Tuesday, July 28, 2009

If A Man Can Be Judged By The Company He Keeps...

...what does this say about Barack Obama:

President Obama's top science adviser said in a book he co-authored in 1973 that a newborn child "will ultimately develop into a human being" if he or she is properly fed and socialized.
 
"The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being," John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in "Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions."

This guy's casual disregard for the sanctity of human life is stunning.  Look at some of the other statements this foul individual has written:

"From this point of view, a fetus is only a potential human being [italics in original]," wrote the authors. "Historically, the law has dated most rights and privileges from the moment of birth, and legal scholars generally agree that a fetus is not a 'person' within the meaning of the United States Constitution until it is born and living independent of its mother's body."
 
The same section of the book goes on to argue that abortion spares "unwanted children" from "undesirable consequences."
 
"From the standpoint of the terminated fetus, it makes no difference whether the mother had an induced abortion or a spontaneous abortion," write the Ehrlichs and Holdren. "On the other hand, it subsequently makes a great deal of difference to the child if an abortion is denied, and the mother, contrary to her wishes, is forced to devote her body and life to the production and care of the child. In Sweden, studies were made to determine what eventually happened to children born to mothers whose requests for abortions had been turned down. When compared to a matched group of children from similar backgrounds who had been wanted, more than twice as many as these unwanted youngsters grew up in undesirable circumstances (illegitimate, in broken homes, or in institutions), more than twice as many had records of delinquency, or were deemed unfit for military service, almost twice as many had needed psychiatric care, and nearly five times as many had been on public assistance during their teens.
 
"There seems little doubt that the forced bearing of unwanted children has undesirable consequences not only for the children themselves and their families but for society as well, apart from the problems of overpopulation," wrote the authors.

"The third approach to population control is that of involuntary fertility control," write the Ehrlichs and Holdren. "Several coercive proposals deserve discussion mainly because societies may ultimately have to resort to them unless current trends in birth rates are rapidly reversed by other means."
 
"Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying" the authors state at the end of the subsection. "As those alternatives become clearer to an increasing number of people in the 1970s, we may well find them demanding such control. A far better choice, in our view, is to begin now with milder methods of influencing family size preferences, while ensuring that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being on Earth within the shortest possible time.  If effective action is taken promptly, perhaps the need for involuntary or repressive measures can be averted."

Words fail.

There's my two cents.

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