Posted on 05/02/2007 11:15:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
As Delivered
Thank you very much for inviting me to say a few words of welcome. This event shows that people of different political parties and different political thinking can unite in support of choice. In doing so, we are upholding a distinguished tradition that began in our city starting with the work of Margaret Sanger and the movement for reproductive freedom that began in the early decades of the 20th century.
As a Republican who supports a woman's right to choose, it is particularly an honor to be here. And I would like to explain, just for one moment, why I believe being in favor of choice is consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. In fact, it might be more consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. Because the Republican Party stands for the idea that you have to restore more freedom of choice, more opportunity, more opportunity for people to make their own choices rather than the government dictating those choices. Republicans stand for lower taxation because we believe that people can make better choices with their money than the government will make for them, and that ultimately frees the economy and produces more political freedom. We believe that, yes, government is important, but that the private sector is actually more important in solving our problems.
So it is consistent with that philosophy to believe that in the most personal and difficult choices that a woman has to make with regard to a pregnancy, those choices should be made based on that person's conscience and that person's way of thinking and feeling. The government shouldn't dictate that choice by making it a crime or making it illegal.
I think that's actually a much more consistent position. Many Republicans support that position, but you don't hear that as often. For example, in a recent poll by American Viewpoint, 65 percent of Republicans supported changing the plank in the Republican platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion. That's 6.5 out of every 10 Republicans. And over 80 percent of Republicans believe that the decision with regard to an abortion should be made by a woman, her doctor, and her family rather than dictated by the government.
[Applause]
In any case, I just wanted you to know that many of my fellow Republicans stand with you on this issue. So I thank you, I thank NARAL for taking the lead in establishing freedom of choice for all of us, and as the Mayor of New York City, I thank you for being here in New York City.
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Rudy Giuliani hero Margaret Sanger:
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Margaret Sanger. “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”
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As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation....
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
Margaret Sanger. “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.”
Margaret Sanger. “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
“Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on “The Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.
“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”
Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. “Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?” Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.
“The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth Control Conference. Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-12, 1921. Published by the Birth Control Review, Gothic Press, pages 172 and 174.
“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order...”
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
“[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children...”
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
“Give dysgenic groups [people with ‘bad genes’] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.”
Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review.
“As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know...”
Faye Wattleton, Past-president of Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the American Baby Code that states, “No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood”.
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the Population Congress with the aim, “...to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”
The infamous Rooty speech to N.A.R.A.L.`s “Champions of Choice” Lunch.
Says everything there is to know about Giuliani`s support for abortion on demand and a womans constitutional right to kill her unborn child.
The man is replusive.
Margarets Sangers Lawyer was the Co Founder of ACLU
The Same Lawyer Fror Kinsey the Nutbag who Wrote Human sexuality of the male and female which is quoted in Roe Vs Wade..
The Same Lawyer to Sanger and Kinsey who founded the ACLU was the Personal Private Lawyer to FDR!! Who would have thunk.. it was such a close knit piece of Crap...and the Dems were considered the racist ones!
WOW! That's the most outrageous line of BS I've heard since "depends on what the meaning of 'is' is".
Is there any doubt that this clown must not be allowed anywhere near 1600 PA Ave, let alone live in it?
EV—did you see the text I posted of a 1933 interview with Sanger?
I had to excerpt it, but I could send you the whole thing. Chilling stuff.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823139/posts?page=171#171
Apparently in the next primary it will be more so in the hands of California Conservatives...and whether or not we can organize. I’m thinking since our primaries are earlier, California will be more involved in the primary chose. Hopefully we can garner the support for someone whom doesn’t take the above stance and is a practical winner.
I hope you’ll play a big role in this Jim. We need as much direction and organization as we can get.
Bookmark some sick quotes.
Margaret Sanger was also the girlfriend of H.G Wells, who was a popularizer of eugenics. She was a correspondent of Julian Huxley, who was director of the British Eugenics Society and on the board of directors of the Euthanasia society and Abortion Law Reform Society. Huxley was the world leader of the eugenics movement for many decades. He co-founded UNESCO. Sanger was a member of both the American and British Eugenics Societies. Some members of the American Eugenics Society were also directors of the AAAS.
Yeah, Rudy's "personally against" abortion. So is Al Gore. Sad to see so many freepers embracing talking points of the left. Next we'll be hearing that Rudy supports tax cuts for "right" people instead of "richest one percent"
In this there lies a fallacy which both libertarians and socialists constantly appeal to. For example: one has the freedom to use drugs or not. But some would argue that unless illegal drugs are widely made available and decriminalized, we do not actually have a choice not to use them. The fallacy is in thinking that I cannot freely choose to abstain from illegal drugs, unless there are some around. In other words, I cannot do A unless I have B, even though I can do A without B. Which is a fallacy. Socialists employ this very reasoning when they say that it is necessary for the government to supply people with printing-presses before there can be real freedom of speech. Or that some groups must have more air-time because they 'do not have a voice' otherwise. Rudy is using a similar argument: a woman cannot freely choose not to have an abortion, unless there are abortionists and abortion clinics.
So it is consistent with that philosophy to believe that in the most personal and difficult choices that a woman has to make with regard to a pregnancy, those choices should be made based on that person's conscience and that person's way of thinking and feeling
If it is entirely a matter personal choice, then why should I or anyone else be involved in this personal business? Why then should this personal problem become another person's problem, if it is, as Rudy says, 'the most personal' issue? My response to people who claim 'abortion is none of your damn business, it's my choice, stay out of it, it's my life, etc.' is a rather harsh one: 'then go solve your own damn personal problem, abort your own baby yourself, quit pestering society with your personal issues, quit dragging everyone else - doctors, government, clinics, and taxpayers - into your damn personal affairs.'
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