"Sorry my English is not good enough. But I hope you understand to some extent my Bavarian-German-American-English reading. I like more to speak by heart. But I am impotent, English-impotent ...
"Physicians all over the world swear the "Hippocratic Oath." And all think, especially the patients, that is for their own protection. Because medical functionaries preach that with ardor. I studied that [Hippocratic] oath exactly. And I discussed it in the last chapter of my medicine-critical book Nachoperation = Reoperation 1977. ... The conclusion of my Hippocratic Oath study is: "A more bad physician's oath doesn't exist!"... One sentence of the patient-hostile Hippocratic Oath is: "I will never give anyone a deadly poison, not even at their request, nor will I give them any advice as to a deadly poison." 2500 years ago, when Hippocrates was still alive and Socrates died of the Hemlock Cup, this may have seemed a reasonable measure against murder by poisoning. It may even have been a reasonable measure up until 50 years ago. But it doesn't apply for the last 50 years. Today I judge such an oath to be an act of unmedical patient-hostility, an act of inhumanity.
"Your [Hemlock Society] congress will help that the self-evident human rights for a dignified death will become a fixed and steady law all over the world. Such a vested human right would automatically cause that everybody would be able to determine for himself at what time and in which way he wants to die. ..."
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From the transcript of a speech by Dr. Julius Hackethal (the German "Dr. Cyanide") entitled "Medical Help By Suicide — As a Method of Voluntary Euthanasia," presented at the Second National Voluntary Euthanasia Conference of the Hemlock Society on February 9th, 1985, in Los Angeles, California [emphasis in original].
Haffner, Debra (SIECUS)
"We need to tell teens that the safest sex doesn't mean no sex, but rather behaviours that have no possibility of causing a pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease. A partial list of safe sex practices could include: Talking, flirting, dancing, hugging, kissing, necking, massaging, caressing, undressing each other, masturbation alone, masturbation in front of a partner, mutual masturbation."
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Debra Haffner, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) Project Director of National Guidelines Task Force for Sexuality Education K-12. SIECUS Report, September/October 1988.
Haimes, Margi Pitts
"Scare them to death. Use up their resources. Try to bankrupt them."
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Abortion lawyer Margi Pitts Haimes, at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention, Los Angeles, May 14-16, 1984.
Haldeman, D.
"Fundamentalist Christian conversion programs hold enormous symbolic power over many people. Possibly exacerbating the harm to naive, shame-ridden counselees, these programs operate under the formidable auspices of the Christian church....
"Gay men who are most likely to be inclined toward doctrinaire religious practice are also likely to have lower self-concepts, to see homosexuality as more sinful, feel a greater sense of apprehension about negative responses from others, and are more depressed in general (Weinberg & Williams, 1974). Such individuals make vulnerable targets for the 'ex-gay" ministries ..."
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D. Haldeman. "The Practice and Ethics of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapies." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 62: 221-227 (1994).
Hall, Gus (chairman of the American Communist Party)
"I think that Soviet historians are exaggerating. I thought Stalin was a good leader."
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Gus Hall, chairman of the American Communist Party, quoted in National Review, February 5, 1990, page 14.
Hall, Robert E.
"There is no doubt in my mind that these [mongoloid] pregnancies should be and will be terminated; but there is no logical reason why these terminations, if carried out beyond the twentieth week, need be called 'abortions' ... I think we can live with a 20-week definition if later interruptions are performed for humanitarian reasons under a different semantic label."
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Robert E. Hall, M.D. "Time Limitation in Induced Abortion." In Sarah Lewit (Editor). Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference, New York, N.Y., June 3-5, 1971. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica, 1972.
Halperin, David (University of Michigan professor)
"How To Be Gay 101
Engl. 317. Literature and Culture.
001 - How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation
Instructor(s): David Halperin
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required.
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
"Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not. This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice — subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize — which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand. In particular, we'll examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, style, fashion, and interior design. Are there a number of classically "gay" works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, ALL gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What roles do such works play in learning how to be gay? What is there about these works that makes them essential parts of a gay male curriculum? Conversely, what is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or aesthetic dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot? At the core of gay experience there is not only identification but disidentification. Almost as soon as I learn how to be gay, or perhaps even before, I also learn how not to be gay. I say to myself, "Well, I may be gay, but at least I'm not like THAT!" Rather than attempting to promote one version of gay identity at the expense of others, this course will investigate the stakes in gay identifications and disidentifications, seeking ultimately to create the basis for a wider acceptance of the plurality of ways in which people determine how to be gay. Work for the class will include short essays, projects, and a mandatory weekly three-hour screening (or other cultural workshop) on Thursday evenings (Halperin)."
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The verbatim description of the course "How To Be Gay 101" from the University of Michigan's Fall 2000 course catalog. National Review's "NR Wire" at http://www.nationalreview.com/, March 17, 2000.
Hamilton, Argue (Daily Oklahoman columnist)
"The Wall Street Journal says Pfizer will develop a Viagra pill that works instantly instead of the current one-hour wait. It will be made in a wafer form. That way, Catholics can serve it at Holy Communion."
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Daily Oklahoman columnist Argus Hamilton, May 7, 1998. 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.
Hansen, Wally (homosexual activist)
"It basically comes down to what you think it's worth. I can only think positively. I do anything I want. I feel like I'd do more damage to myself by stressing my system out of worry."
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AIDS-infected homosexual Wally Hansen of San Francisco, describing why he never uses a condom or notifies his 'partners' that he has the AIDS virus. Quoted in Barbara Kantrowitz et.al. "Teenagers and AIDS." Newsweek Magazine, August 3, 1992, pages 45 to 49.
Hardin, Garrett (population controller and eugenicist)
"In every nation women want more children than the community needs. How can we reduce reproduction? Persuasion must be tried first. Mild coercion may soon be accepted — for example, tax rewards for reproductive nonproliferation. But in the long run a purely voluntary system selects for its own failure: Noncooperators outbreed cooperators. So what restrains shall we employ? A policeman under every bed? Jail sentences? Compulsory abortion? Infanticide? ...
"We need not titillate our minds with such horros [sic], for we already have at hand an acceptable technology: Sterilization. It should be easy to limit a woman's reproduction by sterilizing her at the birth of her nth child. ... The "right" to breed implies ownership of children. This concept is no longer tenable. ... If parenthood is a right, population control is impossible. If parenthood is only a privilege, and if parents see themselves as trustees of the germ plasm and guardians of the rights of future generations, then there is hope for mankind."
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Garrett Hardin. "Parenthood: Right or Privilege?" Science [journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)], July 31, 1970 [Volume 169, number 3,944], page 2.
"A [Chinese] woman who gets pregnant without permission is pressured by her sisters to have an abortion. Westerners react with horror to this, but such coercion in the East should be compared to forcing a Westerner to pick up the litter he or she has dropped on the ground in a public park. In both instances, the environment is seen as the possession of the group; littering it (with anything) is not a right of the individual."
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Garrett Hardin. "There is No Global Population Problem: Can Humanists Escape the "Catch-22" of Population Control?" The Humanist, July/August 1989, page 12 [NOTE: Hardin, who is listed in this article as the recipient of the 1989 "Humanist Distinguished Service Award," is just another garden-variety pro-abortionist who seems compelled to dehumanize others. In this case, he compares a full-term preborn child to litter].
"[We have a choice of] a painless weeding out before birth or a more painful and wasteful elimination of individuals [with low IQ] after birth."
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Garrett Hardin. Biology: Its Human Implications (1949).
