You couldn't make this up.
Spoker of the House Nancy Pelosi gets the Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthood "honoring" her for her support of abortion. The award is named for the founder of PP's predecessor organization. One of Sanger's motivations was to cut down on the size of the black population.
But it gets better.
Pelosi used the occasion to call abortion opponents "dumb".
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nancy-pelosi-calls-pro-lifers-dumb
Next year, I nominate that the award go to that UC Santa Barbara professor who pilfered the anti-abortion posters from the two girls just a few days ago.
Introducing Mireille Miller-Young. My nominee for next year's Margaret Sanger Abortion Award.
Take that, Margaret Sanger
3 comments:
Actually, as has recently been revealed in discussions at The American Conservative, Margaret Sanger firmly denounced abortion, saying that use of contraception and family planning was entirely different from the status of a child once conceived. That pink-dressed so-called "professor" no more deserved the Margaret Sanger award than Gary Fouse does.
Siarlys,
You are correct and my line about Sanger promoting abortion is wrong. It would be more correct to state that she promoted birth control partly due to her interest in eugenics. Planned Parenthood has expanded what Sanger did to include abortion. If Nancy Pelosi is going to accept the Sanger award from PP, should she have used to occasion to call abortion opponents "dumb"? If so, then don't be surprised if Miller-Young gets the award next year.
I don't call abortion opponents dumb, and I have often found Nancy Pelosi's rhetoric to be unhelpful, sometimes perhaps even idiotic.
I am constitutionally pro-choice, but I believe in free speech, including, inter alia, for the pro-life, and I believe their place in the public square serves a beneficial purpose. Among other things, if they can reach those women who will later regret their abortions, there won't be any more women standing behind "I regret my abortion" signs every Jan 24, because they will all have carried their pregnancies to term.
I also think Nancy Pelosi obscures the valid constitutional issue when she pontificates as to what the Roman Catholic Church's real position on abortion, or gay marriage, or anything else really is. I'm as outraged as anyone when RC bishops try to blackmail elected representatives to follow the Pope's Party Line rather than represent the constituents who elected them. But I don't pretend to be the expert on what RC teaching is. What the RC teaching is, is what the Bishop of Rome says it is, not what some elected politician says it is.
Critiques of Sanger on eugenics are a bit exaggerated and out of context. Sanger did have a whiff of middle class condecension for the poor. But at that time, prominent black psychologists were advocating eugenics as a means of "improving the race." Not eliminating the race, which was a different approach using eugenics, but improving the race. So "talked about eugenics" is not the same as "proto-Nazi."
Nothin PP does really surprises me.
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