"I will find as a matter of fact that unborn human lives were being terminated in the clinic that morning because that's what the evidence in this particular case is. And I am not a medical doctor. All of the evidence is that first trimester fetuses are human beings. ... I reject the defense of necessity because we have in our society many instances of, I'll call it, State-sanctioned killing of human beings. And while the evidence is that human lives are being terminated, the Virginia statutes clearly allow the termination of human lives in the first trimester ... people at that clinic have a right under our law as it is today to do what they were doing and to do it without interference from people, well-meaning or otherwise ... So I do find them [the defendants] guilty and those are my reasons."
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Judge Bruce Bach of Fairfax, Virginia, in his opinion on The State of Virginia v. Christyanne Collins and Harry F. Hand [an abortion mill trespass case]. Quoted in "Judge in Virginia Trespass Case Acknowledges 'State-Sanctioned Killing.'" The Advocate (publication of Advocates for Life Ministries, Portland, Oregon), June 1986, page 3.
Bacharach, Jere (history professor)
"There is no such thing as absolute history. The question of what is legitimate is a function of what you want to stress."
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Jere Bacharach, Chairman of the History Department at the University of Washington. Quoted by Steve Duin. "A Return to Segregationist History." The Oregonian, November 18, 1990, page B1.
Baehr, Ninia
"Abortion activists have a rich history of taking the law — and their lives — into their own hands. When the law doesn't respect women, women won't respect the law."
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Ninia Baehr. Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s [Boston: South End Press], 1990, page 30.
"I described pre-Roe abortions as horrible and legal abortions as wonderful — unless complications could be blamed on right-to-lifers. In short, I did not tell the truth about my own beliefs or my own experience.
"What I want is free abortions for all women who choose them. I want abortions to be available from lay practitioners as well as from doctors. I want an abortion to be accessible to every woman who wants one, no matter how small her town is, how young she is, or how many months pregnant she is. I want positive, supportive policies in federal, state, and local budgets and in Department of Health rules and regulations. I want the repeal of all abortion laws. And this, of course, is only the beginning.
"If you repeal something from the law, you take it out of the law entirely. If you legalize something, you grant control to the state. For example, alcohol is legal in this country, but the government doesn't trust each person to regulate her own relationship with alcohol. It tells her how old she must be to drink it, when and where she may buy it — and it changes the laws about alcohol as it sees fit. This is not true of, say, orange juice. The criminal code does not mention orange juice. The government lets us drink it when, where, and how we want to. The FDA still checks to make sure that the orange juice is safe. The government will even help us pay for our orange juice if we receive food stamps. Other than playing this supportive role, the government is silent on the matter of orange juice. Repeal activists wanted the orange juice situation, not the liquor situation, when it came to abortion. They knew that as long as the government maintained a voice in each woman's abortion decision, it would use that power to chip away at women's right to abortion. Clearly, their predictions have come true with a vengeance.
"As long as the right-to-lifers demand that women give up all our options for abortion (Outlaw all abortion!) and pro-choice activists just ask to keep what women already have (Keep Abortion Safe and Legal!) then, by definition, we will lose ground every time a compromise is made.
"Historically, white, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class men and women in the population control, birth control, eugenics, and abortion rights movements have not respected the choices of people who were different from them."
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Ninia Baehr. Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s [Boston: South End Press], 1990, pages 33, 47 and 56.
Carol Downer said that "I think what we really need to have, first of all, is the recognition that a woman has a right to her own body. That means that she has the right to do self-examination if she wants, to have children if she wants, not to have children, to have sex if she wants, not to have sex, to be able to use condoms in her heterosexual relationships — to get the man to use a condom. If she has children [she has the right] to expect this society to take responsibility to make sure that the child has good schools to go to, support her in all the ways that anybody in this society deserves support for their children to grow up healthy and happy ... I think that it is very broad. Our rights for this are not just to be able to go down to the abortion clinic and get an abortion. It's much deeper. This is absolutely not a single issue. It really goes right to the heart of our right to have our own sexuality. It's so fundamental. It is not just one issue among many. ... if you understand that reproductive control is the issue, it becomes very logical that you must have the right to abortion and you must have access to maternity care and childcare and the whole string of things, but abortion is the first and foremost way we are having to work ..."
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Ninia Baehr. Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s [Boston: South End Press], 1990, page 24.
Baker, Peter (Washington Post reporter)
"Forget the Senate. Over the last 12 days, Hillary Rodham Clinton has looked and sounded more like a candidate for Secretary of State. There she was in Egypt, gently urging tolerance for the minority Coptic Christians. There she was in Tunisia, lashing out at Islamic radicals in other countries who oppress women. And here she was in Morocco, speaking out on everything from the Middle East peace process to the NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia. ... But the sight of the First Lady back on the world stage where she feels so sure-footed brought into sharp focus the peculiar trade-offs facing her as she decides whether to run next year. ... How does a woman who eagerly told an audience this morning about education and economics in Guatemala and Uganda turn her attention to the pork-and-potholes issues that arise in places like Utica and Ithaca? How does a woman whose international profile is so high that bystanders in Africa two years ago referred to her as 'the queen of the world' adjust to becoming a low-ranking member of the seniority-conscious Senate?"
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Washington Post reporter Peter Baker in an April 1, 1999 news story about Hillary Clinton's trip to Africa.
Bailey, Leonard
"It's absolutely absurd that I have a legal right to abort that baby out of the mother within a week of delivery and throw it out, but because it's delivered, I have no access to it [for its organs]."
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Dr. Leonard Bailey, who gained fame for transplanting a baboon's heart into a newborn baby, quoted in David H. Andrusko. "A Time to Stop." National Right to Life News, March 10, 1988, pages 2 and 10.
Baird, Bill (pro-abortion activist)
"I resent strongly the charges that I am a murderer, a killer, a devil. I resent the right [of demonstrators] to sit-in at my clinic. If they ever do that to my clinic again, it's to the death. Only one of us is coming out of there."
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Bill Baird, quoted in The Idaho Statesman, November 19, 1981.
"We are in the midst of a "holy war" ... Many of these "Army of God," Ayatollah Khomeini-like clones are firebombing clinics. ... Our freedom is under full-scale attack. We are in grave danger of losing our hard-earned rights. Freedom is neither free nor a spectator event! If you believe in fighting for freedom and dignity, we ask you to consider writing letters, picketing, voting, donating money, and inviting Bill Baird to speak in your area."
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Excerpts from Bill Baird's cover letter for a Summer 1986 American Atheists fundraiser, printed on stationary with the letterhead "From the desk of BILL BAIRD, father of the abortion movement."
"I have been calling for a 500-foot quiet zone by every single clinic. I don't think that people have a right to demonstrate in front of clinics. The analogy that I use is the Soviet embassy. You cannot picket within 500 feet."
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Bill Baird, quoted in "Bill Baird, Fighter for Women's Right to Abortion." Women and Revolution, Spring 1989, pages 9 to 13.
Baird-Windle, Patricia (abortion clinic owner)
"Abortion is a major blessing, and a sacrament in the hands of women. ... At the very crucible of the sacrament of abortion work is that some women have an abortion out of love for the baby, [some] out of love for the children they already have and are having a hard time feeding. They love what they are getting from their education and they know they can't stop it."
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Patricia Baird-Windle, former owner of 3 abortuaries, quoted in an August 29, 1999 interview with Florida Today, and in "The "Sacrament" of Abortion: An Interview With a Retired Abortionist." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, August 31, 1999 [NOTE: Interestingly, during the interview in which Baird-Windle announced her retirement, but proudly acknowledged her responsibility in 65,000 abortions, she denounced the abortifacient, RU-486. "RU-486 is painful. Women have a great deal of pain and nausea and many visits to the clinic," she said].
Baldwin, Alec (actor)
"I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us 24 hours a day, and I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death. We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! No, shut up! I'm not finished! We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their [Republican leader's] homes and we'd kill their wives and their children! We would kill their families! [stands up, screaming] What is happening in this country? What is happening?"
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Actor Alec Baldwin, a prominent Clinton defender, on the December 16, 1998 "Conan O'Brien Show." Quoted in Michael Kelly. "The Politics of Personal Destruction." The Washington Post, December 23, 1998, page A23 [NOTE: The liberal media fell all over itself trying to excuse this violent statement. Mary McGrory said he was just "joking," and criticized conservatives for overreacting ("Better Than Censure," The Washington Post, December 27, 1998, page C4). However, when Mark Crutcher's obvious joke book "Bottom Feeder" came out, the liberals cried long and loud over his "violent" jokes].
Baldwin, Roger (founder, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU))
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the State itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
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Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), quoted in the National Federation for Decency Journal, September 1988, page 9.
Ballard, Michael (abortionist)
Interviewer: "Doctor, what does the aborted baby feel while it's dying?"
Ballard: "Oh, I think that depends on your philosophy."
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Excerpt from an interview of abortionist Michael Ballard by Mike Levy. Triumph Magazine, March 1972, pages 20 to 23 and 44. Quoted in Donald DeMarco. Abortion in Perspective. Hayes Publishing Company, 1974.
Bane, Maryjo
"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them."
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Dr. MaryJo Bane, Assistant Professor of Education at Wellesley College, quoted in David Kupelian and Mark Masters. "The New McCarthyism." New Dimensions Magazine, July 1990, pages 20 to 29.
Barker, Rocky
"Salmon were found dead in a net pen below the Ice Harbor Dam Monday, where scientists were monitoring the migration ... This isn't just a case of salmon murder. It's a Holocaust. What do we do to stop it?"
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Rocky Barker's Letter from the West, quoted in "Don't Trust Group That Pretends to Protect Salmon." Post Register, May 14, 1995.
"Legalizing euthanasia, with controls, would do more to improve the overall quality of American medical care than any other single act."