"In a welfare state, how shall we deal with the family, the religion, the race, or the class (or indeed any distinguishable and cohesive group) that adopts overbreeding as a policy to secure its own aggrandizement? ... In late 1967, some 30 nations agreed to the following: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else." It is painful to have to deny categorically the validity of this right ... If we love the truth we must openly deny the validity of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, even though it is promoted by the United Nations. We should also join with Kingsley Davis (15) in attempting to get Planned Parenthood-World Population to see the error of its ways in embracing the same tragic ideal. ... It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. ... Coercion is a dirty word to most liberals now, but it need not forever be so. As with the four-letter words, its dirtiness can be cleansed away by exposure to the light, by saying it over and over without apology or embarrassment. To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning. The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. ... The most important aspect of necessity that we must now recognize, is the necessity of abandoning the commons in breeding. No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation. Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all. At the moment, to avoid hard decisions many of us are tempted to propagandize for conscience and responsible parenthood. The temptation must be resisted, because an appeal to independently acting consciences selects for the disappearance of all conscience in the long run, and an increase in anxiety in the short. The only way we can preserve and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed, and that very soon. ... it is the role of education to reveal to all the necessity of abandoning the freedom to breed. Only so, can we put an end to this aspect of the tragedy of the commons."
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Garrett Hardin. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science Magazine, December 13, 1968.
"Every babe's birth diminishes me ... [obstetricians should discourage fertility] in order to diminish the amount of adult stupidity, which itself is a form of social pollution, and a most dangerous one. ... Some form of community coercion — gentle or severe, explicit or cryptic — will have to be employed."
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Garrett Hardin. "Everybody's Guilty: The Ecological Dilemma." California Medicine, November 1970, pages 42 and 45 to 46 [NOTE: Compare the first part of this quote to John Donne, who said that "Every man's death diminishes me" (John Donne, 1631. Quoted in Joseph R. Stanton, M.D. "From Feticide to Infanticide." Human Life Review, Summer 1982, page 44).
"It would be better to encourage the breeding of more intelligent people rather than the less intelligent. ZPG's entire attraction has been among the college population. So in effect, ZPG is encouraging college-educated people to have fewer children instead of encouraging reduced fertility among the less intelligent."
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Garrett Hardin, quoted in "Interview: Garrett Hardin." Omni Magazine, June 1992, pages 56 to 63.
"A set of blueprints is not a house; the DNA of a zygote is not a human being. There is no moral obligation to conserve DNA — if there was, no man would be allowed to brush his teeth and gums, for in this brutal operation hundreds of sets of DNA are destroyed daily."
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Garrett Hardin, professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Redbook Magazine, May 1967. Also quoted on page 101 of Ruth Barnett. They Weep On My Doorstep. Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers, 1969.
"If parenthood is a right, population control is impossible. If parenthood is only a privilege, and if parents see themselves as trustees of the germ plasm and guardians of the rights of future generations, then there is hope for mankind ... Though coercion is a dirty word to most liberals now, it need not be forever ... Its dirtiness can be cleansed away by saying it over and over without apology or embarrassment."
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Garrett Hardin. "Parenthood: Right or Privilege?" Science Magazine. Also quoted in "'Voluntary' Sterilization?" ALL About Issues, March 1983, page 30.
"I give the Chinese credit for officially recognizing that they have a problem and for having the nerve to propose the single-child program ... They have failed, however, by not making this directive universal throughout the country. The one-child policy is only enforced in congested urban areas."
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"Interview: Garrett Hardin." Omni Magazine, June 1992, pages 56 to 63.
"If we love the truth we must openly deny the validity of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, even though it is promoted by the United Nations. ... As a genetically trained biologist, it seems to me that, if there are to be differences in individual inheritance, legal possession should be perfectly correlated with biological inheritance — that those who are biologically more fit to be the custodians of property should legally inherit more ... Coercion is a dirty word to most liberals now, but it need not forever be so. As with the four letter words, its dirtiness can be cleaned away by exposure to the light, by saying it over and over without apology or embarrassment."
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Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science Magazine, December 13, 1968.
"In The Life and Death of NSSM 200, Dr. Mumford gives us a uniquely clear account of how the Vatican manipulated the American government, causing it to distance itself from the compassionate control of population. Tragically, the relevance of this keen analysis grows with every new population-fueled horror."
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Garrett Hardin, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 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.
"In other animals, where experimentation is possible, it has been clearly shown that there are inheritable factors that determine the limits of intellectual ability ... In all cases, studies indicate that as long as our present social organization [democracy] continues there will be a slow but continuous downward trend in the average intelligence. ... Every time a philanthropist sets up a foundation to look for a cure for a certain disease he thereby threatens humanity eugenically. ... Again consider the matter of charity. When one saves a starving man, one may thereby help him breed more children. ... It is not possible to avoid eugenic action; every time we support a charity, endow a research institute, or promulgate a new taxation scheme, our actions whether good or bad, have eugenic consequences, however unconscious we may be of them."
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Garrett Hardin, Director of the American Eugenics Society (1971-1974), Biology: Its Human Implications [San Francisco: Freeman Press], 1961, chapter entitled "Man: Evolution in the Future."
"As one often identified as being "in favor of" abortion, let me point out that I'm in favor of abortion in the same way I'm in favor of tooth extraction. Neither operation is desirable in itself; but each is generally better than its alternative. If you have a hopelessly decayed tooth, you'll be better off having it extracted. Similarly, if you're pregnant, poor, unmarried and frightened at the thought of having a child, you'll be better off having your pregnancy terminated, if that's what you want. Not otherwise. ... Since most Americans now approve of abortion, particularly if the mother's life is at stake, why then should we not also approve abortion of a woman is going crazy trying to raise 10 children; or if a family has insufficient funds to support another child; or if the embryo has been conceived too soon in the life plans of the prospective parents?"
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Population controller Garrett Hardin. "Abortion vs. the Right to Life: The Evil of Mandatory Motherhood." Psychology Today, November 1974, pages 42 to 44. Reprinted as a paper in the Social Issues Resource Series by Beacon Press of Boston, Volume 1, Article #3 [emphasis in original. This quote shows clearly the tendency of anti-life people to dehumanize the preborn children and to take advantage of the 'slippery slope' by engaging in incrementalism, or gradualism].
Hardwaig, John
"There may be a fairly common responsibility to end one's life in the absence of any terminal illness. ... There can be a duty to die even when one would prefer to live. To have reached the age of, say, 75 or 80 years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life's basic realities ..."
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John Hardwaig, Professor of Medical Ethics and Social Philosophy at East Tennessee State University. "Is There a Duty to Die?" Hastings Center Report, March/April 1997.
Hardy, Jonathan Gathorn
"Kinsey ... [was] tentative about asking someone to have sex with him ... Pomeroy ... with whom ... Kinsey did have sex ... The team slept together and had sex together, both the wives and the husbands, and Kinsey had both. The sex and the staff ... took place in Kinsey's house. Where else I don't know. It had to be kept secret ... The [paedophile] journals ... Green describing having sex with this ... little girl, this little boy or this man or this pig ... I think the Kinsey Institute felt ... right wing figures ... would pluck out things ... I think they are right to keep them undercover because they are not dealing with scrupulous scholars, they are dealing with people out to wreck them ... don't put this in, but there are descriptions of Green buggering [sodomizing] boys nigh on 13 ... boys sort of enjoy it but doesn't enjoy it. I mean, it's quite harsh stuff, some of it."
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Jonathan Gathorn Hardy, Kinsey's most recent English biographer. Interview performed in June 1998 for the British Television program entitled "Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles." Excerpts taken from videotaped interviews used in the production of the documentary. Compiled by Judith Reisman, Ph.D., August 26, 1998.
Harper, Robert A.
"Effecting radical changes in the birth rates by voluntary means alone is manifestly hopeless. ... The only solution is to take away the right to reproduce. [I would] in one full and nondiscriminatory sweep take away the right to reproduce from everyone."
