Bride of Rove

There are so many things I’ve wanted to rant about all week but my new plan is to only rant on Sundays so I may be all over the map on this first one because I think I am experiencing deadly rant back up.

Rant one.

It is NOT ok to assume that all aborted babies would have grown up to be criminals. Not.OK. Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg need to just shut the hell up. When they say things like:

“The only argument against any of it is, that, you know, he could just as easily become some kind of a rapist pedophile. I mean, you don’t know what someone’s going to be,”

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/01/26/joy-behar-tim-tebow-just-easily-could-have-been-rapist-pedophile#ixzz0eDducN2Q

I have to wonder how we as a nation got to a place where – in anyone’s head – the justification for abortion is by viewing it as a pre-criminal execution. The idea that abortion is a cure for high crime rates has been debunked. In 2001, John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt trie to make a case that abortion lowered the crime rates and if you google it their statistics are all you will be able to find. in fact, back in the day the crime rates were one of the more intense justifications for legalizing abortion. They were wrong.

Virtually every other pro-abortion group also trumpeted the findings of Donohue and Levitt for several months. However, their voices fell silent almost as one when various researchers began questioning the abortion-crime link.

Problems With the Conclusion. While Donohue and Levitt were doing their research, other scientists were addressing the same question and arriving at opposite results.

Law professors John R. Lott, Jr. of Yale Law School and John E. Whitley of the University of Adelaide found that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by up to 7 percent. They concluded that legalizing abortion is a contributing factor to the great increase in out-of-wedlock births and single parent families, which is borne out by United States Census Bureau statistics, as shown in Figure 24-14.[123] Since 1970, the percentage of single-family households in the United States has nearly doubled, from 13.1 percent to 28.3 percent, and the percentage of out-of-wedlock births has more than tripled, from 10.7 percent to 36.0 percent.

There are many other difficulties with the thesis that legalized abortion leads to a decrease in violent and property crimes;

• Statistician David Murray of the Statistical Assessment Service (SAS) pointed out that the drop in crime rate correlates with a number of different social and cultural developments during the same time period (1991 to 2001). Murray confirmed that young males between the ages of 17 and 25 do commit the majority of crimes. However, if abortion did reduce crime, the crime rates in the United States would have dropped first among young people. They did not. Instead, the number of crimes committed by older people dropped first. Additionally, the rate of homicides committed by young females – which should have been equally affected by abortion as males – has not dropped.[124]
• Murray also points out a crucial fact: That other nations with high abortion rates have not shown a decrease in crime about eighteen years after they legalized abortion. For example, in Great Britain, which legalized abortion in 1968, violent crime has been rising steeply since about 1985 – exactly when it should have been declining, according to the Donohue-Levitt thesis. Additionally, russia, with the highest abortion rate on earth, is experiencing a tidal wave of every kind of violent crime in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union.[124]
• FBI statistics show that the murder rate in 1993 for 14- to 17-year-olds (born in the high abortion years of 1975-1979) was a horrifying 3.6 times higher than that of the kids who were the same age in 1984 (who were born in the pre-legalization years of 1966-1970). Additionally, since Black women were having abortions at a much higher rate than White women, we should have expected the murder rate among Black youth to have declined beginning in about 1991. Instead, it increased by a factor of more than five from 1984 to 1993.[125]
• The huge increase in violent crime that peaked in 1991 and then began to decline is related to the crack epidemic, not to abortion. The Donohue-Levitt study confirms that the crime rate rose and fell exactly where crack cocaine was most easily available – in the large cities and among young Black males.[125] This is also confirmed by the rise in crime during the time period 1984 to 1991, after a decline from 1980 to 1984. If abortion were the primary cause of a decline in violent crime, the crime rate would have been relatively stable during the time period 1980 to 1991 (see Figure 24-12). Donohue and Levitt also describe the current drop in crime as the “greatest since the end of Prohibition in 1933.” Just as that drop in crime was caused by changes in social factors – and not the easier availability of abortion – the current drop in crime is also the result of many interacting social factors.
• Professor Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman edited a 2000 book entitled The Crime Drop In America, in which they say “The reader is left with the assessment that 25 percent of the drop was the result of the prison expansion movement and that the significant drops in crime during the 1990s was also a result of changing drug use, increased gun control/intervention efforts, changes in adult and juvenile homicide rates, changes in policing, the labor market, and basic demographics. In other words, the crime drop was caused by a host of key factors mostly resulting from changes in political, economic, and social conditions, thus creating an intricate web of causes affecting the crime rates since 1992.”[126]
• Dr. Ted Joyce of Baruch College and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) says that he is “pro-choice.” Yet he said that “I analyzed changes in homicide and arrest rates among teens and young adults born before and after 1970 in states that legalized abortion prior to Roe v. Wade. I compared these changes with variation in homicide and arrest rates among cohorts from the same period but who were unexposed to legalized abortion. I find little evidence to support the claim that legalized abortion caused the reduction in crime. I conclude that the association between abortion and crime is not causal, but most likely the result of confounding from unmeasured period effects such as changes in crack cocaine use and its spillover effects.”[127]

