What crazy pills?

Several months ago I pondered here at Shining City about whether or not there was a possibility that the government would stop or not allow certain people to have children, ostensibly to save the earth or to save money if the statists managed to shove their national healthcare-destruction bill through. The ‘why’ wouldn’t matter, because either way, it would give the government an excuse to meddle with your life.

Who will stop them from making this decision based on irrational fears of climate change, based on race, based on sex, based on the parents’ levels of intelligence or income, or even based on their faith? What about the parents’ possibly passing on genetic predisposition to certain diseases, from cancer to depression to thyroid disease?…Could the government, now that it is in charge of health care and has the right to tell you and your doctor what is and is not good for you, force you to use contraception or force sterilization? Force you to abort your unborn child, and refuse care if you resist? Why not? 

Even at the time, I confessed that such thinking was a little beyond the atmosphere, but was really just making an attempt to follow certain things said by administration officials as well as folks like Nancy Pelosi to their natural conclusion.

Several folks clearly thought I was absolutely off my rocker or at least ranting, and I was more than willing to be good-humored about it. What is this, Brave New World? Ha! Ha!

Lo and behold, it turns out I wasn’t so far off the mark. Unbeknownst to me, about ten days after I tapped out those questions, FrontPage Magazine published a report about the remarkably totalitarian, America-hating, evil views held by President Obama’s Science Adviser, John Holdren. He edited the book Ecoscience with Paul and Ann Eherlich, a book supporting and promoting the views of Thomas Malthus, who once wrote,

All the children who are born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the death of grown persons.

In their book, Holdren and the Ehrlichs supported, among other things,

• Compulsory abortion, whether it is wanted or not, enforced by the United States (they claimed there was a Constitutional allowance for this, and also note that neither the Constitution nor the Declaration “mentions a right to reproduce”) or, if necessary, by giving the United Nations “compelling force” to enforce such abortions.
• Population sterilization by the government’s intentionally contaminating the nation’s food or drinking water with infertility drugs or contraceptives. However, this can only be done if it doesn’t harm the nation’s pets or livestock. Your prize breeding pig will be just fine! By the way, there have been concerns about this happening for many years, and fertility rates are indeed falling. 
• The forcible taking of illegitimate babies and babies born to minors and putting them up for adoption or requiring pregnant single women to marry or have an abortion. Additionally, adopting a child would be made “more difficult” for singles. Well, I guess in this instance marriage is recognized as the important institution it is. Silver lining, folks!
• A government program that would forcibly sterilize women after the birth of a certain number of children, and/or a “coercive” program that would involve implanting girls with a “long-term sterilizing capsule” at puberty. It’s okay, though; “with official permission, for a limited number of births”, the capsule can be removed!
• “If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children…they can be required by law to exercise certain reproductive responsibility—just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns—providing they are not denied equal protection.” Holdren’s own words, my friends. The words of Obama’s own man, words he supports and believes. Define “social deterioration”, please? Don’t believe for a minute this will be solely restricted to cases like Buck v. Bell. Oh no. It would be based on ideology, not just physical concerns. Like you, Sarah Palin. Or you, Mitt Romney. Or you, quiet Baptist minister and wife with four children. Also, I’d love to have a better understanding of “forced to exercise reproductive responsibility”. 
• Discouraging large families by “assigning public housing without regard for family size”.
• A removal of “social pressures on both men and women to marry and have children”.
• Government or “Planetary Regime” restrictions on the number of children a family can have, including adoptive families. After all, Holdren & the Ehrlichs explain, “differential rates of reproduction between between ethnic, racial, religious, or economic groups might result in increased competition for resources and political power and thereby undermine social order.”
• A condemnation of the “pronatalist attitude”, that is, a condemnation of the fairly natural (some might even dare suggest God-given) desire to have and raise crumb-crunchers. The authors also propose a removal of “social pressures on both men and women to marry and have children”.

Don’t believe me? You can see page scans or even check the book out for free online for a short time. Furthermore, Holdren has never disavowed or retracted these views, and has continued writing similarly on these topics until recently. Hmmm.

How many of you voted for Obama, putting this man into a position where he could put these sick ideas into action? Well? As Zombie wrote,

Sure, I could imagine a bunch of drunken guys sitting around shooting the breeze, expressing these kinds of forbidden thoughts; who among us hasn’t looked in exasperation at a harried mother buying candy bars and soda for her immense brood of unruly children and thought: Lady, why don’t you just get your tubes tied already? But it’s a different matter when the Science Czar of the United States suggests the very same thing officially in print. It ceases being a harmless fantasy, and suddenly the possibility looms that it could become government policy. And then it’s not so funny anymore.

Consider, too, President Obama’s unprecedented support for abortion of all kinds, at all stages of pregnancy. Consider his promotion of it so that his daughters aren’t ‘punished’ for making a mistake. Or his sending YOUR money to provide abortions in other countries.

I found this article & information via PrisonPlanet. There are plenty of comments and to be found here.

Before publishing this post, I did some research, hoping against hope it was a hoax. Unfortunately, Holdren is so proud of Ecoscience and its ideas that he lists the book on his CV. So it is not a fake, it is all too real.

Thanks a lot, sheeple.