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Robert A. Harper, addressing the American Psychological Association (APA). Obstetrics and Gynecology News, November 1, 1969.
Harrah, Eric
"It's [abortion] excellent money, to be honest with you. It's a cash cow. Whoever tells you the money is not good — I'm sorry, but I think they're liars ... Nobody wants to be a garbage man, but we're glad they're here. That's how most doctors view doctors who do abortions."
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Eric Harrah, manager of two Delaware abortion clinics, quoted in "Help Wanted." Focus on the Family Citizen, July 17, 1995, pages 1 to 3.
Harris, John (one of the founders of the International Association of Bioethics, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester and a member of British Medical Association's ethics committee)
"I don't think infanticide is always unjustifiable. I don't think it is plausible to think that there is any moral change that occurs during the journey down the birth canal. ... People who think there is a difference between infanticide and late abortion have to ask the question: What has happened to the fetus in the time it takes to pass down the birth canal and into the world which changes its moral status? I don't think anything has happened in that time. It is well-known that where a serious abnormality is not picked up — when you get a very seriously handicapped or indeed a very premature newborn which suffers brain damage — that what effectively happens is that steps are taken not to sustain it on life-support. There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries. We ought to be much more upfront about the ethics of all of this and ask ourselves the serious question: What do we really think is different between newborns and late fetuses? There is no obvious reason why one should think differently, from an ethical point of view, about a fetus when it's outside the womb rather than when it's inside the womb.
"I don't believe there is any such thing as a slippery slope. I think that we are always on one. It is our responsibility not to avoid the moral choice. We shouldn't make a bad decision now because we fear it will lead us to make another bad decision in the future. We should make a good decision now and have the courage to believe we will make a good decision in the future too."
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Professor John Harris of the British Medical Association's ethics committee, quoted in Elizabeth Day. "Infanticide is Justifiable in Some Cases, Says Ethics Professor." The Telegraph, January 25, 2004, and in the SPUC News of January 26, 2004.
Harris, Sam (author of The End of Faith)
"I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still, the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century. ... The truth is, some of your most cherished beliefs are as embarrassing as those that sent the last slave ship sailing to America as late as 1859, the same year that Darwin published The Origin of Species."
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Sam Harris. Letter to a Christian Nation [New York City: Alfred A. Knopf], 2006, page 87 [NOTE: The September 24, 2006 Sunday New York Times featured a $100,000 full-page advertisement for the book that read "Ready to challenge religious dogma? Read LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION by Sam Harris ... The courageous new book that arms all rational Americans with powerful arguments against their opponents on the Christian right." To see just how silly and utterly outlandish these 'arguments' really are, visit Harris' Web site].
Harris, Wayne E. (homosexual activist)
"It has become not a right but a duty to come out."
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Wayne E. Harris, a Portland, Oregon lawyer and member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), quoted in Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], June 24, 1990, pages M1 and M4.
Harrison, Beverly Wildung ('bioethicist')
"Infanticide is not a great wrong. I do not want to be construed as condemning women who, under certain circumstances, quietly put their infants to death."
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'Bioethicist' Beverly Wildung Harrison, quoted in David H. Andrusko. "Abortion and Infanticide: Is There a Difference?" National Right to Life News, May 2, 1985, page 2.
Harrison, William F. (Fayetteville, Arkansas abortionist)
"I saw a 16-year-old girl who couldn't deliver because she had no vagina. She'd destroyed it using oven cleaner trying to abort. ... People don't die much anymore from the complications of abortion, even illegal abortion, because of antibiotics and well-trained surgeons. I never saw one [woman] die. ... An OB-GYN who won't perform an elective abortion for a patient is like a trauma surgeon who says he won't use blood transfusions because he's a Jehovah's Witness. When you're a doctor, your religion is not important. Your job is to take care of your patients. If you're an OB-GYN, your job is to take care of pregnant women. ... Nearly all late-term abortions are done because of fetal anomalies, usually an anomaly that means the baby wouldn't live."
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Abortionist William F. Harrison of Fayetteville, Arkansas, quoted in Doug Smith. "A Fighting Abortionist Fears for His Patients: The Return of Unsafe Abortions Looms." Arkansas Times, April 15, 2002.
Harry, Debra (reformed abortion mill worker)
"The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby. ... Saline abortions have to be done in the hospital because of the complications that can arise. Not that they can't arise during other times, but more so now. The saline, a salt solution, is injected into the woman's sac, and the baby starts dying a slow, violent death. The mother feels everything, and many times it is at this point when she realizes that she really has a live baby inside her, because the baby starts fighting violently, for his or her life. He's just fighting inside because he's burning. ... I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks ... with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages ..."
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Former abortion worker Debra Harry, quoted in the film "Meet the Abortion Providers." Pro-Life Action League, Chicago, Illinois, 1989.
Hartman, Heidi
"Patriarchy is men's control over women's labor power. That control is maintained by excluding women from access to necessary economically productive resources and by restricting women's sexuality. Men exercise their control in receiving personal service work from women, in not having to do housework or rear children, in having access to women's bodies for sex, and in feeling powerful and being powerful.
"Elements of patriarchy as we currently experience them are: Heterosexual marriage (and consequent homophobia), female childbearing and housework, women's economic dependence on men (enforced by arrangements in the labor market), the state, and numerous institutions based on social relations among men — clubs, sports, unions, professions, universities, churches, corporations and armies."
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Heidi Hartman. "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism." In Lydia Sargent [editor]. Women and Revolution [Boston: South End Press], 1981, page 18 [emphasis in the original].
Hastings Center
"... a denial of nutrition may in the long run become the only effective way to make certain that a large number of biologically tenacious patients actually die. Given the increasingly large pool of superannuated, chronically ill, physically marginal elderly, it could well become the nontreatment of choice ... Our emerging problem is not just that of eliminating useless or wasteful treatment, but of limiting even efficacious treatment, because of its high cost. It may well turn out that what is best for each and every individual is not necessarily a societally affordable health care system."
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'Bioethicist' Daniel Callahan, Director of the Hastings Center. The Hastings Center Report, October 1983, page 22 [NOTE: Callahan's 1987 book Setting Limits proposed rationing medical treatment after a certain unspecified age].
Harvard University
"The leader of Harvard's BOND, a student group self-described as "geared toward those who may not be 'straight,'" sent an email to the organization on Tuesday encouraging members to dontate blood, but to lie in an effort to circumvent the Red Cross screening policy. "On the Red Cross's form, you will be asked: "Are you a man who has had sexual contact with another man since 1973?" This applies to many of you. You should lie," Clifford S. Davidson '02 wrote in an email to BOND.
"BOND member Fred O. Smith '04 said that he thought Davidson's posting was "a little surprising. I didn't expect him to be quite that direct," he said. But Smith said he feels that Davidon's position was correct. "The [Red Cross] rule is based on homophobic stereotypes," he said. "In this case I don't think it is unreasonable to ignore it"."
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Zachary R. Heineman. "BOND Members Urged To Participate In Blood Drive." The Harvard Crimson Online, September 14, 2001.
Harvey, Brett
"It's hard for today's young women to imagine abortions in dark, dirty rooms that smelled of Clorox, done by doctors who breathed bourbon fumes and copped a feel before they got to work, and warned you not to scream or they'd walk out and leave you alone in the middle of nowhere. Or self-aborting alone in your college dorm room, scared to tell anyone, watching your metal wastebasket fill up with blood, flushing the fetus down the toilet, terrified that it would clog the plumbing and you'd be found out. Or being rushed to the hospital hemorrhaging from a perforated uterus, only to be interrogated by police officers demanding to know where you got the abortion ...
