Poisonous Charity

It’s strange, how Ruth Ginsburg’s remark about abortion hasn’t been a bigger story.

Most Americans believe abortion is wrong. Polls prove that over and over. But we keep casting votes that keep it legal. Why? Because we believe in choice? No. If we believed in choice, there would be no such thing as the DEA. Liberals would not have tried to ban breast implants. The FDA’s budget would be slashed by 90%; prescription-only drugs would not exist. Overwhelmingly, Americans believe the government has the right to tell us what to do with our own bodies. It has been a very long time since we could make a credible claim that we believed in choice.

The reason abortion is legal is that the majority hopes that “undesirable” segments of the population will use abortion so enthusiastically that they will significantly reduce their own numbers. Were it not for this hope, abortion support would be very limited. Americans want to prevent the births of “unwanted” babies, and generally, “unwanted” means “black.” And our policy is working beautifully. Black women are much, much more likely to have abortions than white women, and over 16 million black babies have been destroyed. You can read all about it at Blackgenocide.com. This is the chief reason the percentage of black Americans has remained stable. Margaret Sanger’s racist hopes have been fulfilled.

Here is what Justice Ginsburg said:

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them.

It’s much like what Don Zaluchi said in The Godfather, about selling drugs: “In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They’re animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.”

Notice she doesn’t say “populations of people who don’t want to increase their numbers.” She said “we” didn’t want “too many” of them. In other words, she acknowledges that the desire to limit growth is not in the hearts of the people whose babies are being aborted. It’s not about THEIR choice. It’s about the majority’s choice to take advantage of their willingness to commit suicide as demographic groups.

It’s like setting out roach motels. For people. Black babies go in, but they don’t come out. At least not through the front door.

Black Americans have an unfortunate tendency to fall for conspiracy theories. One such theory says that Church’s Fried Chicken contains chemicals that make black men sterile, and that Church’s puts its stores in black neighborhoods in order to control the numbers of blacks. In this fantasy, the chain is owned by the Klan.

How crazy is that? Planned Parenthood is actually doing what these innocent purveyors of fast food are falsely accused of. They are reducing the black population. They put about 90% of their mills in minority neighborhoods. Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist and classist who openly admitted she wanted to reduced the numbers of blacks and the poor. Why is it that blacks patronize Planned Parenthood with no qualms, while muttering slanders against a company that sells chicken? If I were black, and I were likely to impregnate women to whom I wasn’t married, and I believed this nonsense, I’d just eat the chicken. It’s cheaper.

I have often complained that black people persist in believing that white people are out to get them. But I was only half right. It’s true that the impact of overt racism is exaggerated. If anything, being black will help you get a job instead of hindering you. White people are pretty good about avoiding overt discrimination. But when it comes to abortion, we really are out to get them. Not by denying them access to opportunity, but by providing them with a bad choice. We build the clinics. We subsidize the abortions. We help pay for the ads. By so doing, we kill two birds with one stone. We pander to our own racist fears of being “outbred,” and we manage to make ourselves look generous. We are killing minorities and the poor with charity, or rather, we’re helping them kill themselves. What better way to commit genocide than by preventing your enemies from being born? This is why the Nazis experimented with sterilization in the concentration camps.

The babies that have been aborted were unwanted; that’s for sure. They were unwanted by the majority. They were unwanted in country clubs and in upscale neighborhoods. Prospective adoptive parents…they wanted them. They still do. But what they want doesn’t matter.

The nutty thing about the term “unwanted children” is that no one points out that the people who want these children least are not the people who conceived them.

Minorities need to wake up. They need to ask themselves why white people drive in from the suburbs to cheer and smile as they open new abortion mills in poor neighborhoods. Let me ask you this: do you think white people would support fertility clinics in black neighborhoods? Seriously.

Planned Parenthood offers treatment for infertility, purely to preserve the fiction that “family planning” is their purpose. But for every infertility patient, it performs over 300 abortions. Do you think Planned Parenthood would continue to receive donations if that ratio were suddenly reversed? They’d have to shut their doors.

I’m glad Justice Ginsburg slipped up. No one listens when conservatives tell the truth about abortion. It’s different when it comes from the left.

In the Bible, there is a recurring theme of infertile women pleading for God to give them children. When those children arrived, they were considered gifts. And we are told that God knows us before we are born; we are not just clumps of meat. Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, felt her baby move in her womb in response to the proximity of the unborn Jesus. It’s so strange, living in a time when mothers–even married ones with good jobs–consider conception a curse. They view it almost as a disease; an affliction to be cured with medical treatment. And it’s almost always something they risked deliberately; they bring it about by choosing to be sexually active. Only a tiny percentage of abortions are the result of coerced sex.

Life has gotten so shabby and mechanical. Where is the satisfaction in a life in which you see yourself purely as an animated object with no connection to anything beyond this grubby physical realm? Where is the hope? What is the point in getting up every day? This is not how we were intended to live. Human life has special significance. It has purpose. It isn’t something we should destroy simply because we find contraception inconvenient, yet that is the primary reason abortions occur.

A human being shouldn’t live like a rat or a goat. We ought to be more than that. Even–forgive me for saying it–the poor. It matters whether they live or die. It matters whether their children are allowed to be born. Intelligence and income do not determine the value of a human being. Ruth Ginsburg may not want “too many” of these people, but who is she to make the call?

The ancient Canaanites used to kill their firstborn sons, pickle them in jars, and put the jars in the walls of their homes. The idea was that this would insure their prosperity. God preserved the memory of this barbaric custom with irony, in the curse Joshua pronounced on Jericho (Joshua 6:26):

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

It’s hard for me to see how aborting a child for financial reasons is any different. Either way, you are trying to build your prosperity on the dead body of your offspring. If there is no God, fine. You were smart. You saved money. But what if he exists and he has the power to determine how your life turns out? How will he see your prayers for help, when your child’s remains are always before him, in a sewer or a landfill? If you won’t help the poor, that’s bad. Isn’t it worse if you refuse to provide nine months of life support to a helpless, innocent child you created? The Bible says God treats us the way we treat others. It says a husband’s prayers will be hindered if he mistreats his wife. What could be lower than refusing to bear your own child?

Life is so simple for atheists. At least until it’s over.

I know this kerfuffle will die away, but I thought I should say something about it while it was still fresh.