John R. Houk
© July 18, 2009
Updated: August 30, 2015
When anyone writes about Adolf Hitler the reader (who is normal) thinks of unspeakable evil. It has been many years since Hitler’s Third Reich lost WWII. Due to that longevity those who have even a piecemeal knowledge of history usually connect Hitler to the Holocaust of nearly six million Jews.
The thing that people forget is that Hitler also is responsible for roughly another six million genocidal deaths as well. Who was the other half of Hitler’s evil insidious murders?
The answer is a long list. That list was based was based on racial purity versus those considered unworthy of life (Lebensunwertes Leben): races Hitler considered inferior to a master race, criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, religious, and weak (hardly an inclusive list).
So Hitler’s Holocaust meant the death of around twelve million human beings (give or take depending on who you read).
What was the inspiration for such a degenerate evil plan?
Most people leap to the Hitler/Nazi concept of the Master Race (aka Aryan Race).
How did Hitler develop the concept of a Master Race of pure Germans meant to rule the world?
The obvious answer is wicked prejudice; however prejudice was only an instigating thought that needed a plausible reason to delude people into believing in a Master Race.
How did Hitler find a plausible reason to match his deadly prejudice?
The reason was the warped science derived from Social Darwinism. Simply put, Social Darwinism is the utilizing Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in a socio-economic venue. Thus the “survival of the fittest” concept of the stronger biological beings transforming into a better being as environment eliminates the weaker beings is applied to human races.
Surely you can see where this is leading – right? Certainly the Master Race comes to mind.
Now how did Social Darwinism find its way into Hitler’s Master Race concept?
The science of the day Hitler discovered was the study of eugenics. The idea behind eugenics was to breed intelligence and prowess into humanity and breeding stupidity and weakness out of humanity.
Eugenics sounds like a lofty altruistic study; however the study of eugenics’ beginnings was not sweetness and light for humanity. A British person may have coined the phrase “eugenics” but it was American scientific embacement by which theories, studies and experimental implementation took place.
In America the State of California became the epicenter of American eugenics studies. These studies led to these kinds of concepts:
American eugenics practices became the model by which Adolf Hitler fueled his prejudice and find a then widely accepted scientific principle to apply to Germany to develop a genetically pure Master Race.
In my opinion this establishes the practice of eugenics as evil for its implementation was NOT voluntary. Eugenic apologists today tout their science as something that is voluntary. As far as I am concerned this is propaganda to reach funding to build on the harsh practices of early American 20th century to eliminate one human’s definition of inferior which led to the dastardly genocide of the Nazi implemented Holocaust.
You would think I am finished with this essay with getting to the point of the wickedness of early eugenics in America that inspired Adolf Hitler. I am not.
Have you heard of Planned Parenthood?
This sounds good and altruistic especially for women and teenage girls. It is interesting that the “more than 90 percent is preventive” also matches the percentage of women who get an abortion as a convenience. Many of these poor gals are led to believe by organizations such as Planned Parenthood that an abortion is a mere biological surgery removing a fetus like one removes an appendix. I am a proponent of Biblical Morality hence I view abortions of convenience as the murder of innocent children who have the right to live way above any individual’s right to kill for convenience.
Do you know who Margaret Sanger (1883 – 1966) was? Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Let’s read some of Sanger’s beliefs from her own words:
Sanger’s Planned Parenthood was implemented to practice her concepts of eugenics to build a better race in America and preventing the breeding of those she felt were in inferior. It is no wonder pro-choice gals are brainwashed to dispose the Biblical concept of life from conception.
I will allow others to debate about the morality of the death of children in the other 10% of abortions. I sense that many pro-life supporters would take offense of my thoughts about issues I have not completely solidified in my own thinking. Nonetheless, Sanger’s birth control ideology is centered on eugenics to eliminate the unworthy and 90% of abortions are performed as simple birth control when in reality it is murder.
If you doubt Sanger bought into the eugenics theories of creating a superior race and eliminating inferior races you should spend some time researching one Sanger’s pet projects: The Negro Project.
The popularity of abortion as a woman’s right of choice has its foundation in Margaret Sanger’s concept of elimination inferior races, people who seem to have heredity of poverty, those physical and mental defects.
Abortion is not only murder, it was initiated as a Leftist (yes Nazis are Leftists) scheme to eugenically improve the human race on the terms of race superiority.
The article that motivated me to find the disturbing news of the origins of Planned Parent was a critical essay by Mark Alexander entitled, “ObamaCare and the Culture of Death.” [Blog Editor: A similar version only on The Patriot Post] Alexander gets to the heart of the matter of Sanger’s motives and ties it in to the potential result of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Slanted Left concept of Universal Health Care.
