ``He walks the walk, but he won't talk the talk.''

 The opinion of the Bush insider who's generally viewed as his most respected
 adviser on many issues is unknown. For years, there have been whispers that
 Barbara Bush secretly supports abortion rights. She won't say.