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Brett Harvey. "The Morning After." Mother Jones, May 1989, pages 28 to 31 and 43.
Haskell, Marvin (late-term abortionist)
Late-term abortionist Marvin Haskell says that most of the babies are definitely alive when he kills them: "A percentage [are already dead] are for various numbers of reasons. Some just because of the stress — intrauterine stress during, you know, the two days that the cervix is being dilated ... And so, in my case, I would think probably about a third of those are definitely dead before I actually start to remove the fetus. And probably the other two-thirds are not."
Haskell admitted that "you could dilate further" and deliver the baby alive, but "that's not really the point. The point here is you're attempting to do an abortion. And that's the goal of your work, is to complete an abortion. Not to see how do I manipulate the situation so that I get a live birth instead."
"Most of my [D&X] abortions are elective in that 20 to 24 week range ... In my particular case, probably 20 percent are for genetic reasons. And the other 80 percent are purely elective."
Haskell says that his D&X abortions are "elective" to 26 weeks and "non-elective" all the way to 40 weeks, based upon what he told the House Constitution Subcommittee in June 1995. But, as always, they stretch the definitions: His largest single "maternal indicator" for "non-elective" D&X abortions right up to birth was "depression."
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Robert W. Lee. "The Partial-Birth "Choice"." New American, April 15, 1996, pages 4 to 8.
"At this point, the right-handed surgeon slides the fingers of the left had [sic] along the back of the fetus and "hooks" the shoulders of the fetus with the index and ring fingers (palm down). Next he slides the tip of the middle finger along the spine towards the skill while applying traction to the shoulders and lower extremities. The middle finger lifts and pushes the anterior cervical lip out of the way.
"While maintaining this tension, lifting the cervix and applying traction to the shoulders with the fingers of the left hand, the surgeon takes a pair of blunt curved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand. He carefully advances the tip, curved down, along the spine and under his middle finger until he feels it contact the base of the skull under the tip of his middle finger.
"Reassessing proper placement of the closed scissors tip and safe elevation of the cervix, the surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum. Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening.
"The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents. With the catheter still in place, he applies traction to the fetus, removing it completely from the patient."
"The author is aware of one other surgeon [J. McMahon] who uses a conceptually similar technique ... Coupled with other refinements and a slower operating time, he performs these procedures up to 32 weeks or more."
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Abortionist Martin Haskell. "Dilatation and Extraction for Late Second Trimester Abortion." Contained in National Abortion Federation. Second Trimester Abortion: From Every Angle. "Fall Risk Management Seminar, September 13-14, 1992, Dallas, Texas. Presentations, Bibliography & Related Materials." 1992 [NOTE: The foramen magnum is the large opening in the occipital bone between the cranial cavity and the spinal canal. Haskell goes on to say that this ghastly abortion procedure can be used essentially all the way to birth].
Haskins, Junius
Brent Epperson, radio WBRG station manager: "You might have misunderstood the question. Once the baby is completely out of the mother, and the cord has not been cut, would the mother have the right and how would you feel about the baby being aborted at that point?"
Junius Haskins, Lynchburg, Virginia City Council member: "I would still have to respect the mother's right! I did understand the question."
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May 1, 1996 interview on Christian radio station WBRG, quoted in Virginia Society for Human Life Lifesaver, August 1996.
Haugland, Valgerd Svarstad (Norwegian Minister of Culture and Church)
"Each year 800,000 women die in developing countries because abortions are not performed in a medically proper way. Is it ethically right to cut ourselves off the possibility to help these women? Then the consequence can be two murders and not one."
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Mrs. Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian Minister of Culture and Church, quoted in "Norwegian Gov't Caught Using Inflated Figure for Worldwide Deaths from "Unsafe" Abortions." LifeSite Daily News, January 9, 2003 [NOTE: When a reporter asked Haugland about the high figure, she responded, "I got the figure 800,000 from our Department of international aid. I have no reason to doubt it"].
Hauser, Philip
"As a first step in this direction [of achieving zero population growth], it would be necessary for the family planning movement to enlarge its objectives ... from enabling couples to achieve the number of children desired to inducing them to have a number of children consistent with a zero-rate of population growth."
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Philip Hauser. "Non-Family Planning Methods of Population Control." From the proceedings of the International Conference of Family Planning, Dacca, 1969. 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. $150.00.
Hausknecht, Richard (abortionist)
"Their histories date back to women who had back-alley abortions that resulted in internal infections and other, more disturbing, complications. Legalization has largely eliminated these things, as well as the estimated 5,000 annual abortion-related deaths in the years before Roe ... Unfortunately, their [19th Century doctors] successful effort to make abortion illegal simply drove it into the back alley, where, according to some estimates, as many as two million abortions a year were performed — a number that if even half accurate should sober up today's Victorian nostalgists."
Abortionist Richard Hausknecht: "You are preserving a woman's life by not forcing her to take the extreme measure of a life-threatening illegal abortion or having a child when it's totally inappropriate to do so ... It's true that abortion providers are perceived as not very good doctors — that they have no alternative so they do abortions, that they cannot earn a living any other way."
Unnamed pro-abortion OB-GYN: "It's seen as the dirty work of our field. The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the clinics are grade-B doctors. They're not the cream of the crop. And it's not because they're committed. It's because they can't find steady work."
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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 help prevent infection!]
Hawkins, Robert O. (Sexuality Information and Educational Council of the United States (SIECUS))
"Most pedophiliacs (people who are sexually interested in minor children) are gentle and affectionate, and are not dangerous in the way child molesters are stereotypically considered to be."
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Robert O. Hawkins. "The Uppsala Connection: The Development of Principles Basic to Education for Sexuality." SIECUS [Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States] Report, January 1980.
Hawkins, Steven W. (Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)
"The irony underlying Scalia's comments is this: In suggesting that judges who have a religiously-based opposition to the death penalty should resign, Scalia is implying that religion and politics should not mix. But he is twisting and convoluting his religion based on political belief. In my view, that is the most dangerous type of judge there is."
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Steven W. Hawkins, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Letter to Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], page 43 [NOTE: This statement is so astoundingly hypocritical because CFFC says that judges who oppose abortion should be removed; yet they criticize Justice Scalia for saying the same thing about judges who oppose the death penalty!]
Hawn, Goldie (actress)
"I wouldn't be a man if my life depended on it!"
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Goldie Hawn's statement on the cover of the Spring 1991 People Magazine.
Hax, Carolyn (Washington Post)
"The abortion right is being left undefended by its true champions — the women who owe not their lives, but their lifestyles to the convenience of legal abortion. ... Abortion has validated a lifestyle that allowed room for irresponsibility. ... Among its perks are extended travel, higher education, unbroken career paths, choosing a different father, limiting family size, and going out and getting drunk after work. ... as long as 'proabortion' and 'abortion on demand' are accepted as dirty words by abortion-rights proponents, leaders and followers, they will continue to be used against advocates of legal abortion. As long as legal abortion is deemed something other than abortion on demand, increasingly restrictive laws will worm their way in at the state level."
"I don't care if you are in high school or the fetus is unhealthy or it's a boy and you want a girl. If you don't want your baby, I don't want your baby."
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Copy Editor Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post, quoted in Stephen Settle. "There's No Middle Ground." National Catholic Register, April 25, 1993, page 5.
Hay, Harry (founder of the Mattachine Society)
"I share with many people the secret, sneaking sensation that, on one level or another, it [AIDS] may have been introduced by reckless Republican reactionaries of the stripe of Ronald Reagan. Not Reagan himself — he's too stupid."
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Harry Hay, founder of the first homosexual organization in the United States (The Mattachine Society), quoted in Outweek Magazine, June 27, 1990, page 95.
Hayword, Carter (female Episcopalian 'priest')
"If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament ... an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning."
