I wrote a column recently about the failure of Malthus’ overpopulation theory (“Malthusian Malfeasance,” May 27). Roger Carlton helped show last week (“Malthus Maligned,” June 3) how it connects to the most vile practice that we currently have in America.
We can’t soft-pedal the abject wickedness of murdering the unborn by using words like abortion or a woman’s right to choose. There is no greater civil rights issue than the murder of the unborn.
To steal from the unborn their inalienable right to life is to steal from everyone the right to life. The murder of the unborn destroys any concept of inalienable rights because it violates the undergirding principles of all human rights. Remove the sanctity of life and the image of God and rights become fodder that the government will use to control the populace.
Sadder still is that our nation has shed the blood of over 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade. That is a conservative estimate. The fact of the matter is that our society is willing to sacrifice the unborn to gain liberty from their decisions.
The abortion industry owes its largest debt to Margaret Sanger. Sanger was the brainchild of what would become Planned Parenthood. She promoted birth control, eugenics, sterilization and abortion as a social engineering mechanism.
Consider Sanger’s following quote and you will see why the connection was made from Malthus to abortion: “Because of birth control ... child slavery, prostitution, feeble mindedness, physical deterioration, hunger, oppression and war will disappear from the earth.”
Despite the fact that the overpopulation theory falls apart under scrutiny and that life obviously begins at conception, our politicians still idolize Sanger. They give out awards in her name and claim that she was a liberator of women. All the while, they ignore science.
Worse still, they ignore the command of God to protect the innocent. The same people who will stop everything to save a kitten fight relentlessly to protect a woman’s right to murder.
Read a few more quotes from Sanger. Decide for yourself if it is really a compassionate plea for “a woman’s right to choose.”
“Our objective is ... unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children ... Women must have the right to live ... to love ... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy ... The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order ... The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
“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 ... There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
I hope that my readers will join me in desiring a nation in which righteousness dwells. The blood of the innocent cries out from the earth, and the Lord of Heaven and Earth will judge.
Which side of history will you be on that day?
Jeremy Wiggins writes a bi-weekly column for The Graham Star. Email him at jeremywiggins87@gmail.com.