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Not even mentioning the bias of Americans having access to this whole claiming they're a worldwide organization

Just seems dishonest 2604:3D09:D78:1000:B033:91C3:1448:A9B4 (talk) 02:16, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk-pages are for making concrete proposals for improvement, not for general discussion of the topic of the article. (But also you seem very confused, maybe you should read the article.) --JBL (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

International Affiliation

Based on the first paragraph, I think the International Planned Parenthood Federation should be mentioned in the Infobox. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 19:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent reversions

@Noleander: Since you are familiar with the sources in the paragraph you added; maybe you could merge the two paragraphs, please. Thanks! ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 21:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd be happy to. Noleander (talk) 22:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Noleander: Please go ahead. (The broken notes seem to have been fixed by someone else in the interim.) --JBL (talk) 00:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the sentence (added by me several days ago) that was duplicative of a sentence that was already in the article. Let me know if there are any other issues with the text I added. Noleander (talk) 01:08, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the other sentence I thought was duplicative. Hopefully it reads better and more concisely now. ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 23:41, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The end result looks good to me. --JBL (talk) 17:32, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of presidents - for the record

I've been working on the Margaret Sanger article, and I tried to compile a chronological list of presidents Planned Parenthood & its predecessor organizations. The sources are not real clear, but I was able to cobble-togther the info below. One good source is https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/images/publications/SmithGuide.pdf Anyway, for the record, here is what I came up with:

Voluntary Parenthood League (VPL)
- 1919 - 1925 Mary Dennett
American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- 1921 - 1928 Margaret Sanger
- 1928 – 1934 Eleanor Dwight Robertson Jones
- 1934 – 1936 Catherine Clement Bangs
- 1936 – 1939 C. C. Little
After merger of ABCL & Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau into Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA)
- 1939 - 1942 Richard N. Pierson
- 1942 - 1950? (BCFA renamed to Planned Parenthood in 1942 ) D. Kenneth Rose
- 1950 - 1953 Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury
- 1962 - 1974 Alan Frank Guttmacher
- 1974 - 1978 ??
- 1978 – 1992 Faye Wattleton
- 1992 - 2005, Gloria Feldt
- February 2006 – April 2018 Cecile Richards
- 2018 – July 16, 2019 Leana Wen

Like I said, I'm not 100% sure about the dates & details, but it is close. The Category:Presidents of Planned Parenthood probably needs to be updated to some extent. Noleander (talk) 18:08, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]