Czar Holdren: ‘Sterilize Welfare Recipients’?
posted at 6:15 pm on September 25, 2009 by The Other McCain
Jerome Corsi reports at WorldNetDaily:
Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that compulsory, government-mandated “green abortions” would be a constitutionally acceptable way to control population growth and prevent ecological disasters, including global warming, because a fetus was most likely not a “person” under the terms of the 14th Amendment.
Holdren further suggested government-mandated population control measures might be inflicted in the United States against welfare recipients, writing on page 840: “There has been considerable talk in some quarters at times of forcibly suppressing reproduction among welfare recipients (perhaps by requiring the use of contraceptives or even by involuntary sterilizations). This may sadly foreshadow what our society might do if the human predicament gets out of hand.” (Parenthesis in original text.) . . .
WND has obtained a copy of the 1970s college textbook “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment” that Holdren co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich’s wife, Ann. . . .
Writing on page 839 of the textbook, the authors state: “The common law and drafters of the U.S. Constitution did not consider a fetus a human being. Feticide was not murder in common law because the fetus was not considered to be a human being, and for purposes of the Constitution a fetus is probably not a ‘person’ within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Thus under the constitution, abortion is apparently not unlawful, although infanticide obviously is.”
You can read the whole thing. The Holdren/Ehrlich strategy of contraception and abortion to control “the human predicament” has, in fact, had an effect. Last year, Fox News reported:
In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). If those aborted children had been born, the number of blacks born would have been slightly over 50 percent greater than it was.
I guess “choice” is just another word for “hate.”
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Choice is just another word for death
As in
pro-choice, end of life choices
macncheez on September 25, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Dems truly know how to take care of the poor eh? Makes me sick……
RoxanneH on September 25, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Am I wrong? Don’t the dems circle the buses at election time to get the welfare check cashers into the voting booth?
ericdijon on September 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM
And here’s the crazy thing, Roxanne, the Dems really believe that poor people are too stupid to figure this out. But if they keep it up, they’ll lose that vote the same way they lost me.
When I was a Democrat, I had a real class-warfare chip on my shoulder. My folks came out of rural Alabama, Dad was a union man (Machinists) at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, and so I was raised with the idea that Democrats were the party of the “little guy,” the working man.
Then came Bill Clinton. I not only voted for the guy in 1992, I had his bumper sticker on my car. “Finally,” I thought, “we’ve got a sensible, moderate Democrat in the White House. Now the little guy will get something.”
Errr . . . no. Instead, he starts pandering to his NY/LA/SF/Georgetown/Harvard base — the cultural Left. Gays in the military! Ban “assault rifles”! Etc. Etc. Oh, yeah, and some “targeted” tax credits that weren’t worth the hassle it took to get them.
“Fool me once,” y’know. I’d started reading some libertarian economic stuff that one of my editors shared with me and I finally figured out that the free economy — entrepreurial activity that creates real growth — is the best hope for the little guy, if he’s willing to work hard and be smart.
And the beauty of being a conservative is, I got to keep the chip on my shoulder, too. I still get to hate Republicans, I just shifted my gunsights to the left wing of the GOP. Now, my fire is aimed steadily at those squishy RINO “centrists” with their elite credentials — the David Brooks types — who foisted that loser John McCain and his stupid blonde-joke daughter on the GOP.
“The Republicans Who Really Matter” — screw those losers. The pro-choice, gay-rights, Big Government-loving wing of the GOP might get to write op-eds for the New York Times, but when it comes Election Day, they can’t deliver the votes. And like I need Ross Douthat — Mr. Dialing Toll-Free On My SAT — to tell me how Republicans can reach out to working-class voters! Hey, Ross, how ’bout just telling them the truth, huh? Entitlement programs are bankrupting us, Democrats aren’t going to fix it, and we don’t need no stinkin’ Big Government.
The Other McCain on September 26, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Instead of proposing government-mandated abortions to punish or control the people who abuse entitlement programs, how about we simply get rid of entitlement programs altogether? Wouldn’t that make a lot more sense?
AZCoyote on September 26, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Corsi is a nut, but I’ll take it as the broken clock axiom.
This would not be the first time the government enacted laws to sterilize people deemed “unfit” against their will. Do not underestimate this possibility.
MadisonConservative on September 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM
This is who the Progressives are. Margaret Sanger et al. It’s a “rational” plan: “If you’re too stupid and incompetent to support yourself, we’ll support you until the day you die. But you won’t be creating another generation of welfare bums.”
disa on September 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Well…I do know personally one young woman in her thirties who has 11 children under the age of 18 all of whom are on welfare and each of whom has a different father(notice I did not use the word husband). She makes no secret of the fact that these are her income and plans to have more. The children are not abused but they are treated much like commodities with what amounts to a subsistence but not overly warm childhood. What if anything the fathers pay I do not know–but I suspect little since all but one lives in a different state. Makes you think…just sayin’.
jeanie on September 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
I think instead, we should forcibly sterilize all illegal aliens before deportation. A little gift from El Norte…
/sarc
Jeff2161 on September 26, 2009 at 5:37 PM
On one hand, I’d like nothing better than to see Holdren ejected; if the Government Fairy waved her magic wand and made me President I’d have Holdren, Chu, Browner, Jackson, Hansen, and everyone tainted by their presence, on a bus out of town before I ever stepped into the White House.
Obama’s collection of crooks, cranks, and crackpots have proven so horrid that one’s inclined to wish that they all be faced with such an invasive third-party vetting gauntlet that it becomes impossible for the administration to find anyone to take these jobs. I realize that sets a horrid precedent for future administrations, but what we’ve got now is so far beyond the pale that I’d risk it.
JEM on September 27, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Stacy, I’m not sure the dems are wrong. Scores of years of failed entitlement programs, yet the poor (both whites and blacks) still vote Democrat by a huge margin (95%?). You think its different, because you grew up poor and you changed parties… you might be a bit smarter than the average bear, so you represent the exception, not the rule.
lionheart on September 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM