Israeli Doctor Exposes Nazi Abortion Program
Reveals Chilling Parallels with the Ideas of Planned
Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
By Matthew
Cullinan Hoffman
September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- An Israeli doctor has recently published an account of the Nazi use of
abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization to eliminate groups they deemed
"inferior stock", especially Jewish and Slavic people.
Dr. Tessa Chelouche writes that "Abortion was used as a weapon of mass
destruction in
"In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could
only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. We are
not interested in seeing the non-German population multiply…We must use every
means to install in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several
children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health…
It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors
must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a
breach of their professional ethics."
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, expressed a similar
objective about eliminating US colored people in a letter she wrote only months
after Hitler's invasion of
Today, Planned Parenthood and other international promoters of abortion,
sterilization, and contraception, often claim that the availability of such
services is a "health issue" and is necessary to fight poverty,
echoing Hitler's slogans.
The article, "Doctors, Pregnancy, Childbirth and Abortion during the Third
Reich," which appeared in the March issue of the Israel Medical
Association Journal, shows that Hitler facilitated and promoted abortion and
sterilization for "inferior genetic stock" while simultaneously
practicing "positive eugenics" by prohibiting most abortions and
sterilizations of "Aryan" German women. This practice reflected the
same reasoning behind Margaret Sanger's famous slogan "more from the fit,
less from the unfit".
In 1942 and 1943, the Nazis implemented mandatory abortion programs in some
ghettos. "The punishment for giving birth and for delivering the infant
was death for the whole family and for the Jewish doctor or midwife,"
writes Chelouche. In the concentration camps, however, "pregnant women
were usually sent to their immediate deaths upon arrival just because they were
pregnant."
Chelouche's also notes that the German sterilization program led easily to a
program of mass murder of unwanted groups. "During the five and a half
years preceding the outbreak of the Second World War, about 320,000 German
persons with 'lives unworthy of life' were sterilized under the terms of the
sterilization law," she writes.
"The victims of this sterilization program were asylum inmates, ethnic
majorities, servants, prostitutes, unmarried mothers, unskilled workers and
others. This sterilization campaign was a direct prelude to mass murder: the
prohibition against bearing 'unworthy children' was expanded into the 'euthanasia'
programs, beginning with the murder of some 5000 children, and then into the
infamous T4 'euthanasia' program in which some 350,000 German adults were
killed under the disguise of euthanasia."
Chelouche concludes with a profound question: "Who can confront the
Holocaust and not be put on alert to evaluate scientific paradigms and the
implications for public policy that flow from them, so that what we, as medical
professionals and as human beings, want and identify as good, will be for the sake
of respecting and saving human life? They too asked and answered the question:
who shall live and who shall die? Then and now the subject at hand is killing,
letting die, helping to die, and using the dead. Then and now the goal is to
produce healthier human beings."
Dr. Tessa Chelouche is a physician with Clalit Health Services, in the Shomron
District in
Read the Full Article Online:
Doctors, Pregnancy, Childbirth and Abortion during the Third Reich
http://www.ima.org.il/imaj/ar07mar-23.pdf
Major U.S. Newsweekly
Offers Sanitized Version of Racist Margaret Sanger
Entirely omits racist motivation behind vehement
commitment to birth control, abortion, sterilization
By
Elizabeth O'Brien
WASHINGTON, DC, August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The third largest U.S.
newsweekly published a highly skewed historical account of Margaret Sanger,
entirely omitting the racist motivation behind her vehement commitment to birth
control, abortion and sterilization.
U.S.News & World Report, a rival of Time magazine and Newsweek, published
an article on Sunday entitled, "The Passions Behind the Pill, helping
women in poverty is what drove the development of the oral contraceptive."
The story makes no hint of the fact that Margaret Sanger was a rabid racist who
wanted the complete eradication of the black population. Rather it portrays the
heroic struggle of a woman seeking to empower female victims of social
circumstance.
The article begins by referring to the fact that Sanger was born into a
penniless family of 11 children, and as a result, she felt a special calling
"to help poor women have fewer children to be brought up." It speaks
of the resistance she received during the early 1900's when she was accused of
"obscenity" for mailing pamphlets on birth control. It also
sardonically notes that she was "rewarded" for her efforts by 30 days
in jail for spreading information about contraceptives.
The also article fails to mention the fact that this warrior for women's
so-called rights was also connected with the Nazi fascist regime with which she
shared her ideas on eugenics in the 1930's. In fact, she changed her
organization's original name from the Birth Control League to Planned
Parenthood in order to better maintain the illusion that her goals were much
more family "friendly" than the publicly condemned Nazi policies.
Rooted in the philosophy of sexual liberation and Social Darwinism, Sanger
viewed the physically and mentally handicapped, illiterates and poor people as
hereditarily "tainted" people who must be removed from society. In
addition, referring to the black communities in the Southern United States as a
"dysgenic horror", she also believed that black people were subhuman
and must be eradicated.
In the "Negro Project" of 1939, for example, Sanger encouraged black
ministers to propagate the pill in their own communities-in essence, to
unknowingly wipe out their own people. She is quoted as saying, "The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We
do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and
the Minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to
any of their rebellious members."
Through this movement of massive deceit and manipulation, clinics that provided
the pill and offered family "planning" information spread rapidly
throughout the American black communities.
The U.S. News story describes some of the social and political hurdles that
Sanger overcame, including the Pope's condemnation of contraception in the
1960's. The article further states, "Because the pill's popularity
coincided with the beginnings of the feminist movement, it became a symbol of
the sexual revolution."
Quoting historian Elizabeth Watkins, the articles continues, the "pill
alone didn't cause the sexual revolution, but…it did cause a contraception
revolution." It then goes on to describe the pill's great impact that
"forever changed the lives of American women."
Finally, the article concludes without any mention of the fact that as
foundress of the world's largest eugenics movement, Sanger advocated not only
the widespread use of contraception, but also the legalization of abortion and
sterilization in order to wipe out those who were considered "unfit"
for normal human society. In this way, by participating in the deception that
has surrounded Sanger and her movement for decades, the article omits any
reference to the main ideology that fueled her life's career.
Read the U.S.News & World Report story on Margaret Sanger:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070805/13pill.htm