When getting to the bottom of ideas that may become law, I try and look at the original intent, as we tend to get bogged down by all the political minutia. So, because of recent revelations, let’s do a little review on the abortion issue, shall we…?
Now I know most of you out there believe the original intent of the legalization of abortion was to give women control of their bodies. It was all about the woman’s right to choose, right?
Wrong.
To understand the original intent of abortion, you’d have to start with the world’s leading provider of abortion, the Planned Parenthood Federation, and its founder Margaret Sanger. She believed that the poor were a fiscal and criminal burden on society, and that a cleansing of the gene pool was in order. In the 1930′s Sanger targeted blacks primarily with “The Negro Project” that strategically placed Planned Parenthood clinics in poor neighborhoods, but people who think like her would probably abort anyone they deemed inferior.
So why bring up the past? They say those who don’t learn the lessons of the past, are doomed to repeat them.
According to recently uncovered documents that shed new light on the Clinton administration’s legal, political and press strategy for bringing the “morning after pill” into the American marketplace, Bill Clinton was told that he should “start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country.” Clinton received that advice in a letter from Ron Weddington, an advocate for RU-486, and whose wife Sarah had advocated for the legal right to abortion as an attorney in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case.
Attention is now being paid to this pill while the FDA debates whether to ban it because women may have died or were injured from its effects.
According to the documents in the Clinton Presidential Library, Bill ordered the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA to coordinate the marketing of RU-486, and did so in his first official act three days after moving into the White House in January 1993.
In urging the legalization of RU-486, Ron Weddington wrote in a January 1992 letter to Clinton, “Something’s got to be done very quickly. Twenty-six million food stamp recipients is more than the economy can stand. The president-to-be should start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country. Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes. We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners. We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more babies.”
Intent, people.
It would appear that Weddington’s letter is the foundation document for Clinton’s eventual political, economic and diplomatic pressure and rush to make RU-486 available in the United States.
Meanwhile, the FDA issued a health warning last July because five American women died after using RU-486. This past March, more deaths were linked to RU-486, not to mention the more than half a million unborn.
It’s sad that there are so many in this society that believe they are morally superior and can determine who should not be born, simply because of their economically inferior status. To them, it’s never really been about the woman’s right to choose. But that gets women all worked up, and that’s half the battle. What ever works.
With that rationale, considering he grew up poor, Bill Clinton himself is lucky to have been born.
Think about it.