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Carter Hayword, a female Episcopalian 'priest,' at the 1985 National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention. National Abortion Federation Update, Fall 1985, page 7.
Heather Has Two Mommies (pro-homosexual public school propaganda text)
"Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two ears, two hands ... and two mommies: Momma Jane and Momma Kate."
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An excerpt from Heather Has Two Mommies, a pro-homosexual public school propaganda text that was forced on young children in the New York public school system [NOTE: It is interesting (and frightening) to note that Heather Has Two Mommies was published by Alyson Publications of Boston, which also is one of the world's leading publishers and distributors of "kiddie porn" for pedophiles. Alyson Publisher's books include Macho Sluts, which includes a short story where a veteran lesbian has sadomasochistic sex with her own 13-year old daughter, whipping her until she bleeds freely; The Age Taboo, a series of essays that argue for the abolishment of all age of consent laws; Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, which includes seven recommendations by the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) to help parents deceive and avoid police and parents of the children they sexually molest; and the 1,000+ page Spartacus International Gay Guide, which lists international pedophile support groups and shows exactly where child sexual molesters can find captive boy prostitutes in foreign countries. This book is so detailed that it even names specific streets and parks where young children can be found and exploited for sex (Greg Mueller and Tom Kilgannon. "Publisher of Daddy's Roommate and Pro-Gay Kid's Books Also Caters to Child Molesters." Lambda Report, March 24, 1993, page 1)].
Hefner, Hugh (Playboy Magazine)
"Largely because of the fundamentalist religion thing that is going on ... there is a very anti-sexual kind of position. ... And the anti-porn movement that is now reflected in the federal government. You've got a sexual McCarthyism going on right now with statements from the Surgeon General and the Justice Department and this Mickey Mouse committee they're sending around the country."
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Hugh Hefner, in a February 1986 Playboy interview. "Hefner Speaks Unkindly About the Morals of Others." National Federation for Decency Journal, April 1986, pages 15 and 16.
"I unhesitatingly approve of bestiality. What I'm saying is, what difference does it [sex with animals] make if it turns somebody on? The only thing I see in bestiality that is hurtful to people is the fact that people used to go to prison for it."
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Hugh Hefner, quoted in "Hefner Explains Philosophy 7-Eleven Promotes." National Federation for Decency Journal, April 1986, page 16.
Heifitz, Milton
"We must evaluate what can really be termed the 'salvage value.' This factor is vital in our decisionmaking. What kind of child will result? ... Will life be meaningful to any degree? What is meaningful and to whom? The newborn is an organism with a potential for human qualities, qualities which are as yet nonexistent. ... Is life at birth more significant than at the second, fourth, or sixth month of pregnancy? It is not. True, it is closer to gaining the attributes of man, but, as yet, it has only the potential for those qualities. If this difference is true for the normal newborn, how much less significant is it for the newborn who doesn't even have this potential?"
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Milton Heifitz, M.D., Chief of Neurosurgery, Los Angeles Medical Center. The Right to Die. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975, page 51. Quoted by C. Everett Koop, M.D. "The Slide to Auschwitz." Human Life Review, Summer 1982, page 36.
"A newborn is merely an organism with a potential for human qualities, no more significant than at second, fourth, or sixth months of pregnancy."
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Milton Heifitz, M.D., Chief of Neurosurgery, Los Angeles Medical Center, testimony before Congress, March 23, 1976.
Hemlock Society (pro-euthanasia organization)
"No compassionate doctor who helps to end suffering should be subject to prosecution in a civilized country. We must back Dr. Kevorkian's efforts with legal change and support for Hemlock's activities. He courageously broke the law. The law is wrong. This is the time to change it if we all work together."
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"Dr. Kevorkian Convicted." Timelines [Hemlock Society newsletter], Spring 1999, page 1, also at http://www.hemlock.org.
"Sorry my English is not good enough. But I hope you understand to some extent my Bavarian-German-American-English reading. I like more to speak by heart. But I am impotent, English-impotent ...
"Physicians all over the world swear the "Hippocratic Oath." And all think, especially the patients, that is for their own protection. Because medical functionaries preach that with ardor. I studied that [Hippocratic] oath exactly. And I discussed it in the last chapter of my medicine-critical book Nachoperation = Reoperation 1977. ... The conclusion of my Hippocratic Oath study is: "A more bad physician's oath doesn't exist!"... One sentence of the patient-hostile Hippocratic Oath is: "I will never give anyone a deadly poison, not even at their request, nor will I give them any advice as to a deadly poison." 2500 years ago, when Hippocrates was still alive and Socrates died of the Hemlock Cup, this may have seemed a reasonable measure against murder by poisoning. It may even have been a reasonable measure up until 50 years ago. But it doesn't apply for the last 50 years. Today I judge such an oath to be an act of unmedical patient-hostility, an act of inhumanity.
"Your [Hemlock Society] congress will help that the self-evident human rights for a dignified death will become a fixed and steady law all over the world. Such a vested human right would automatically cause that everybody would be able to determine for himself at what time and in which way he wants to die. ..."
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From the transcript of a speech by Dr. Julius Hackethal (the German "Dr. Cyanide") entitled "Medical Help By Suicide — As a Method of Voluntary Euthanasia," presented at the Second National Voluntary Euthanasia Conference of the Hemlock Society on February 9th, 1985, in Los Angeles, California [emphasis in original].
"The doors began to open for me and my ideas once a wonderful thing happened — Roe v. Wade."
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Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, quoted in Nat Hentoff, "Dr. Kevorkian and Roe v. Wade." Washington Post, March 16, 1996, page A17.
"A judicial determination should be made when it is necessary to hasten the death of an individual, whether it be a demented parent, a suffering, severely disabled spouse or a child."
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Hemlock Society Executive Director Faye Girsh, December 3, 1997 quote. "Ten Pro-Life Activists Charged." LifeSite Daily News, January 26, 1998.
"We have to go stage by stage, with the living will, with the power of attorney, with the withdrawal of this, and of that; we have to go stage by stage. Your side would call that the 'slippery slope.'"
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Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society. Quoted in Leslie Bond. "Hemlock Society Forms New Organization to Push Assisted Suicide Initiative." National Right to Life News, December 18, 1986, pages 1 and 10.
"In the case of a minor or an incompetent adult, the law now allows life or death decisions to be made by a designated health care agent and/or a family member in most jurisdictions. ... Some provision should be made for a situation in which life is not being sustained by artificial means but, in the belief of the patient or his agent, is too burdensome to continue ... A judicial determination should be made when it is necessary to hasten the death of an individual whether it be a demented parent, a suffering, severely disabled spouse or a child. Consultants should evaluate what other ways might be used to alleviate the suffering and, if not are available or are successful, a non-violent, gentle means should be available to end the person's life."
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Hemlock Society USA, "Mercy Killing: A Position Statement Regarding David Rodriguez," December 1997 [NOTE: This is call for involuntary euthanasia from the Hemlock Society. Notice the soothing language and how reasonable they make it all sound].
"We are trying to overturn 2,000 years of Christian tradition."
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Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 1992, page A25.
Herbert, Bob (NBC)
"Who is this guy, Clarence Thomas, and why should we want him on the Supreme Court? I can't think of any good reasons. The man is not distinguished and he doesn't seem to have a heart. ... Let's be straight about this. Clarence Thomas is a tool of the rich and powerful. His supporters include Dan Quayle, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms. Even David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader, is crazy about Clarence Thomas. Make no mistake, old people, poor people, black people, women, forget about it. Clarence Thomas is not your friend."
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Former NBC News reporter Bob Herbert in a Sunday Today "Viewpoint" segment, September 8, 1991.
