Posted on 04/18/2009 10:24:24 AM PDT by wagglebee
"We want fewer and better children ... and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us."
That ghastly pro-eugenics message appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger's 1922 book, "The Pivot of Civilization."
In a little-noticed incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced that she is "really in awe" of Sanger. "The 20th century reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race," Clinton declaimed, upon receiving an award from the organization that Sanger founded, Planned Parenthood.
Clinton's speech punctured the fiction that she's a moderate -- the radical organization Planned Parenthood certainly has confidence in her. Her words didn't set off shockwaves among the public because Planned Parenthood is about as American as apple pie at this benighted point in history.
Pop culture, mass media, most Democrats and even some Republicans bow at its altar -- the religious metaphor is intentional: Sanger referred to a "religion of birth control," that sought to "ease the financial load of caring for with public funds ... children destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family and ultimately to the nation."
According to its just-released annual report for 2007-2008, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America was responsible for conducting 305,310 abortions in the United States in 2007, an increase from 289,750 the previous year. Consider that the next time a pro-choice advocate tells you that women are being kept from abortions in America. That increase in abortions provided by PPFA coincided with an increase in government funding, from $337 million to $350 million.
Does any of this sound unacceptable to you? We certainly don't have to subsidize the largest abortion provider in the United States, one with a dark history, (which Jonah Goldberg chronicles well in his book "Liberal Fascism,") and a disturbing present.
But attempts by pro-life politicians to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood are always averted. Defenders of the organization argue that the government money goes toward family-planning outreach, not just abortions. But why does Planned Parenthood even need the U.S. Treasury, considering it makes a healthy profit year after year? Shouldn't we at least be arguing over this?
Right now, Washington is more comfortable with abortion than it has been in a long time. As Hillary Clinton praises the Obama administration's commitment to "reproductive rights," it's an important time for some reflection on what, exactly, that euphemism means.
Does, for instance, the Roe v. Wade co-counsel, Ron Weddington, reflect the reproductive rights movement? In the early 90s, just as the first Clinton administration was getting ready to take office, he urged it to rush an abortion pill into the hands of American women. He argued that doing so would help "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country."
He wrote: "(G)overnment is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions. ... There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery ... and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don't have a lot of time left."
Sounds a lot like the population-culling paranoia of Sanger, doesn't it?
Pro-lifers are frequently portrayed by the Planned Parenthood crowd as heartless zealots unconcerned with the realities of women's lives. Not only does the work of many crisis-pregnancy centers and like-minded groups suggest otherwise, but if you pay attention to the words of Sanger and her followers, you'll find a much more chilling disdain for the realities of lower-class life.
There are folks with good intentions on all sides of the abortion debate. But if you doubt that a little scrutiny is well overdue, consider this: we have not yet hit the 100-day mark in the Obama administration, and the United Nations Population Fund has already been given a $50-million check from the United States. Sure, the UNFPA has been criticized for its collaboration with coerced abortion in China, but that's just fine with us. And that's exactly what can be expected from a State Department run by a woman "really in awe" of Margaret Sanger.
PPFA's annual report is titled "Planned Parenthood Matters." It sure does. It's about time we take notice.
The mindset of the culture of death is repulsive.
Pro-Life Ping
Freepmail wagglebee or DirtyHarryY2K to subscribe or unsubscribe from the moral absolutes ping list.
FreeRepublic moral absolutes keyword search
Gosh, I just realized why Obama is so pro-abortion. He is afraid that some other mistake might grow up and offer him competition.
LMAO!
I honestly wonder how eager they would be to promote amnesty for illegal aliens if they hadn’t aborted so many babies who, based on the socio-economic realities of the parents, would have likely been Democrat voters.
Doesn’t Hitlery worship her?
I suspect that a big reason behind the push for amnesty was the need to add more people to fund Social Security.
The baby boomer generation set off a time bomb when they decided to abort 50 million babies and the consequences will become very clear in the next several years.
The “Progressive” movement was at the forefront of the Eugenics movement, to the point where the NAZIs were upset that they were far behind the USA.
Mark
There wouldn't BE a bunch of kids who are a burden without the nanny crap that LBJ foisted on us. Or at least there'd be a hell of a lot fewer of them, and without the millions of bloody buckets that are the pieces of dismembered innocents.
It's where married couples decide jointly that they have plenty of children, or that they want to space them out, or that they're really not quite yet ready for them. It's also where people who are not married, and hence, not really ready to have children are taking steps to keep that from happening as they explore their compatibilities and feelings along the path to possibly achieving that goal.
Who ‘Inspired’ the architects of the German Sterilization law?
http://www.spectacle.org/997/richmond.html
Thanks for that link, I was looking for it recently and couldn’t find it.
"We" inflict on them? It's the hordes of backwards 7th century middle eastern and 3rd world immigrants flooding into this country that are "inflicting" themselves on these planned parenthood Human haters.
Seems their condom program isn't working in turd world countries.
Have you ever noticed that birth control/ abortion is only pushed in NON Muslim countries or among the non- Muslim sectors of African countries?
The baby boom is alive and well among the Muhammadans, in keeping with their eternal war cry.
You can “see” the demon salivating over the thought of more sacrifices to its “god” in that declaration. Repulsive is both a most apt word and not quite enough.
I never thought I’d say this,being pro-life,but too bad his beatnik mother didn’t have the choice.
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.