In case new folks haven’t figured it out yet, I am against abortion. Even though I had one, I came to deeply regret it decades later. If you haven’t read that story yet, at that link, it might help to do so first.
EUGENICS
Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the world, began as an organization so closely tied with the American eugenics movement as to be “almost indistinguishable” from it. That is not a pro-lifer's quote, but is from a Planned Parenthood board member long ago. Read on for the receipts.
First, Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger as the American Birth Control League (ABCL):
“Henry Pratt Fairchild, a leading American eugenicist and Planned Parenthood board member, said, ‘The two movements, eugenics and birth control, have now come to such a thorough understanding and have drawn so close as to be almost indistinguishable.’...
“Charles Darwin's first cousin, Francis Galton...described eugenics as ‘The science of improving stock...to give the more suitable races a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.’...
“Planned Parenthood… even developed a plan, the [N***o] Project, as a propaganda program to infiltrate the Black community posing birth control as 'family planning' which would focus on the ‘health benefits’ of ‘child spacing.’”
(I respectfully use asterisks instead of complete words in various quotes, but in Furlow’s and Sanger’s et. al.’s words (to follow), they include original words.)
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“The American Birth Control League” was renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) in 1942.
“...extortion from the wealthy given to those who should never have been born" and called poor families ‘human weeds.’”
Yet note their “charity” to give birth control free to those who are too poor for it. And now, maybe anyone.
Sanger went to great lengths to single out those whom she saw as “unfit” and at one point the director of the American Eugenics Society actually led Sanger’s original ABCL. Let’s also condemn together this racist quote by that old, white man who apparently “coined the phrase ‘population explosion’”:
“We should hire three or four c****ed ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the N***o is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the N***o population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” ~ Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
Do you think that last sentence exonerates Sanger? Think again:
A Black American group’s website gives it to you straight, about Planned Parenthood specifically, and about abortion in general. They call it out-and-out genocide.
Another minority community leader (Wayback’s Oct. 13, 2004 grab) put her beliefs where her mouth is regarding this truth, back in 2004.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, this leader found, wasn't really the shining, unvarnished star of the cancer foundations, and it seems they may have been as in bed with Planned Parenthood as the American Cancer Society (look for that post soon).
“The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer applauds Eve Sanchez Silver’s courageous decision to resign her position as a charter member of The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's National Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council (SGK) during the group’s Dallas meeting last week [September 2004]… She’s a popular speaker and a medical research analyst working as a breast cancer research advocate with premier U.S. cancer research facilities.”
“Silver, a two-time breast cancer survivor, was motivated to resign after reading a coalition press release revealing that Komen's affiliates have helped fund Planned Parenthood. In her September 24 [2004] press release announcing her resignation, Silver said, ‘It makes me wonder what other abortion related agendas SGK may be supporting, like the Black-out on the 16 statistically significant epidemiological studies linking abortion to breast cancer. Is one hand washing the other?’
“Silver was also understandably disturbed about Planned Parenthood’s ideological origins in eugenics. Its founder, Margaret Sanger, often wrote about her desire to rid the world of people of c***r.”
So if we go on those walks or support them in any way, how much of what we think we gave to help battle breast cancer, actually helps Planned Parenthood pay to dispense 633,756 Morning After Pills a year, or to help them perform 227,385 abortions? (Those are numbers in their own 2002-03 Annual Report (Feb.3, 2004 Wayback grab)
GENOCIDE
The definition of genocide is “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular ethnic, racial or religious group.” (Funny, the 2005 original version of that page included the now-removed “national” and “political” as groups that could be targeted for genocide. Kinda speaks volumes, doesn’t it?)
Screenshot from Answers.com Wayback Machine grab
I have absolutely no disregard or disrespect for those who suffered and/or died so horribly in the genocide wrought by the Nazis who eliminated ~ 18 million human beings, including 6+ million Jews. I ache and pray for those families and for the survivors. I stand with Israel, the indigenous people who well over 2,000 years ago were chosen and destined by the God I know is true, to be His people, on the land they’re on now. I will never forget that The Holocaust happened, even though I’m not and have never been Jewish. I one-million-percent acknowledge the agony of all those who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis. The Holocaust rightly is called “genocide.”
But neither do I wish anyone to diminish the loss of human life from abortion either. Acknowledging this loss as also a genocide takes nothing away from the torment and grievous loss of the Holocaust victims when we also are compelled to remember that U.S. abortions between 1973 and 2004 eliminated over 40 million human persons, and in the past 20 years, as many as another 23 million, in very painful and torturing ways for the babies and for the mothers as well.