Furthermore, there is a pertinent question, albeit one difficult to research: Does the policy of abortion on demand, which reduces children to “choices” and pregnancies to casually disposable inconveniences, contribute to the mentality that does make many children – not just pregnancies – “unwanted” by their mothers? This certainly seems likely, which means that abortion culture itself causes crime.

And yet, morons like Goldberg and Behar continue to believe the fiction. Now I don’t give a rat’s ass about what these idiots believe or don’t believe as long as they aren’t out there spreading stupidity. Here’s the facts ladies. No fertilized embryo has ever committed a crime that rose to the level of an executable offense. Hasn’t happened. You two? And everyone else who has ever utters the argument that an aborted baby might have grown up to be a rapist -so by unspoken law it’s just as well that they are dead now … all of you are beneath contempt.

What else struck me as rant-able? Obama – but I’m not in the mood.

Actually – let me clarify for any liberals the reason this topic hits such a nerve. I posted this brief history elsewhere but I will repeat it here.

Liberals. Have you ever wondered why abortion was eventually approved as the law of the land? It did not begin with Roe vs Wade. It did not begin with women’s rights advocates. It began in a far darker corner of the US legal system building precedent upon precedent. In Buck v Bell the following quote is on record:

““It is better for all the world if . . . society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
~Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The story is rather horrifying and you can google it yourself, but what I feel is the important thing people should understand if they did not get this in school is that, as the world wondered at the Origin of the Species and all that it meant for mankind and the planet, there were men and women who decided that natural selection was failing the human race and that, as brilliant, sentient beings, we could do better and that we were actually obligated to play god in the face of plague, poverty and hunger. Killing off the non-contributing members of society for the good of the workers was a kindness in the long run. This was common thinking. The class wars were not pleasant. Abortion was the sound of the educated classes winning round one.

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As I have a few more minutes I would like to add that this thinking is not in the past. James R. (Ron) Weddington, c-council in Roe v Wade wrote to President Clinton in 1992:

“But you can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I’m, not advocating some, sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can’t afford to have babies.
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There, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican…
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Condoms alone won’t do it. Depo-Provera, Norplant and the new birth control injection being developed in India are not a complete answer…
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No, government is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions…RU 486 and conventional abortions. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies. There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery …and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario…
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We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners, We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more poor babies”

I especially love this piece of propaganda: “any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican…”

I’m not sure which Republicans he is talking about but it seems oxymoronic to say that the party against abortion is also the party against the individual being treated equally. It is when Republicans advocate equality that we are called monsters. Everyone has an equal right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What this letter is proposing is that every one is NOT equal and it’s stupid to allow the less equal unfortunates continued control over their miserable existence. Rather than propose opportunities be funneled into these segments of society, liberals always recommend extermination at birth as a way of solving the problem. They say these people are simply not capable of overcoming their disadvantages and they should be “managed” by people who know how.

Cure crime – kill babies.

Notice that this is not about women’s rights. These women are looked on a breeders of criminals and burdens to the system. This has been going on for a century right there in letters and writings and in our history and yet – if you talk to a liberal they act as if this dark side to their shining accomplishment does not exist.

We don’t want our daughters punished with babies.

You are free to agree or disagree as you like, but stop kidding yourself that abortion is about a woman’s right to chose. Birth control. Special conditions beyond a womans control. These are choices and freedom at work. Whole sale slaughter of a class of people deemed undesirable? That isn’t about women and equal rights. That’s about one class of people taking advantage of another class for the purpose of social engineering and Hitler did not invent it, we did.

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