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Holdren: Sterilize welfare recipients
Obama boss suggested ways to save planet, said fetus not a person
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Posted: September 23, 2009
7:56 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that compulsory, government-mandated "green abortions" would be a constitutionally acceptable way to control population growth and prevent ecological disasters, including global warming, because a fetus was most likely not a "person" under the terms of the 14th Amendment.
Holdren further suggested government-mandated population control measures might be inflicted in the United States against welfare recipients, writing on page 840: "There has been considerable talk in some quarters at times of forcibly suppressing reproduction among welfare recipients (perhaps by requiring the use of contraceptives or even by involuntary sterilizations). This may sadly foreshadow what our society might do if the human predicament gets out of hand." (Parenthesis in original text.)
As previously reported, WND has obtained a copy of the 1970s college textbook "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment" that Ehrlich co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, Ann. The authors argued involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under extreme conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by "climate change."
Writing on page 839 of the textbook, the authors state: "The common law and drafters of the U.S. Constitution did not consider a fetus a human being. Feticide was not murder in common law because the fetus was not considered to be a human being, and for purposes of the Constitution a fetus is probably not a 'person' within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Thus under the constitution, abortion is apparently not unlawful, although infanticide obviously is."
In the next sentence, the authors continued to insist that this "is a very important distinction, particularly since most rights, privileges, and duties in our society are dated from birth and not from some earlier point in time."
On page 760, the authors categorically state that from the point of view of biology, "a fetus is only a potential human being, with no particular rights." (Italics in the original text.)
And, again: "To most biologists, an embryo or a fetus is no more a complete human being than a blueprint is a complete building."
The authors further insist that because "the moment of birth is easier to ascertain than the moment of conception, implantation, or quickening," constitutional rights should begin only at birth: "Such an easily ascertainable point in time [the moment of birth] is a sensible point from which to date Constitutional rights, which should not depend on imprecisions."
As WND has previously reported, Holdren has argued the U.S. Constitution would permit compulsory birth control methods, including involuntary abortions, government-imposed sterilizations and laws limiting the number of children permitted to be born as steps justified under the banner of "sustainable well-being."
State-funded sterilizations
On page 715, the authors stated a central thesis of the textbook: "The maximum size the human population can attain is determined by the physical capacity of the Earth to support people."
The authors argued that a federal statute should be enacted to prohibit "any restrictions on safe, voluntary contraception, sterilization, and abortion, and the dissemination of information about them" because "legalized abortions can contribute to a reduction in birth rates."
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Holdren: Sterilize welfare recipients
Obama boss suggested ways to save planet, said fetus not a person
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Posted: September 23, 2009
7:56 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that compulsory, government-mandated "green abortions" would be a constitutionally acceptable way to control population growth and prevent ecological disasters, including global warming, because a fetus was most likely not a "person" under the terms of the 14th Amendment.
Holdren further suggested government-mandated population control measures might be inflicted in the United States against welfare recipients, writing on page 840: "There has been considerable talk in some quarters at times of forcibly suppressing reproduction among welfare recipients (perhaps by requiring the use of contraceptives or even by involuntary sterilizations). This may sadly foreshadow what our society might do if the human predicament gets out of hand." (Parenthesis in original text.)
As previously reported, WND has obtained a copy of the 1970s college textbook "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment" that Ehrlich co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, Ann. The authors argued involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under extreme conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by "climate change."
Writing on page 839 of the textbook, the authors state: "The common law and drafters of the U.S. Constitution did not consider a fetus a human being. Feticide was not murder in common law because the fetus was not considered to be a human being, and for purposes of the Constitution a fetus is probably not a 'person' within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Thus under the constitution, abortion is apparently not unlawful, although infanticide obviously is."
In the next sentence, the authors continued to insist that this "is a very important distinction, particularly since most rights, privileges, and duties in our society are dated from birth and not from some earlier point in time."
On page 760, the authors categorically state that from the point of view of biology, "a fetus is only a potential human being, with no particular rights." (Italics in the original text.)
And, again: "To most biologists, an embryo or a fetus is no more a complete human being than a blueprint is a complete building."
The authors further insist that because "the moment of birth is easier to ascertain than the moment of conception, implantation, or quickening," constitutional rights should begin only at birth: "Such an easily ascertainable point in time [the moment of birth] is a sensible point from which to date Constitutional rights, which should not depend on imprecisions."
As WND has previously reported, Holdren has argued the U.S. Constitution would permit compulsory birth control methods, including involuntary abortions, government-imposed sterilizations and laws limiting the number of children permitted to be born as steps justified under the banner of "sustainable well-being."
State-funded sterilizations
On page 715, the authors stated a central thesis of the textbook: "The maximum size the human population can attain is determined by the physical capacity of the Earth to support people."
The authors argued that a federal statute should be enacted to prohibit "any restrictions on safe, voluntary contraception, sterilization, and abortion, and the dissemination of information about them" because "legalized abortions can contribute to a reduction in birth rates."