If one’s religion were genetic, that too would be a criterion by which some could be aborted. (must I add /sarc ?)
The white, elitist, racist Planned Parenthood-founding eugenicists sold abortion and birth control predominantly to Blacks in this country as if it was a good thing, when the ulterior motive was to decrease what those eugenicists called “human weeds.”
Workers at Planned Parenthood’s clinics have bought into the rhetoric of “choice.” It’s easy to do, when they most likely don't even know—or know but cannot possibly accept as real—the abhorrent foundations and purpose of their organization.
Can anyone really think that those in Black and other minority neighborhoods where Planned Parenthood set up shop were honestly so free in making those choices, when there was indeed a “systematic and planned project” for the “extermination of an entire racial group?”
“PERSONHOOD” and INHUMANE TREATMENT OF HUMANS BY HUMANS
I discussed some sociological similarities to The Holocaust in this post about Milgram's Experiment and what makes human beings become inhumane toward one another. Even after the numbers above are explained, some folks still berate anyone who discusses the Holocaust/ abortion comparison. I’ve outlined how, at least in part, both genocides were influenced by a similar mechanism of obedience to authority from which Milgram devised his original experiments.
Ignoring the sworn, under-oath testimonies by eight world-renowned scientists that “[a] zygote…results from the union of an oocyte [egg] and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo)” (look for that post later)…
…some still continue to drag out the tired, old Peter Singer “personhood” or “sentient being” canard.
Dianne Irving, in the next 2 Bioethics article** screenshots below, outlines howPeter Singer also thinks infanticide is OK and sometimes monkeys are more of “human persons” than young children are. Don't take my word for it. He said it, not me (in the paragraph between the 2 screenshots below):
“…[sentience or personhood] are philosophical terms or concepts which have been illegitimately imposed on scientific data. The scientific fact is that the brain which is supposed to be the physiological support for both "rational attributes" and "sentience," is not actually completely formed until young adulthood. Quoting [noted embryologist Keith L.] Moore [in his well-known medical school textbook The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology]:
“‘Although it is customary to divide human development into prenatal (before birth) and postnatal (after birth) periods, birth is merely a dramatic event during development resulting in a change in environment. Development does not stop at birth. The brain triples in weight between birth and 16 years; most developmental changes are completed by the age of 25.’
“...if a 'person' is defined only in terms of the actual exercising of 'rational attributes' or of 'sentience,'…what would this mean for these...adult human beings with diminished 'rational attributes:' the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, the depressed elderly, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients, drug addicts, alcoholics - and for those with diminished 'sentience,' the comatose, patients in a 'vegetative state,' paraplegics and other paralyzed and disabled patients, diabetics or other patients with nerve or brain damage, etc.? Would that mean that they would not have the same ethical rights and protections as those adult human beings who are considered as persons?”
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“This is the position of bioethics writers such as the Australian animal rights philosopher Peter Singer, the recently appointed Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Singer argues that the higher primates (dogs, pigs, apes, monkeys) are persons - but that some human beings, e.g., even normal human infants, and disabled human adults, are not persons. Fellow bioethicist Norman Fost actually considers 'cognitively impaired' adult human beings as 'brain dead.' Philosopher/ bioethicist R.G. Frey has also published that many of the adult human beings on the above list are not 'persons,' and suggests that they be substituted for the higher primates who are 'persons' in purely destructive experimental research. The list goes on.”
Screenshot from citation at ** above
[UPDATE MAR.28: Even whales in New Zealand, some indigenous tribes are designating them as among their “ancestors” and claim should be given “personhood” status. Seems to be a trend there: “The Mount Taranaki volcano and Whanganui River, both in New Zealand's North Island, are seen by the Maori as both ancestors and of spiritual importance. They were both granted personhood in 2017.”]
Does anyone out there who believes the “personhood/ sentience” abortion defense, really want to be in the same camp as people who advocate doing to other human beings exactly what the Nazis did to 18 million people including 6 million Jews and who knows how many unborn children, especially when they subjected the “marginal people” listed above to cruel surgical and other scientific experimentation as if they were less than lab animals?
People have tried to turn the world on its ear with convoluted “personhood logic”—which is all just mental masturbation—but it doesn't make the truth go away.
Poor Peter Singer. He must really hate his mother for letting him live.