JRH 7/18/09
© July 18, 2009
Updated: August 30, 2015
When anyone writes about Adolf Hitler the reader (who is normal) thinks of unspeakable evil. It has been many years since Hitler’s Third Reich lost WWII. Due to that longevity those who have even a piecemeal knowledge of history usually connect Hitler to the Holocaust of nearly six million Jews.
The thing that people forget is that Hitler also is responsible for roughly another six million genocidal deaths as well. Who was the other half of Hitler’s evil insidious murders?
The answer is a long list. That list was based was based on racial purity versus those considered unworthy of life (Lebensunwertes Leben): races Hitler considered inferior to a master race, criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, religious, and weak (hardly an inclusive list).
So Hitler’s Holocaust meant the death of around twelve million human beings (give or take depending on who you read).
What was the inspiration for such a degenerate evil plan?
Most people leap to the Hitler/Nazi concept of the Master Race (aka Aryan Race).
How did Hitler develop the concept of a Master Race of pure Germans meant to rule the world?
The obvious answer is wicked prejudice; however prejudice was only an instigating thought that needed a plausible reason to delude people into believing in a Master Race.
How did Hitler find a plausible reason to match his deadly prejudice?
The reason was the warped science derived from Social Darwinism. Simply put, Social Darwinism is the utilizing Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in a socio-economic venue. Thus the “survival of the fittest” concept of the stronger biological beings transforming into a better being as environment eliminates the weaker beings is applied to human races.
Surely you can see where this is leading – right? Certainly the Master Race comes to mind.
Now how did Social Darwinism find its way into Hitler’s Master Race concept?
The science of the day Hitler discovered was the study of eugenics. The idea behind eugenics was to breed intelligence and prowess into humanity and breeding stupidity and weakness out of humanity.
Eugenics sounds like a lofty altruistic study; however the study of eugenics’ beginnings was not sweetness and light for humanity. A British person may have coined the phrase “eugenics” but it was American scientific embacement by which theories, studies and experimental implementation took place.
In America the State of California became the epicenter of American eugenics studies. These studies led to these kinds of concepts:
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
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Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.
In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.
The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization.
The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.
Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations--which functioned as part of a closely-knit network--published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis. (Excerpted from “The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics” by Edwin Black)
American eugenics practices became the model by which Adolf Hitler fueled his prejudice and find a then widely accepted scientific principle to apply to Germany to develop a genetically pure Master Race.
In my opinion this establishes the practice of eugenics as evil for its implementation was NOT voluntary. Eugenic apologists today tout their science as something that is voluntary. As far as I am concerned this is propaganda to reach funding to build on the harsh practices of early American 20th century to eliminate one human’s definition of inferior which led to the dastardly genocide of the Nazi implemented Holocaust.
You would think I am finished with this essay with getting to the point of the wickedness of early eugenics in America that inspired Adolf Hitler. I am not.
Have you heard of Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate.
For more than 90 years, we’ve worked to improve women’s health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices. (About us page) [Blog Editor: "About us page" as of 8/30/15]
Planned Parenthood is America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care. Our skilled health care professionals are dedicated to offering men, women, and teens high-quality, affordable medical care. One in four American women has chosen Planned Parenthood for health care at least once in her life.
The heart of Planned Parenthood is in the local community. Our 95 unique, locally governed affiliates nationwide operate more than 850 health centers, which reflect the diverse needs of their communities.
These health centers provide a wide range of safe, reliable health care — and more than 90 percent is preventive, primary care, which helps prevent unintended pregnancies through contraception, reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing and treatment, and screen for cervical and other cancers. Caring physicians, nurse practitioners, and other staff take time to talk with clients, encouraging them to ask questions in an environment that millions have grown to trust. (From the “Who We Are” page) [Blog Editor: "Who We Are" as of 8/30/15]
This sounds good and altruistic especially for women and teenage girls. It is interesting that the “more than 90 percent is preventive” also matches the percentage of women who get an abortion as a convenience. Many of these poor gals are led to believe by organizations such as Planned Parenthood that an abortion is a mere biological surgery removing a fetus like one removes an appendix. I am a proponent of Biblical Morality hence I view abortions of convenience as the murder of innocent children who have the right to live way above any individual’s right to kill for convenience.
