Planned Parenthood Worthy of Scott’s Support

Roland C. Warren ’83, to his credit, leads Care Net, “a network of over 1,200 pregnancy centers offering life-affirming support to women facing unplanned pregnancies,” but he deceptively describes Planned Parenthood as an organization delivering “death disguised as empowerment” (Inbox, December issue). In a nutshell, Planned Parenthood would be needless and unnecessary in a world where all men were held equally accountable with women for pregnancies.

Globally, nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended (citing the United Nations Population Fund). Adequate contraception and timely pregnancy termination (yes, abortions) can go a long way to solving the problem of children brought into a world unprepared to receive them.

Mr. Warren pompously and piously calls Planned Parenthood a “troubling place,” and chides the philanthropy of MacKenzie Scott ’92 in its support. His Care Net pregnancy centers are to be applauded, but more (much more), needs to be done in a world where every other human being is unexpected. Until that solution is determined, Planned Parenthood serves a practical role, one worthy of purposeful philanthropic promotion.