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard, renowned for his transplant of a baboon heart into a child. Omni Magazine, March 1986. Also quoted in Jim McFadden's Introduction to the Spring 1986 issue of The Human Life Review, page 6 [NOTE: This is the same Christiaan Barnard who stated in his autobiography One Life that one of his greatest dreams was to "... take a baboon and cool him down, wash out his blood with water, then fill him up with human blood." Another dream of his was to graft a second head onto a dog (as described in Malcolm Muggeridge. "The Humane Holocaust." Human Life Review, Winter 1980, pages 13 to 22)].
"The duly elected officers of the law, members of the medical profession and state medical board knew we were in business. Trying to conceal the [illegal abortion] clinic, or its purpose, would have been as impossible as hiding an elephant in the parlor. The archaic [abortion] statute had never been considered."
"Until the end of the 16th Century with the reign of Pope Sixtus V, the Church did, indeed, permit the termination of pregnancies within 40 days of conception for a male and 80 days for a female — the old Aristotelian concept ... But I believe that a case can be made — and many intelligent Catholics have agreed with me — that the church's attitudes towards abortion have varied in past history, are not always consistent and can, like other elements of Catholic dogma, be changed to meet man's increased enlightenment and changing social conditions."
"In the movies, they always depict the fallen woman sneaking up a dirty, rickety stairway to a dismal room — or making her way, furtively, into a dark alley that leads to a decrepit shack where some alcoholic doctor or untutored butcher performs the abortion. A clinic such as mine was not that way at all. It was a bright, cheerful place where women's problems were handled quickly, efficiently and with dignity, no matter what the circumstances of the patient."
"It is my personal belief that the only requirement for an abortion, under any circumstances, should be the desire of the woman — whatever her reason — to interrupt her pregnancy."
"[Dr. Ed Stewart, operator of the Stewart Clinic on Broadway Street] owned and operated a racing stable, and played an important role in making horse racing a respected activity in Oregon. He was a cultured man. A connoisseur of art, he kept impressive collections of paintings both in his clinic and his home ... Dr. Stewart's [abortion] rooms were beautifully furnished. There were eleven of them and they took up nearly the whole eighth floor of the Broadway Building. His reputation had been flawless and his name was known throughout the Northwest wherever women were in trouble. ... Here, as in his consulting room, I was impressed with not only the antiseptic cleanliness but the wholesome purity that stems from plenty of hot water and soap suds."
"And there is one figure of which I am entirely certain. In all those [40,000] abortions over all those years, I never lost a single patient."
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Ruth Barnett. They Weep On My Doorstep [Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers], 1969, pages 9, 36, 39, 40, 46, 55, 70, and 106 to 107.
"Women seek out abortionists for a wide variety of reasons. In my 50 years of practice I have found that women seeking termination of pregnancy fall into the following categories:
1.
Relatively young, married women who, already, have more children than they and their husbands feel they can afford.
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Married women, past 40, who already have large families and are either too weary or too poor to take on additional burdens.
3.
Married women past 40 who fear the rigors of child bearing in their later years and the responsibility of caring for a child.
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Married women whose husbands have been away overseas. Hundreds of such women came to me during the Korean war.
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Divorcees or widows. Such women believe the encumbrance of a child would tend to limit their opportunities for remarriage.
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Unmarried women, including young girls.
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Women, usually married, who have had difficult birth experiences in the past and feel they cannot endure them again.
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Women who have already given birth to defective children and who have been warned by doctors against further pregnancies.
"Fear is the underlying factor for virtually every woman who ever came to me for an abortion. Until very recently, the unwed mother has feared the dishonor, the disgrace and social stigma attendant upon bearing an illegitimate child ..."
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Ruth Barnett. They Weep On My Doorstep [Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers], 1969, pages 114 and 115.
"However, somewhat contraditory [sic] I would think, it the fact that Catholic priests do not, ordinarily, give a fetus the usual extreme unction or burial services afforded a still-birth. It seems to me that this kind of differentiation, in practice, is in variation with their beliefs. If they do consider the fetus to be alive, why do they deny it the extreme unction given the child born dead? I have never heard this question answered."
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Illegal abortionist Ruth Barnett. They Weep On My Doorstep [Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Press], 1954, page 107 [NOTE: It is quite obvious that Barnett never bothered to ask a competent Catholic priest her question on Extreme Unction, or she would have heard it properly answered. To begin with, Barnett flaunts her ignorance of the Catholic faith by asserting that stillborn babies receive Extreme Unction. This is impossible, since this Sacrament can only be given to living people. Stillborn babies are dead. If there is some question as to whether or not the baby is living, this Sacrament may be administered conditionally. As for her 'unanswered' question, Extreme Unction is not usually given to any children under the age of reason (about seven years). This is because intent is a necessary part of any sin and children under seven are deemed incapable of having the intent necessary commit serious sin. Therefore, priests generally do not administer Extreme Unction to very young children because they have no intentional sins to remit].
Barr, Roseanne (actress)
"I think women should be more violent, kill more of their husbands."
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Roseanne Barr, quoted in the July 17, 1995 New Yorker and in "The People Column." The Oregonian, July 10, 1995, page A2.
"You know who else I can't stand, is them people that are anti-abortion. F— them, I hate them. ... They're horrible, they're hideous people. They're ugly, old, geeky, hideous men. ... They just don't want nobody to have an abortion 'cause they want you to keep spitting out kids so they can f—ing molest them."
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Rosanne Barr, quoted in TV, Etc., October 6, 1992.
Barshak, Regina
"For the purposes of this political campaign, they [pro-lifers] help themselves at the expense of cheapening the memory of those millions of murdered men, women and children, — as well as at the expense of the personal distress caused by an apparently disrespectful use of events ... It must be noted that while millions of men, women and children relentlessly dragged themselves to their death under the boots of their tormentors for nearly a decade, neither the voices of the prestigious leaders of the Vatican — nor the voices of "Value of Life" persons — were heard on behalf of these tortured lives. Now this world drama is exploited in the form of a callous and cheap and convenient cliche for the self-serving purposes of a political controversy."
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Regina Barshak, protesting pro-lifers using the term "the abortion holocaust." "A Jewish Cry of Protest." Letter in The Boston Globe, March 18, 1972. Also distributed by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice America) for propaganda purposes on page 44 of its looseleaf booklet entitled "Organizing for Action." Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.
Bartz, Wayne (psychologist)
"Over-quota parents have by the very fact of producing and excess birth (more than two children) demonstrated their inability to personally carry out their social obligations of controlled reproduction. On first offense this might result in a large fine and confiscation of the child who then becomes a ward of the state, to be placed in adoption with a socially responsible couple who want children and are willing to adopt them. Additional excess births would be viewed as repeated antisocial acts analogous to repeated burglaries or assaults and might require more serious intervention by society ... unlike the largely unsuccessful attempts at rehabilitation in other areas of "criminal acts," irresponsible reproduction can immediately, simply and permanently be remedied through sterilization, not prescribed as a form of punishment but as an effective and genuine rehabilitation procedure."
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Wayne Bartz, psychologist at Auburn State Hospital, California. "Outrageous Solutions to the Population Outrage." Population: A Clash of Prophets (edited by Edward Pohlman) [New York City: Mentor Books, 1973], page 297 [middle ellipsis in original] [NOTE: Notice the colossal arrogance of anti-lifers in making such pronouncements. Remember that they are only 'pro-choice' in that they only approve of their choices].
Baschetti, Riccardo
"In concluding his article on eugenics, Kevles should not have used the words "History at the least has taught us ...," because they imply that most people condemn eugenics now. Those who condemn eugenics may actually be a minority. ... Paraphrasing Kevles's words, I suggest that evolution should teach us that current Western values focusing on the good of the individual, not on the good of society, are both near sighted and intrinsically unethical, because they create more pain than they prevent. Those values, to spare a few individuals bearable sorrow, cause untold suffering to many people. In China the grief of those who are not allowed to procreate on eugenic grounds is unquestionably far less tragic than the perpetuated pain of their potential, numerous descendants. Although Chinese eugenics has patently nothing whatever to do with the murders committed by Nazis, many Westerners condemn it because Hitler supported eugenics. As Nobel prizewinner James D. Watson pointed out, however, "We must not fall into the absurd trap of being against everything Hitler was for. It was in no way evil for Hitler to regard mental disease as a scourge on society ... Because of Hitler's use of the term Master Race, we should not feel the need to say that we never want to use genetics to make humans more capable than they are today."
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Riccardo Baschetti, retired medical inspector for the Italian State Railways, in a letter to the editor, British Medical Journal, October 30, 1999.
Bass, Marie
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"Emphasize the possibility that the drug could very well end the whole public abortion struggle by making clinic protests obsolete."
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"Emphasize the dearth of other contraceptive options available — particularly in comparison with what is available in other parts of the world."
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"Emphasize the issues of privacy, ease, safety, choice, and freedom, rather than of abortion and politics."
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"Emphasize the possibility of other medical benefits of the drug, such as treatment of breast cancer and Cushings Syndrome."
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"Emphasize the threat to the freedom of ongoing medical research that a rejection of the drug might bring."
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The five-part Bass & Howes strategy for media acceptance of the abortion pill RU-486. Marie Bass, former political director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), and Joanne Howes, former Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) chief Washington lobbyist, have assembled a five-fold media strategy to get the media to accept RU-486 [NOTE: They formed an explicitly pro-abortion lobbying and propaganda organization entitled the "Reproductive Health Technology Project," whose purpose was to collect and distribute only favorable information on the abortion pill. They developed and disseminated a high-powered press kit that included sample charts and graphs and photos. Reporter Charles Durran described these: "Those press kits were impressive. In fact, they were a lazy reporter's gold mine. Everything you needed for a really fantastic story — or a series of stories — was right there at your fingertips. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it." This strategy is described in George Grant. "Media Bias and Abortion." Legacy, October 1991, page 1. Newsletter of Legacy Communications, Post Office Box 680365, Franklin, Tennessee 37068].