Some argue that the Holocaust wasn’t legal and abortion is. While technically this may have been true, there is no question that the Holocaust legally was sanctioned by the government of Nazi Germany. Whether they had a law on the books “allowing it” or not, no one honestly can argue that it was not sanctioned policy from the very top of that country’s leadership.
As for the torturous and hideous nature of what the Nazis did, there is no argument anyone could make or support that would refute that horrible reality. However, there is scientific evidence that abortion is as physically violent and torturous, at least to the unborn fetus and sometimes to the mother.
As of 2004, about 78% of U.S. abortions occurred after 6 weeks, and medical experts have testified in court that:
And while the CDC found in the 2004 timeframe that 39% of abortions occur at <8 weeks, combining all investigators’ (like Planned Parenthood’s) findings might indicate that it’s about 51% of all U.S. abortions occurring at <8 weeks. So between 49% and 61% of abortions occurred then after 8 weeks.
With 1.4 million abortions every year in this country as of 2004, that meant that, every year up to that point, ~696,000 to 854,000 babies in utero past 6-7 weeks experienced physical pain, and depending on their fetal age, sometimes excruciatingly so.
It also means that since 1973, with ~ 63 million abortions on the books, then roughly 30.8 million to 38.4 million babies in utero have experienced physical pain as they were aborted. They don’t call it “The Silent Scream” for nothing.
For many of the women, and even more now, with the abortion pill, they’ve experienced the full pain of days-long, unattended labor and delivery of dead fetuses, sometimes even painful death themselves (the Holly Patterson/ Tamia Russell post about the dangers of RU-486 also is coming soon).
Still others accuse us of “advocating what was the actual policy of the Third Reich:” making abortion illegal here as it was in Nazi Germany. There are two flaws in this argument.
“In Nazi Germany, abortion was strictly prohibited, as ‘Aryan’ women were to reproduce to increase the ‘master race’. Abortion was declared an act against the state; the death penalty was introduced in 1943.
“Under the previous regime, the Weimar Republic, birth control information had been widely disseminated. In 1933, birth control centres were closed and the advertising of contraceptives stopped. Women were encouraged not to work and financial incentives were introduced to encourage childbearing. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister for Hitler, made the following claim about women’s proper role:
“‘The mission of woman is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world. This is not at all as rude and unmodern as it sounds. The female bird pretties herself for her mate and hatches the eggs for him. In exchange, the mate takes care of gathering the food and stands guard and wards off the enemy.’”
(Nov. 10, 2000 Wayback grab from Abortion In Law, History and Religion, a 1995 pamphlet, Published by: Childbirth by Choice Trust, which quotes above from George L. Mosses, ed., Nazi Culture, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1966, p.47.)
Sure sounds like the true “Handmaids Tale” to me…and that is not what we’re after, here.
Secondly, the Nazis did in fact allow abortion—as long as you weren't German. They had a policy that forced abortion on those they wanted to kill off.
It was part of the policy known as Lebensborn. Abortion was illegal—but only for Aryans. For anyone considered less desirable, abortion was not only legal, but often “compulsory:”
“Infants born to Polish women deported to Germany as farm and factory laborers were also usually taken from the mothers and subjected to Germanization. (If an examination of the father and mother suggested that a ‘racially valuable’ child might not result from the union, abortion was compulsory.)”
(July 8, 2000 Wayback grab, originally published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a pamphlet titled "POLES"; it had been published with permission at The Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc. website, nka Holocaust Teacher Resource Center)
Again from the earlier Nov. 10, 2000 link,
“In contrast, Jewish women were forced to have abortions; both abortion and sterilization were used by the state against groups which it considered racially undesirable.”
So in reality, since abortion advocates often fight for government-funded abortions for the poor and for minority women, they often are quite literally doing as the Nazis did in aborting people, just as Margaret Sanger, et. al., set out to do.
The abortion industry, eugenics, genocide. The first employs the latter to effect the middle one.
Those who merely privately support or “don’t personally oppose” abortion usually don’t even know about the real relationship among the three.
Perhaps none of that will be admitted to, even once they do know, but then neither did the tobacco industry or its supporters admit what it was really doing, until it was brought down by massive lawsuits about the truth, which forced it to do so.
I’m sorry if I’ve ruined anyone’s day and you look like the woman in the top photo. But truth is truth. If you’re rethinking and/or regretting an abortion, please check this and this out.
(originally posted May 2005, updated 2024)
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