"[Food] stamps, a blessing, allowed them [able-bodied adults without children] to purchase about $25 worth of food a week. They would not be able to eat like a President or member of Congress, but they could have some soup, maybe a little pasta, some tuna, some beans. They wouldn't starve, and they would have enough energy to continue looking for a job ... After 90 days, the following notice is to be disseminated: Put down that soup spoon, poor person, the Clinton administration and the Republican-led Congress are clearing the table."
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New York Times columnist and former NBC reporter Bob Herbert, February 21, 1997.
"For urban dwellers, and especially the poor, the Republican Party as currently constituted is the enemy — the source of endless destructive, mean-spirited and racist initiatives. ... The unspoken question on Kelly Street [in the Bronx] was how, in good conscience, General Powell could serve as the standard-bearer of a party that is waging all-out war against the poor and racial and ethnic minorities (and which is hostile to the interests of the middle class as well). ... For years, the insidious and blatantly racist strategy of the Republican Party has been to pit the middle classes against the lower classes, while sucking money from both groups up the economic pyramid to the smiling faces at the top."
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Former NBC reporter Bob Herbert in his New York Times column, September 22, 1995.
"The Republican jihad [holy war] against the poor, the young and the helpless rolls on. So far no legislative assault has been too cruel, no budget cut too loathsome for the party that took control of Congress at the beginning of the year and has spent all its time since then stomping on the last dying embers of idealism and compassion in government. ... If anything is funny in this dismal period, it's that the Republicans are touchy about being called heartless and cold. That's a riot. Has anyone listened to Newt Gingrich lately? To Dick Armey? To Phil Gramm? This is the coldest crew to come down the pike since the Ice Age."
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Former NBC News reporter Bob Herbert in his February 25, 1995 New York Times column.
"There is something very creepy about the welfare debate....The politicians have gotten together and decided it's a good idea to throw a million or so children into poverty. But they can't say that. The proponents of this so-called 'reform' effort have gone out of their way to avoid being seen for what they are — men and women of extreme privilege who are taking food out of the mouths of infants and children, the poverty-stricken elderly, the disabled."
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Ex-NBC News reporter Bob Herbert, July 22, 1996 New York Times column.
HERizons (Canadian feminist magazine)
"An excellent way to respond to the Pope's visit would be to display its absurdity. You might laugh at his costume, his gestures ... laughter is a very helpful weapon. ..."
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Article in the Winnipeg, Canada-based feminist journal HERizons, ridiculing the Pope's visit to Canada. Also quoted in Betty Steele. The Feminist Takeover: Patriarchy to Matriarchy in Two Decades [Richmond Hill, Ontario: Tercet Publishing], 1987, page 24.
Herman, Ellen
"[Young feminists] wanted the freedom to design their present and future families in myriad ways, without penalty: To love women or men, to have sex with one person at a time or several, to live with or without children, to participate in parenting without necessarily participating in reproduction. Only when they could invent families of all kinds — without fear of ridicule of self-loathing — could women hope to attain genuine individuality, rather than categorization as captive members of a sex/gender class."
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Ellen Herman. "Still Married After All These Years." Sojourner: The Women's Forum, September 1990, page 14s. Also in Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press, 1997], page 136.
Hern, Warren (late-term abortionist)
"[Pro-lifers] are, with few exceptions, vicious, irrational, absolutely ruthless, unscrupulous, pitiless, and driven by hatred. They are willing to accept any level of violence, not to mention social disruption and imposition of emotional pain to reach their goals.
"This is no longer about free speech. It is about behavior that is meant to inflict pain, terror, and, in some cases, death. It is no longer tolerable to have any form of political protest in front of my clinic or any other abortion facility in the United States.
"A face-to-face conspiracy to commit political crimes is no longer necessary. All the leaders have to do is use the airwaves to identify the targets. [The Federal government] should not allow the exploitation of First Amendment rights for authoritarian and terrorist purposes."
"Every anti-abortion demonstrator must now be considered armed, dangerous and a potential assassin until proven otherwise. The anti-abortion movement must be considered the source and spawning ground of a violent, terrorist movement which threatens the social fabric and civil society of laws of the United States."
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January 1995 report of abortionist Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, to Janet Reno and Joanne Harris, quoted in William Norman Grigg. "Soviet-Style "Choice"." New American, April 15, 1996, pages 17-19.
"Vital signs should be observed regularly, and a Doppler [for listening to the fetal heartbeat] inaudible to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or absence of fetal heart tones. ... This [informed consent] is a controversial area, but most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy."
"We have reached a point in this particular technology where there is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction on the part of the operator. It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current."
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Abortionist Warren Hern, addressing the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians at their 1978 convention in San Diego. Presentation entitled "WHAT ABOUT US? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure." Quoted in The Advocate (publication of Advocates for Life Ministries, Portland, Oregon), March 1986, page 15.
"The rate of population growth is exponential and uncontrolled ... The human species is a rapacious, predatory organism displaying all the characteristics of a malignant tumor. ... One of the main characteristics of a cancerous growth is that it resists regulation. Growth is not controlled."
"The ideas that provide the philosophical underpinnings of human destructiveness are found most vividly in the Judeo-Christian ethic, which purports to sanctify man's mastery over nature. This tradition has suppressed and scorned the significant biological fact that man is an animal like many of his other fellow creatures, holding instead that he is God's gift to creation — the flower of the universe."
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February 1990 address of abortionist Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, to the University of Colorado-Boulder, quoted in William Norman Grigg. "Soviet-Style "Choice"." New American, April 15, 1996, pages 17 to 19.
"[Pregnancy] is an episodic, moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents."
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Warren Hern, M.D. "Is Pregnancy Really Normal?" Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives, January 1971, page 9.
"[The term 'menstrual extraction'] originated as a euphemism for early abortion prior to legalization of abortion and was perceived by its originators as a useful deception (and is still useful) in a politically repressive setting."
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Warren M. Hern. Abortion Services Handbook. Chicago: Interfacia, Inc., 1978, pages 86 and 87.
"The general atmosphere is one of survival. Twenty-five percent of the clinics have been bombed. This is a highly repressive, totalitarian [pro-life] movement, similar to the Brown Shirts who broke windows in Jewish shops in Germany."
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Abortionist Warren Hern, quoted in "Why Three Abortionists Quit: Picketing, Conscience, Old Age." ALL News, February 16, 1987, page 7.
"I have to say this: There's a lot of crummy medicine being practiced out there in providing abortion services, and I think that some of the stuff I see coming across my desk is very upsetting. ... We have to do this [abortions] right or we shouldn't do it."
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Abortionist Warren Hern, at the 18th Annual meeting of the National Abortion Federation (NAF).
"There must be a right to dispose of an infant survivor of abortion."
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Late-term abortionist Warren Hern, quoted by the Denver Post, February 27, 1977.
"Aerial and satellite views of urban centers taken over a period of years bore a striking similarity to images of cancerous tissue (particularly melanoma) invading the healthy surrounding tissue. ... In many parts of the world the increase in human numbers is rapid and uncontrolled, that it invades and destroys habitats, and that by killing off many species it reduces the differentiation of nature. All of these features are characteristics of cancerous tumors."
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Colorado abortionist Warren Hern, speaking at the November 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia he organized, in answer to the question "Is the human species a cancer on the planet?" "Anthropologist Symposium Calls Human Beings a Cancer Infecting Planet Earth." Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) Friday FAX, January 1, 1999.
"The relationship between the gravid female and the feto-placental unit can be understood best as one of host and parasite.
"Pregnancy should be seen as a biocultural event in the context of other human illnesses."
"Vital signs should be observed regularly, and a Doppler [for listening to the fetal heartbeat] inaudible to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or absence of fetal heart tones
"This [informed consent for abortion] is a controversial area, but most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy."
