Planned Parenthood board member aided in STD experiments on prisoners and mental patients

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In his experiments, John C. Cutler infected his research subjects with syphilis samples obtained from prostitutes. He was aided by his wife Eliese Cutler — a woman who was reportedly a 'Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania board member for more than four decades.'


May 17, 2021 (Live Action) – Abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood and their staffers have for decades been directly tied to eugenic sterilization efforts and the targeting of minority groups for abortion, population control and racism. And recently unearthed documents only strengthen the evidence of the cozy relationship between purveyors of abortion and proponents of eugenics. Those documents reveal that a revered former Planned Parenthood board member was involved with abhorrent syphilis experiments, in which Guatemalans were intentionally infected with STDs without their consent.

Like other population control measures, the highly unethical experimentation, conducted between 1946 and 1948 and co-sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), thrived on secrecy and was not uncovered until years later.


Lead researcher of the study, John C. Cutler, was aided by his wife Eliese Cutler — a woman who was reportedly a “Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania board member for more than four decades.” Together, the couple funded multiple pro-abortion and eugenics-based organizations during their marriage. As can be seen in the image below, John Cutler claimed Eliese “assisted as a volunteer in the [STD research] project and used her own camears [sic]… She had training as a photographer.”

John C Cutler praises wife Eliese for her assistance in unethical Guatemalan syphilis experiment (Image: National Archives)
In his experiments, Cutler infected his research subjects with syphilis samples obtained from prostitutes. These grisly experiments were exposed after Cutler’s death by historian Susan Reverby, who reviewed the documents archived at the University of Pittsburgh, where Cutler had been employed.

Cutler became the head of the population division of the Graduate School of Public Health at UPitt in 1967 and appears to have been a 1974 member of the American Eugenics Society.

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Planned Parenthood board member aided in STD experiments on prisoners and mental patients

 

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A little more documentation:

CNN article describing experiment in a US prison in which inmates were injected with gonorrhea, and later experiments in Guatemala with sexually transmitted disease, carried out without consent. It also references the tuskegee program.
Studies show 'dark chapter' of medical research - CNN.com

United States government apologizes for unethical experiments in Guatamala
US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s - CNN.com

U.S. Public Health Service STD Experiments in Guatemala (1946–1948) and Their Aftermath
STD Experiments