Barth, R.P. (sex educator)
"Some teachers are able to combine humor with demonstration by bringing cucumbers or zucchini to class and showing how to apply and remove condoms. Open the packages and unroll condoms for students to inspect. Pass them around. If you are using cucumbers, have one student hold the cucumber while the other student puts the condom on the cucumber. Expect students to laugh at first and be embarrassed! This is healthy ..."
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R.P. Barth's high school sex education text Enhancing Skills to Prevent Pregnancy. School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Network Publications, page 95.
Bartlow, Bruce
"As director of intensive care in a community hospital, I squander millions of dollars on patients too elderly or ill ever to return to meaningful function. ... We must face the un-American fact that not all individuals' remaining lives have equal value. Value should be assessed ... on how their survival enriches or drains their family and community."
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Bruce Bartlow, M.D., director of San Francisco's St. Luke's Hospital Critical Care Units, quoted in Kathi Wolfe. "Death — Take a Holiday." The Disability Rag, [Louisville, Kentucky], January/February 1995, pages 22 and 23.
Bartscher, Patricia (sex educator)
"At the risk of bringing the roof down, I have to say that there might be a situation where incest is okay. I can only say that I try very hard not to be closed to anything ... There are people who are into extremely erotic, very fulfilling sadomasochistic relationships, and it isn't my business to say that it is right or wrong."
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Patricia Bartscher, faculty member of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a workshop entitled "A Theological Approach to Teaching Human Sexuality." Quoted in Donna Steichen. Ungodly Rage. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991, page 44.
Battin, Margaret P.
"Even teenagers — at least those with catastrophic illnesses or severe mental impairments — should be entitled to receive help in killing themselves if they believe death would be beneficial."
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Margaret P. Battin, Professor of Philosophy, and frequent speaker for groups advocating imposed death, quoted in The Washington Times, March 13, 1987 [NOTE: In this article, Battin also said that suicide assistance also might be warranted for elderly people worried about the prospects of extreme old age and the possibility of being without money, food, shelter or medication].
Baulieu, Etienne-Emile (inventor of the RU-486 abortion pill)
"I resent it when people present the very early interruption of pregnancy as killing a baby, morally or physically. I think it's a crime to say that."
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Etienne-Emile Baulieu, inventor of the RU-486 abortion pill, quoted in the New York Times Magazine. Described in the American Family Association Journal, May 1989, page 8.
"I don't like abortion and I don't like talking about it. I am a physician and would rather talk about saving life. I am not really for abortion, I am for women."
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Etienne-Emile Baulieu, inventor of the RU-486 abortion pill, quoted in National Catholic Register. "France Orders Subsidies for RU-486 Abortion Pill." April 1, 1990, page 2.
Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR)
"Table of Contents
I
Clinic Defense: Organizing/Tactics to Overcome Blockades.
II
Client Escorting: Organizing/Tactics to Help Clients Past Harassing Pickets.
III
Temporary Restraining Orders: Some Legal Strategies
IV
Grassroots Organizing: Spreading a Successful Model to Nearby Communities.
Chapter 1, Section entitled "At the Clinics," pages 5 and 6:
"We talk about the difference between 'violence' and physical action, telling people that we use only the degree of physical force against OR that is needed to accomplish our goal, i.e., pushing them back, getting them off us, moving them to clear a corridor, etc. Explain the level of aggressiveness and tactics we can expect from OR. Actual clinic defense inherently requires contact with OR. We have heard that many organizations tell people not to 'touch' OR, but this of course is not really clinic defense. We advise people about not taking independent physical action against OR, which could cause them to be singled out for arrest or reprisal, etc., but instead, to work in groups to move, remove or isolate ORs as needed.
"The vests (or buttons comparable items) work best also, because, in the heat of battle with police, we can tell them that all of us wearing that particular item are there to help women into the clinic and are not to be arrested."
"Work with defenders around you to focus on a person or persons who need to be removed, identify them, and push the OR out from one defender to the next until they are put out of the defense line ...
"This worked not only because of the coordination done by the defenders, but because we knew the passive style of resistance to expect from OR ...
"While there are instances of viciousness on the part of individual ORs, and we never underestimate the violence they are capable of, at the same time, we use what we know of them psychologically to defeat them, and in almost all cases, the most our physical contact with them amounts to is a 'scuffle': pushing, shoving, grabbing. Their passive-aggressive tactic of pushing at us with their bodies gives us plenty of places to grab hold of their jackets, etc. to pull on. They are coached not to hit people outright, and they are also told to rely completely on their marshals for instructions ...
"There are innumerable instances of clinic defenders neutralizing male ORs by shouting 'get your hands off me, don't you dare touch me' all the while they are tugging or pushing OR out of the line.
"Once the majority of ORs have been pushed or moved out from the door, if others remain, they can be picked up by several defenders in much the same way police remove them."
"It all worked well until the police captain showed up at around 7 am to try to put a stop to it ...
"Follow cars: We have a moderate sized force of defenders who follow OR from their gathering point to the hit site."
Chapter 1, Section entitled "The Police," pages 13 to 17:
"They essentially warn us not to do clinic defense and try to pinpoint one person they can hold responsible at the clinic if we do not follow their directives ...
"When we get word of a hit we notify the director, who should tell police that there are going to be trained escorts and defenders at her clinic and demand that police work with defenders to keep the clinic open. Of course, the degree of impact this has on the day of the hit is rather negligible, because police will try to pressure directors to shut down or order us away, but it can lay the groundwork for us ...
"We do not call police ourselves during a hit. Our best work is done before police arrive, or when there are not enough police there to prevent us from doing what we have to do: Get in place before the cops can mess with it, establish balance of power early, do key acts requiring physical contact with OR as much as possible before cops have enough people to intervene. ... Make cops realize that they must figure into their plans the independent power of the clinic defense presence; clinic defenders can act in ways police are not fully ready to deal with."
"We do not 'negotiate' with police on site, in terms of expecting or asking for control or direction from them. Our discussions consist of repeatedly asserting our view of the situation, that we are planning and prepared to get clients into the clinic.
"We assign at least 2 people to listen in on cop dealings and be 'police dogs.' This role can range from keeping the police busy with talk while the defense line continues its work, to the more complicated work of representing ourselves as contacts for the clinic and pressuring them to accept our presence or do the job themselves."
"Do not let the police separate us from clients, either in their minds or physically; insist that our escorts are staying with clients and will take them to the clinic doors, and we will not be separated from them until they are in safely. Convey to police that scheduled clients have placed their trust in defenders to get them inside; we are there to help clients in whether police want us/authorize us to or not. This also minimizes the ability of police to treat us as vigilantes, agitators, or people with no rational plan ...
"The police will try to persuade her that clinic defenders are making the situation bad, or they will try to persuade her to believe that diverting or delaying clients from entering is an acceptable thing ...
"Words with cops are best backed up by deeds; if police try to stall our actions (by saying they will open the clinic once all arrests have been made, for example) push the issue by taking action (whether real or diversionary), threatening action, etc. Be prepared to act; don't let police be sole dictaters [sic] of clinic defenders' actions."
"Avoid letting the actions be slowed or stopped by police orders; if we are engaged with OR - pushing the ORs out, clearing a path, etc. it is less likely the police will jump in to try to stop it en masse; they don't know who is on what side; they likely do not have enough officers to stop what appears to be a full-out, equal confrontation; police arrive there more likely prepared to stop new actions, prevent clinic defenders from moving in on OR again, etc. It is harder for us to re-organize and put a plan into motion once there has been a period of stoppage in the action than it is to keep the main work going of clearing the ORs out; the police tend to think that once there has been a settling of the action, whatever is in place right then will stay that way until they decide what will happen next (when they will make arrests, etc); if that happens, it is much more difficult to rescue the situation from that deadly period of inactivity which signifies that the cops intend to let the clinic be closed down for several hours.
"Be aware of what police can really carry out against clinic defenders, regardless of what they threaten us with; do they have enough manpower to arrest us all? what would it look like for them to arrest people trying to keep a clinic open against an illegal force while the police did nothing to prevent the illegal act; if we have worked with the assembled clients and they have agreed to participate in our plans to get them in, that is added pressure on clients, police have to take into account that if they try to break up the group or begin to arrest the group, they are essentially going to be arresting clients as well. Make sure they are aware of this ...
"Those officers will often try to tell us not to defend the clinic if OR hits, and tell us we should obey orders to get out of the way if we are told. This is all mostly wordplay. In turn, we tell them we intend to keep the clinic open and ask what plans they have made to assist us in doing so; the conversation becomes less definitive from then on.
"It was theoretically possible, but not physically possible for the police to go in and separate out the pro-choicers, and charge them with the proper charges ... It is a given that police will apply pressure and intimidation to get us to back off, but we must make the call for ourselves whether or not we comply; we must make the final decision about whether to call the bluff or back off, based on our own assessment of logistics, our strength, police strength, etc. The police must be regarded as a factor in our decision making process, and not the sole arbiters of our actions.
From Chapter 1, Section entitled "Clinic Escorting," page 18:
"As OR has shifted to picketing more than blockading, we've learned that we can't relax and let them 'just' picket. It's critical to keep pushing, to not lend any legitimacy to their harassment of women on any level. As much as we can, we are drawing lines ... saying, no, you can not picket on the sidewalk in front of the clinic; this is our territory. Go across the street, go away, go wherever - but as far away from the clients as is possible to assert. Even if the sidewalk is 'public,' we've had success at putting enough of us out, early enough, to basically bully the ORs into staying across the street.
