The Democratic death cult
Bookworm on Sep 18 2008 at 9:43 am | Filed under: Abortion
You all know that I’m not a committed pro-Lifer. I grew up in a Roe v. Wade world, and have always believed that there are circumstances in which abortion should be available. As I have explained in an earlier post, as I’ve grown my conservative, I’ve probably come to hew more closely to the traditional Jewish approach to abortion, which tries to balance the mother’s life against the baby’s.
Despite being moderately pro-Choice, I’ve come to be more and more disgusted by the twisted passion that drives the pro-Choice Democrats. I’ve noted in past posts that I think their arguments are profoundly dishonest to begin with, because they’re pretending that we haven’t experienced a 35 year change in pop culture since Roe v. Wade.
In the pre-Roe v. Wade and Pill world, women who yielded to their natural physical urges suffered terribly. The man had his fun; the woman got pregnant. And unless he married her, she and the child suffered the truly horrible stigma of illegitimacy. They were outcasts.
Nowadays, however, birth control is available at every supermarket. Nature is powerful, of course, and accidental pregnancies still occur, but they can and should be very rare.
And if a woman gets pregnant, then what? There’s no doubt that babies are a burden. They suck away your time and energy, and if you’re trying to get an education or move up on the career track, they’re going to slow you down — a situation that, courtesy of Nature, is a burden the woman, not the man, ends up bearing. The thing is, though, that one has to ask oneself if, in a moral world, a slow-down to your own ambitions is a reason to kill a baby?
The one thing that is certain is that the modern woman isn’t going to become a pariah if she gets pregnant. After all, half of Hollywood’s babies are illegitimate, and they and their parents are wildly celebrated. We also know that in the culture of young black girls (and, increasingly, young white girls), teen pregnancy is seen as an acceptable state. Indeed, in certain circles, it establishes that the young woman is mature and sexually desirable.
I don’t have answers, those are just observations that establish that we live in a very different world from the pre-Roe v. Wade world. For Democrats to pretend we don’t taints the debate.
And a tainted debate makes for tainted people. The point of these ruminations is to bring your attention to a story that Danny Lemiuex emailed to me. Bob Parks highlights a statement and offer from Doug Stanhope, a man who has bought into the abortion argument hook, line and sinker:
Janeane Garofalo can say Republicans are mean people, but the hate that continues to ooze from the liberal left continues to amaze.
Never in history has a woman been under more pressure to keep an unwanted pregnancy than Bristol Palin. She is the teenage daughter of Alaska Governor & Vice-Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin – a conservative, Creationist Christian power-vampire and pro-life huckster who has put Bristol and her un-welcomed fetus at the center of a politico-religious crusade to stop her exercising her constitutional right to terminate the pregnancy.
I, Doug Stanhope, am offering you, Bristol Palin, the sum of 25,000 dollars so that you can abort your child and move out of that draconian home. I have also set up a PayPal link so that others around the world can help increase this amount to ease the burden of starting out on your own at such an early age.
Mr. Stanhope goes on to brag about the fact he “accidentally” knocked up a girl and took care of the problem. But putting a bounty on the head of an unborn child isn’t enough for Dougy.
He wants to kill babies in Sarah Palin’s name.
Even if you cannot take my offer, I will still use my money or money donated through this page to pay for at least one abortion for a disadvantaged teenage girl each year for the rest of my life in the name of your mother. And in my will, I shall have a good portion of my estate turned into the Sarah J Palin Abortion Fund that will help girls from all walks of life from destroying their lives and our natural resources by having children.
Wild-eyed pronouncements such as those Stanhope makes don’t sound as if they’re interested in improving prospects for young women. Instead, Stanhope sounds as if he’s planning on setting up a quality brothel for all men who want no strings (and no birth control) sex. The small price to pay is a pile of dead babies. This is not an enticing argument for people who recognize the deep moral issues attached to abortion. All thoughtful souls, even those who fall in the mushy middle, should be repulsed by this outspoken commitment to death at the expense of life.
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I have to especially note the other part of Mr. Stanhope’s argument. He says:
“will help girls from all walks of life from destroying their lives and our natural resources by having children.”
He is not the first person on the left to believe that having children isnothing more than a profoundly selfish act, because children consume “our natural resources”.
Having one child is, well, perhaps, ok. The best we can say of having two children is regrettable. Certainly Sarah and Todd Palin, in having five children, are ultimate moral monsters. And with the fifth of those being a genetic freak, well, they simply define everything that is wrong with knuckle-dragging, protruding-forehead McCain America.
Think I’m exaggerating? I doubt it.
