(excerpt from this article)
As a left-leaning Rutgers law professor in the early 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought that the Roe v. Wade abortion decision was the product of "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations we don’t want too many of," she recalled in a recent New York Times Magazine interview.
Her expectation was that the purported right to abortion created in Roe "was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them."
Ginsburg doesn’t specify which parts of the human population "we" should cull, or how the creation of an abortion "right" would necessarily be a prelude to creation of a system in which abortion would be required in some circumstances. She told the Times that the question was effectively rendered moot by the Supreme Court's Harris v. McRae decision, which upheld a ban on Medicaid funding of abortion. That decision, handed down in 1980, indicated that her "perception" of the issue "had been altogether wrong," Ginsburg concludes.
But this means that there was an interval of roughly seven years during which Ginsburg, a well-informed and influential academic, believed that America was creating a eugenicist system in which abortion would help reduce "undesirable" populations – however those populations would be defined. This was what Roe had wrought, Ginsburg believed for several years, and if she ever experienced misgivings about it, she managed to keep them private.
Another question worth examining is this: Where did Ginsburg – a rising star in academe long before being tapped to fill the Rosa Klebb seat on the Supreme Court – get the impression that American policy-making elites were discussing the use of welfare subsidies to bring about the attrition of "undesirable" populations?
If I may be permitted a modest venture in speculation, I’d suggest that Ginsburg, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, became at least superficially acquainted with the writings of John Holdren or of like-minded people in the most militant branch of the population control movement.
(... read more -- excerpt from this article)
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Economic ruin from our aborted generation
The media occasionally speaks about "aging populations" as though an entire society naturally ages, but what that really speaks of are declining birthrates and aborted children. If we didn't abort an entire generation of taxpayers, there wouldn't be a social security crisis. If we let the country's population grow instead of letting them die at the hands of the abortion industry, we would have an expanding economy and not a contracting one.
Look at the careful words chosen by this British editorial:
All those terms mean societies that dislike children, countries that have ruined their young and have thrown them away rather than let them grow and prosper. Women deserve better than abortion, and deserve more options and real choices than the ones society is foisting upon them now. Even in the face of this major 'demographic winter' and 'aging' of our population, what message do colleges send to pregnant women in their midst? Right now, a pregnancy center is in every major community and yet how many women realize how many good choices are all around them?
We will turn this 'winter' into a spring of life only by continuing the battle, pushing for real choices for women, supporting families and once again loving every life.
Look at the careful words chosen by this British editorial:
No doubt Ireland has been the victim of a savagely tight monetary policy - given its specific needs. But the deeper truth is that Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and Japan are in varying states of fiscal ruin, and those tipping into demographic decline (unlike young Ireland) have an underlying cancer that is even more deadly. The West cannot support its gold-plated state structures from an aging workforce and depleted tax base.
All those terms mean societies that dislike children, countries that have ruined their young and have thrown them away rather than let them grow and prosper. Women deserve better than abortion, and deserve more options and real choices than the ones society is foisting upon them now. Even in the face of this major 'demographic winter' and 'aging' of our population, what message do colleges send to pregnant women in their midst? Right now, a pregnancy center is in every major community and yet how many women realize how many good choices are all around them?
We will turn this 'winter' into a spring of life only by continuing the battle, pushing for real choices for women, supporting families and once again loving every life.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Vietnamese abortions skewing births
Matching the trends in other countries like China and India, Vietnam is now seeing an alarming rise in the number of male births. Where normal and natural births achieve harmony, peace and order, abortion sows division, despair and chaos. No one knows what the effect of having all these extra men will be, ones without a potential spouse and in a part of the world prone to major military conflicts.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Abortion case potentially coming up before the Supreme Court
from the article:
Two years after the Supreme Court last ruled on abortion restrictions, a new test case is likely on its way to the Court, perhaps reaching there by next Fall. Responding to an order by the Justices to take a new look at a Virginia abortion ban, the Fourth Circuit Court on Wednesday upheld the law. The en banc Court divided, 6-5, in sustaining the law against claims that it would criminalize the most common method of abortions performed in the second trimester.
