Anti-abortion is also one of the "radical Right Wing Agendas" that the Homeland Security has just issued a warning about. If you believe in Right-to-Life, you are suspected of being a threat to the government. This is along with belief in the U.S. Constitution's 10th amendment, 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, and so on.
Hillary Clinton was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award by Planned Parenthood on March 27, 2009. Clinton gave unabashed adulation for Sanger, and went on to declare that the salvation to the world's issues lies somewhere in the woman's right to abort her child. The full speech is located here, and the following is exerpted:
Now, I have to tell you that it was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision. Another of my great friends, Ellen Chesler, is here, who wrote a magnificent biography of Margaret Sanger called "Woman of Valor". And when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn, taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her.
And there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed so bravely. One in particular, though, has always stood out for me almost a hundred years later. It's the lesson that women's empowerment is always, always about more than bettering the lives of individual women. It is part of a movement. It's about economic and political progress for all women and girls. It's about making sure that every woman and girl everywhere has the opportunities that she deserves to fulfill her potential, a potential as a mother, as a worker, as a human being.
The overarching mission of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the cause of reproductive freedom that you continue to advance today is as relevant in our world now as it was a hundred years ago. (Applause.) So I thank you.
The 20th century reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race. It has changed the lives of tens of millions of women. It has changed attitudes and perceptions about women and our roles in society. It ushered in demographic and social changes that have brought us closer to gender equality than at any time.
Yet we know that Margaret Sanger's work here in the United States and certainly across our globe is not done. Here at home, there are still too many women who are denied their rights because of income, because of opposition, because of attitudes that they harbor. But around the world, too many women are denied even the opportunity to know about how to plan and space their families. They're denied the power to do anything about the most intimate of decisions.
And the derivative inequities that result from all of that are evident in the fact that women and girls are still the majority of the world's poor, unschooled, unhealthy, and underfed. This is and has been for many years a matter of personal and professional importance to me, and I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women's rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this Administration. (Applause.)
You see, I believe that women's rights and empowerment is an indispensible ingredient of smart power and therefore is integrated into our renewed emphasis on diplomacy and development. This is especially important today, when poverty and the lack of healthcare and education, hunger and job loss, are amplified by the current economic crisis. And I was very proud when President Obama repealed the Mexico City policy. (Applause.)
As a result, nongovernmental organizations overseas can once again use U.S. funding to provide the full range of family planning services so that women and their families can get access to the healthcare that they need. President Obama's decision on Mexico City and his signing shortly thereafter of the Lilly Ledbetter legislation - (applause) - reflects a deep personal commitment to expanding opportunities for women. And the announcement about a week ago of the establishment once again of an Office for Women and Girls in the White House will give voice and action behind that commitment. (Applause.)
Speaking obliquely is no problem for Clinton. When she says "reproductive rights" she means Sanger's vision of eugenics: abortion. The exporting of abortion to the third world would make Sanger weep for joy. It is the limiting of racial growth that she wished for, now becoming true at the U.S. taxpayer's expense.
But Hillary and Barack were unusually slient about the recent conversion of Afganistan to Sharia law, which prohibits and condemns abortion. In fact, as one wag says, how do the Hillary/Barack's intend to be cozy with the Muslims while simultaneously funding abortion for their women? Or maybe abortion is just for third world blacks?
At any rate, Hillary is fully in the Sanger abortion and eugenic corner. She left no doubt about that.
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