Ron Paul: The Immorality of Taxpayer Funded Abortion

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Sanger embraced Malthusian eugenics. from Malthus’ magnum opus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in six editions from 1798 to 1826:

All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons. We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.

Sanger built the work of the ABCL, and, ultimately, Planned Parenthood, on the ideas and resources of the eugenics movement. Grant reported that "virtually all of the organization’s board members were eugenicists." Eugenicists financed the early projects, from the opening of birth control clinics to the publishing of "revolutionary" literature. Eugenicists comprised the speakers at conferences, authors of literature and the providers of services "almost without the exception." And Planned Parenthood’s international work was originally housed in the offices of the Eugenics Society. The two organizations were intertwined for years.

The ABCL became a legal entity on April 22, 1922, in New York. Before that, Sanger illegally operated a birth control clinic in October 1916, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, which eventually closed. The clinic serviced the poor immigrants who heavily populated the area–those deemed "unfit" to reproduce.

Sanger’s early writings clearly reflected Malthus’ influence. She writes:

Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. 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 perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents.

The "negro project"

In 1939, Margaret Sanger's new Birth Control Federation of America, a merger of her American Birth Control League and her research arm, the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, designed a "Negro Project" which sought to bring about a major birth-rate reduction among American Negroes. Such a result, according to the goals of the project, would help solve the problem of Southern Negro poverty. According to the project proposal, widely believed to have been written by Gamble, "The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the [population] increase among Negroes...is from that portion...least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly."

The project was to hire three or four "colored Ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities" to travel through the South and propagandize for birth control. As the project proposal stated, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal."19

In a remarkably frank letter to Gamble, Sanger wrote that "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."20

Gamble in turn proposed that the ministers enlist the aid of black physicians and attempt to organize a "Negro Birth Control Committee" in each community. In a private memo concerning the "Colored Steering Committee," Gamble wrote that "There is great danger that [the project] will fail because the Negroes think it a plan for extermination. Hence let's appear to let the colored run it...."21

Despite Gamble's professed concern for the health and well-being of the indigent Negroes he was targeting, he clashed with South Carolina's Public Health Director who wanted to provide general health services along with the contraceptive agenda being pushed by Sanger and Gamble. Gamble wrote Sanger that he did not want his funds to be "diluted with a lot of general health work."22

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"…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing’
therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live."

--Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV
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On the crisp, sunny, fall Columbus Day in 1999, organizers of the "Say So" march approached the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. The marchers, who were predominantly black pastors and lay persons, concluded their three-day protest at the site of two monumental cases: the school desegregation Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade "rights" in t he latter–converged in the declaration of Rev. Johnny M. Hunter, the march’s sponsor and national director of Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN), the largest black pro-life organization.

‘"Civil rights’ doesn’t mean anything without a right to life!" declared Hunter. He and the other marchers were protesting the disproportionately high number of abortions in the black community. The high number is no accident. Many Americans–black and white–are unaware of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project. Sanger created this program in 1939, after the organization changed its name from the American Birth Control League (ABCL) to the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA).

I was that women, I would of signed the papers too, but it is all a propaganda machine I grew up in and you (telling little girls abortion is ok, and tricking them into a lifetime of pain)

The woman doesnt make the choice in abortin, society and men and her "image" makes it unconsciously.

You take any pregnant woman w/ hormones raging and on an emotionally needy day she could take someones SICK advice to get an abortion seriously.

When given time to think, it wont be choosen. That's why they must pass it "on demand"

Honestly how bad is it for a woman to give life to a child ?? It take what a year of your life? A month after my rape, when I found out, I made the time for my daughter that year..have a little heart! Women are tougher than abortion lets them be!!! And oh you say raising low income single parentless children is the issue. I call BS! But even so, that why we have millions of adoptive couples ready and waiting. http://birthmommissions.com

I love them!

I link and them on my website too! http://birthmommissions.com

"I will tell you something beautiful. We are fighting abortion by adoption..."

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms" Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul

"I don't think you really are all the way on board with the idea of individual rights, Ron Paul, or C4L... You kinda missed the point that our first duty is to protect the innocent and its not 'your choice" when it involves another life."

Are you in charge?

I understand the arguments both for and against abortion and for what it's worth I'd never consider an abortion and neither would my wife. Our pregnancy was a surprise at a time when we could least afford it (she had just started college and we were living in a tiny apartment), but as I work from home we managed fairly well. My daughter is the best gift I could ask for. She's also the main reason I'm as attuned to politics as I am because I want her to have a good life.

When I was in High School there was a girl in my group of friends that was a drunk and slept with a lot of boys. She had 3 abortions before the end of High School which I find absolutely disgusting. I couldn't even talk to her I found it so abhorrent, which is sad because she probably really needed someone to listen.

Aside from my personal beliefs I feel very strongly that the issue of abortion is primarily a woman's issue. Many may feel I'm passing-the-buck, but it's difficult for me to accept the idea that a man can determine what a woman should do with her body when she's experiencing something I can only understand in a theoretical way, and that is probably a very moving spiritual experience for her. My revelations about the miracle of life are experienced after the birth when the child begins to evolve and relate to the world at large. Up until then my focus is primarily on my wife and her needs.

What a woman does with her pregnancy is between her and whatever God she communes with. I love children and I wish they were treated with greater respect in our culture, but I am pro-choice and will continue to be so.

At the very least I think any abortion should be done after much consideration and that it should be paid for by the people involved in the pregnancy.