Welcome to the (worst of the) Progressive Movement

For decades the pro-life movement has been talking about progressive eugenics.  From long before Sanger, but reaching its peak with 1930s US and European policies, the eugenics movement has gone from distinction to an endemic philosophy.  Today it haunts science with its utilitarian mask and proclaims that it can produce the sort of people that are most productive and beneficial.  It is all about creating "Captain America" through science.  Science, that is, as Reason without the need to answer to Theism.

Rock Center reports about eugenics in North Carolina.

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967.  The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized.  Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.

“I have to carry these scars with me.  I have to live with this for the rest of my life,” she said.

Riddick was never told what was happening.  “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said.  “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”

Can you read this without seeing it as racist, or at least elitist/classist?  The language of "feeble" and "promiscuous" comes straight out of Sanger[1].  Certain behaviors are unacceptable and certain people are to be treated as inferior.

But these things do not happen any more, do they?  Riddick was in 1967.  Have things changed?  Not much.  In the 1990s (though it might have been in the late 1980s) Oklahoma treated black children with spina bifida differently, and the courts supported it.  It never became a scandal because the children were black.

Many know of the work of Jill Stanek in exposing infanticide within the abortion industry.

Not much has changed.

This is a time for education.  When you talk to proponents of abortion, mention Riddick.  And when you talk to Christians who have suffered because of this progressive deception, proclaim forgiveness, mercy, and most of all grace.  And when to talk to women in general who have also suffered:  The message is the same.

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[1] See Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion by Jean H. Baker.  Baker notes that "there were political reasons for Americans to accept sterilization that grew out of progressive attempts to provide protection for the poor.  Along with criminals whose antisocial instincts were no believed inherited by their children, the unfit were becoming expensive in an era that was installing programs and institutions to support those who could not take care of themselves."  Sanger was a progressive through and through.