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Harvest of Shame
The year was 1985, and the place was Jerusalem. A capacity crowd had assembled in Yad Vashem to listen to 30 Auschwitz survivors describing the barbarism of Josef Mengele. Vera Alexander, 62, described how Mengele pampered one young lady during her pregnancy, only to personally tear the baby from the womb and hurl the live child into an oven because it wasn’t a twin.
Vera Kriegel, 60, told of seeing Auschwitz guards crush the skulls of babies with their rifle butts, a practice that I assume Planned Parenthood would disavow on purely economic grounds. Besides, as Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter explained with the nonchalance of someone describing a new candy bar, babies can now be finished off in ways that are “less crunchy.” Which is to say, their young lives can be exterminated while keeping certain organs intact for the purpose of selling them. Indeed, as one Planned Parenthood “care provider” said, “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we are able to see them for a procedure, then we are intact.”
Ms. Kriegel described the indescribable to the gathering in Jerusalem, back in 1985, recalling the sight of hundreds of human eyeballs pinned to the office wall in Dr. Josef Mengele’s little shop of atrocities. “It was like a collection of butterflies,” she recounted. There were of course still more horrors in the camp. “Usually you can see the whole brain come out,” said another doctor, Savita Ginde. “Here’s a stomach, kidney, heart,” Dr. Ginde explained.
Sorry, but I’m playing loose with the chronology here, because Dr. Ginde didn’t really ply her deadly trade for Dr. Mengele, but rather for Planned Parenthood. The difference? Whereas yesterday’s butchers pinned eyeballs to the wall, today’s dismember children and sift through their bloody remains in search of remunerative body parts. As the old Virginia Slims commercial used to say, “You’ve come a long way, baby.”
“C’mon Carter,” you say, “the Nazis were interested in outright genocide! You can’t reasonably compare that with Planned Parenthood now, can you?” Well, let’s do a little comparing, shall we? First, a look at the animating philosophy as described by Mengele himself:
Everything will end in catastrophe if natural selection is altered to the point that gifted people are overwhelmed by billions of morons. … we have to prevent the rise of the idiot masses.
Pretty harsh, no? Now, compare Mengele’s ghastly reasoning with the enlightened and tender-hearted philosophy of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger:
A government which allows men and women to become parents whose records show insanity, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, syphilis, pauperism, idiocy and various other transmissible defects, cannot be said to consider the welfare or happiness of the country or of the next generation. Billions are now spent on charities, both public and private, in the U.S.A. The normal and intelligent citizens are being taxed and drained and bled to keep alive an increasing horde of human beings who never should have been born into a civilized society.
And that, sports fans, stripped of its rhetorical and euphemistic finery, is liberal “compassion.” And you thought Donald Trump was crude! But the woman Hillary Clinton described as her “hero” wasn’t done:
Our “overhead” expense in segregating the delinquent, the defective and the dependent, in prisons, asylums and permanent homes, our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrate our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism. No industrial corporation could maintain its existence upon such a foundation. Yet hardheaded “captains of industry,” financiers who pride themselves upon their cool-headed and keen-sighted business abilities are dropping millions into rosewater philanthropies and charities that are silly at best and vicious at worst. In our dealings with such elements there is a bland maladministration and misuse of huge sums that should in all righteousness be used for the development and education of the healthy elements of the community.
Well. That is certainly bracing! Notice how the quote fits neatly into the stereotype constructed by people such as Ms. Clinton to describe conservatives and yet … and yet it proceeds directly from the mind of Margaret Sanger, of whom Ms. Clinton rhapsodizes, “I am really in awe of her, there are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life.” What lessons are we to learn from a woman whose exertions in eugenics gave birth to an organization that locates 79% of its abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods?
“I admire Margaret Sanger enormously,” cooed Hillary, “her courage, her tenacity, her vision.” Was it the courage and tenacity to announce her vision — “Birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective” — that prompted Hillary Clinton to accept the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood?
Describing Planned Parenthood as “the object of such a concerted attack for so many years, and it’s really an attack against a woman’s right to choose,” Ms. Clinton invites the question: a woman’s right to choose what, exactly? The right to choose what school her children may attend? The right to choose to arm herself in self-defense? The right to fight the unwanted sexual advances of Hillary’s husband? The right to practice her religion even if it offends gay activists? The right to resist those Obamacare mandates that violate a woman’s pro-life convictions? The right to choose an incandescent lightbulb? The right to purchase a large soda even if Michael Bloomberg doesn’t approve? The right to keep her doctor or health insurance? The right to put her Social Security contributions into her private account? The right to retain her earnings rather than see them apportioned out to strangers who didn’t earn them?
Of course not, for the “choice” that has become enshrined as a liberal sacrament begins and ends at the abortionist’s door. Through that door, as the Center for Medical Progress’s cameras confirm, the human capacity for savagery unfolds in all its depraved and bloody wretchedness. The camera focuses on a petri dish containing a petite foot here, a liver there, a small lump from which extends tiny human fingers, and, placed haphazardly on opposite sides of the dish, two minuscule human eyeballs that stare lifelessly, like those that adorned Josef Mengele’s wall 70 years earlier; historical descendants, victims of a timeless evil, bearing silent and unflinching testiment to Mengele’s statement: “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe that we are doing it.”