"Isolate and humiliate. It is critical to separate in some way the resident OR leader or troublemakers. We assign them a particular escort and do our best to isolate them from the others by getting them to lose their cool, look foolish, argue with us, etc. Although in general sexual jokes or extreme harassment are not useful with the OR picketers, if baiting an OR about his treatment of women, his sexuality, and how many times he masturbates will keep him from bothering clients and from being able to effectively direct the others, do it. Remember, we are under no obligation to be polite to these people ... They have already broken Miss Manners code by being at the clinic at all ..."
"Using signs to visually blockade them is critical if the ORs have camera or gruesome signs ...
"Escorts counter-demonstrate, strategically block gruesome signs ..."
Chapter II, Section entitled "Coordinators," Subsection "The Police," pages 25 and 26:
"Try to keep them out of it. If they are cruising by, wave them on. Be a voice of authority and reason; let them know we have it all under control and everything is just fine, thank you, officer. (Another good argument for official vests or shirts is that it gives us a tremendous amount of authority).
"Invariably, the police never demand that the ORs leave the area; they always want us to retreat behind the property line. Don't. Explain that this is not a debate about abortion; we are here to make sure women can get into the clinic safely without being blocked or harassed. If the ORs can be on the 'public' sidewalk, after all, so can we. The most common objection the police raise is to our 'blocking' the ORs from reaching the clients. Modify the dogging technique so that the escorts face the client instead of the OR, and focus on using our bodies to form a corridor for the client. This approach makes the same situation show how the ORs are attacking the client, not that we are blocking the ORs."
Chapter III, "Temporary Restraining Orders," page 30:
"Enforcement is not assured, and confining our behavior toward OR to the legal realm has distinct limitations."
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Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR, (now Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)). "Clinic Defense: A Model," First Edition, March 1990.
Beam, Alex (Boston Globe)
"I can't bring myself to hate the Unabomber. Quite the opposite; I find his story curiously affecting. The original Unabomber — the anonymous, hooded fellow, hiding behind aviator glasses — was uninteresting, a freak, a nobody. But Theodore Kaczynski is someone very interesting indeed ... I envy his disobedience. ... the [manifesto] tells us what we all know: that American society can be a powerfully compromising, deadening, even saddening force. ... If Kaczynski proves to be the Unabomber, he is nobody's hero, certainly not mine. The bomber murdered three people, and might well have many more, all by design. Coincidentally, Kaczynski invaded our front pages just before Easter Sunday, mute, pathetic and manacled before his captors. But maybe he accomplished what the Unabomber set out to do, to make us think about ourselves, and the society that drove him to madness."
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Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, April 10, 1996.
Beck, Melinda
"Sadly, many home remedies could damage a fetus instead of kill it."
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Newsweek Senior Editor Melinda Beck on self-performed abortions, Newsweek, July 17, 1989.
Beck, R.
"The [Presbyterian] church must commit itself to effecting this change. The assumption that couples have the freedom to have as many children as they can support should be challenged. We can no longer justify bringing into existence as many children as we desire. Our corporate responsibility to each other prohibits this. Given the population crisis we must recognize and teach, beginning with ourselves, that man has an obligation to limit the size of his family. ... We who are motivated by the urgency of over-population rather than the prospect of decimation would preserve the species by responding in faith: Do not multiply — the earth is filled!"
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R. Beck. "Religions and the Environment: Commitment High Until U.S. Population Issues Raised." The Social Contract 1993;3:76-89. Also quoted in Stephen D. Mumford. The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy. Downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available).
Beckman, Peter R.
"The conception of gender-as-power allows us to take a further step: To suggest that our whole way of thinking and talking about humans is based on power. The very terms "women" and "men" are a reflection of that power. To label individuals as "women" (or "men") is the exercise of power, for the label creates for human beings a set of expectations about who they are, who they are not, and what range of choice is available to them.
"Gender-as-power argues that women and men are made, not born. They are created by those labels — labels that open some doors and close others. Labeling creates a fictitious being ... and perpetuates inequalities because the humans carrying one label have more rights and privileges than those carrying the other label."
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A good example of postmodernist/deconstructionist 'thinking' by Peter R. Beckman and Francine D'Amico in the introduction to their book Women, Gender and World Politics [Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1994], page 7 [emphasis in the original].
Bell, Ruth (sex educator)
"The most common type of incest is between brother and sister, while they are growing up. This may not be harmful or upsetting to children, especially if they don't continue as they get older. It is more like experimenting with sex with your brother or sister before you begin to have sexual relations with other people."
"POPE JOAN is a comedic and provocative exploration of the myths behind Pope John VIII. John was a woman. Or was he? A priest searches for the truth behind the myths and legends of the medieval church. The journey will lead him through the battlefields of Christendom to the bedchambers of the Vatican, all in the name of truth. Laugh with Pope Leo IV, Charlemagne and Cardinal Odilo as they unfold Joan's existence. Could this powerful woman have been scratched from the history books? She was everything a pope should be ... except a woman."
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Advertisement for the play "Pope Joan: A Divine Comedy," written by Lance S. Belville, and staged at The Great American History Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 8 to April 9, 1995. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1995 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Benderly, Beryl
"The Supreme Court placed the decision to end a pregnancy, like that to remove a wart or straighten a nose, in the hands of the patient and her doctor."
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Beryl Benderly, Thinking About Abortion. Quoted in Leslie Bond. "Pre-Natal Program Funds Used for Abortion." National Right to Life News, May 1, 1986, page 9.
Benjamin, Harry ('sexologist')
"Chastity cannot be a virtue because it is not a natural state."
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Dr. Harry Benjamin, endocrinologist and Kinsey advocate, in the Introduction to pedophile Rene Guyon's book Sexual Ethics, 1948.
Bennet, James
"If there was any doubt that by virtue of his position, Clinton occupied as lofty a plane as the Pope on Tuesday — or that the Pope, by virtue of being human, had some of the same needs as Clinton — it was erased by the sign marking a restroom near their meeting room: 'President or Holy Father Only,' it read."
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Last sentence of a January 27, 1999 New York Times story by reporter James Bennet on Clinton's St. Louis visit with the Pope.
Benshoof, Janet (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU))
"The increasing tendency to view the fetus as an independent patient or person occurs at the cost of reducing the woman to the status of little more than a maternal environment ... We need to refocus the right to abortion as one not defined by the fetus or by technological advances, but rather one that is tied to women's constitutional right to privacy, autonomy and bodily integrity."
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Janet Benshoof of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "Late Abortion and Technological Advances in Fetal Viability — Reasserting Women's Rights." Family Planning Perspectives, July/August 1985, pages 162 and 163.
"Abortion on demand is a precondition for all other legal and constitutional guarantees of women's equality."
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Janet Benshoof of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), defending third-trimester abortions, quoted in Richard D. Glasow, Ph.D. "Public Revulsion to Late Abortions Worries Pro-Abortionists." National Right to Life News, November 21, 1985, pages 5 and 9.
Berdon, Robert (New Haven (Connecticut) Superior Court Judge)
"Since only women become pregnant, discrimination against pregnancy by not funding abortion ... is sex-oriented discrimination."
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New Haven (Connecticut) Superior Court Judge Robert Berdon, in an April 19, 1986 ruling. Douglas Johnson. "Connecticut E.R.A./Abortion Ruling Allowed To Stand; Attorney General Won't Appeal." National Right to Life News, May 15, 1986, page 5.
Berelson, Bernard
B.
Establishment of Involuntary Fertility Control
1.
Mass use of "fertility control agent" by government to regulate births at acceptable level: the "fertility control agent" designed to lower fertility in the society by 5 percent to 75 percent less than the present birth rate, as needed; substance now unknown but believed to be available for field testing after five to fifteen years of research work; to be included in water supply in urban areas and by "other methods" elsewhere (Ketchel); "addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food" (Ehrlich).
2.
"Marketable licenses to have children," given to women and perhaps men in "whatever number would ensure a reproductive rate of one," say 2.2 children per couple: For example, "the unit certificate might be the 'deci-child,' and accumulation of ten of these units by purchase, inheritance or gift, would permit a woman in maturity to have one legal child" (Boulding).
3.
Temporary sterilization of all girls via time-capsule contraceptives, and again after each delivery, with reversibility allowed only upon governmental approval; certificates of approval distributed according to popular vote on desired population growth for a country, and saleable on open market (Shockley).
4.
Compulsory sterilization of men with three or more living children (Chandrasekhar); requirement of induced abortion for all illegitimate pregnancies (Davis). ...
D.
Incentive Programs
1.
Payment for the initiation or the effective practice of contraception: payment or equivalent (e.g., transistor radio) for sterilization (Chandrasekhar, Pohlmann, Samuel, Davis) or for contraception (Simon, Enke, Samuel).
2.
Payments for periods of nonpregnancy or nonbirth: a bonus for child spacing or nonpregnancy (Young, Bhatia, Enke, Spengler, Leasure); a savings certificate plan for twelve-month periods of nonbirth (Balfour); a lottery scheme preventing illegitimate births among teen-agers in a small country (Mauldin); "responsibility prizes" for each five years of childless marriage or for vasectomy before the third child, and special lotteries with tickets available to the childless (Ehrlich).
E.
Tax and Welfare Benefits and Penalties: an anti-natalist system of social services in place of the current pro-natalist tendencies.
1.
Withdrawal of maternity benefits, perhaps after N (3?) children (Bhatia, Samuel, Davis) or unless certain limiting conditions have been met, like sufficient child spacing, knowledge of family planning, or level of income (Titmuss and Abel-Smith).
2.
Withdrawal of children or family allowances, perhaps after N children (Bhatia, Titmuss and Abel-Smith, Davis).
3.
Tax on births after the Nth (Bhatia, Samuel, Spengler).
4.
