Planned Parenthood loses funding in House vote
Proponents and opponents of abortion rights argue in front of the Supreme Court during the March for Life Jan. 24, 2011, in Washington.
/ Getty ImagesThe amendment, which was put forth by Indiana Republican Mike Pence, passed with a vote of 240 to 185, with eleven Democrats voting for the amendment and seven Republicans voting against it. One Congress member voted "present." The amendment will now proceed to Senate as a part of the Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through September.
Abortion rights activists immediately condemned the amendment as an "extreme and dangerous piece of legislation" and an "assault" on millions of Americans.
"The outcome of this vote is not a surprise, but it is radically out of step with mainstream American values and it is out of line with the issues voters want Congress to focus on," said Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, in an e-mailed statement.
"In attacking Planned Parenthood, the House Republican leadership has launched an outrageous assault on the millions of Americans who rely on Planned Parenthood for primary and preventive health care, including lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, annual exams, family planning visits, birth control, HIV testing, and more."
Anti-abortion rights activists, however, have lauded the proposal's passage on Friday as an "historic vote."
"We are very grateful to the House of Representatives and its leadership for listening to the American people," said Penney Nance, CEO of the anti-abortion group Concerned Women for America. "Now it's time for the U.S. Senate to follow suit and finally cut off all federal funding to an organization that thumbs is willing to aid and abet sex traffickers."
In a Thursday night debate preceding the vote, conversation quickly moved to the topic of abortion rights and women's rights, as well as the relative merits of Planned Parenthood and Title X - a program that provides low-income families with aid toward family planning and reproductive health.
New York Democrat Louise Slaughter called the proposed cuts to family planning "the opening salvo in an all-out war on women's health."
And in a moment that commanded solemn attention on the House floor, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) discussed her own experience with abortion.
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One of these would be the Planned Parenthood organization. While many are unaware of the fact, the organization's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist with some particularly odious views. For example, in her work Women and the New Race, she wrote, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." And this culture-of-death spirit certainly lives on. Planned Parenthood affiliates perform more than 300,000 abortions a year, turning a profit of more than $100 million and collecting more than $300 million of your tax money in the process. Sanger also expressed Nazi-like views long before the National Socialists took power. For example, in her 1922 book,The Pivot of Civilization, she wrote, "Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." (Emphasis added.)
Perhaps it is passions such as the above that inspired Sanger to create the "Negro Project," an organized campaign to limit - and some say exterminate - America's black population. Black author Tanya L. Green sheds some more light on Sanger's motivations in her piece "The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans," writing:
Margaret Sanger aligned herself with the eugenicists whose ideology prevailed in the early 20th century. Eugenicists strongly espoused racial supremacy and "purity," particularly of the "Aryan" race. Eugenicists hoped to purify the bloodlines and improve the race by encouraging the "fit" to reproduce and the "unfit" to restrict their reproduction. They sought to contain the "inferior" races through segregation, sterilization, birth control and abortion.
It is easy for pro-life people, such as I, to look askance at the Margaret Sangers of the world, just as it is easy for anti-American bigots to place the onus on America, or blacks to place it on whites. While there certainly are villains in this story, however, it is more important to expose destructive ideas than deluded people. After all, ideas live on long after idealists pass on.
Certainly, the desire to have strong, vibrant citizens and children is nothing new. The aforementioned Spartans would kill a male infant if he was perceived to have any defect whatsoever, and parents typically hope and pray for healthy, intelligent, and strong sons and daughters. And, of course, an offspring's characteristics can most assuredly be influenced through selective breeding. For example, consider the dogs we have as pets today. The breeds many of us know and love - the Rottweiler, cocker spaniel, Neapolitan Mastiff, etc. - never existed until they were bred by man. Their unique characteristics are the result of taking a group of canines, breeding the ones that exhibit desired traits, and killing those that do not. And repeating this process generation after generation yielded unique beasts ideally suited to whatever purpose they were to be used for.
And this is the problem with eugenics. We must not "use" people or view them as objects that serve a "purpose." Yet why does the science endeavor to create a better human? It is for that very reason: so that they will serve the purpose of being better soldiers, citizens, scientists, producers, etc. But, then, what happens once you've reduced people to objects, to cogs in the machinery of the state? Well, when it seems that a baby will be insufficient for his purpose, you give him the Spartan treatment; and when a cog gets too old to serve its purpose, you euthanize it - for the good of society. And you then have embraced the eugenicist position that there are "human beings who never should have been born," as Sanger said; or that there is "life unworthy of life," as the Nazis said. The point here is that you don't value people based on what they can do. You value them based on what they are.
Yet this brings us to a very interesting question: What are they? And is it just a coincidence that eugenics took hold in the wake of evolution's acceptance? Is it possible that classical evolution's conception of "what they are" engenders a eugenicist mindset? Let us examine the matter.
From "Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality" by Selwyn Duke
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On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932
On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)
On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
On the extermination of blacks:
"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
On respecting the rights of the mentally ill:
In her "Plan for Peace," Sanger outlined her strategy for eradication of those she deemed "feebleminded." Among the steps included in her evil scheme were immigration restrictions; compulsory sterilization; segregation to a lifetime of farm work; etc. Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 107
http://americannationalistparty.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/margaret-sanger-extermination-of-blacks-immigrants-and-indigents/
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards calls the Republican action as an outrageious attack on Americans who count on PPH for health care...is this woman for real! This is all an excuse a cover for continuing to kill the unborn. Who cares about their insurance, those that are unemployed are not getting any handouts, why should those that want to kill the unborn recieve any special treatment. Have the baby, give it up for adoption, Save the life!
What Cecile Richards wants is to continue lining her pockets with tax payer money and job secutiry through the hard work of the tax payer. Planned Parenthood and Cecil Richards are the face of evil!
Another generation of repetitive genetic loser screw balls drags society into the gutter.
The only answer is that these people should be sterilized; as was already ordered by a judge to a welfare-ite that had countless pregnancies while on the dole. But was over turned by bleeding heart born again fanatics. So it's no wonder the welfare roles keep rolling along; with all the problems it carries with it.
That can not happen as to modern government in curent realilies to where we say; "Wmn.Baby,came A Long Way".Recall this line do you all !?
"Some people go to priests: others to poerty.I to my friends."Virginia Wolf's quotes
Polls show non-tea party repubs are closer to dems on spending cuts.
have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history.
Planned Parenthood operates the nation's largest chain of abortion clinics and almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.
About 13 percent of American women are black, but they
submit to over 35 percent of the abortions.
There need does not just go away.
Laws have never stopped abortion, but only relegated it to back-alley butchers. Pro-lifers are naive if they think making abortions illegal will stop them...it would again just endanger the lives of the women.
Most Americans reject the absolutist position that it is always wrong to terminate a pregnancy and believe that abortion may be the morally right choice under certain circumstances. Many people who are personally opposed to abortion for religious or moral reasons also believe that it is wrong to impose their values by civil law on everyone. You don't have to like abortion to respect the right of choice.
The Constitution protects various rights that are not specifically mentioned, but are derived, via Supreme Court interpretation, from other rights. Examples of this are the right of free association and the right to distribute printed material. The constitutional right of privacy has been interpreted repeatedly to include matters of marriage, family and sex, specifically "the right to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child."
If as you say its your body, then dont have sex and you wont get pregnant. If you CHOOSE to have sex deal with the consequences and be a mother or at least be decent enough not to kill the child and give it up for adoption.
Its not the goverment telling you what to do with your body. It all of us telling you to own up to your mistakes and grow up!!!