Our venerable brethren over at Youth Reform tipped me off to this post great over at Dawn Patrol: Around the world with Planned Parenthood. Surf by and check it out.
This topic always reminds me of the P.J. O’Rourke’s humorous tome All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty his chapter on over population Just Enough of Me, Way Too Much of You is as true as it is funny.
The secularist obsession with “stemming the brown tide” seems to not be so much invited as foisted. Good reason for it, it makes good money!
Planned Parenthoodin this nation receives heavy tax-dollar subsidy AND turns a profit ($60M last year – not bad for a subsidized non-profit group! That is where I went wrong in my own business – I didn’t set up a non-profit!).
For all the tax money they get, they aren’t doing for free. I suppose if they are selling harvested fetal tissue, and industrious abortuary can make money on both ends. Cheap abortions are at least $350 most places… The younger you can get the patient for the first one, the more likely she will come back for 3-5 more by age 25… ($1750 for 5 abortions at the cheapest rate… Not bad for 25-60 minutes worth of work [total] for all 5!No one can say blood money is not abundant!)
Some allude to lower teen pregnancy rates where there is more birth control available. I would like to see the demographic studies of who is getting the abortions (how many teens?) and which teens are getting “less pregnant” when we pass out more condoms (or better still) chemically alter their bodies… Maybe if we subsidized contraception, abortion and still more sex education we could ease our way down to Swedish abortion levels (25%). (Not sure what age to begin, 11 is the average age of first internet exposure to porn, which is a $13B a year industry in the US, with 70% of 18-24 year old males consuming regularly… source) 
When talk of more birth control and condoms come up, for some quirky reason I always have a mental image of Eva Perón on the balcony of the Casa Rosada gleefully tossing prophylactics to “her people.” I am not sure why, the image just works for me.
Catholics who speak up get accused of talking about sex too much. There seems to be, however, plenty to talk about. By the numbers of abortions and the money spent on porn, that seems a bit unfair to single us out. Then again there is a difference between doing and talking, isn’t there?
I hope I am not alone in recognizing this poorly recycled version of “white man’s burden.” It is a genteel way of saying “Those people are animals who can’t raise ‘productive’ children” A good dog owner spays & neuters! If the “dirty unwashed masses” could understand Planned Parenthood’s argument (they are probably too ignorant) I am sure they would be grateful. What a good massa’!
It is far easier (and sexier still!) to promote sterility over democracy, freedom and governmental transparency.
Blessed are the barren? Very prophetic.
Apparently, Muslims don’t agree. I wonder how well Planned Parenthood would be received in Afganistan? We could always send some staffers over to see….
April 4, 2008 at 6:57 am |
Unfortunately we have a hard enough time even convincing Catholics that contraception is unholy. I spoke to some CCD teachers in my last parish about their cariculum and when they began to talk about sex education they did not even plan on teaching Theology of the Body. I was horrified that kids can’t even escape that stuff in the Church! We have such jewels in our hands and still we do the wrong thing.