Two years after the Supreme Court last ruled on abortion restrictions, a new test case is likely on its way to the Court, perhaps reaching there by next Fall. Responding to an order by the Justices to take a new look at a Virginia abortion ban, the Fourth Circuit Court on Wednesday upheld the law. The en banc Court divided, 6-5, in sustaining the law against claims that it would criminalize the most common method of abortions performed in the second trimester.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Abortion as a "blessing"?
You have probably heard about the Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge Divinity appointment of Katherine Ragsdale, featured here in the Phoenix. The article goes to great lengths to explain Ragsdale's infamous "abortion is a blessing" statements in Alabama, as well as rationalize why 'common ground' with us pro-lifers is misguided, and that abortion is never a 'tragedy' because, well, a woman chooses it.
The article fails, of course, to put in context that Ragsdale sits on NARAL's board and that board provides the political cover for an multi-billion dollar publicly supported industry involved with the destruction of children for any reason.
It's so telling to read her words and the obvious contradictions within. Ragsdale is obviously a very intelligent woman, and well-spoken, but she says certain things without even considering their implications:
From the article:
How can a scientific or moral truth be so subjective that it depends on one's own personal beliefs? That would make it not a moral principle, but a matter of personal interpretation. There has to be an objective truth: either the fetus is a child or it is not, but to cop out and say that it depends on what you want to believe is akin to saying that a baby chicken is only a real chicken if you want it to be, other people can disagree and perhaps it's not a chicken at all. Her line of logic is purposefully anti-logic, it is the cold, calm rationalization of forcing what you want to be true over the objective truth.
Her bad logic continues later in the article:
What, I wonder, does she mean by "it"? What is "it"? And by saying "babies they want" she's clearly contradicting her earlier statements that "it" is not a baby. She's saying that until "it" is born, the baby is not a baby, but in the same sentence, just a short few words later, she acknowledges that some babies are wanted and the aborted babies are unwanted, but it shows that she recognizes that they are both babies.
I can't fault Ragsdale, she is obviously so wrapped up in pro-abortion politics, organizations, and self-identity politics that it is likely an enormous intellectual mountain to climb to state the obvious: that abortion kills a child. And I hesitate to too easily castigate the media and the Phoenix, for they are likely surrounded by a climate that doesn't engage these ideas and issues in a competitive way-- they all blindly accept Ragsdale, and look to her as the authority figure. They are reporters who don't know, so they seek out whom they trust to know for them, and are getting bad answers.
No, friends, the uncomfortable blame lies with us. The blame lies on our shoulders because these lies continue without our constructive corrections. These appointments go unchallenged because we give up on the world. We hear too often religious people excuse their own personal inaction because they 'see signs of the end times' or because there's "no hope" or because things are "too far gone" and they let these things continue. We focus on the overwhelming problems and get dispirited, whereas, instead, we need to challenge ourselves each and every day to continue taking constructive pro-life action to help save the unborn. When we hear a pro-abortion argument we need to correct it. When we see a pro-choice politician we need to respectfully engage them, when we find the pro-choicers in our own family, we need to dialogue with them, and when we see a woman in need we need to continue speaking to her and bringing her to the many wonderful pregnancy centers around the state.
The blame lies with us, the challenge is upon us, and the future will change because of you.
The article fails, of course, to put in context that Ragsdale sits on NARAL's board and that board provides the political cover for an multi-billion dollar publicly supported industry involved with the destruction of children for any reason.
It's so telling to read her words and the obvious contradictions within. Ragsdale is obviously a very intelligent woman, and well-spoken, but she says certain things without even considering their implications:
From the article:
"I suppose it's possible for an intelligent, faithful person to still believe that there's no moral difference between a zygote and a baby," Ragsdale allows. "But there's no reason for most of us to believe that. And I don't."
How can a scientific or moral truth be so subjective that it depends on one's own personal beliefs? That would make it not a moral principle, but a matter of personal interpretation. There has to be an objective truth: either the fetus is a child or it is not, but to cop out and say that it depends on what you want to believe is akin to saying that a baby chicken is only a real chicken if you want it to be, other people can disagree and perhaps it's not a chicken at all. Her line of logic is purposefully anti-logic, it is the cold, calm rationalization of forcing what you want to be true over the objective truth.
