“[W]e could well take example from Russia,” advised Planned
Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, “where birth control
instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the
government.”
My, how far modern liberal Democrats have
progressed.
Sanger, Planned Parenthood matron and racial-eugenicist,
who ran a “Negro
Project,” who spoke to a KKK rally in 1926, who wished to rid
America of its “human weeds” and “morons” and “imbeciles,” and who
wanted birth control for “race improvement,” had just returned from
a pilgrimage to Stalin’s Russia. Like many Potemkin progressives,
she went there to soak in the glorious triumphs of the communist
motherland. Each progressive dupe had a particular interest;
John Dewey, for instance, hailed the Bolsheviks’ “Great
Experiment” in public education. Sanger marveled at Lenin’s and
Stalin’s wondrous advancements for women.
And so, in the June 1935 edition of her flagship
publication, Birth Control Review, in an article titled,
“Birth Control in Russia,” Sanger concluded:
Theoretically, there are no obstacles to birth control in
Russia. It is accepted … on the grounds of health and human right….
[W]e could well take example from Russia, where there are no legal
restrictions, no religious condemnation, and where birth control
instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the
government.
I could quote more, including this jaw-dropping
prediction: “All the officials with whom I discussed the matter
stated that as soon as the economic and social plans of Soviet
Russia are realized, neither abortions nor contraception will be
necessary or desired. A functioning Communistic society will assure
the happiness of every child, and will assume the full
responsibility for its welfare and education.”
Now there, ladies and gentleman, is progressive
utopianism, an absolute faith in central planners. Contrary to the
Planned Parenthood founder’s optimism, abortions skyrocketed to
seven million annually in the USSR.
Looks like Margaret Sanger was wrong on that one. Talk
about being duped.
What struck me in recently re-reading this article is how
Democrats in America have arrived at Sanger’s ideal, where Planned
Parenthood’s services have become, in their mind, “part of the
regular welfare service of the government” — just like good old
Stalinist Russia.
Consider the hysterical response by Democrats to
completely legitimate Republican attempts — amid record deficits
and debt levels — to cut taxpayer funding of Planned
Parenthood:
“The dangerous, ideological cuts to Planned Parenthood
that passed the House are never, never, never going to pass the
Senate,”
vowed Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), echoing Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who told House Speaker John Boehner
(R-OH) that there’s no chance defunding would pass the Senate.
Indeed, how could there be? Democrats have a majority
there.
Reid
said Republicans had placed a “bull’s eye on women in America,”
preventing them from getting “health services they
need.”
Democrats are united in their vitriol: “The real reason
that the right-wing extremists in Congress orchestrated this
outrageous government shutdown is to try and defund Planned
Parenthood as part of their ideological assault on women’s health
care,”
said Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO).
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calmly explained,
“This is a war on women. They’re trying to inject their
politics and their religion into local family planning.”
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
insisted that defunding efforts were “nothing more than an
opportunity for the right wing in the House to sock it to
women.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called it a “very
dangerous situation for the health — the reproductive health — of
women across our country.”
Pelosi told reporters: “It’s degrading to women; it’s
disrespectful; it doesn’t make any sense; and if you want to reduce
the number of abortions in our country, you must commit to
supporting contraception and family planning.” The lifelong Roman
Catholic and mother of five said Republicans were using Planned
Parenthood as a “whipping boy.”
And the always measured
Barbara Boxer described Republican efforts as a “vendetta”
against women, insisting, “Behind each of these Republican proposed
cuts, there are thousands, maybe millions of people who would be
hurt.”
I thought liberals had called for civility? Well, I guess
civility stops when conservatives want to kill American
women.
Remember when President Obama referred to “tax cuts for
the wealthy” as the Republicans’ “Holy Grail”? Well, taxpayer
funding of Planned Parenthood appears to be the Democrats’ Holy
Grail (click
here). As was
reported earlier this week, as Obama and Boehner battled over a
budget compromise, Obama drew a line in the sand. As Boehner pushed
the president to defund Planned Parenthood, Obama finally snapped:
“Nope. Zero. John, this is it.”
The room fell silent. Obama had hoisted the Holy
Grail.
You’d think from Democrats’ reaction that taxpayer funding
of the nation’s largest abortion provider was Article 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, an inalienable right in the Declaration, the heart of
Federalist 10, Washington’s Farewell Address, the writings
of Franklin and Adams and John Locke, the cornerstone of the New
Deal and Great Society, a sacred political covenant with the
American taxpayer, etched in cement at the base of the Washington
Monument.
It’s preposterous that America has run so far aground that
one could even seriously entertain directing taxpayer dollars to
America’s largest abortion provider. The “right” to an abortion had
to be read into the Constitution, at the total exclusion of
sections guaranteeing a right to life, such as the 14th Amendment.
Abortion was read into the “right to privacy,” three words which
themselves don’t exist in the Constitution. Democrats should praise
their stars that they have that much; even then, it isn’t enough.
Now they want those of us who are pro-life to fork over our dollars
to an organization that exterminates more unborn babies (millions
of them) than any other. It’s downright obscene.
The Democratic Party has truly lost it.
It took Democrats a while to get there, but, finally,
almost a century after the launching of the Bolshevik Revolution
and Margaret Sanger’s organization, they’ve finally arrived at
where Sanger and the Soviets found common ground. They indeed act
as if, as Sanger said about Stalin’s Russia, “birth control… is
part of the regular service of the government.”
The saddest thing of all is that neither they, nor their
supporters, nor America, seem to comprehend the outrageousness of
their position.
