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originally posted by: eletheia
a reply to: grandmakdw
As I have previously stated *Sensationalism*
Hand picked pictures for the most impact and sympathetic
responses?
That is at 24 weeks when a foetus is viable, and not when most
terminations are carried out at between 12 / 16 weeks.
There was method in showing that picture of and older foetus....
much prettier than the pictures of earlier foetus which hardly
look human at all in most instances.... therefor more likely to
elicit sympathy for the cause of pro lifers
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Now show us some photos of the horribly disfigured fetuses that would go through life physically deformed if not inconstant agony ...
oh wait .... You can't because a) that is against T&C and b) that wouldn't serve the agenda of implying that is what happens in 98.5% of abortions rather than 1.5 most of which are performed to safe the mothers life ... Which most of you have said you're in favor of ...
[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit…
They are…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born. Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease…Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks [of people] that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant.
Eugenics is : the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
Sanger once said, “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race” and even said, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the 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.”
"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. I am convinced that the multiplication of the Feeble-Minded, which is proceeding now at an artificial rate, unchecked by any of the old restraints of nature, and actually fostered by civilised conditions, is a terrible danger to the race."
He called sterilization a "simple surgical operation so the inferior could be permitted freely in the world without causing much inconvenience to others."
Bell, one of greatest inventors in the history of this country, was intimately connected with the eugenics movement in the United States including being on the Committee on Eugenics. From 1912 until 1918 he was also the chairman of the board of scientific advisers to the Eugenics Record Office. In 1921, he was the honorary president of the Second International Congress of Eugenics which advocated sterilization laws across the country for those Bell called a "defective variety of the human race." Some of those laws were used as models for similar laws in Nazi Germany.
Bell, the inventor of the telephone, called for the "eradication of the deaf race" and was quoted as saying "People do not understand the mental condition of a person who cannot speak and who thinks in gestures. He is sometimes looked upon as a sort of monstrosity, to be stared at and avoided….Those who believe as I do, that the production of a defective race of human beings would be a great calamity to the world, will examine carefully the causes that lead to the intermarriages of the deaf with the object of applying a remedy."
To prevent this, Bell suggested that deaf people be forbidden to intermarry for fear that they would have deaf children.
It is really extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to apply to his own stock breeding. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum. Yet we fail to understand that such conduct is rational compared to the conduct of a nation which permits unlimited breeding from the worst stocks, physically and morally, while it encourages or connives at the cold selfishness or the twisted sentimentality as a result of which the men and women ought to marry, and if married have large families, remain celebates or have no children or only one or two.
Some day we will realize that the prime duty the inescapable duty of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.
Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.”
She also called for “physicians’ juries for defective babies.” Seriously.
"It is the possibility of happiness, intelligence and power that give life its sanctity, and they are absent in the case of a poor, misshapen, paralyzed, unthinking creature,” Keller said, adding that allowing a "defective" child to die was simply a “weeding of the human garden that shows a sincere love of true life.”
"The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born," he wrote. "It is in the sterilization of failures, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."
And kind of a racist. "The mating of two quite healthy persons may result in disease," he wrote. "I am told it does so in the case of interbreeding of healthy white men and healthy black women about the Tanganyka region; the half-breed children are ugly, sickly, and rarely live."
"We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill," he wrote. "A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
He once said, "You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself."
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: grandmakdw
They can and do, if it's true that the fetus CAN feel pain, give anesthesia to the fetus during abortions, if parents who ask for it can afford it. But a law requiring it is continually being rejected.
The law requiring it is being rejected by whom?
Those who support abortion in the last trimester?
Those who would have to expend money to keep the dismemberment of a live human comfortable?
If abortion supporters don't care about the pain and the dismembering alive of human beings,
then why would they support pain management for the dismembering and brain sucking and
head smashing?
The following month, Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, presented to the Senate the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortions at 20 weeks or later that their fetuses can feel pain and to offer anesthesia “administered directly to the pain-capable unborn child.” The bill did not pass, but Brownback continues to introduce it each year.
www.nytimes.com...
Race Among women from the 39 areas for which race was reported for 2006, white women (including both Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women) accounted for the largest percentage (55.8%) of abortions; black women accounted for 36.4% and women of other racial groups for 7.8% (Table 10). Black women had higher abortion rates and ratios than white women and women of other races (Table 10). Among the 29 reporting areas that provided data every year during 1997--2006, the percentage of abortions by race changed little; abortions by women in the "other" racial category increased, but the percentage remained low (5.8%--7.7%) (Table 11). Among women from all racial groups, abortion rates and ratios generally declined during 1997--2006, but the abortion rate was higher in 2006 than in 2005; for black women, the abortion ratio was lower in 2006 than in 2005, whereas for white women and women in the "other" racial category, this measure was relatively stable during 2005--2006 (Table 11).
