House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stirred up controversy by promoting the idea of adding funding for contraception and family planning-including abortion-as part of the 2009 economic stimulus package. In an interview with George Stephanopolis she defended this move with the argument “Contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.” Promoting abortion and birth control was not justified on the basis of individual rights but whats appears to Pelosi seems to be a sound social policy that serves the government’s interest. This is eugenics. Eugenics is the stuff of the Nazis. Abortion and family are defended as individual rights only as a cover for state planned families and state planned social engineering. Eugenics involves state control whether it is through propaganda like Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood or coercion such as was done by the Nazis.
The defenders of eugenics today conflate the state-interest argument with the individual rights argument. When confronted about the fact that Nazi or China communist style eugenics is being promoted they will use individual freedom as a cover. Do not be deceived. The family planning movement is about state controlled family planning, not the individual. Pelosi’s argument is that funding of contraceptive, abortion and family planning should be done because it serves the interests of the state, not because it serves the individual.
There should be no surprise here. The sanctity of human life is the cornerstone of liberty. Any philosophy that denies that all human beings have infinite value because they are created in the image of God risk taking it’s adherents down a dangerous, slippery slope to the devaluation of all human life relative to the state interest. Societies that devalue human life end up looking like Nazi Germany or Communist countries or like some of the bloodthirsty Islamist dictatorships. Pelosi’s comment is one more sign that America is degenerating from a free society to a Nazi-style or communist style dictatorship or at least like George Orwell 1984 where propaganda and manipulation-instead of mere brute force- are used to control the populace.
Lou Engle’s Facedown40 Devotionals
October 6, 2008 - 7 Tishrei, 5769Lou Engle of The Call has published on his website a series of devotionals called Facedown40. These devotionals are intended to be 40 days of devotionals. The emphasis of these devotionals, which are written by various authors, is toward national repentance. Lou Engle is burdened by the Lord to plead for America to repent, believing that God’s Judgment is imminent. In fact both the increasing pattern of natural disasters, such as hurricanes penetrating 1000 miles inland, and the newly arrived Second Great Depression indicate that God’s Judgment on America has already begun
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