Her bad logic continues later in the article:
"That's the tragedy in most cases," she continues. "That birth control failed, that they might want to have a baby but the economics are such that they can't possibly afford it, that we don't have healthcare, that women can't choose to have the babies they want. There's a tragedy."
What, I wonder, does she mean by "it"? What is "it"? And by saying "babies they want" she's clearly contradicting her earlier statements that "it" is not a baby. She's saying that until "it" is born, the baby is not a baby, but in the same sentence, just a short few words later, she acknowledges that some babies are wanted and the aborted babies are unwanted, but it shows that she recognizes that they are both babies.
I can't fault Ragsdale, she is obviously so wrapped up in pro-abortion politics, organizations, and self-identity politics that it is likely an enormous intellectual mountain to climb to state the obvious: that abortion kills a child. And I hesitate to too easily castigate the media and the Phoenix, for they are likely surrounded by a climate that doesn't engage these ideas and issues in a competitive way-- they all blindly accept Ragsdale, and look to her as the authority figure. They are reporters who don't know, so they seek out whom they trust to know for them, and are getting bad answers.
No, friends, the uncomfortable blame lies with us. The blame lies on our shoulders because these lies continue without our constructive corrections. These appointments go unchallenged because we give up on the world. We hear too often religious people excuse their own personal inaction because they 'see signs of the end times' or because there's "no hope" or because things are "too far gone" and they let these things continue. We focus on the overwhelming problems and get dispirited, whereas, instead, we need to challenge ourselves each and every day to continue taking constructive pro-life action to help save the unborn. When we hear a pro-abortion argument we need to correct it. When we see a pro-choice politician we need to respectfully engage them, when we find the pro-choicers in our own family, we need to dialogue with them, and when we see a woman in need we need to continue speaking to her and bringing her to the many wonderful pregnancy centers around the state.
The blame lies with us, the challenge is upon us, and the future will change because of you.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Health Risks of Removing Old Laws
Boston's Dig Magazine recently wrote an article featuring MCFL Executive Director Marie Sturgis on the dangers of removing old state laws that protect women's health.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
RedMassGroup: Want To Save The State Money? Stop Using Tax Dollars For Abortions
from RedMassGroup:
"Want To Save The State Money? Stop Using Tax Dollars For Abortions"
by: Garrett
Wed May 06, 2009 at 22:50:45 PM EDT
It is no secret that the Commonwealth spends taxpayer dollars poorly. There is the prevailing wage law, the Quinn Bill, pensions, no show jobs, Cahill's lawsuit, the Cadillac, the Aloisi family, etc. These types of abuses are pretty standard in Massachusetts but spending money on abortions? Are you serious?
There is a line item in the House Budget dedicating $5.2 million in tax dollars to "comprehensive family planning services," in other words abortions. Do the legislators on Beacon Hill really think it is appropriate to fund abortions with taxpayer dollars during a fiscal crisis, or even at all?
Is funding abortions a top priority for the Commonwealth?
...read more
"Want To Save The State Money? Stop Using Tax Dollars For Abortions"
by: Garrett
Wed May 06, 2009 at 22:50:45 PM EDT
It is no secret that the Commonwealth spends taxpayer dollars poorly. There is the prevailing wage law, the Quinn Bill, pensions, no show jobs, Cahill's lawsuit, the Cadillac, the Aloisi family, etc. These types of abuses are pretty standard in Massachusetts but spending money on abortions? Are you serious?
There is a line item in the House Budget dedicating $5.2 million in tax dollars to "comprehensive family planning services," in other words abortions. Do the legislators on Beacon Hill really think it is appropriate to fund abortions with taxpayer dollars during a fiscal crisis, or even at all?
Is funding abortions a top priority for the Commonwealth?