Limitation on governmentally provided medical treatment, housing, scholarships, loans and subsidies, etc., to families with fewer than N children (Bhatia, Davis).
5.
Reversal of tax benefits, to favor the unmarried, and the parents of fewer, rather than more, children (Bhatia, Titmuss, and Abel-Smith, Samuel, Davis, Ehrlich, David).
6.
Provision by the state of N years of free schooling at all levels to each nuclear family, to be allocated by the family among the children as desired (Fawcett).
7.
Pensions for poor parents with fewer than N children as social security for old age (Samuel, Ohlin, Davison).
F.
Shifts in Social and Economic Institutions: i.e., broad changes in fundamental institutional arrangements that could have the effect of lowering fertility.
1.
Increase in minimum age of marriage: through legislation or through substantial fee for marriage licenses (David, Davis); or through direct bonuses for delayed marriage (Young); or through payment of marriage benefits only to parents of brides over twenty-one years of age (Titmuss and Able-Smith); or through a program of government loans for wedding ceremonies when the bride is of a sufficient age, or with the interest rate inversely related to the bride's age (Davis, personal communication); or through a "governmental 'first marriage grant' ... awarded each couple in which the age of both partners was twenty-five or more" (Ehrlich); or through establishment of a domestic "national service" program for all men for the appropriate two-year period in order to develop social services, inculcate modern attitudes including family planning and population control, and at the same time delay age of marriage (Berelson, Etzioni).
2.
Promotion of requirement of female participation in labor force (outside the home) to provide roles and interests for women alternative or supplementary to marriage (Hauser, Davis, David).
3.
"Direct manipulation of family structure itself" — planned efforts at deflecting the family's socializing function, reducing the noneconomic utilities of offspring, or introducing nonfamilial distractions and opportunity costs into people's lives;" specifically, through employment of women outside the home (Blake); "selective restructuring of the family in relation to the rest of society" (Davis).
4.
Promotion of "two types of marriage, one of them childless and readily dissolved, and the other licensed for children and designed to be stable;" the former needs to be from 20-60 percent of the total in order to allow the remainder to choose family size freely (Meier and Meier).
5.
Encouragement of long-range social trends leading toward lower fertility, e.g., "improved and universal general education, or new reads facilitating communication, or improved agricultural methods, or a new industry that would improve productivity, or other types of innovation that may break the 'cake of custom' and produce social foment" (UN ECOSOC).
6.
Efforts to lower death rates even further, particularly infant and child death rates, on the inference that birth rates will follow them down (Revelle, Heer and Smith).
G.
Approaches via Political Channels and Organizations
1.
U.S. insistence on "population control as the price of food aid," with highly selected assistance based thereon, and exertion of political pressures on governments or religious groups impeding "solution" of the population program, including shifts in sovereignty (Ehrlich)."
2.
Re-organization of national and international agencies to deal with the population problem; within the United States, "coordination by a powerful governmental agency, a Federal Department of Population and Environment (DPE) ... with the power to take whatever steps are necessary to establish a reasonable population size" (Ehrlich). ..."
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Excerpts from a summary of coercive population control measures for the United States and for poor and developing countries by the leading population controllers and eugenicists of the late 1960s. Bernard Berelson. "Beyond Family Planning." Studies in Family Planning [publication of the Population Council], February 1969, pages 1 to 16.
Berke, Richard (New York Times)
"I don't think there is [a media pro-abortion bias] at all. I think anyone who accuses the press of bias is acting in desperation, I think. I think the press has been much more aggressive and fair, in being, in going after both sides, and looking, than ever before."
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New York Times reporter Richard Berke on CNN's "Larry King Live," October 16, 1992.
Bernsen, Corbin (actor)
"Religion has become an outdated mode, an outdated answer to some of our problems. ... Religion is the only reason women don't have control over their bodies. ... I tend to think that people have to start thinking on a logical level. You have to follow your heart, and your heart is not guided by anything except what is in us as thinking animals. If it means dismantling religion, we might have to do that."
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"L.A. Law" star Corbin Bernsen, quoted in the January 21, 1990 Washington Post. As described by Joseph Farah. "Hollywood's New Blacklist: An Inside View of the Intolerance, Censorship, and Bigotry in Today's Entertainment Industry." New Dimensions Magazine, September 1990, pages 12 to 25.
Bigelow, Mark (Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Clergy Advisory Board)
"I believe that the "Choice on Earth" holiday card reflects the invaluable work of Planned Parenthood. In addition, the card in no way mocks Christianity — in fact, it reflects some of the deepest values of my faith ... Christianity has always emphasized the importance of responsible decision making, and nothing is more important than the decision of when, or whether, to have children. For PPFA to publish cards wishing "Choice on Earth" expresses the continuing hope that all families may have freedom to make the most important decisions of their lives ... In your show you said that Jesus was not pro-choice and you were sure he would be insulted were he to see this card ... one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy. He never said a word about abortion (nor did anyone else in the Bible) even though abortion was available and in use in his time. In addition, his compassionate stance toward all individuals causes me to believe that he would want us to do what we can to ensure that women have full access to all necessary medical care in order to have healthy and happy families. Jesus was for peace on earth, justice on earth, compassion on earth, mercy on earth, and choice on earth."
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Excerpts from the November 22, 2002 letter by Mark Bigelow, Congregational Church of Huntington, United Church of Christ, Centerport, New York, board member of Planned Parenthood of the Hudson-Peconic and a member of the PPFA Clergy Advisory Board, to Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor." Downloaded from the Web site of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) on December 3, 2002.
"Even as a minister I am careful what I presume Jesus would do if he were alive today, but one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing pregnancy. Jesus was for peace on earth, justice on earth, compassion on earth, mercy on earth, and choice on earth."
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Rev. Mark Bigelow of the Congregational Church of Huntington in Centerport, New York, in a letter to Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, defending the 2002 Planned Parenthood Federation of America's "Choice on Earth" Christmas cards, quoted in "Liberals Show Schizophrenic Approach to Religion." WorldNetDaily, December 23, 2002 [NOTE: When asked how Bigelow "knew from the Bible" that Jesus accepted abortion, he naturally refused to answer].
Bingham, David (abortionist)
"I save lives. I respect these people who have picketed outside my office for 25 years, in and out of snowstorms. ... I know what would happen if they were successful politically — a lot more tragedy, a lot more deaths. I saw what it was like when it was illegal. Look — we have saved tens of thousands of lives, maybe hundreds of thousands. ... The say abortion became legal in New York State was also the day that we — in Detroit — noticed that the number of patients coming into the hospital with 'miscarriages' plummeted."
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Abortionist David Bingham, quoted in Jack Hitt. "Who Will Do Abortions Here?" The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1998 [NOTE: On the cover of the magazine is a doctor standing in a hospital hallway with his hands on his hips, wearing a surgical mask. Part of the caption reads "he's wearing a mask because he fears for his life and reputation." Really? We thought it was to stop germs]!
Bishop, Jerry E. (geneticist)
"The list of common diseases that have roots in this kind of genetic soil is growing almost daily. As of this writing [in 1990], it includes colon and breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia, depression, at least one form of alcoholism, and even some types of criminal behavior ... [S]ome contend that almost every disorder compromising a full and healthy four score and ten years of life can be traced in one way or another to a genetic vulnerability.
"It is highly likely that within a decade tests for a variety of aberrant genes will be cheap and easy enough to permit testing of large numbers of people. Initially, only those persons who are at risk of inheriting a defective gene might be tested. For example, anyone who had a parent die prematurely of a heart attack might be tested — indeed, might want to be tested — to see if he or she had inherited one of the several defective genes that can render one susceptible to coronary heart disease.
"As the list of known defective genes grows, there will be mounting pressure for mass screening of the population, at least of the newborn population, to pinpoint anyone predisposed to future illnesses. There is ample precedent for such mass genetic screening of newborn infants ..."
"Of course, society might decide to use such tests in other ways. There are circumstances where the interests of society in knowing an individual's genetic susceptibility would be paramount. It would seem too risky for an airline to permit a person with a genetic tendency for alcoholism, or for a premature heart attack, for that matter, to take command of a wide-body jet with its 350 passengers — or for a trucking company to permit such a person to roam the highways in a fifty-ton truck. A corporate board of directors might be considered irresponsible to stockholders should it elect a president and a chief executive who might be genetically predisposed to manic-depression or Alzheimer's disease. A police force could hardly wish hiring and arming a young man or woman who was genetically predisposed to schizophrenia. Almost certainly voters, or at least the press, will demand to know the genetic profile of presidential candidates, while opposition senators may well inquire into the genetic predispositions of presidential nominees to the cabinet and the Supreme Court.
"Right now our society runs on the premise that everyone has a biologically equal chance to be anything he or she wants. But what will happen when, in fact, the scientists find strong evidence that everyone's fate is greatly affected by the inheritance of a group of very specific and identifiable genes?
"Indeed, by late 1989, a handful of social ethicists were beginning to discuss among themselves their fear that the gene discoveries would lead to the creation of a new social stratum called the biological underclass. People identified as having certain genetic weaknesses, they argued, might be discriminated against by employers, they might have difficulty getting health and life insurance. Businesses, for instance, might be less willing to hire people predisposed to illnesses that could drive up the employer's health insurance costs. Employers might want to begin screening prospective workers to detect their genetic susceptibilities. The ethicists sprinkled their talk with such new dark-sounding terms as 'genetic discrimination,' 'genetically unemployable,' and 'genetic labeling.'"
"Indeed, among geneticists involved in Huntington's disease, there is a quiet, but intense debate over the ethics of aborting any fetus whose disease won't erupt until later in life. Perhaps by then there will be a cure, or at least treatments to mute the disease's symptoms, some say. Others argue, however, that abortion for even the slightest of risks is justified.