Also, remember that “red-state America” births children at a rate guaranteeing replacement, where “blue-state America” reproduces at a rate that can be described as a slow death spiral into extinction. (And where blue-state America is in a _slow_ death spiral, Europe is in a fast death spiral demographically, and we can’t even speak of Russia, where abortion percentages are so high that we are discussing a demographic _collapse_ that is unprecendented in all of human history.)
Mike…
Have you read “America Alone” by Mark Steyn???
Good book…discusses islam in the context of population domination. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be…but it was an enjoyable book and points up the facts you mention.
Oh my goodness.
I feel as if I just peered into the abyss. That is so horrible.
I really don’t know what to say.
Deana
This is probably the wrong place to put this but it’s surely as
bizarreevil.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2983652/Baroness-Warnock-Dementia-sufferers-may-have-a-duty-to-die.html
Dibs on snuffing the Baroness.
Sorry about that post. My inner Alex from Clockwork Orange jumped out of the dark corner of the id.
http://media.outnow.ch/movies/images/1971/ClockworkOrange/movie.ws/01.jpg
Stanhope is a thoroughly disgusting person. If he’s so worried about the planet, he can use his money to become a eunuch.
Suek,
Yes, I bought “America Alone” recently and found it very informative. Mark Steyn can write, with exemplary gallows humor! That’s the book that clued me into how disastrous the situation in Russia is. The combination of low birth rates and high abortion rates is a sign of a “culture of death” within any culture. Such a culture and civilization is doomed.
>>Such a culture and civilization is doomed.>>
And if they try to counter the decline by importing islamic workers, the end is even more unpleasant…!
The vitriol just ooozes like hot lava out of this loathesome man. While hatred is an equal opportunity emotion, I never see this level of bile from the right and I needed to respond. I think people on the left want and like to believe that pro-life people are mean and narrow and it drives them to distraction that their image has been proven false. While I believe it is a mistake to celebrate an out-of-wedlock, teenage pregnancy, the Palins are certainly to be commended for sticking together as a family and choosing to love and support their daughter in a difficult time. Been there and done that.
The mask is slipping. We can see inside ourselves with incredible detail, and the empty arguments of 50+ year old bitter hags and their ilk only highlight the problem with this particular ‘choice.’
Marguerite;
I agree most vehemently! Unless it was the Immaculate Conception, or the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ, I completely agree!
And when you find evidence that anybody from the right, or even the Palins themselves, have done such a thing anywhere, anytime, feel free to add my condemnation to yours.
Until then, you might wanna keep that thought in reserve…
Gkong3 – I’m sorry that you read condemnation in my words – especially since my last words were ‘been there and done that.’
There was an article citing white privilege as being why Sarah Palin’s daughter is defended by conservatives while at the same time conservatives frown upon teenage pregnancy amongst blacks.
Course, the fact that teenage pregnancy amongst blacks equals single motherhood, which is bad, economically for the mother and child as well as the moral upbringing of the child, doesn’t count.
If conservatives want to go around castigating out of wedlock conceptions, that’s more than half the country right there.
Jacksonians don’t particularly care when you give birth, so long as the father is around and a good sort.
Ms. Bookworm,
I’ve recently stumbled upon your website, and look forwards to reading it. I am especially curious about your stance on abortion, and hope you will post more so that I can learn about it.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Jawats/Jonathan:
About halfway down Book’s main page, to the right, is a small search text dialog.
You can enter, say, abortion, and do a search. If you ignore those results that are suffixed with “comments”, you’ll see links for each of Book’s posts that reference abortion.
This is a recent one that explains a lot more about the traditional Jewish thought on abortion that Book has mentioned in the post above.
http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/08/31/examining-the-unborn
‘There was an article citing white privilege as being why Sarah Palin’s daughter is defended by conservatives while at the same time conservatives frown upon teenage pregnancy amongst blacks.’
I don’t think she is being defended by conservatives for getting pregnant out of wedlock – she is being defended for her decision to have the child instead of aborting it. There is no priviledge – of any race – in becoming a parent in high school.
The pregnant teenage girl and the boy responsible get married. You will _rarely_ find criticism when that happens.
That has *always* been the conservative position in America. It recognizes the regrettable situation and supports the solution that is the best for all concerned. If the girl and boy don’t do that, they can expect to encounter disapproval and criticism.
The pointed criticism is always towards single teenagers who have babies and then don’t do the responsible thing, by getting married. (It’s often the boy’s fault, who has no intention of restricting his harem-scarum ways in the local neighborhood. I suspect the blame is not fairly divided.)
Many of those girls come from broken families themselves, which makes the situation even more desperate for her and the child or children.