From: warren@pws.ma30.bull.com (Warren Lavallee)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood on RU 486 "Morning After" Breakthrough
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:28:38 GMT
Followup-To: talk.abortion

In <Bw2J52.H10.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
>From "The Sacredness of Life," the Knights of Columbus:

>     "The science of Eugenics in itself and in so far as it
>is a true science is quite in accord with Catholic principles.
>The Catholic Church has always been in favor of healthy
>offspring, healthy living, decent housing, working conditions,
>or anything else that contributes to a healthy life.  As a
>matter of fact she has been a leading force in fostering
>such objectives.  Her opposition to the eugenics movement
>is directed only against certain measures and methods.  The
>basic position of Catholic teaching in such matters is that
>moral principles, rather than mere efficiency and 'social
>progress', come first.  Whereas, negative eugenics proposes
>to decrease the number of inferior persons, positive 
>eugenics aims to increase the number of the superior.
>(Raymond W. Murray, _Introductory Sociology, p.101)"

In his magnum opus, "An Essay on the Principle of Population," Thomas
Malthus wrote:

	"All children born, beyond what would be required to keep
	population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless
	room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons...
	Therefore... we should facilitate, instead of foolishly
	and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations nature in
	producing this mortality; and if we dread the too frequent 
	visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously
	encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel
	nature to use.  Instead of recommending cleanliness to the
	poor, we should encourage contrary habits.  In our own
	towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people
	into the houses, and court the return of the plague. 
	In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant
	pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy
	and unwholesome situations.  But above all, we should reprobate
	specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and restrain those
	benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were 
	doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total
	extirpation of particular disorders."[1]

Malthusian Eugenics.

Sounds a bit different from your textbook definition.  This is the
guy who created the idea.  Are you actually agreeing with this?

Scientific Racism

Fact: Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, and other ethnic minorities are well
	represented in the upper echelons of the Planned Parenthood
	organization.
Fact: Even the president of the national association was black (Fay).
Fact: Aggressive minority hiring practices have been standard and
	operating procedure for Planned Parenthood at every level
	for more than two decades.
Fact: The vast majority of our nation's ethnic leadership solidly and
	actively supports the work of Planned Parenthood.
Therefore: The charge of racism in the organization is anecdotal at best,
entirely ludicrous at worst.

Right?

Wrong.

Because Planned Parenthood's peculiar brand of prejudices is
rooted in Scientific Racism, the issue is  not "color of skin" or 
"dialect of tongue" but "quality of genes."[2]  As long as Blacks, Jews,
and Hispanics demonstrate "a good quality gene pool"[3]-- as long as they
"act white and think white"[4]-- then they are esteemed equally with
Aryans.  AS long as they are, as Margaret Sanger said, "the best of
their race,"[5] then they can be accounted as valuable citizens.  If, 
on the other hand, individual Whites demonstrate "dysgenic traits,"
then their fertility must be curbed right along with the other
"inferiors and undesirables."[6]

Scientific Racism is an equal opportunity discriminator.  In
other words, anyone with a "defective gene pool" is suspect.
And anyone who shows promise may be admitted to the ranks of the
elite.

[1] Cited in Allan Chase, "The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the
	New Scientific Racism" (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1977), p. 6
[2] John L. Keller, "Scientific Racism: Malthusianism, Eugenics, and
	Recapitulation Beyond Nazi Germany" (New York: Capitol Research
	Associates, 1967), p. xii
[3] Ibid
[4] Ibid., p. xiii.
[5] Elasah Drogin, "Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society" (New Hope, KY:
	CUL Publications, 1986) p. 23
[6] Keller, p. xiii.
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