Do you know who Margaret Sanger (1883 – 1966) was? Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Let’s read some of Sanger’s beliefs from her own words:
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)On blacks, immigrants and indigents:"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor peopleOn sterilization & racial purification:Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.On the right of married couples to bear children:Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932On the purpose of birth control:The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12…On the extermination of blacks:"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda GordonOn respecting the rights of the mentally ill:In her "Plan for Peace," Sanger outlined her strategy for eradication of those she deemed "feebleminded." Among the steps included in her evil scheme were immigration restrictions; compulsory sterilization; segregation to a lifetime of farm work; etc. Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 107On adultery:A woman's physical satisfaction was more important than any marriage vow, Sanger believed. Birth Control in America, p. 11…Planned Parenthood's Goal:Dr. Lena Levine in 1953, concerning Planned Parenthood's purpose and planned course of action: "... to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage we will prevent fear and guilt. We must also relieve those who have these ... feelings, and we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraceptive measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy." (Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953) ." ("Psycho-Sexual Development," quoted in Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, pg. 10) [Margaret Sanger in her Own Words]
Sanger’s Planned Parenthood was implemented to practice her concepts of eugenics to build a better race in America and preventing the breeding of those she felt were in inferior. It is no wonder pro-choice gals are brainwashed to dispose the Biblical concept of life from conception.
I will allow others to debate about the morality of the death of children in the other 10% of abortions. I sense that many pro-life supporters would take offense of my thoughts about issues I have not completely solidified in my own thinking. Nonetheless, Sanger’s birth control ideology is centered on eugenics to eliminate the unworthy and 90% of abortions are performed as simple birth control when in reality it is murder.
If you doubt Sanger bought into the eugenics theories of creating a superior race and eliminating inferior races you should spend some time researching one Sanger’s pet projects: The Negro Project.
The aim of the program was to restrict—many believe exterminate—the black population. Under the pretense of “better health” and “family planning,” Sanger cleverly implemented her plan. What's more shocking is Sanger's beguilement of black America's crème de la crème—those prominent, well educated and well-to-do—into executing her scheme. Some within the black elite saw birth control as a means to attain economic empowerment, elevate the race and garner the respect of whites.…In 1929, 10 years before Sanger created the Negro Project, the ABCL (this later became Planned Parenthood) laid the groundwork for a clinic in Harlem, a largely black section of New York City. It was the dawn of the Great Depression, and for blacks that meant double the misery. Blacks faced harsher conditions of desperation and privation because of widespread racial prejudice and discrimination. From the ABCL's perspective, Harlem was the ideal place for this “experimental clinic,” which officially opened on November 21, 1930. Many blacks looked to escape their adverse circumstances and therefore did not recognize the eugenic undercurrent of the clinic. The clinic relied on the generosity of private foundations to remain in business.18 In addition to being thought of as “inferior” and disproportionately represented in the underclass …… She convinced black civic groups in Harlem of the “benefits” of birth control, under the cloak of “better health” (i.e., reduction of maternal and infant death; child spacing) and “family planning.” So with their cooperation, and the endorsement of The Amsterdam News (a prominent black newspaper), Sanger established the Harlem branch of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.21 The ABCL told the community birth control was the answer to their predicament.Sanger shrewdly used the influence of prominent blacks to reach the masses with this message. She invited DuBois and a host of Harlem's leading blacks, including physicians, social workers, ministers and journalists, to form an advisory council to help direct the clinic “so that our work in birth control will be a constructive force in the community.”22 She knew the importance of having black professionals on the advisory board and in the clinic; she knew blacks would instinctively suspect whites of wanting to decrease their numbers. She would later use this knowledge to implement the Negro Project. (Tanya L. Green, The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans) [Link Updated]
The popularity of abortion as a woman’s right of choice has its foundation in Margaret Sanger’s concept of elimination inferior races, people who seem to have heredity of poverty, those physical and mental defects.
Abortion is not only murder, it was initiated as a Leftist (yes Nazis are Leftists) scheme to eugenically improve the human race on the terms of race superiority.
The article that motivated me to find the disturbing news of the origins of Planned Parent was a critical essay by Mark Alexander entitled, “ObamaCare and the Culture of Death.” [Blog Editor: A similar version only on The Patriot Post] Alexander gets to the heart of the matter of Sanger’s motives and ties it in to the potential result of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Slanted Left concept of Universal Health Care.
JRH 7/18/09
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ObamaCare and the Culture of Death
Mark Alexander [Link Dead]
Published 16 July 2009
Patriot Post [Link Dead - Similar Alexander link on The Patriot Post] Vol. 09 No. 28
Now that Barack Hussein Obama has undermined free enterprise by nationalizing major financial and manufacturing sectors of our economy, he has set his sights on the health care sector, which comprises almost 18 percent of the U.S. economy.