"'I've had several conversations with people who say, 'Well, with prenatal tests we can wipe out the gene in a generation or two merely by not allowing any fetus at risk to be born,'' says Hayden.
"'Preimplantation diagnosis of genetic disease provides an alternative to the therapeutic abortion offered to couples at risk of producing children with severe inherited disorders,' Holding and Monk asserted. 'Preimplantation diagnosis could allow identification of normal and mutant embryos and the replacement in the mother of only those embryos shown to be free of the defect.'
"The experiment introduces an entirely new dimension into the concept of prenatal genetic diagnosis, that of making a genetic diagnosis before pregnancy, thereby circumventing the question of abortion."
"Such 'preimplantation diagnosis' holds staggering implications for the use of the gene discoveries that are destined to come out of the mapping of the human genome. As prenatal genetic diagnosis becomes simpler and easier, the temptation will arise to use it for less severe genetic aberrations. It appears highly likely that young couples, possibly those in the next generation, will be able to make choices about the genetic traits of their children that would astonish today's generation. As the genetic secrets of stature are uncovered, for example, couples would be able, if they desired, to select the height of their children within certain limits. As the gene mapping proceeds, other traits affecting intelligence, athletic or musical ability, even personality could become matters of parental choice."
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Jerry E. Bishop and Michael Waldholz, giving a progress report on the Genome Project and commenting on some of the possible uses of its findings to date in their book Genome [New York City: Simon and Schuster], 1990, pages 17 to 20, 278, and 308. Some quotes are by Michael Hayden of Vancouver, British Columbia, and by Cathy Holding and Marilyn Monk of the Medical Research Council's Mammalian Development Unit at University College, London [NOTE: The Genome Project is a multibillion dollar effort funded primarily by the Federal government. Its objective is to identify and 'map' all of the more than 10,000 human genes. This huge undertaking is already bearing fruit that eugenicists see as beautiful. But we may find out that the fruit is deadly poisonous to human beings. The implications of this project are vividly clear. It will be theoretically impossible to wipe out a defective gene unless coercion is employed on a massive scale because, without the use of force, there will always be those parents who value human life as a gift from God. If such people are allowed to "spawn defective children," defective genes will never be eradicated. Bishop and Waldholz also describe how, in the future, only the rich will be able to select their offsprings' traits by an extensive program of genetic testing. Thus, the rich would progressively become more and more advantaged over the poor in areas such as intelligence, beauty, and physical prowess. And, of course, since only the rich could afford "genetic choice," taxpayers would be forced to fund it for the poor — just as with abortion. Pro-abortionists, of course, support the Genome Project because, as they like to say, "genetic engineering will greatly reduce the need for abortion"].
Black, Tim (Marie Stopes International (MSI))
"A fascinating and disturbing insight into a population policy that could have changed the world but for the machinations of the Vatican."
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Tim Black, Chief Executive, Marie Stopes International (MSI), London, commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Blackmun, Harry (author of Roe v. Wade)
"You will observe that I have concluded that the end of the first trimester is critical. This is arbitrary, but perhaps any other selected point, such as quickening or viability, is equally arbitrary."
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade, in a memorandum written to the other Supreme Court justices on November 21, 1972.
"The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right to privacy. In a line of decisions, however, the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy ... does exist under the Constitution. In varying contexts, the Court or individual Justices have indeed found at least the roots of the right in the First Amendment, Stanley v. Georgia, and in the penumbras of the Bill of Rights, Griswold v. Connecticut ..."
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade, writing in the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision.
Blair, Lisa
"I did everything so that this child could have freedom and choice and have what America stands for. Liberty comes from ... just living your life."
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Lisa Blair, mother of 7-year old Jessica Dubroff, who died on April 11, 1996 while trying to become the youngest girl ever to fly an airplane across the country. Quoted in Jon Sarche. "'Personal Effects' Overloaded Plane." The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 13, 1996, page A4.
Blandon, Nelba (Director of Censorship of the Sandinista's Interior Ministry)
"They [La Prensa] accused of us suppressing freedom of expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it."
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Nelba Blandon, Director of Censorship of the Sandinista's Interior Ministry, quoted in the Liberation Bulletin and on page 11 of the November 6, 1987 National Review.
Blanshard, Paul
"I think the most important factor leading us to a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history."
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Humanist writer Paul Blanshard. The Humanist, March-April 1976. Also quoted in Dr. D.L. Cuddy. "Are Public Schools Opening the Door to Humanism?" National Federation for Decency Journal, October 1986, page 21.
Bloom, David (NBC)
"Just how tightly scripted is this convention? Well, a Russian television reporter said today that this is as tightly controlled as anything the Communist Party ever put on, Tom."
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NBC reporter David Bloom, August 14, 1996 Nightly News story on the Republican convention.
Bluford, Robert
"The saline termination has the effect of inducing a miscarriage. The more lengthy the pregnancy, the more fetal material there is to be aborted. Under the best conditions, the patient is attended by a nurse who receives the aborted material immediately and removes it from the patient. It is not uncommon, however, for a patient to abort unattended by a nurse or other attendant and to do so in her bed. The nurse usually responds promptly to a call from the patient and removes the abortice" [emphasis added].
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Robert Bluford and Robert E. Petres. Unwanted Pregnancy [New York City: Harper and Row], 1973, page 94. Discussed in Samuel L. Blumenfeld. The Retreat From Motherhood [New Rochelle, New York City: Arlington House], 1975.
Blume, Judy
"As soon as I got into bed, I started touching myself. I have this special place, and when I rub it, I get a very nice feeling. I don't know what it's called or if anyone else has it, but when I have trouble falling asleep, touching my special place helps a lot ..."
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Judy Blume's book Deenie, which is often read in high school literature classes, as described in Cal Thomas and Wayne Stayskal. Liberals for Lunch [Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books], 1985, pages 45 and 129.
Blumenthal, Sidney (Washington Post)
"While George Bush — all whiteness — talks about 'family values,' the Clintons demonstrate them by confessing to adultery."
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Former Washington Post reporter Sidney Blumenthal in The New Republic, February 17, 1992.
"While George Bush — all whiteness — talks about 'family values,' the Clintons demonstrate them by confessing to adultery."
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Former Washington Post reporter Sidney Blumenthal in The New Republic, February 17, 1992.
"Then you've got Bill Bennett out there, who is kind of a Torquemada. ... Bill Bennett is basically a schismatic heretic practicing his own contrived lunatic version of the Latin Mass in the basement. That's what Buchanan is doing, only with Confederate flags flying. You have Phil Gramm from Texas, an incredibly mean-spirited right-wing character backed by big-oil money. He is the kind of perverse version of Lyndon Johnson whittled down to his vices and exaggerated. Then you have Bob Dole: When he's most sardonic and cruel is when he's most sincere. I think that's the Republican Party right now."
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Former Washington Post reporter Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Phoenix, April 16, 1993.
Bock, Vivian and Ray
"The Life and Death of NSSM 200 is an eye-opener. We have often questioned how the United States can advise other nations to stabilize their populations without having a plan to stabilize our own. Now we understand what happened to the plan. To establish a realistic U.S. Population Policy, we must first expose and neutralize the foreign machinations of the Vatican."
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Dr. Vivian Hiatt-Bock and Ray Bock, Poulsbo, Washington, favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Bohan, J.
"Homonegative attitudes ... may change if the individual recognizes a conflict between this value and another value ... attitudes might change if a revered authority, such as a member of the clergy or a biblical scholar, were to present a more positive view of LGB [lesbian, gay, bisexual] experience, still grounded in
religious teaching. ... Diminishing anti-LGB prejudice and discrimination will require institutional as well as individual change."
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J. Bohan. Psychology and Sexual Orientation: Coming to Terms [New York City: Routledge], 1996, page 58.
Bond, Julian (Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP))
"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side. They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."
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Julian Bond, Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), at the 2004 Take Back America conference, which was also attended by George Soros and Hillary Clinton, quoted in "Hate Speech." End of Day [American Values], June 3, 2004, and in "NAACP Loses Presidential Addresses by Hateful Anti-Bush Rhetoric." LifeSite Daily News, July 16, 2004. [NOTE: Gosh — we never knew that the Confederate flag had a swastika on it! The very inclusive, tolerant and nonjudgmental Bond also called Republicans "neo-fascists," "the white-people's party" and "a crazed swarm of right-wing locusts"].
Bond, Peter
"A woman can produce a baby in the most squalid circumstances of being homeless, poor, mentally defective and physically ill. The products of conception when they are born at term are then only potentially human."
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Letter from Dr. Peter Bond. Journal of Medical Ethics, 1976, Volume II, Number 45. Described in Nancy B. Spannaus, Molly Hammett Kronberg, and Linda Everett (Editors). How to Stop the Resurgence of Nazi Euthanasia Today. Transcripts of the International Club of Life Conference, Munich, West Germany, June 11-12, 1988. Executive Intelligence Review Special Report, September 1988. EIR, Post Office Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390.
Borger, Gloria (U.S. News & World Report)
"In fact, the Speaker [Newt Gingrich] will forever remain his own caricature — a Dennis the Menace meets Darth Vader kind of guy. A fellow who, for instance, wants to give all children in America laptops but take away their free school lunches."
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U.S. News & World Report Assistant Managing Editor Gloria Borger, April 7, 1997.
Bornestein, Kate
"Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender. ... Women couldn't be oppressed if there was no such thing as 'women.' Doing away with gender is key to the doing away with patriarchy."
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Kate Bornestein. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us [New York City: Rutledge, 1994], pages 52 and 115.
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
"I feel proud of myself that I made the choice to have an abortion and finish college. I never made a decision before that said I was the most important person. Choosing abortion is about empowerment. It's about making a choice in favor of myself and my own future. It was giving myself a vote of confidence."
