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Bill Nye Trashes People With Large Families, Wants Them Penalized for Having “Extra Kids”
Life News ^ | April 26, 2017 | Micaiah Bilger

Posted on 04/27/2017 9:29:19 AM PDT by Morgana

Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” famous for hosting a children’s educational TV show, is not as kid-friendly as he initially may appear.

An abortion advocate, Nye recently hosted a new Netflix show that The Federalist describes as bordering on eugenics.

The episode “Earth’s People Problem” is part of the Netflix series “Bill Nye Saves the World.” In the half-hour show, Nye and several panelists discuss how they think large families and population growth are affecting the world, according to the report.

One of those panelists is an abortionist named Nerys Benfield who practices at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Another is Dr. Rachel Snow of the United Nations Population Fund, which has been linked to coercive abortion practices in China.

Nye begins the show by describing how humans use natural resources. According to the report:

Following an intro that demonstrates how human consumption is like sponges soaking up water, Nye explains how women who have access to educational and professional opportunities tend to have fewer children. This is true …

Nye says when women are in power, they have fewer children, and more resources can be devoted to those children. “It’s not rocket surgery. It’s science!” he coyly explains.

The underlying eugenic and abortion tones come out later in the show. Though the word “abortion” never is mentioned, panelists hint at it while talking about family planning and women’s health care.

Keep up with the latest pro-life news and information on Twitter.

At one point, Nye even asks the panel if families should be penalized for having “extra kids.”

The report continues:

The fight against climate change, Nye’s most passionate cause, is brought up by [Dr. Travis Rieder, ethicist at the Berman Institute at Johns Hopkins University], who notes that children in developed countries use 160 times more resources than children in the developing world. This is where the creepy totalitarianism of the environmental movement starts to show itself. Nye asks, bluntly, “Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” …

Rieder says we should “at least consider” a form of punishment for people who have these Extra Kids (TM). Nye impatiently responds that “consider means do it.” Snow, to her credit, jumps in and takes issue with the idea that “we do anything to incentivize fewer children or more children.” Benfield notes the history of compulsory sterilization in America, a practice that was in place as recently as the 1970s. The issue was not come at from a position of justice in the past, she adds. But this time will be different, I guess?

Some countries already do penalize large families, and their population policies are notoriously abusive. China mandates that families have only two children. Until last year, most families in China were allowed one child. Families who have more than one or two children report being coerced or even forced to abort their unborn children, fired from their jobs and penalized with huge fines.

Last October, the BBC interviewed a Chinese family who went into hiding after conceiving a third child.

“The local government carries out pregnancy examinations every three months,” the husband told the BBC. “If we weren’t in hiding, they would have forced us to have an abortion.”

Others have been even less fortunate. A U.S. Congressional report from 2011 detailed one horrifying case where a woman 9-months pregnant with twins was dragged to a local medical center, held down and forced to abort her unborn twins.

These coercive population policies have proven to be abusive, and yet they are being promoted again in popular western media.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; billnye; eugenics; globalwarming; prolife
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To: Morgana

I didn’t watch his crap, but the national review article on it said he advocated for penalties for “extra children” then went on to advocate for paid maternal leave - the opposite of a “penalty”. Typical lib BS


41 posted on 04/27/2017 10:22:30 AM PDT by lerker
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To: Morgana

In Mr Nye’s defense, he probably only wants to fine those who can afford to take care of their own kids.

Folks who can’t afford it, and are dependent on the government, would be able to have as many kids as they want without penalty. Down the road (after the totalitarian Left gains total power), they would be sterilized, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.


42 posted on 04/27/2017 10:24:22 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: Stingray51

extreme skinniness is not necessarily an indicator of ‘gaiety’.


43 posted on 04/27/2017 10:24:57 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: zipper
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but radiation-induced deformities are not passed down through the genes.

Apparently you missed the episode of Gilligan's Island where Gilligan found radioactive vegetable seeds.


44 posted on 04/27/2017 10:28:19 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Morgana

The Fabian science pagans see fertility the same way we see unbridled illeagal immigration. They know their inability to procreate will politically undo them sooner rather than later.


45 posted on 04/27/2017 10:34:07 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: PGR88
He does realize that would mean many South Asian and North African Muslims, as well as most Sub-saharan Africans - doesn’t he??