This shouldn't surprise us. After all, he did promise a "fundamental transformation of the United States of America," and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, did cite the current economic crisis as the means for doing so. "Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," Emanuel said. "They are opportunities to do big things."
Of course, there is NO constitutional authority [Updated Link]or precedent for this massive government intrusion into the private sector. But then, when do Leftists look to any authority higher than themselves?
Considering the prospect of Socialists in charge of dispensing health care from cradle to grave, I was reminded, by none other than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that when one is in need of health care, one should not depend on folks who advocate a "culture of death."
In an interview last week, Ginsburg said that she thought "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."
This comment was not some senile blunder from an aging jurist noted for nodding off during High Court deliberations.
In fact, Ginsburg's candid assessment of the Left's advocacy for abortion as a means for controlling propagation of undesirable ethnic groups is based upon the writings of atheist social activist and leftist icon Margaret Sanger.
Some 50 years before Roe v. Wade, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood, now the largest perpetrator of abortions in the U.S.
Sanger asserted that ministry to the poor, a fundamental tenet of Christianity, is responsible for excessive numbers of "unwanted" ethnic breeds. "Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents. My criticism, therefore, is not directed at the failure of philanthropy, but rather at its success. These dangers are inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have today produced their full harvest of human waste."
Ah, yes, "human waste."
Sanger characterized the poor as "human weeds, reckless breeders, spawning ... human beings who never should have been born."
In "Woman and the New Race," Sanger insisted that women create an enormous "debt to society [by] creating slums, filling asylums with the insane, and institutions with other defectives. ... Poverty and the large family generally go hand in hand. ... The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Of blacks, Sanger wrote, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
She advocated policies that ensured "more children from the fit, less from the unfit" in order to "to create a race of thoroughbreds." (Remember this quote the next time a liberal tells you that Fascists and Socialists [Updated Link] have nothing in common.)
Sanger was certainly the 20th century's most noted American proponent of racist eugenics. However when we remind our liberal friends of the origins of Planned Parenthood, they sputter on about Sanger's support for eugenics being an anomaly of another time and context.
But Sanger's advocacy for the extermination of the "unwanted" is the basis of today's culture of death. Indeed, one of the adherents of eugenics now directs BHO's White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is the co-chair of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
John Holdren may not be openly advocating racial selection, but he clearly advocates mass sterilization and abortion in order to control human impact on the environment. This is nothing but a contemporary interpretation of Sanger's eliminating "human weeds" and "reckless breeders."
Holdren's modern day eugenics program is outlined in a book he co-authored, "Ecoscience," in which he calls for "a comprehensive Planetary Regime [in order to] control the development, administration, conservation and distribution of all natural resources."
One solution, writes Holdren, is "adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods" which would help weed out those "who contribute to social deterioration."
As for the constitutional authority, Holdren writes, "Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
"If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children," insists Holdren, "if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility -- just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns -- providing they are not denied equal protection."
I suppose Holdren is Obama's "Czar of Compelling Needs."
As for global solutions, Holdren writes, "The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits. If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization."
Holdren is of course careful about how his "Planetary Regime" might enforce these limits, but given the common bonds of Fascists and Socialists, a contemporary global solution with much more efficient ecological results than dismembering children in the womb would be to release a biological agent targeting mass populations in developing regions of Asia and Africa -- something like strains of Swine or Bird Influenza. After all, AlGorites consider climate change to be a crisis of global proportions, and such a crisis requires innovative solutions.
Holdren concludes, "This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants' destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world."
In 1931, futurist H.G. Wells wrote of Sanger's proposed regime, "The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history, and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
Apparently, Obama's director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is prepared to do his part to sustain Sanger's legacy.
Given Holdren's musings about population control, should these folks be in charge of determining who receives what medical care?
Circling back to that same interview with Justice Ginsburg last week, here is how she defended a woman's right to end the life of her unborn child: "The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman."
But in regard to ObamaCare, I doubt that Ginsburg would apply a similar standard: "The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice."
The Hippocratic Oath, until recently the de facto position of medicine, established the fundamental principle that a physician should "First, do no harm." Perhaps BO himself should take that oath -- not that he has shown any penchant for honoring the one he took for his current job.
