Before
World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, Eugenics was cutting edge and fashionable
with American Progressives. The Eugenics movement, opposed by conservatives,
Christians, and the Catholic Church, pushed for laws, which were passed in many
states, which allowed the government to forcibly sterilize women who were
deemed to be unfit. These laws were upheld by the Supreme Court in Buck v Bell,
a decision written by progressive icon Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Margaret
Sanger, with support from the Progressive Rockefeller Foundation, founded
Planned Parenthood to encourage birth control and abortion for populations that
she described as “dysgenic races” and for women that she described as “useless
eaters.” Pre-War support for birth control, sterilization, and abortion was
openly based on the premise that certain races should be reduced. Sanger
promoted the “Negro Project” in 1939, a project that located birth control
clinics in African-American neighborhoods.
Sanger
admired the Nazis, her progressive counterparts in Germany. She invited Dr.
Ernst Rudin, the Nazi head of the German Society for Racial Hygiene, to write
for her magazine. Rudin and a delegation of Nazis were prominent participants
in the Third Eugenic Conference in 1932. Held at the Museum of Natural History
in New York, the elite conference included a who’s who of American progressive
elites.
Birth
Control and Abortion received a public relations facelift after World War II. Henceforth,
and running in tandem with the agenda of Rockefeller funded sexologist Dr. Alfred
Kinsey, birth control and abortion would be promoted as a women’s “right to
choose.”
Yet
the population control agenda, first articulated by British Professor Thomas
Malthus in the early 19th Century, continued to make inroads amongst
American liberals. Hugh Moore, a wealthy philanthropist and funder of Margaret
Sanger’s International Planned Parenthood Federation, published “The Population
Bomb” in the 1950’s. He sought to influence the US government to promote a
strong program of birth control in the third world. President Eisenhower
rejected the idea as did Presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy who was
criticized by his more liberal Democratic opponents for being influenced by his
Catholic faith on the issue. Margaret Sanger vowed to leave the country if
Kennedy were elected.
President
Lyndon Johnson changed course and embraced the international population control
agenda. Congress would henceforth allocate taxpayer funds to promote brutal
programs of forced birth control, sterilization, and forced abortion in the
third world. The neo-eugenic program would start with the use of Medicaid money
by Johnson’s Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall to sterilize Native
American women. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare spearheaded a
sterilization program in Puerto Rico.
The
United States Agency for International Development, USAID, established by
Kennedy to promote positive political and economic development in the third
world, was used by Johnson and subsequent administrations to promote
sterilization and forced abortion in the third world. Dr. Reimert Ravenholt was
appointed as director of USAID’s population office with billions of taxpayer
dollars earmarked to pressure third world nations to implement draconian
eugenic population control programs.
According
to “Population Control: Illusory Benefits” by Steven Mosher, Ravenholt “took
his work of contracepting, sterilizing, and aborting the women of the world
with an aggressiveness that caused his younger colleagues to shrink back in
disgust. Ravenholt distributed untold millions in taxpayer funds to the
International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Population Council, and other
private groups who implemented forced sterilization and abortion campaigns. He
used taxpayer money to buy massive quantities of defective and dangerous birth
control drugs and devices from drug companies, having been rejected by the FDA, to be disseminated in the third
world.
The
agenda continued into the Nixon Administration with the issuance of the "Kissinger
Report" in 1973, a report which linked foreign aid to third world
countries to their reductions of their populations. More recently, the International Planned
Parenthood Federation and other population control groups have used substantial State Department grants
to promote forced sterilization and abortion in Communist China. Excellent
documentation on all of the above can be found in the just published book “Merchants
of Despair” by Robert Zubrin.
The
progressive idea today regarding women is that the ultimate virtue for women,
and for men, is to be able to have sex anytime without consequences or
emotional attachment. Sigmund Freud referred to this as “polymorphous perversity.”
Freud held up as the ultimate virtue the right to have sex with anyone,
anywhere, at any time and under any circumstances. He viewed his opponents as “repressed”
and therefore as mentally ill. Certainly nothing excites the emotions of
progressives more than the idea that women should have the right to abortion on demand and
birth control.
To
progressives, women are objects, cannon fodder, in their collectivist agenda.
Ironically, conservatives view women the same way they view men. Conservatives
hold as a virtue for both women and for men the right to individual rights, the right to the life sustaining values that accompany the existence of the sovereign family, limited
government that promotes political and economic stability and success, and an
empowering moral code that buttresses all of the above.