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Anonymous woman, quoted in The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. Touchstone Books, 1992, page 369.
"Having the area around my anus licked during oral sex is a real turn-on. And anal intercourse when I'm in the mood is incredibly sexy. I love the sensations deep inside me and the thrill of doing something so unusual."
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The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. Touchstone Books, 1992, page 218.
"Forcing me to surrender my child [for adoption] was an ultimate act of rape. I wish that when they were through with me, they had put a bullet in my head so I wouldn't have to live in such anguish."
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The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. Touchstone Books, 1992, page 348.
Botkin, Michael C.
"The RICO [Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act] angle may have more importance than mere insult value. ... convictions under RICO can allow the Feds to seize everything owned by the criminal. The U.S. Catholic church has 'deep pockets,' even if you only count real estate; a big judgment against them could really pay off. Maybe they wouldn't get every cathedral in the country, but they could get enough to turn a few 'Our Lady of the Suffering Masses' hospitals - which currently won't provide abortions - into feminist women's health centers supporting a full range of family planning."
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Michael C. Botkin. "Priesthoodlums." Bay Area Reporter, July 8, 1993, page 22.
Bourne, Judith P.
"A complaint I hear more than once from nurses in California was of physicians who performed saline injections with more advanced pregnancies and then went home or to their offices, leaving the nurse alone to cope with delivering a large or well-developed fetus. These nurses experienced not only emotional conflict about the abortion, but also anger at having been put in that position by a physician who did not even consult them."
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Judith P. Bourne. "Health Professionals' Attitudes About Abortion." Sarah Lewit (Editor). Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference, New York, N.Y., June 3-5, 1971. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica, 1972 [NOTE: It is not surprising that the mostly-male abortionists leave the mostly-female nurses to clean up after them. This is the same type of sexism condemned by Neofeminists and attributed to Roman Catholic and fundamentalist husbands who allegedly 'oppress' their wives, but the pro-aborts don't seem to make the connection].
Bouza, Anthony
"When abortions are illegal, poor women deliver and keep their babies. Then they plunk them in front of a TV set, watch them get abused and conditioned to violence by parades of males, and expose them to all the factors the criminologists describe as the precursors to a life of crime. ... Making abortions freely available to the impoverished young women who produce our criminals is very likely the most important crime-prevention measure adopted in this country in the last 25 years."
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Anthony Bouza, a former Minneapolis Police Chief and columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in a 1990 Mother's Day editorial entitled "A Mother's Day Wish: Make Abortion Available to All Women." Quoted in Mary Ann Kuharski. "Aborting the "At Risk" Population: Racism Rears its Ugly Head." ALL About Issues, Winter 1991, pages 16 and 17 [NOTE: Bouza described the "at risk" population as "poor, Black and Indian," and said that their offspring are "marked for failure"].
Bova, Ben (science fiction writer)
"If a moral argument is associated with religion, it need not be taken seriously because we know that religion is evil. ... Most of the objections voiced today to research involving human embryos appear to be based on religious beliefs, not on socioeconomic considerations. They are the continuation of a struggle that once saw thinkers such as Galileo muzzled and Giordano Bruno burned at the stake because they expressed opinions contrary to the teachings of the Church."
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Ben Bova, author of Immortality and a member of USA Today's board of contributors, quoted in Richard John Neuhaus. "While We're At It." First Things, December 1999, page 81.
Bowen, Jerry (CBS)
"There are some who say he would have been more comfortable in the 5th century, but some theologians say that really, some of the 5th century Popes were more progressive than John Paul II."
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CBS reporter Jerry Bowen on visit of Pope John Paul, August 15, 1993 "Sunday Morning."
Bowers, Richard (Zero Population Growth (ZPG) and Globally Responsible Birthing (GRB))
"Too few of us are able and even fewer courageous enough to speak out in the face of power as cogently as Dr. Mumford in The Life and Death of NSSM 200. It is not his purpose to attack any religious group, including the Roman Catholic Church. But rather, his book is an assertion of the proud American traditions of democratic decision-making and separation of church and state. Using their own words, Dr. Mumford shows how Vatican loyalists seek to undermine both these dearly held beliefs on which our country is based.
"Contrary to the proscription of the Church hierarchy, American Catholics have overwhelmingly rejected the 1968 Encyclical Humanae Vitae forbidding the use of contraception. However, Presidents and Congressmen have been influenced by the Vatican on this issue."
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Richard Bowers of Zero Population Growth, and Director of the organization Globally Responsible Birthing, favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Bowman, David
"The James Gunn in the novel is a lapsed Catholic. I stopped going to church for a long time, but started again after I met a great priest out of St. Louis who told me I could make up what Catholicism was and believe what I wanted to believe. ... I gave a reading of The Toy Collector [and] read a passage about heterosexual anal sex. St. Louis is 75 percent Catholic. There has to be one Catholic who says, 'Listen, I'm a fan of anal sex.'"
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David Bowman's review of the book The Toy Collector, by James Gunn. The Village Voice, August 22, 2000. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Boyles, Stephanie (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA))
"Ants are sentient beings, like we are, and have a right to life like we do, and they shouldn't be shown the level of disrespect the producers of ant farms show them."
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) spokesperson Stephanie Boyles, responding to a question by Los Angeles Times reporter David Kelly. Downloaded from "Ants Are People Too." AnimalRights.Net ["Debunking the animals rights movement"] on August 8, 2002.
Bozarth, Richard
"We atheists today must admit that for corpses Old Yahweh and his sidekick JC Superstar are taking a long time to stop twitching and grow old."
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American Atheist member G. Richard Bozarth. "On Keeping God Alive." The American Atheist Magazine, November 1977, page 7.
"And how does a god die? Quite simply, because all his religionists have been converted to another religion, and there is no one left to make children believe they need him ... We need only insure that our schools teach only secular knowledge ... If we could achieve this, god would indeed be shortly due for a funeral service."
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G. Richard Bozarth. "On Keeping God Alive." The American Atheist, November 1977, page 7.
Brady, Ray (CBS)
"It used to be that the United States was number one, dominant. ... So right now, we are fast losing our position as number one, Connie. ... Yes, we're no longer dominant, we're no longer the number one nation, Connie ... so we are no longer that number one, dominant nation. That's the big change here now."
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CBS economics reporter Ray Brady on the "Evening News," July 8, 1990.
Branden, Victoria (Humanist writer)
"The World Watch Institute tells us that we have only ten years to turn around the damage we've done to our planet, before it's past saving. The biggest threat to the ecology is overpopulation. David Suzuki has compared the human race to a cancer "... overrunning the planet like an out-of-control malignancy ... adding to our numbers by ninety million every year."
"Everything humanly possible must be done to arrest the inexorable growth of our numbers. Birth control and abortion should be made freely available everywhere. Fertility drugs should be banned. No child should be born unless it is actively wanted by parents who can give it love, security, education, and the chance for a decent future ...
"I sometimes feel that if I hear one more sanctimonious male voice announce "I'm against abortion," I'm going to start throwing things. If women are not allowed control of their own bodies, why should men be free to do as they like? Supposing women agitate for legal right to force men to have vasectomies — can you imagine the uproar?
"Lately the anti-choice protestors have argued that, in destroying a fetus, a potentially great mind may be destroyed — killing an Einstein or a Beethoven. On the other hand, we might be sparing the world a Hitler or a mass murderer; this is a good deal more probable, for unwanted children rarely have happy lives or the kind of nurturing that produces great achievers. ... If there's one thing this world doesn't need, it's more people — especially unhappy, maladjusted, abused people who grow up to be child abusers, wife-beaters, and sometimes mass murderers."
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Victoria Branden. "The Abortion Merry-Go-Round." Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1989, pages 14 to 15.
Brennan, William (Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States)
"If the deliberate extinguishment of human life has any effect at all, it more likely tends to lower our respect for life and brutalize our values."
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Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, architect of Roe v. Wade, writing against capital punishment in Furman v. Georgia (1972).
Brett, George (baseball player)
"I've had the security of knowing I'm a proven [sexual] performer."
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Kansas City Royals baseball star George Brett, on the abortions his girlfriends have suffered. Quoted in Newsweek Magazine, July 17, 1989, page 13.
Brickner, Balfour
"Jewish law is quite clear in its statement that an embryo is not reckoned a viable living thing (in Hebrew, bar kayama) until thirty days after its birth. One is not allowed to observe the Laws of Mourning for an expelled fetus. As a matter of fact, these Laws are not applicable for a child who does not survive until his thirtieth day. We support legislation enabling women to be free from the whims of biological roulette and free mostly from the oppressive crushing weight of anachronistic ideologies and theologies which, for reasons that escape my ken, continue to insist that in a world already groaning to death with overpopulation, with hate and with poverty, that there is still some noble merit or purpose to indiscriminate reproduction."
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Rabbi Balfour Brickner, National Director of the ultraliberal Commission on Interfaith Activities, quoted in T.J. Bosgra. "Abortion, the Bible, and the Church." Booklet from Hawaii Right to Life Education Foundation, Post Office Box 10129, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816.
Brinkley, David (ABC)
"What was astonishing here was not that the Court opposes abortion. What was astonishing was its absurd view that medical personnel paid with government money lose their right to free speech. The Constitution says no law shall abridge freedom of speech, no law. Could it be that the Court hasn't read that part? ... Was [David Souter] able and willing to read the Constitution as a member of the Court? Would he abide by it? Well, now we know the answer. It's no."
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David Brinkley ending ABC's "This Week," May 26, 1991.