...read more
American Spectator: "High Priestess" of Abortion moves to Boston
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/08/high-priestess-of-abortion
By Mark Tooley on 5.8.09 @ 6:07AM
The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale will soon become the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Openly lesbian, the outgoing chief of a liberal think tank that monitored the Religious Right, and best known for her abortion rights advocacy through the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Ragsdale maybe the perfect icon for untrammeled liberal Episcopalianism.
But a rather vigorous two-year-old abortion sermon by Ragsdale, assertive even by her standards, has overshadowed her recent appointment. "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done!" she repeatedly exclaimed at a rally in defense of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2007. Those "blessing" situations, according to Ragsdale, are when a woman is pregnant due to "violence," when the fetus has "anomalies," when the woman hasn't education or a "sustainable job," and even when a woman has a "loving, supportive, respectful relationship" with "every option open to her" but knows the child will compromise "one's education, life's work, or ability to put to use God's gifts." So basically, abortion, including even partial-birth abortion as Ragsdale admits, is a "blessing" just about any time it is desired.
full article
By Mark Tooley on 5.8.09 @ 6:07AM
The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale will soon become the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Openly lesbian, the outgoing chief of a liberal think tank that monitored the Religious Right, and best known for her abortion rights advocacy through the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Ragsdale maybe the perfect icon for untrammeled liberal Episcopalianism.
But a rather vigorous two-year-old abortion sermon by Ragsdale, assertive even by her standards, has overshadowed her recent appointment. "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done!" she repeatedly exclaimed at a rally in defense of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2007. Those "blessing" situations, according to Ragsdale, are when a woman is pregnant due to "violence," when the fetus has "anomalies," when the woman hasn't education or a "sustainable job," and even when a woman has a "loving, supportive, respectful relationship" with "every option open to her" but knows the child will compromise "one's education, life's work, or ability to put to use God's gifts." So basically, abortion, including even partial-birth abortion as Ragsdale admits, is a "blessing" just about any time it is desired.
full article
Sunday, April 5, 2009
12 years of Ben Folds' "Brick"
Even though it came out 12 years ago, many people still haven't run across Ben Folds' song about abortion: "Brick", which very sadly, coldly and dispassionately talks about the reality of abortion and what it does to a young couple and an individual.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Planned Parenthood caught covering up rape and losing local funds
Planned Parenthood has been caught on tape, again, for covering up statutory rape. You may recall that the nation's largest abortionist was caught last year accepting racist donations. All of this is causing some, such as those in Texas, to propose cutting off federal, state and local funds to an organization that consistently engages in such behavior. Orange County in California has already cut off local contracts to Planned Parenthood.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
MCFL News Heaslip Story and Quality Control
"Tragic Choices" shows the extent to which pregnant women are subjected to an analysis of their child's worthiness to be born based on manufacturing protocols.
Imperfect human beings are seen as defective products to be removed from the assembly line. The parents can always try again for a more desirable child. This distorts the relationship between parents, children, and the medical profession. Parents become masters, children become consumable packages,allowed to continue life as long as their fitness meets the criteria which doctors and society have judged valuable enough to warrant existence.
Imperfect human beings are seen as defective products to be removed from the assembly line. The parents can always try again for a more desirable child. This distorts the relationship between parents, children, and the medical profession. Parents become masters, children become consumable packages,allowed to continue life as long as their fitness meets the criteria which doctors and society have judged valuable enough to warrant existence.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Globe: Catholic Hospitals to Ban Abortions
MCFL President Anne Fox quoted in the story, which shows the controversy that health care reform has when it puts pro-life entities in league with those companies supporting the abortion industry. Learn how to engage real health care reform at the March 28th MCFL Convention at BC Law, which you can register for online or by calling the MCFL office at (617) 242-4199
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Bedford Minuteman: Whitewashing Health Secretary Sebelius' abortion ties
The Bedford Minuteman ran this puff piece on Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius' nomination while also linking to this advocacy website at the bottom, "Catholics for Sebelius" which is part of the Obama adminstration's efforts to outflank the pro-life movement in exposing the truth behind Sebelius. Shockingly, Sen. Sam Brownback has said he supports Sebelius despite her radically pro-abortion record.
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