The Forgotten Child - The Dark Side of Abortion Evolution

The history of abortion in America is described usually in terms of the claimed rights of women to deal with unplanned pregnancy through the surgical destruction of the fetus in  the womb. The justification for such abortion was the fear of over population – “the population bomb”.

High birth rates would cause the population to rise exponentially on an upward bending curve, while an increase in the production of food would increase along a straight line rate, leading to starvation -  this was the propaganda line which turned out to be very effective.

Starting with the cry for birth control, using various contraceptive devices, followed by having laws restricting  contraception declared unconstitutional, followed by having laws restricting abortion (when contraception failed) held unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court, "abortion on demand" became the law of the land.

But this is only the “cover story”; behind this story is a far more sinister story, which, had it been revealed and understood during the time of the justification and legalization of abortion, the result may not have been abortion on demand.

Throughout the history of the world there have always been those who consider themselves to be more important and worthwhile contributors to the human race than others considered less worthwhile contributors to the human race; and such worthless humans should be "bred out" of the race.

In England during the 1800s men of rank and education started promoting the idea that only people of intelligence, education, rank and importance should be encouraged to breed others of similar quality since it was thought, at the time, that better quality human beings result when the parents are of desirable quality.  The theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin proposed that “the survival of the fittest” was a dominating factor in the evolution of all animal species including man.

Therefore, through proper breeding lesser quality humans should not survive. This was taken to mean that in the good breeding process those who are the least fit should be either forcibly or through persuasion not allowed to breed. This policy or belief was given the name of eugenics (a combination of eu- meaning good and -genics meaning “breeding”, that is good breeding).  Positive eugenics was practiced by those who wanted to limit the breeding of "unfit" humans through persuasion, by advocating the use of contraception or abortion. Negative eugenics was practiced by those who wanted to force "unfit" humans to be sterilized so they could not breed.

In America, Margaret Sanger was an ardent supporter of birth control and negative eugenics in the late years of the 1800s and into the 1920s, who wanted to eliminate the Negro race, since she viewed them as inferior human beings.   She was ultimately persuaded by other eugenicists, who convinced her that going into the Negro areas and convincing the pastors of their churches to promote birth control as a means of “helping” Negro families from burdening themselves with too many children, was a better way to get these people to agree with limiting their children.

That this “ruse” worked very successfully is seen by a sharp decline in the percentage of Negroes (or currently blacks) making up the entire population of the United States. Other measures of how effective Sanger's program has been is to consider that the numbers and percentages of blacks having abortions compared to other races are in terms of multiples of 2 or 3 in many cases; also, the largest percentages of Planned Parenthood clinics (which evolved from Sanger's birth-control clinics) are located in minority areas of cities.

In the Supreme Court decision of 1973, Roe versus Wade, justice Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion, bases his justification for legalizing abortion on all kinds of policies, legal opinions, statements of individuals and laws which relate to and justify eugenics. Thus Roe vs Wade justifies abortion as legal and constitutional based on eugenics - the desire to make a more perfect quality of population rather than simply limiting population of all kinds and races based on the so-called population explosion.

My comments above are based largely on an essay *The History of Abortion"  which is well documented and has many details of interest not included here and is well worth reading.