Bill is only concerned with penalizing for "extra" kids in the developed world, i.e. white kids.

The billions of unskilled, illiterate masses in the third world who are about to see the menial tasks they perform become mechanized are of no concern to "scientists" like Nye.

46 posted on 04/27/2017 10:38:44 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Morgana

fake scientist fascist libs have been pushing this line since at least 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb


47 posted on 04/27/2017 10:43:47 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Morgana

who is Nye? Satan’s psuedo-scientist spokesperson.


48 posted on 04/27/2017 11:02:08 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Morgana

This pole smoker should shut his pie hole.


49 posted on 04/27/2017 11:03:17 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: zipper

Why have the Ukranians keep the zone around their reactor free from human habitation?

We really do not know what will happen to folks around the disaster zone in Japan.

Why not serve the wild boars in Japan as a main course.


50 posted on 04/27/2017 11:08:45 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Morgana

He is an idiot from Washington state, and by the way never was or is not a real scientist.

In the review section of Netflix his throw has been trashed, with warnings not to let kids watch, as he promoted the multiple gender movement.


51 posted on 04/27/2017 11:26:27 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: newgeezer

I bet Mr. “Scientist” is one of those spirit cookers.


52 posted on 04/27/2017 11:29:40 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: GraceG
Liberals want to penalize people for having MORE children, because we supposedly cannot support them..... BUT!!!! They also want to bring in HORDES of people from the TURD WORLD because we “NEED MORE PEOPLE”... Dear Libtards, MAKE UP YOU F###ING MINDS!!!!!

Libtards tell us we need more 'job training programs and welfare' because there are no jobs.... AND they tell us we need to flood the country with illegals because there aren't enough people to do all the jobs.

And that we must 'forgive' college dept because there aren't enough college level entry jobs - AND that we must bring in foreigners to fill high paying entry positions because there aren't enough Americans available...

53 posted on 04/27/2017 11:45:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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To: GraceG
Liberals want to penalize people for having MORE children, because we supposedly cannot support them..... BUT!!!! They also want to bring in HORDES of people from the TURD WORLD because we “NEED MORE PEOPLE”... Dear Libtards, MAKE UP YOU F###ING MINDS!!!!!

Libtards tell us we need more 'job training programs and welfare' because there are no jobs.... AND they tell us we need to flood the country with illegals because there aren't enough people to do all the jobs.

I suspect they're lying... And that we must 'forgive' college dept because there aren't enough college level entry jobs - AND that we must bring in foreigners to fill high paying entry positions because there aren't enough Americans available...

54 posted on 04/27/2017 11:46:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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To: Morgana

Mr. Nye, I sincerely wish your parents had one fewer child.

Everyone else should do as their conscience guides them.


55 posted on 04/27/2017 12:02:56 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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BILL NYE THE NAZI SPY

The fight against climate change, Nye’s most passionate cause, is brought up by [Dr. Travis Rieder, ethicist at the Berman Institute at Johns Hopkins University], who notes that children in developed countries use 160 times more resources than children in the developing world. This is where the creepy totalitarianism of the environmental movement starts to show itself. Nye asks, bluntly, “Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” … Rieder says we should “at least consider” a form of punishment for people who have these Extra Kids (TM). Nye impatiently responds that “consider means do it.” Snow, to her credit, jumps in and takes issue with the idea that “we do anything to incentivize fewer children or more children.” Benfield notes the history of compulsory sterilization in America, a practice that was in place as recently as the 1970s. The issue was not come at from a position of justice in the past, she adds. But this time will be different, I guess?


56 posted on 04/27/2017 12:45:31 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: maggief
“He hates Hispanics?”

And Muslims?

And Orthodox Jews, and Mormons...

57 posted on 04/27/2017 12:58:03 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Hyman Roth
This pole smoker should shut his pie hole.

Is he homosexual?

58 posted on 04/27/2017 1:02:35 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: lacrew

Good point, as I am a last-born twin.


59 posted on 04/27/2017 1:18:16 PM PDT by IWONDR
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To: Morgana

Bill Nye, why don’t you help solve the problem by culling yourself?


60 posted on 04/27/2017 3:37:33 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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