Is abortion really about reducing undesirable populations? A Supreme Court liberal recently slipped up and highlighted this fact, that historically, abortion has been an important part of the Eugenics movement.
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. ~nytimes.com
Ginsburg redeems herself somewhat by going on to say that she realized she was wrong. But the fact remains that proponents of abortion today are advocating a form of birth control and not merely a medical procedure like an appendectomy. Abortion has it’s roots in the grisly and now disgraced Eugenics movement. The founder of planned parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a huge proponent of eugenics.
Eugenics:
In the US eugenics successfully influenced three other policy areas: marriage regulation, sterilization of the unfit, and immigration restriction. By 1914 thirty states passed laws preventing marriage of the mentally handicapped and the insane, together with laws restricting marriage between people suffering a venereal disease, or between those from various categories of ‘feebleminded’. The first state sterilization law was passed in Indiana in 1907, and by 1917 fifteen other states had followed suit. Sterilization was legal for habitual criminals plus various categories of the insane, mentally handicapped, and epileptic. Eugenics in the US also provided ideological justifications for immigration restriction and the development of IQ testing. ~answers.com
Then there’s John Holden who brings back credibility to science for Obama.
In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
- Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
- The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
- Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
- People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
- A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.