"In Colorado, the pro-choice community has decided after some period of disagreement and discussion to refuse all invitations to debate.
"Television interviews, in particular, should focus on the public issue involved (right to confidential and professional medical care, freedom of choice, and so forth) and not on the specific details of the abortion procedures.
"We respond to all requests from schools for educational presentations concerning abortion. If the sponsors want both sides presented, however, the presentations must be made on different occasions. We insist that visual aid materials not be presented by either side."
"The [abortion] procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because the fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember ... A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus."
"There's a lot of bad medicine being practiced out there in the name of choice. I testified in an Oregon case against a doctor who really did not do well by a patient. As a society, I think we've been in denial about the risks of abortion, both because of ideology, and because of economics. There are a lot of respectable doctors doing a lousy job."
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Warren Hern, quoted in "New Front in Abortion Wars: Malpractice Suits." The New York Times, April 9, 1995, page 30.
"Governor Owens has brought the spirit of the Taliban to Colorado. If women are not free to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive decisions, how are they free? Bill Owens has used a dishonest political shell game to cut off family planning funds for Planned Parenthood and Boulder Valley Women's Health Center in order to get right-wing anti-abortion votes, and the poor women of Colorado will suffer."
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Third-trimester abortionist Warren Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, criticizing a decision by the state Health Department to cut taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. Quoted by Fox News on January 21, 2002, and "Colorado Abortionist Compares Governor to Taliban." Steven Ertelt Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org, January 22, 2002.
"Because spectacular growth and invasiveness are outstanding features of the human population, the similarity of the human species to a cancerous process comes readily to mind, especially to a physician. A schematic view of the growth of London from 1800 to 1955 looks like nothing so much as an expanding, invasive, metastatic, malignant tumor. ... Cancers spread by two means: Extensive invasion and by metastasis, or distant colonization. Human communities, once established, tend to invade and destroy all adjacent ecosystems, without limits. ... There is no ecosystem on the planet that is not already destroyed, invaded, or immediately threatened in some manner by the human species. ...
"A visitor from space might see, not individual human beings, but lesions on the earth's landscape, some with interconnecting links. ... Malignant tumors are characterized by highly irregular and invasive borders that are indistinct. Benign tumors tend to have distinct and even encapsulated borders and are not invasive. When images of malignant lesions are compared with images of human communities, especially modern urban conglomerates, and scalar/tonar differences are minimized or eliminated, as in Figures 11-15, the malignant lesions and human communities are highly similar, even indistinguishable, in their appearance.
"Of the four characteristics of malignant tumors, pathologists generally require that a tumor display two in order to be categorized as malignant. Also, behavior of a tumor is more important than its histogenesis. It is my hypothesis that the human population has all four characteristics of a malignant process, and that its behavior in at least three of the four categories is clearly malignant (Table 1).
TABLE 1
Comparisons Between Malignant Tumors and Human Populations
Malignant Tumors
Human Species
Rapid, uncontrolled growth
Rapid population growth
Metastatis
Colonization, urbanization
De-differentiation
Adaptability through culture
Invasion & destruction of adjacent normal tissues
Ecological destruction by most human societies
Grows in spite of host starvation until host dies
Now threatens global eco-system
"The human species is a rapacious, predatory, omniecophagic species engages in a global pattern of converting all available plant, animal, organic, and inorganic matter into either human biomass or into adaptive adjuncts of human biomass. This is an epiecopatholigical process that is both immediately and ultimately ecocidal. In this respect, the human species is an example of a malignant eco-tumor, and uncontrolled proliferation of a single species that threatens the existence of other species in their habitats.
"The human species is capable of regulating its fertility and population growth, it is capable of restoring environments and saving other species from extinction, and it is capable of living in harmony with the rest of the ecosystem. This hypothesis predicts that, while the human species is capable of all these non-cancerous activities and even occasionally displays them, it will continue to behave overall as a cancer on the planet. ...
"In order to describe the phenomenon of this malignant, omni-ecophagic species, I propose that the new scientific name of the human species be homo ecophagus (homos = man (L.), oikos = house, also the traditional root for "ecosystem" (Gr.), phagos = glutton (Gr.)) — "the man who devours the ecosystem."
"The new human species, homo ecophagus, is a ubiquitous, predatory, omniecophagic species that is a malignant epiecopathologic process engaged in the conversion of all planetary material into human biomass or its support system with coincident terminal derangement of the global ecosystem.
"The idea that the human population is a planetary cancer is a profoundly disturbing conclusion, but the observations of the scientific community over the last 20 years have provided massive support for this hypothesis and little, if anything, to refute it. ..."
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Late-term abortionist Warren Hern. "Why Are There So Many of Us? Description and Diagnosis of a Planetary Ecopatholical Process." Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Volume 12, Number 1 [Fall 1990] [emphasis in the original]. Also reprinted and distributed as a booklet [NOTE: This has to be the most imaginative rationalization for one's life's work ever concocted. Perhaps Hern soothes his hurting conscience every time he dismembers a healthy and viable preborn baby by strongly imaging that he is helping ameliorate a 'cancer' that is 'infecting' planet Earth].
"Aside from the fact that the word "abortionist" does not appear in the article, it is a highly charged word that is pejorative, derogatory and defamatory. It is most often used by antiabortion fanatics in close company with words like "murderer," "baby-killer," and other slanderous phrases to describe physicians who perform abortions.
"There are some words that are so laden with historically stigmatized meanings that they cannot be separated from that context, no matter how hard people may try to bring them into accepted use. Examples are "final solution," "ethnic purity," or "racial purity" and other terms associated with political totalitarianism or group discrimination.
"The term abortionist has been used most often to describe illegal actors in a sleazy world of avaricious, incompetent criminals exploiting immoral women in a sordid and hazardous procedure. The world has changed, and I would hope your usage reflected that."
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Third-trimester abortionist Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times entitled "'Abortionist' Carried a Charged Meaning." September 7, 1993, page A18 [NOTE: This is another attempt by an abortionist to clean up the filthy and sordid image of his life's work. Here is a man who commits second- and third-trimester abortions as his life's work demanding not to be called an "abortionist!" He prefers the soothing Newspeak term "reproductive care provider"].
"I saw a lot of problems between Christianity as a theology and how it was applied in the real world. Sectarian strife and violence. Oppression of non-believers. The Catholic Church was exactly 350 years behind the times, because that's how long it took the church to get over Galileo saying that Copernicus was right: The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the Earth was not the center of the solar system. Whoa. Lock him up, the heretic ... Meanwhile, the Pope is living in luxury in a palatial setting telling poor people to strip their lands bare and reproduce as much as possible [NOTE: We challenge Hern to document this claim, which is just more stupid pro-abortion anti-religious propaganda]
"I loved delivering babies. It was the happiest thing in the world a miracle. I love babies and I love children. ... [Albert] Schweitzer would probably be horrified at what I do now. It took me some time to be reconciled to that. ... What I do is disreputable, repugnant. Even those people who agreed with me in principle didn't want me around them on a personal basis. ... I was the very devil to some people for trying to say that abortion was a medical procedure that greatly affected the health and well-being of women. That made some people afraid ... especially men who fear they can't compete with women on a level playing field in the first place. The reaction to fear is anger and hatred [NOTE: Not once does Hern concede that pro-lifers might be motivated by higher feelings than fear, anger or hatred — say, by concern for the viable and healthy babies he dismembers].
