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Planned Parenthood Targets Native Americans with Abortion
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/9/08 | Colin Mason

Posted on 06/09/2008 4:53:46 PM PDT by wagglebee

June 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com/PRI) - The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, in proportion to their population, have the highest abortion rates in America. Now, eager to add another scalp to its collection, it is turning its sights on Native Americans.

The story begins with the Hyde amendment, which restricts abortion coverage in federal health programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Indian Health Services, although leaving open the typical exceptions: rape, incest, and life of the mother. In other words, the amendment recognizes that a huge portion of American taxpayers oppose abortion, and it respects that opposition by insisting that abortions not be covered by tax-funded health care programs. The Hyde amendment was attached to the Department of Health and Human Services appropriations bill, and passed in 1976.

Although the abortion lobby has attempted to use legal loopholes to avoid these restrictions, the amendment has been able to keep federal funds from actively paying for abortions throughout the years. However, since it needs to be renewed each year with the annual appropriations bill, there is always the chance that the amendment could be weakened or even thrown out entirely. This is what the pro-abortion lobby intends to do with the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. This is what the Vitter amendment, proposed by Senator David Vitter (R-LA), aims to prevent.

The Vitter amendment, approved by the Senate on February 26th, is an amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act that prohibits the "improvements" to Indian health from including funding for abortion. This measure, bitterly opposed by House Democrats, would effectively codify the Hyde amendment into Federal law, making it removable only by an act of Congress.

The abortion lobby, with typical upside-down logic, insists that it is inherently "racist" to deny Native American women the right to abortion. As usual, they have recruited Native American front woman to back them up. "It's a very racist amendment," insists Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, in a statement to the Washington Independent. "It puts another layer of restrictions on the only race of people whose health care is governed primarily by the federal government. All women are subject to the Hyde amendment, so why would they put another set of conditions on us?"

Planned Parenthood is predictably indignant, basing its opposition to the Vitter amendment in the fact that "under current policy, the Hyde Amendment forbids federal funding for abortion in almost all cases. IHS already delivers basic health care services in a manner consistent with the Hyde Amendment. In fact, 25 U.S.C. 1676 subjects IHS funds to restrictions by the Hyde Amendment. Sen. Vitter's amendment is simply a redundancy of current law and would not change current policy."

If this is the case, then what is the big deal? If all that Vitter's amendment does is codify existing law, (and in this case, only in terms of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act), then why is it such a hot point of contention? Why doesn't the abortion lobby oppose all legislation restricting federal abortion funding, not singling out legislation that deals with a minority group like the Native Americans?

In other words, this looks suspiciously like racial profiling. The abortion lobby is quick to label Vitter's amendment "racist," but they are not so quick to notice that they are essentially promoting federally funded abortion for one tiny ethnic group, and nobody else.

But not all Native Americans are fooled by the abortion lobby's rhetoric, contrary to what Planned Parenthood would have us believe. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, CO, a long-time opponent of abortion, continues to urge voters in his archdiocese to vote against pro-choice legislation and candidates. As he said in a 2007 statement, "it's hard to have a future 'for our children and our children's children' without children, and Planned Parenthood specializes in the business of preventing them."

Other Native Americans would do well to follow Archbishop Chaput's example; rejecting the inflated rhetoric of the pro-abortion left and accepting these efforts for what they really are-an attempt to target an already vanishing minority. Native Americans take pride in their people; we hope that they learn to oppose these measures that strike at the very heart of their future: their children.

Colin Mason is Director of Media Production at Population Research Institute.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; americanindians; moralabsolutes; nativeamericans; proaborts; prolife
In other words, this looks suspiciously like racial profiling.

This has been Big Abortion's standard operating procedure since day one.

1 posted on 06/09/2008 4:53:46 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 06/09/2008 4:54:25 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 06/09/2008 4:54:52 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
er, yes, the minorities have denied equal access to reproductive rights long enough.

wonder what the profit projections for this new initiative are.

4 posted on 06/09/2008 4:57:05 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: wagglebee

Must exterminate the Untermenschen, like good little National Socialists.


5 posted on 06/09/2008 5:00:40 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: wagglebee
This is horrible, who will staff all the casinos?
6 posted on 06/09/2008 5:01:01 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: wagglebee

The whole idea of abortion was eugenics Margaret Sanger. She was for negative eugenics which meant promoting abortion and birth control to those with less desirable traits, which to her meant minorities and the handicapped.


7 posted on 06/09/2008 5:02:50 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: wagglebee

GREAT IDEA!

We can see to it that the Native Americans
are aborted out of existence. Then the
Government can take their land twice.


8 posted on 06/09/2008 5:02:55 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: LukeL

You are 100% right.


9 posted on 06/09/2008 5:04:56 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

This doesn’t surprise me. “Planned Parenthood” has always targeted minorities for their abortions. They are just a bunch of old white hippies who are trying to cut “overpopulation” by getting rid of minorities first.


10 posted on 06/09/2008 5:20:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: wagglebee
an attempt to target an already vanishing minority.

Nonsense. American Indian population is increasing rapidly.

Albeit to a considerable extent by ordinary Americans discovering they're actually Indians and have a moral right to their own casino.

11 posted on 06/09/2008 5:24:59 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: wagglebee

Why not?

Just another race of little brown people...in the view of Margaret Sanger, at least. More inferiors, whose genes need to be bred out of the gene pool.


12 posted on 06/09/2008 6:16:09 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: LukeL

Liberal organizations such as Planned Parenthood want peoples money, no matter what their race. But they have no concern for the minority Native Americans or in preserving their heritage for the future. It’s blood for money, for these ruthless pro-abortion groups.


13 posted on 06/09/2008 7:35:29 PM PDT by tcw_laj4ALL (Operation Chaos and The American Dream are liberals' worst nightmares.)
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enter the Table of Contents of the Catechism of the Catholic Church here

1: CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches
1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion,
URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm
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2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A
URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm
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3: CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches
2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3),
URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm
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gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent
URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

14 posted on 06/09/2008 7:37:01 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: wagglebee
Pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of America to a mindset of life!

15 posted on 06/09/2008 7:37:38 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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I have the utmost respect for the Catholic Church for their stand against abortion for these many years.


16 posted on 06/09/2008 8:04:19 PM PDT by tcw_laj4ALL (Operation Chaos and The American Dream are liberals' worst nightmares.)
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To: wagglebee
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17 posted on 06/10/2008 3:39:04 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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