In 2005, Renee Bracey Sherman, then 19, sat in the abortion clinic alone. A jumble of concerns ran through her mind. She didn’t feel ready for a baby, but still, she worried that her parents would be disappointed in her choice. More than anything, though, she didn’t want to be a statistic, another pregnant black teen. “In the moment, you never know who your allies are,” Bracey Sherman said. “You don’t want to take the chance of everyone judging you at a moment when you’re so vulnerable. There’s a very unfortunate stereotype of women of color, and black women in particular, that we are promiscuous and just have babies. You don’t want that to be you.” An African-American woman is almost five times likelier to have an abortion than a white woman, and a Latina more than twice as likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate of abortion among American women is currently at its lowest point since Roe v. Wade, according to a recent report by the Guttmacher Institute. About 1.1 million abortions were performed in 2011, at a rate of 16.9 abortions for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, down from a peak of 29.3 per 1,000 in 1981. Since the report’s release in February, the reason why has been the subject of much debate. Its authors and abortion-rights supporters point to the increase in contraceptive use and sexual education, while anti-abortion activists counter that the decrease is a result of abstinence-only teachings and state restrictions. Largely missing from the debate, though, is discussion of abortion’s racial disparity: Although rates among Hispanic and African-American women have decreased along with the rest of the country, they remain significantly higher than the national average.
While the debate over New York City's wildly criticized teen pregnancy prevention campaign rages on, a recent study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute may offer support to proponents of the PSA. According to the Institute's state-by-state study of abortion rates among teens, black teenagers between 15 and 19 years old have an abortion rate of 41 per 1,000 women, more than twice the national average of 18 per 1,000. In comparison, white teenagers have an abortion rate of 10 per 1,000 women, which means that African-American teenagers are having abortions at a rate that is about four times higher than that of their white counterparts. In New York, the state with the highest abortion rate in the country, the situation is even more grim, with pregnancies among black teens -- excluding miscarriages -- resulting in abortion 67 percent of the time.
so not so much selling exactly,but that they do treat the fetus like its an organ donor and that this is not against any law and that they do donate "parts" for medical research etc
Except that, as Planned Parenthood told The Hill, its affiliates “can legally receive reimbursement from a tissue donation procedure for the ‘additional expenses related tissue donation, which can vary based on individual circumstance,’ but it does not go to staff members or providers.” These “additional expenses” might be the $10-30 it costs to transport the tissue being donated, which Planned Parenthood notes is “standard across the medical field.” And no, the patient donating the tissue doesn’t receive any financial reimbursement either. In reality, the donation of fetal tissue is no different than any other situation in which a patient might donate tissue to scientific research.
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: eletheia
a reply to: grandmakdw
As I have previously stated *Sensationalism*
Hand picked pictures for the most impact and sympathetic
responses?
That is at 24 weeks when a foetus is viable, and not when most
terminations are carried out at between 12 / 16 weeks.
There was method in showing that picture of and older foetus....
much prettier than the pictures of earlier foetus which hardly
look human at all in most instances.... therefor more likely to
elicit sympathy for the cause of pro lifers
I just went to google and clicked on images after inputting 20 week fetus sonogram. Not too much cherry picking there.
Feel free to google 20 week fetus sonogram and pick a few ugly ones and post them yourself to dehumanize
the dismemberment of live infants.
originally posted by: windword
They can and do, if it's true that the fetus CAN feel pain, give anesthesia to the fetus during abortions, if parents who ask for it can afford it. But a law requiring it is continually being rejected.
The law requiring it is being rejected by whom?
Those who support abortion in the last trimester?
Those who would have to expend money to keep the dismemberment of a live human comfortable?
The following month, Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, presented to the Senate the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortions at 20 weeks or later that their fetuses can feel pain and to offer anesthesia “administered directly to the pain-capable unborn child.” The bill did not pass, but Brownback continues to introduce it each year.
www.nytimes.com...
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: eletheia
a reply to: grandmakdw
As I have previously stated *Sensationalism*
Hand picked pictures for the most impact and sympathetic
responses?
That is at 24 weeks when a foetus is viable, and not when most
terminations are carried out at between 12 / 16 weeks.
There was method in showing that picture of and older foetus....
much prettier than the pictures of earlier foetus which hardly
look human at all in most instances.... therefor more likely to
elicit sympathy for the cause of pro lifers
I just went to google and clicked on images after inputting 20 week fetus sonogram. Not too much cherry picking there.
Feel free to google 20 week fetus sonogram and pick a few ugly ones and post them yourself to dehumanize
the dismemberment of live infants.
I did ... That's where I noticed that you had picked out the cutest one
and at 24 weeks, which is past the legal limit except for
extenuating circumstances.
Where as the younger, unformed, not so cute 'foetus pictures' were not
used by you.
Could it possibly be because you are doing your utmost to drum up some
hysteria!
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: butcherguy
They were funded and supported by those people and many more.
Sanger didn't invent eugenics. It was a modern intellectual trend of its day. Every generation has something to be ashamed of. But, more good came from Sanger's birth control clinics than from a lot of other American projects, like giving black people syphilis, or secretly sterilizing unwed mothers after giving birth, stealing their babies and telling them they died.
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
No.
I said that I couldn't find this news on anything other than conservative news sites.
I'm trying to find a mainstream news source for this and I don't see one.
If you can find me one that would be great.
Mainstream news won't do stories like this because they are biased and follow an agenda.
originally posted by: grandmakdw
Close to 4 times as many black babies are aborted each year than any other racial group in America.
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: grandmakdw
Close to 4 times as many black babies are aborted each year than any other racial group in America.
Seeing as its freedom of choice for any woman to seek a termination
and if 4 times as many black babies are aborted, it seems obvious 4 times as
many black women must be being careless or irresponsible with contraception!
I don't think there's any conspiracy there