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Nazism, Eugenics and Abortion
John R. Houk
© July 18, 2009
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ObamaCare and the Culture of Death
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Published 16 July 2009
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson
Now that Barack Hussein Obama has undermined free enterprise by nationalizing major financial and manufacturing sectors of our economy, he has set his sights on the health care sector, which comprises almost 18 percent of the U.S. economy.
This shouldn't surprise us. After all, he did promise a "fundamental transformation of the United States of America," and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, did cite the current economic crisis as the means for doing so. "Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," Emanuel said. "They are opportunities to do big things."
Of course, there is NO constitutional authority [Updated Link]or precedent for this massive government intrusion into the private sector. But then, when do Leftists look to any authority higher than themselves?
Considering the prospect of Socialists in charge of dispensing health care from cradle to grave, I was reminded, by none other than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that when one is in need of health care, one should not depend on folks who advocate a "culture of death."
In an interview last week, Ginsburg said that she thought "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."
This comment was not some senile blunder from an aging jurist noted for nodding off during High Court deliberations.
In fact, Ginsburg's candid assessment of the Left's advocacy for abortion as a means for controlling propagation of undesirable ethnic groups is based upon the writings of atheist social activist and leftist icon Margaret Sanger.
Some 50 years before Roe v. Wade, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood, now the largest perpetrator of abortions in the U.S.
Sanger asserted that ministry to the poor, a fundamental tenet of Christianity, is responsible for excessive numbers of "unwanted" ethnic breeds. "Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents. My criticism, therefore, is not directed at the failure of philanthropy, but rather at its success. These dangers are inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have today produced their full harvest of human waste."
Ah, yes, "human waste."
Sanger characterized the poor as "human weeds, reckless breeders, spawning ... human beings who never should have been born."
In "Woman and the New Race," Sanger insisted that women create an enormous "debt to society [by] creating slums, filling asylums with the insane, and institutions with other defectives. ... Poverty and the large family generally go hand in hand. ... The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Of blacks, Sanger wrote, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
She advocated policies that ensured "more children from the fit, less from the unfit" in order to "to create a race of thoroughbreds." (Remember this quote the next time a liberal tells you that Fascists and Socialists [Updated Link] have nothing in common.)
Sanger was certainly the 20th century's most noted American proponent of racist eugenics. However when we remind our liberal friends of the origins of Planned Parenthood, they sputter on about Sanger's support for eugenics being an anomaly of another time and context.
But Sanger's advocacy for the extermination of the "unwanted" is the basis of today's culture of death. Indeed, one of the adherents of eugenics now directs BHO's White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is the co-chair of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
John Holdren may not be openly advocating racial selection, but he clearly advocates mass sterilization and abortion in order to control human impact on the environment. This is nothing but a contemporary interpretation of Sanger's eliminating "human weeds" and "reckless breeders."
Holdren's modern day eugenics program is outlined in a book he co-authored, "Ecoscience," in which he calls for "a comprehensive Planetary Regime [in order to] control the development, administration, conservation and distribution of all natural resources."
One solution, writes Holdren, is "adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods" which would help weed out those "who contribute to social deterioration."
As for the constitutional authority, Holdren writes, "Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
"If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children," insists Holdren, "if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility -- just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns -- providing they are not denied equal protection."
I suppose Holdren is Obama's "Czar of Compelling Needs."
As for global solutions, Holdren writes, "The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits. If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization."
Holdren is of course careful about how his "Planetary Regime" might enforce these limits, but given the common bonds of Fascists and Socialists, a contemporary global solution with much more efficient ecological results than dismembering children in the womb would be to release a biological agent targeting mass populations in developing regions of Asia and Africa -- something like strains of Swine or Bird Influenza. After all, AlGorites consider climate change to be a crisis of global proportions, and such a crisis requires innovative solutions.
Holdren concludes, "This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants' destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world."
In 1931, futurist H.G. Wells wrote of Sanger's proposed regime, "The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history, and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
Apparently, Obama's director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is prepared to do his part to sustain Sanger's legacy.
Given Holdren's musings about population control, should these folks be in charge of determining who receives what medical care?
Circling back to that same interview with Justice Ginsburg last week, here is how she defended a woman's right to end the life of her unborn child: "The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman."
But in regard to ObamaCare, I doubt that Ginsburg would apply a similar standard: "The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice."
The Hippocratic Oath, until recently the de facto position of medicine, established the fundamental principle that a physician should "First, do no harm." Perhaps BO himself should take that oath -- not that he has shown any penchant for honoring the one he took for his current job.
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Nazism, Eugenics and Abortion
John R. Houk
© July 18, 2009
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ObamaCare and the Culture of Death
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