Peggy Goldwater, the wife of future presidential candidate and Sen. Barry Goldwater, helped open the first birth control clinic in Phoenix in 1937.
CC Goldwater discusses the role her grandparents, conservative Republicans Peggy and Barry Goldwater, played in the founding of Planned Parenthood of Arizona, part of the national Planned Parenthood Federation now widely associated with liberal Democrats.In the early 1900s, babies in Arizona were dying at alarming rates from diarrhea and premature births.Most of the babies dying belonged to impoverished Mexican American and Native American mothers.
Planned Parenthood today is closely associated with liberal/progressive Democrats, and is often vilified by conservatives because in addition to providing contraception the organization is the nation's largest abortion provider.Peggy Goldwater who largely were responsible for starting the birth control clinics that became Planned Parenthood.
Barry Goldwater, a five-term U.S. senator from Arizona, authored the 1960 manifesto"The Conscience of a Conservative" that argued for the importance of conservative principles. "The woman has the freedom, in my opinion, if she does not want to give birth to a child, for any reason, she does not have to," Goldwater, who died in 1998, once said.
Joanne Goldwater, a Republican most of her life and now an independent, served on Planned Parenthood's board of directors in the 1990s. They were concerned about reducing poverty and improving the health of women, but they also saw birth control as a form of population control, he said. When it came to abortion rights, Barry Goldwater's view that the government shouldn't get involved was consistent with the libertarian wing of the Republican Party, Berman said.
"If an attempt is made to include his position in the platform, my prophecy is the convention will go down in shambles, as will the election," Goldwater wrote in a letter to Mary Crisp of the National Republican Coalition for Choice, leading up to the 1992 Republican National Convention. "I never trusted him. I never believed he was being sincere," Jakubczyk added."In terms of the pro-life issue, the abortion issue, he was not on our side"
Jakubczyk noted that during Goldwater's time abortion was not a Republican or Democratic issue and many Democrats opposed abortion. Sanger came to Tucson hoping the dry, hot climate would improve the health of her son with asthma, according to Mary Melcher, a historian and author of"Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona."
Sanger, who opposed abortion, also argued that providing access to birth control would lead to fewer unwanted pregnancies resulting in abortions, which were taking place illegally at the time, Melcher said. Melcher said it's hard to know if any of the prominent women who helped Sanger open birth control clinics in Arizona were perhaps partially motivated by racist attitudes.
In 1937, Sanger began meeting with prominent women to open the first birth control clinic in Phoenix. Among the women Sanger recruited were Maie Heard, wife of Dwight Heard, a wealthy landowner, investor and publisher of The Arizona Republic; Nancy Bimson, wife of Valley National Bank President Walter Bimson; and Peggy Goldwater, who died in 1985.
Peggy Goldwater came from a wealthy family in Indiana. She became a socialite and a philanthropist after her family moved to Phoenix in the 1920s, according to an article by Claudia Nunez-Eddy published by Arizona State University's She married Barry Goldwater in 1934. Barry Goldwater also came from a wealthy family. The Goldwaters owned Goldwater's Department Store, which eventually expanded to a chain.
"Goldwater later described how contraception and sex were largely thought to be obscene and inappropriate to discuss publically or outside of a marriage during the 1930s," the article said."Goldwater described feeling bold, daring, and often embarrassed about opening a birth control clinic. However, she stated that she pushed past the embarrassment by knowing the importance of what she was doing.
Feldt remembers the Goldwaters hosting cocktail parties at their Paradise Valley home prior to fundraising dinners to benefit Planned Parenthood held at the Arizona Biltmore resort.Joanne Goldwater recounts her own abortion in 1956 In his book "Barry Goldwater," author Robert Alan Goldberg states that"Barry counseled Joanne against abortion.""I want to ask you as a favor to me to remain calm and trust me in this instance," the letter reads in part."This can work out in a beautiful way to the eternal happiness of both of you and at the same time bring happiness to your mother and a same feeling to me." "No, no. He never did. He never did. Ne-ver," Joanne said.
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