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. There can be no acquiescence, no half-hearted or weak-kneed compromise. Not from a country that liberated Auschwitz and declared, with the rest of the civilized world, “Never again.”
Published in Domestic Policy, General
Thank you for the post. I wanted to share this link to a related Belmont Club post:
“The people who in the videos merrily describe the prices they can obtain for this or that body part may one day be old and as helpless as the infants they have dismembered. Then they will be in the care of men like themselves.”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/07/30/guilt-as-power/
I am not arguing that they were not evil. I agree completely that statism (the political philosophy that the state ought to be powerful to the point of dominating all aspects of society) is absolutely evil because it completely ignores the reality of human life and the basic unit of society which is the individual. This results, as you remarked accurately, in an inefficient allocation of resources and kills millions of people. Socialism (egalitarian statism) itself is a rather old political philosophy anyways.
I don’t agree with Marx at all and I am skeptical of Darwin’s evolution. My only point was that neither were really about rich vs poor but about the collective and how to best serve it. That label of rich vs poor misses the point altogether, to them it was about what fitness (some genetic superiority vs the true humanity of the proletariat) was and what collective was (proletariat vs Aryan) and what they thought realized these (government ownership of all productive property or some unexplained post scarcity world after government ownership of all productive property). I don’t agree with their reasoning because its fallacious.
I am just saying that they were competing for the same title of defender of the collectivist faith (when Hitler invaded the USSR he remarked to Goebbels that true, Nazi, socialism would trump the false Bolshevik socialism).
Could be,
We are on the same track now. Rich v Poor is just a very quick way to see that Darwin and Marx are two halves of the same coin. No matter what either say they are up to, their systems justify murder. Marx justifies the Poor rising up and murdering the Rich. Darwin justifies the Rich conspiring to murder the Poor. Both rest on a collectivist statism justified by a dogmatic materialism. This is the false dichotomy. Two halves of the same coin.
Regards,
Jim
The Planned Parenthood story is no longer front page news. We, as a civilization, have made major mistakes, have allowed evil to infiltrate, and you described it here in both stories. How many know that Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade was actually Norma McCorvey who gave birth to her child, became a Christian, regrets the event surrounding the creation of this law, and now defends the unborn?
http://www.toomanyaborted.com/roevwade/
I, like many women of my generation, although young and still in school, were very influenced by the many changes and cultural shifts of that time, the feminist movement being front and center.
The very rapid attempted take down of Christianity across the world, from Obamacare rules, the new definition of marriage, the right-to-die laws, persecution and murder of Christians throughout the Middle East, China’s campaign to tear down crosses, the frightening rise of antisemitism once again, is astounding.
We are not passing on traditional teachings, leaving us open to allowing the state and government to decide what is moral and right. Who decides life, when it begins, and death? A beating heart is detected at five weeks. A new generation is being defined by the government, not a loving God who creates life and bestows freedom.
Here is a good story if there is one, and is worth watching:
The world is on fire and getting hotter, literally:
http://watch.org/
We’re not getting the message…….
I don’t have a clue what you are trying to say.
Actually there are a lot of people who for killing babies which is why there are so many tens of millions of dead babies.
Gah! I am trying to get people to see how the Left views us and how they portray us to their minions! I am trying to make people do what is necessary to win back the White House.
On a previous pass at this subject, I noted that there are several churches which “permit” abortion under various excuses. [If you are interested, you merely google that church and search the site referring to abortion.]
The pressure to abort is so great that churches and physicians recommend it. The fact that an innocent person will be killed is not usually noted, rather an excuse is ready made for killing the innocent.
If some of the churches are making excuses for killing the innocent, then what other reasons exist for killing the innocent? Since we are now believed to have killed between 55- and 60-million children who crime was being conceived, it would appear that any excuse can be used for killing unborn children, or for leaving newborns to die unattended.
If their lives are meaningless, what is the meaning of our lives? Merely that someone did not snuff us out early enough?
If atheism is right, we are accidents. If we are accidents, then there is no reason not to kill those children, and no reason not to kill us. We certainly are no better than those children and have no greater right to life than those children.
Donald,
Just like every other faucet of life, you are right, there are both liberal and conservative denominations. There are many ways to dispute atheism, but I won’t get into an opinion about it. Everyone has a vote and a right to believe as they choose. But personally speaking, I would not want to be on that side when its all said and done.
Re : # 94
I know very little about Norma McCorvey. ( I probably first heard about her at all here. ) But while she’s still alive, I hope people are doing taped interviews . Someone who writes as well as Mr. Carter should write the story of how she allowed herself to be roped in, and how she woke up too late to the real nature of the purpose she was serving.
I think most of us are aware of how the left us, but this is an issue that most of us feel has to be addressed.
As long as there is any hating that needs to be done, the left will be there for us.
Passing along a link another Ricochetti recently passed along to me. If you are looking for a way to become active in your hometown on this issue, this might be a way to find likeminded others:
https://40daysforlife.com/
Can someone help me understand why this makes me so uncomfortable? I want to take action, but this does not seem like the thing I want to do.
I don’t know enough about your background to speculate about the reasons for your reaction to the 40 days for life website, but as far as taking action goes, one doesn’t have to get involved with a larger movement to make a difference. Finding, researching, and supporting a local crisis pregnancy center or other social service agency that helps women keep, care for, and raise their children is always a possibility. Whether it be through donation or volunteering your time or both, it’s a great individual contribution.