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Why Is the Left So Anti-Baby?
American Thinker.com ^ | July 18, 2017 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 07/18/2017 4:56:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week we learned that the Danes are working hard to reduce baby production in Africa. No doubt, because sub-Saharan African women are powering a baby boom that will make Africa into the Ground Zero of the Population Problem later in the century. Steve Sailer writes that women in Niger want about nine babies but usually have to make do with seven.

Meanwhile Japanese youngsters are reported to be remarkably uninterested in sex, and, of course, U.S. feminists insist that “Rule No. 1 for female academics is: don’t have a baby.”

My own personal experience is that the closer an American identifies with academia the less likely he or she is to have children.

The “educated” have been anti-baby and pushing population control for at least a century. What is going on here?

In part, of course, the push is to discourage other people from having children: eugenics and the “unfit.” In part, it is that upper-class women prefer to outsource child-minding.

So Birth Control was invented. And the educated classes decided to make abortion respectable. But it looks like the only people interested in birth control are the We, the educated, the evolved. Ordinary people just go on having babies like they always did, only now a lot more of the babies are surviving. How unfit of them.

I’d like to believe that this anti-baby culture is all part of the left’s foolish dream to create heaven on earth. You may have noticed that people don’t have babies in Heaven; they just live happily ever after.

But I think there is something else at work: monasticism. The scions of the rich and powerful very often don’t have the chops for the powerful life; they go, or are sent, into a monastery.

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1 posted on 07/18/2017 4:56:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The left is not a fan of humanity. That’s why.


2 posted on 07/18/2017 4:59:21 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yup. Culture of death. Abortion, Homosexuality, Euthanasia, Islam — The Left likes anything which will “decrease the surplus population”.


3 posted on 07/18/2017 5:02:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: Kaslin
OBAMA: ABORTION

"The logical import of Obama’s vote against BAIPA [Born-Alive Infant Protection Act] is that he disagrees, i.e., once a baby has been targeted for abortion it thereafter has no inherent right to the food, comfort, and medical care provided to other babies born alive.

Indeed, during Illinois state senate deliberations on BAIPA, Obama stated that one of his objections was that the bill was “designed to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.” Apparently, once the decision to abort has been made, a child is doomed even if born alive."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290764/clarifying-obamas-vote-born-alive-peter-kirsanow

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1,270 Babies Born Alive After Failed Abortions in the U.S.
Steven Ertelt, Apr 5, 2013
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/05/1270-babies-born-alive-after-failed-abortions-in-the-united-states/


4 posted on 07/18/2017 5:17:34 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The left is not a fan of humanity. That’s why.

Now now. That isn’t true. The left’s never met a serial killer or child murderer they didn’t deem scummy enough to fry in the chair. For some reason, that same sense of compassion doesn’t apply to innocent unborns.

5 posted on 07/18/2017 5:23:00 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: Kaslin

The agenda and reason for this all leads back to it’s ultimate source.

Let us not forget that the ruler of this world, who is pretty much in charge of the “world system” is Satan himself.

Satan hates human life passionately. We are made in the image of God and are deeply loved by Him. Therefore, Satan wants every single death he can achieve by any means possible.

This is first accomplished by separating us from God... Convincing mankind through the world system that there is no God. Then, once a majority of people are deceived in this (at least the ones in power), it is a very simple matter to take this belief (no God) to the most logical conclusion about what their duty is as rulers of the earth.

They call it agenda 21. It is the systematic reduction of the earth’s population in order to conserve resources...

Because if you don’t believe in a God Who provides, it is quite logical to view our environment as a very FINITE resource which must be carefully preserved by and for those who are most worthy of perpetuating the human race.

Otherwise, they see our fate as an overpopulated world which will self destruct from the over-consumption and lead to an untimely death for everyone.


6 posted on 07/18/2017 5:26:16 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“The left is not a fan of humanity....”

Abortion is so that leftist men can have a ready and willing herd of women without the responsibility.

IMHO


7 posted on 07/18/2017 5:30:28 AM PDT by ripley (ually to)
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To: Kaslin

Because babies generally get more attention than they do.


8 posted on 07/18/2017 5:32:33 AM PDT by FrankR (Those who a outraged by laws and rules, are the very ones wanting to break them.)
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To: Kaslin

An interesting and slightly original thesis, but I’m not really buying it.


9 posted on 07/18/2017 5:38:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everybody loves to talk about 'values' because there is no math involved.")
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To: Kaslin

Leftists don’t care about babies because leftists are selfish and they are not babies.


10 posted on 07/18/2017 5:40:09 AM PDT by djpg (.)
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To: Kaslin

This guy is somehow comparing modern college liberal elites to monastics, and not one word about the general acceptance of birth control within marriage. OK Pretty weird.

Freegards


11 posted on 07/18/2017 5:43:10 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Safrguns
"Otherwise, they see our fate as an overpopulated world which will self destruct from the over-consumption and lead to an untimely death for everyone."

Yet they still cast (more) blame and the responsibility for this destruction on the consumers who believe in HIM vs. the ones (them)who dont, and appear to consume about the same amount.(?)

12 posted on 07/18/2017 5:43:30 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Delta 21

certainly fits


13 posted on 07/18/2017 5:51:14 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Kaslin
Margaret Sanger wasn't anti-baby she was just anti-those-babies.

Combine that with general evolutionary fear of overpopulation and you have quite an anti-most-baby attitude.

14 posted on 07/18/2017 5:53:50 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (How many ways do liberals hate the bible?)
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To: Kaslin
Planned Parenthood:

There is no Healthcare

There is only The Harvest.

15 posted on 07/18/2017 5:58:32 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’ve long thought it’s because they’re so emotionally stunted they don’t want the competition for attention other children bring. Whiny libtard vs. cute kid.


16 posted on 07/18/2017 6:09:37 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

No, it’s far more malevolent than that.


17 posted on 07/18/2017 6:19:35 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The left wing is a suicide cult. Unfortunately they want to drag the rest of us down with them.


18 posted on 07/18/2017 6:48:10 AM PDT by Salman (I don't do Facebook, and neither should you.)
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To: Safrguns

Puhleeze - their is no “Devil,” if by that term you mean a renegade or rebellious angel that opposes G-d. The very idea that one of G-d’s creations could oppose him (let alone be successful for even a microsecond) is absurd beyond belief.

The fact is that el-Satan (the Satan) is an angel in the service of G-d, he/it does what G-d wants. His/Its main task is to tempt the faith of humans (see the Book of Job).

That all said, and to get back to topic, the Left opposes babies (or, at least, white/Western babies) because they hate our culture. For some reason that I cannot fathom, they are guilt-ridden about our success as a civilization. They feel as if we owe something to the rest of the world that can only be repaid if we commit cultural suicide...forgetting completely that without Western medicine, food and other aid, the population of the poorer parts of the world would be considerably less, and misery would be elevated to far higher levels than it is. They are sick and, IMHO, evil in many ways (and I define “evil” as being a lack of goodness, or a lack of G-d in their lives).


19 posted on 07/18/2017 6:50:22 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Kaslin

Economics has to be part of the equation. In the times past, people depended on the family to care for them in their old age. After socialism took root, people began to believe daddy government would care for them. Why have so many children, especially since the high taxes needed to support the welfare state made it so expensive to have children? You also cannot overlook the fact that women have more options than they used to have.

Yes, the left generally seems to hate families, but there are more forces at work than just that.


20 posted on 07/18/2017 6:53:08 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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