Do you remember when Hillary Clinton received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger award with pride, even calling Margaret Sanger someone she “admired enormously?” The reasoning she gave then was the the same so many gave afterward; just because Margaret Sanger believed in and was an avid supporter of eugenics did not mean that the organization she began …
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Eugenics by any other name
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Hitler liked choice too; abortion as a weapon
Continue Reading »The more I learn about World War II, Hitler, eugenics and extermination of people groups, the more stunned I am at the double talk which emits from the mouths of those who would dub themselves pro-choice but who would, with another breath, condemn Hitler. The fact is, supporting the alleged right to an abortion is …
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A crime against black humanity
Continue Reading »By Tasena Lynn McCreary
It was in 1808 when it became illegal to import African slaves to America and 1865 when it was illegal to enslave an African. It was not until a century later, in 1968, did it become illegal to legally segregate African Americans from educational institutions, housing opportunities, medical services and other public venues. A political shift for reaffirming their freedom and equality was dominating and in that same year, it became illegal for a mob to accuse an African American and carry their actions out in lynchings. Laws put in place such as these, began to resemble the need to not only preserve African-American lives, but to protect them. Black people were not just kept alive because of what they could do, as in the days of slavery, but they were preserved and admired for who they were.
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The Subtle Enemy
Continue Reading »The first Holocaust is the one most people talk about still. Hitler. Germany. The attempted extermination of the Jews. It was, unarguably, one of the greatest horrors in this history of the world. That will never change.
What has changed are the enemy’s methods.
In Rees Howell’s Intercessor, the chronicle of Howells’ fight against Hitler and the Nazis through prayer strikes a familiar chord to those of us fighting the current holocaust attempting to exterminate a generation through abortion.
A common accusation against people like me is that we exaggerate when we use terms like genocide or holocaust. First let’s look at those definitions. According to the Random House Dictionary, holocaust meanings include: “any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.” Genocide means “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.”
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Lottery to Win a Baby Reveals Culture of Death
Continue Reading »Beyond the individual and collective problems of the act of abortion comes a terrifying byproduct: a society rooted in a culture of death. When we embrace one type of killing as technically acceptable, we open the door of our collective heart to tolerate all sorts of sin and death in the name of culture.
Now the UK gives us a glimpse of what that looks like as it has made in vitro fertilization (IVF) a lottery game for which one can “buy a chance” to win a baby. Called the To Hatch Lottery, it operates the same way a lottery ticket to win cash does, only in this case the prize is a chance at a real life baby. You can read a news report of it here.
Regulated by the gambling commission (read that: a lottery to win baby services is regulated by a commission to oversee gambling; that’s what a big deal it is), the lottery lets people register for a chance to buy a ticket which will let them win fertility services and a chance to have a baby. What is disturbing about this concept is the cheapening of Life. That a baby is something for which you “buy chances” is a troubling concept that borders on trafficking, the ultimate cheapening of humanity, by reducing the childbirth desire to the act of gambling. The odds of winning a baby service are estimated to be 1: 1,000,000, which shows that it’s all about a lottery. It’s a money-making effort and it’s using the promise of a child to fulfill it’s fundraising goals.
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Eugenics: Not Just for the Nazis Anymore
Continue Reading »One reason abortion is so horrific is that it was founded on eugenics; that is, trying to eradicate a society of what some consider undesirable. While pro-abortionists declare it’s about choice and a woman’s right to manage her body, what abortion is really about in the big picture is getting rid of people we don’t think contribute to society. That’s why 90% of children with Down syndrome are aborted.
When Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, her goal was to get rid of the “feeble minded” and others she considered undesirable, most notably African-Americans and disabled people. Eugenic abortion isn’t old news. In fact, across the pond in what we consider civilized and sophisticated England, eugenic abortion, as well as all abortion, is on the rise.
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Minister Says Celebrating Easter Means Promoting Abortion Rights
Continue Reading »The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the organization filled with mainstream churches that endorse abortion, has an Easter message for its readers: Life is only valuable when it can be lived well, and Jesus endorses that.
Reverend Matthew Westfox, Director of Interfaith Outreach, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, writes in a special Easter column that
Easter is about … the victory of God, of love, of justice, over death. “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” reminds me that Easter is a celebration of life itself and what Christians honor and revere about life….. To be pro-life, after all, means to honor life and to cherish it. But do we honor life, or do we honor a heartbeat? Life, after all, is the ability to LIVE, to connect with other human beings, and, for Christians, life is among other things the ability to experience the presence of Christ through those connections. To live is to use our God-given conscience and power of moral decision- making. It is to act as a truly free person with control over one’s own body, sexuality, and reproduction.
This man is asserting that only lives that can be lived with value and purpose are worth coming forth from the womb. If that baby is going to, as Westfox says, be able to connect with people and with God, then perhaps it’s a life worth living, but a heartbeat is not an indication of that.
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Pro-Choice Lobbying Day or Eugenics Camp?
Continue Reading »Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, would be proud. Today Washington, DC looks like Eugenics Camp, a large gathering place where pro-aborts have come together to have a big rally and lobbying day to be sure that the federal government still funds killing babies that people don’t want. You can almost envision the spirit of Margaret hovering over it.
Today groups like the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice have joined with Planned Parenthood and others to lobby in DC on this occasion. The RCRC, which represents some mainstream denominations asks its supporters to “Stand up for Women’s Health” along with Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood who says in a letter today: -
“Ethicist” Declares Need to Use IVF to Only Breed Smart People (Video)
Continue Reading »Another file from the “you’ve gotta be kidding” bin comes from an Australian “ethicist.” When I was in journalism classes, they told us to be sparse in use of framing words in quotation marks because it was almost like apologizing for the word we were writing. (Let the reader understand.)
Said “ethicist” Professor Julian Savulescu, who is the chair of Oxford University’s practical ethics department, insists that morality means we must use in vitro fertilization to breed only smart people and, by implication, kill off the lesser people (according to him).
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Installing Eugenics As Policy
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Will genetic testing of fetuses turn into a slippery slope leading us to state approved eugenics?
It would seem so:
Technology is, they say, morally neutral. But it can certainly create some very tough moral dilemmas. Take the new test, announced last week, that will enable doctors to determine whether a foetus has genetic disorders. It’s much safer than the present one, since it will no longer risk causing fatal damage to the foetus. It’s also much more accurate, which means that mothers will no longer abort healthy babies in the mistaken belief that they will develop an incurable and untreatable genetic defect.
But there is also a downside, in that the test may also eventually make it possible for parents to obtain a complete genetic profile of the foetus they have conceived. That raises the spectre of an enormous proliferation of abortions, as parents decide to get rid of unborn babies not just because of genetic illnesses such as spinal muscular atrophy or Huntington’s disease, but because the foetus’s DNA profile suggests the child will be born with a cleft palate, or with below-average intelligence.