Because I cannot remain silent.

[olde_fashioned]

I stumbled across this video quite by accident, but after watching it, I just couldn't not post it here. To be honest, I think I would have felt guilty if I did not.

If evil triumphs because good men do nothing, and ignorance the root and the stem of every evil, then perhaps I will have done some good by speaking out against this horrific atrocity.

Watch the video, and look at the pictures.


Warning: The video isn't graphic, but the pictures that I've linked to below, are, quite frankly, horrific. This isn't CSI we're talking about, with fake dead bodies, these are real human beings. Dead babies that have been murdered. Living souls that have been snuffed out like so many candles. Tiny hands that will never grasp, little hearts that will never beat again.

Unless you're prone to squeamishness, I strongly advise looking at the images, but also taking care while you do so. They are not pretty. They're sobering, they're shocking, and they're thought-provoking. I know it's not fun to look at dead babies, but I think we need to see this.

I do know that a lot of people don't believe that abortion is murder, because a fetus isn't a baby, right? It's not a human being, it's a "fish" or some other such entity. Right? Well, you take a good look at these pictures, and then you tell me what abortion is.

This is what "a woman's right to choose" is. And this, and this, and this. This baby was beheaded.


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*sits back and waits for the firing squad*

Comments

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

And yet she founded the American Birth Control League which eventually became Planned Parenthood.

One of the goals of her organization (as taken from Wikipedia):
Sterilization of the insane and mentally retarded and the encouragement of this operation upon those afflicted with inherited or transmissible diseases, with the understanding that sterilization does not deprive the individual of his or her sex expression, but merely renders him incapable of producing children.

She nevertheless advocated certain instances of coercion, in cases where she considered the parents unfit to decide whether they should bear children:

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

Apparently Margaret Sanger was also a racist:
It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.

Yeah, what a wonderful woman she was. [/sarcasm]

[madame-faust.livejournal.com]

I'm not trying to argue for her goodness as a human being. Certainly her notions of eugenics and theories of human evolution are as dated as they are offensive. I'm just saying that this quote was taken out of context and I don't think it's fair to form an argument or a point of view on something false or misleading.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I understand that it might have been construed out of context, but I don't think there was much of a discrepancy there. Obviously Margaret Sanger had little if any value on human life, and believed it was secondary to human expediency and convenience.

Certainly her notions of eugenics and theories of human evolution are as dated as they are offensive.

They aren't outdated, and the fact that people think they are is part of the problem, IMO. We're still seeing the negative effects of evolutionary philosophies being incorporated into attitudes towards other human lives, the notion that one person is better than another, etc. The poorer classes and less financially secure are "less worthy" and so are being urged to not breed. Physically helpless humans are deemed little better than vegetables and so it's okay to kill them, ala Terri Schaivo.

[madame-faust.livejournal.com]

Obviously Margaret Sanger had little if any value on human life, and believed it was secondary to human expediency and convenience.

Well, certainly her idea of how what the value of human life was is very different from yours or even most people's

I respectfully disagree with your opinion of evolution effecting class perceptions. Notions of class and wealth influencing what society considers to be a valuable human life have existed for centuries, first people tried to justify notions of inequality with religion, now it seems that some attempt to do so with science. People will always look for some excuse to justify bad behavior.