Brinkley, Sidney
"In San Francisco, 100 activists showed up at Hamilton Square Baptist Church on Sept. 19, 1995, to protest an appearance by Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder of the Traditional Values Coalition. There was the usual cast of characters, including Gay men dressed up as nuns and tough-looking Lesbians in leather, all of them shouting, blowing whistles, and attempting to stop traffic. The demonstration took over the outside courtyard of the church and tried to prevent church members from entering the building. They removed the Christian flag from the flagpole and raised the Gay rainbow flag instead. They broke a cement bench. Altogether, damage was estimated at $2,000. Inside the building it seemed as if the church was under siege."
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Sidney Brinkley. Letter from San Francisco to The Washington Blade [a homosexual newspaper], December 17, 1993, page 16.
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
"It is also a shame that by banning a party political broadcast, the BBC also forces some of us who consider the Pro-Life Alliance to be vile scum to defend their right to put their case in the way they choose. ... [Alliance members are] dishonest, manipulative, irrational, ignorant fanatics who patronize women."
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Ann Furedi, Director of Communications of the pro-abortion British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), quoted in "Pro-Life Alliance Are "Scum," Say Pro-Abortionists." Catholic World News Service, Daily News Briefs of May 31, 2001 [NOTE: When questioned by reporters, Furedi said that she stands by "every word" of her attack on the Alliance, which she termed "quite moderate." She said that "I actually think that's quite a moderate way of describing people who are standing on a ticket of trying to prevent women their right to end pregnancy." One wonders what she would consider an "immoderate" attack on pro-lifers. Furedi made her comments on the online political web site "spiked!" in response to the successful BBC Wales court challenge to the Alliance's plans for a party election broadcast featuring graphic images].
Broadhead, George (Secretary of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA))
"The Vatican trumpets itself as a champion of human rights and a model of compassion. This continued barbaric contempt for gay people shows that the Vatican is prepared to go to any lengths to promote its nasty dogmas. ... The Vatican has a special status at the United Nations that is granted to no other religion. It is seeking to gain full status that would give it even more power to impose its will on an unwilling world. We call on the United Nations to immediately strip the Vatican of its observer status. It has shown itself unworthy of having it."
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George Broadhead, Secretary of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA), during the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting of April 2003 in Geneva, where the Vatican and Muslim nations teamed up to deny special international rights for homosexuals. Quoted in "Homosexuals Call "Barbaric" Church Purveyor of "Nasty Dogmas"." Friday FAX [C-FAM (the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute)], April 16, 2004 [Volume 7, Number 17] [NOTE: During this same conference, a frustrated Michael Cashman, who is a British homosexual and member of the European parliament, blamed the "aggressive lobbying" of the Vatican and Muslim countries, such as Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, for this year's problems, labeling their cooperation on this issue an "unholy axis." This is typical homosexual activist hypocrisy — They are weaklings, so if you don't go along with their agenda, they scream in your face].
The Broadways (singing group)
F— THE CHURCH
Song Written by The Broadways
Galileo was a sinner
While Christopher Columbus was a saint
Stems from moral victories at least that's what you should believe
What a prestigious state I've made for blasphemers that never seem to...
Just last week the pope figured out
Said "evolution might not be a sin after all"
But people's thoughts on evolution say "the winning church shall stay"
But the pope's token gesture
Trust me much too little, much too late
When the cardinal lives in the big house with facing chimneys
And expensive lawns right on the lake
Well blast his house and shake my hands
Say things that don't seem right to me.
Somebody somewhere has made a big mistake
Cuz I seem to recall
That Jesus was a Communist
And shared everything and yearned to give
So whats the f—in' deal with the no trespassing sign
A sign
Displayed for everyone to see
For everyone to see
For everyone to see
Seems to me that this lawn would be nice to sleep on
Seems to me that Jesus would agree
Well I'm just a stupid kid who never goes to church
But [Cardinal] Bernardine seems all f—ed up to me
And if heaven loves my brother how can a holy man close
His door to the people most in need
Well I don't know
I don't know
Well I guess its just a theme in history
A theme in history
A theme in history
I choose to f—in not believe
I choose to f—in not believe
Jesus was a Communist he thinks the same as me
I choose to f—in not believe
F— THE CHURCH and learn to be free
F— THE POPE and come to hell with me
Our father said we should "forgive those who trespass against us"
It seems to me this lawn would be nice to sleep on
Seems to me that Jesus would agree
It seems to me this lawn would be nice to sleep on.
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Song "F— the Church" by the Broadways, downloaded from http://www.thehonorsystem.net/grant/fuckthechurch.html on March 8, 2001 (Web site no longer available).
Brokaw, Tom
"Do you think this is a party that is dominated by men and this [Republican National] convention is dominated by men as well. ... Do you think before tonight they thought very much what happens in America with rape?"
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Tom Brokaw to rape victim Jan Licence after her victims-rights speech, August 13, 1996 Republican National Convention coverage.
"It's likely that your view of Mikhail Gorbachev depends on your point of view. From the perspective of the West, the former President of the Soviet Union of course was a courageous, far-seeing prophet whose reforms set in motion the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship and the end of the Cold War. ... We always welcome you in this country, Mikhail Gorbachev. We're especially pleased to have you tonight on InterNight. And we offer our very best, of course, to Raisa Gorbachev and we hope that you'll have a long and happy life. Perhaps one day again we'll see you in political office in Russia. We know that you've devoted your life to peace and to changing your country and those of us who have gotten to know you count ourselves among the privileged."
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Tom Brokaw, opening and closing his October 29, 1996 MSNBC InterNight interview with former communist dictator Mikhail Gorbachev.
"The good news for Russians? They no longer have to worry about being shipped to Siberia for defying the old Communist state. The bad news? They may have to come to Moscow, where the chances of dying in a car crash are greater than expiring in Siberia. This city is one large wreck 'em derby. ... Isn't capitalism grand?"
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Tom Brokaw, May 8, 1995 NBC "Nightly News."
Brongersma, Edward (convicted child molester)
"... to advance scientific research into the development of the sexual lives of children, with special emphasis upon the phenomenon of erotic and sexual relationships between children and adults."
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Convicted child molester Dr. Edward Brongersma, describing the purpose of the foundation named after him (The Edward Brongersma Foundation). "Statement of Objectives." Tetterodeweg I, 2051 EE Overveen, The Netherlands. Described in Judith A. Reisman and Edward W. Eichel. Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People [Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers], 1990, pages 20 to 23 and 40.
Bronner, Ethan
"I think that when abortion opponents complain about a bias in newsrooms against their cause, they're absolutely right. ... Opposing abortion, in the eyes of most journalists ... is not a legitimate, civilized position in our society."
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Boston Globe legal reporter Ethan Bronner, quoted in Los Angeles Times reporter David Shaw's series on media bias in abortion coverage, July 1, 1990.
Brown, A. Whitney
"[The new regulation] "is to make sure that children on their way to church need not fear being molested by priests on their way to a porn shop. Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism, without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts."
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A. Whitney Brown, during an August 4, 1998 skit entitled "Porn Losers" on Comedy Central's show "The Daily Show." The skit was about New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's efforts to close porn shops — especially those located within 500 feet of a church. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Brown, Albert
"Latino women are some of the best patients [for the abortionists]. They come in and they don't complain. Sometimes they are given abortions when they're not even pregnant."
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Albert Brown, M.D., of Los Angeles, quoted in an April 1998 Los Angeles Times report on abortion "chop shops" that exploit minority women. Quoted in Paul Likoudis. "California Political Races Reflect "Catholic Diversity"." The Wanderer, October 15, 1998, pages 1 and 7.
Brown, Frank (homosexual activist)
"I want to go to my job. I want to have a home. I want to save my money. And I want to go on vacation. What kind of hidden agenda are they talking about?"
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Homosexual activist Frank Brown, quoted in Dirk Johnson, New York Times News Service. "Stunned Colorado Gays Ponder Election." The Oregonian, November 8, 1992, page A22.
Brown, James Robert (University of Toronto professor)
"Fine — just resign from medicine and find another job. Suppose someone [a doctor] said, 'I'm uncomfortable with [treating] a minority,' I'd say, 'So long scum.' Religious beliefs are highly emotional — as is any belief that is affecting your behavior in society. You have no right letting your private beliefs effect your public behavior."
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Statement of Dr. James Robert Brown, Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Toronto, to the Barrie Examiner, saying that doctors must perform abortions and offer contraception, and, if they refuse, they must get out of medicine. He was commenting on the case of Christian doctor Stephen Dawson of Barrie, Ontario, who refused to prescribe the birth control pill to unmarried women. Quoted in "Christian Doctor Threatened with Loss of License Over Refusing Pill Prescriptions: University of Toronto Prof Says Doctor Unwilling to Perform Abortions Should "Find Another Job"." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, February 21, 2002 [NOTE: Note the profoundly stupid assertion by Brown that people should not let their morality guide their behavior. What else guides it if not one's personal morality?]
Brown, Lester R. (Worldwatch Institute)
"Seldom has the world faced an unfolding emergency whose dimensions are as clear as the growing imbalance between food and people. ... achieving a humane balance between food and people now depends more on family planners than on farmers."
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Lester R. Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute, in a January 1994 Worldwatch Institute report. "World is Nearing Limit to Provide Food: Report." The Citizen, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 17, 1994, page 16.
"The main difference between China and other densely populated developing countries ... may be that the Chinese have had the foresight to make projections of their population and resources and the courage to translate their findings into policy."
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Lester R. Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute, quoted in the May 8, 1985 issue of the New York Times and in Jim McFadden's Introduction to the Summer 1985 Human Life Review, page 3.
Brownmiller, Susan
"Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear."
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Susan Brownmiller in her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, as reported in the Washington Times, February 13, 1992.
Broyde, Michael J. (law professor)
"A determination of death is a legal determination that a collection of living cells is no longer entitled to the rights granted to human beings, rather than a scientific or medical determination that all biologic life has ended."
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Law professor Michael J. Broyde, J.D., in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled "The Diag