"It was muddle-headed liberal nonsense to let that Nazi son of a bitch [Joe Scheidler] into the meeting [the 1984 National Abortion Federation National convention]. Joe Scheidler looks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, thinks like a Nazi and behaves like a Nazi ... He's obviously not a duck. He's in league with all the tyrants of history. ... I shuddered and thought, 'Boy, here's the enemy. This man will stop at nothing, because this isn't about abortion; it's about power. ... I have a short list of things that scare me — lightning, sharks and grizzly bears among them ... He didn't make the cut. ... Mr. Scheidler incites violence in his followers and then disavows it. Mr. Scheidler has contempt for women, he has contempt for American laws, and he has contempt for the American tradition of fair play. ... In reality, [Randall] Terry [of Operation Rescue] is just another fascist demagogue who motivates a lot of vicious people to be violent. He's driven by power and hatred and rage. He claims to be nonviolent but then urges other people, unbalanced people, to kill and destroy. And the Republican Party made it possible. ... This week, I began wearing a bullet-proof vest to work. I am not a policeman setting out to raid crack houses. I am a doctor who does abortions. The reason I wear body armor is that Pope John Paul II is visiting Denver, attracting legions of anti-abortion activists. The Pope and his bishops have so harshly attacked abortion for so long, it has created a climate of permission for the most radical activists. Now, the church does not wish to take responsibility for the unpredictable, violent consequences of its rhetoric. ... Because of the Boston killings, we must assume all anti-abortion demonstrators are armed and dangerous and will kill anyone seen entering or leaving the building [NOTE: This is what most pro-abortionists think but are afraid to say out loud, and is the most extreme form of stereotyping imaginable]. ... Anti-abortion activity has long since passed the level of peaceful demonstrations of people expressing their point of view. This is no longer about free speech. It is about behavior that is intended to inflict pain, terror, intimidation, and, in some cases, death ... There being no deterrence ... authorities must recognize that the only protection at this point is self-defense, and many of us are prepared to shoot back. This is a prescription for civil war, which is what is happening, except that one side is still holding its fire [NOTE: When certain pro-life leaders have said exactly the same thing — that abortion will lead to civil war — pro-abortionists have loudly condemned their language is "inflammatory"]. ...
"The Mafia has more decency and ethics than these people. At least they keep their 'hit list' secret. They don't torture people for months or years before they kill them. ... The only difference between this and the slaughter of the Jews in Venice is a thousand years. The only difference between this and the Islamic jihad is 8,000 miles. This isn't about abortion. This is about people who think that they can tell everyone else how to think and what to believe. Once they've outlawed abortion and locked up abortion doctors, who will they go after next? People who right for newspapers? People who read books? Blacks? Jews? They hate freedom. They hate secular thought [NOTE: Oh, please! Does Hern really believe this nonsense, or is he just grandstanding?]
"My practice matters to women and their families. And now these people, from Reagan to Scott and that son of a bitch Arrington, want to make it a crime against the state.
"The crime is freedom."
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Excerpts from quotes by third-trimester abortionist Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, quoted by Steve Jackson. "The Fight of Their Lives." Westword [Denver, Colorado], February 13-17, 1997, pages 17 to 31 [NOTE: As can be expected from the mainline media, the article could be a case study in propaganda and biased reporting. It paints Hern in the best possible light, as a caring, compassionate doctor who only wants to help people, and Kenneth Scott as the usual caricature of a fanatical, Bible-beating nut case. The article never mentions that Hern commits third-trimester abortions. Naturally, the photos show Scott only in police mug shots and Hern caring for Shipibo indians, to help further prejudice the reader. The article also mentions that Hern repeats the tired old pro-abortion lie, in an article entitled "Biological Tyranny" in The New Republic, that 800 to 5,000 women died of illegal abortions every year before Roe v. Wade. Hern also bemoans the fact that most of them were minorities, ignoring the fact that the great majority of women who currently die of 'safe' and legal abortions are still minorities. Hern also slips up and says that "It felt good to get back to medicine" when he leaves his abortion mill and goes to the Amazon to treat Indians. The article goes even further and directly lies in order to cover up the bloody business of the abortionists. It describes the partial-birth abortion thusly: "[Barry] Arrington [Republican assembly man from Arvada] described a near-term fetus delivered feet-first up to its neck, at which point the doctor collapses its head. He did not mention that the antiquated procedure is rarely, if ever, performed, and then only to save the life of the mother"].
Hertoft, Preben (Copenhagen 'sexologist')
"In cases of mutual consent and mutual sexual attraction, sexual activity itself [between men and boys] seems to produce no damaging effects. It is to be hoped that this may put parents' minds at rest and help them to avoid being unnecessarily upset and anxious."
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Dr. Preben Hertoft, Copenhagen 'sexologist.' "Introduction: Paedophiles Don't Hurt Children." Crime Without Victims (Amsterdam: Global Academic Publishers, 1993). This quote was downloaded from the Web site of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) at http://www.nambla.org on April 15, 1998, under the section entitled "What People Are Saying About NAMBLA and Man/Boy Love."
Heyward, Andrew (President of CBS News)
"Look, Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left. Come on, we all know it — the whole damn world knows it ... If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it."
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CBS News President Andrew Heyward, to Bernard Goldberg, author of Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, quoted CBS Veteran Exposes Media Leftist Bias in Tell-All Book." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, December 4, 2001.
Hickman, Harrison
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as technological advances that show pictures of the fetus."
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Pollster Harrison Hickman at the October 1989 annual conference of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), quoted in Human Life of Washington State. Human Life News, January/February 1990, page 1.
Hildebrandt, Richard
"The conservative press reaches tens of millions more than does the alternative side. What percentage of USA citizens take time to read the opposite viewpoint? [NOTE: Of course, he does not count the heavily anti-life mainline media]. Too few. Result: The nation is composed of mainly bigots [NOTE: Notice that this guy is saying that most of the people in the United States are bigots! Translation: "They don't agree with me!] The many freedoms in Cuba that are absent in the USA are — freedom from unemployment, free medical care for all from womb to tomb, free education through the university level for all students [NOTE: Who needs freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion?] They have free funerals as well as free admission to sports events. They have freedom from widespread drug addiction. They have freedom from homelessness and freedom from any counterpart of our Mafia and Ku Klux Klan. My summation is: Fantastic Fidel!"
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Richard Hildebrandt of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Letter entitled "Fantastic Fidel." The Human Quest, September-October 1992, page 3.
Himes, Norman
"Are Catholic stocks in the United States, taken as a whole, genetically inferior to such no-Catholic libertarian stocks as Unitarians and Universalists, Ethical Culturists, Freethinkers? Inferior to non-Catholic stocks in general? No one really knows. One is entitled to his hunches, however, and my guess is that the answer will someday be made in the affirmative ... and if the supposed differentials in net productivity are also genuine, the situation is anti-social, perhaps gravely so."
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Norman E. Himes. Medical History of Contraception [Baltimore: Schocker paperback edition], 1970, page 413 [NOTE: The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) reprinted this book in 1965 with an introduction by Alan Guttmacher, M.D. [Douglas R. Scott. "Intolerance." Life Decisions International Special Reports, Winter 2002 [Volume V, Number 1], page 3].]
"All the rights we have are those granted to us by society. Certainly there is no natural right to spawn defective children who must be supported by others through taxation or charity. The crisis in this instance is the enormous expense to the state of the care of the defective classes and the contamination of the biological stock which results from their reproduction. ... While sterilization is no substitute for segregation, it is also true that segregation is no substitute for sterilization. They must go hand in hand.
"Ever since the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany an objection that has frequently been raised against eugenical sterilization is that a voluntary sterilization program may turn into a compulsory one. Some thoughtful people sincerely fear this. But the history of eugenical sterilization in the United States and in other democratic countries offers little warrant for the contention. This is the old fallacy of ultimate danger; that if we take step A, it would lead to step B; that if we take step B. it may lead to step C, and so forth without end. The evidence now available shows that even in Nazi Germany, where there is a great deal of compulsion that would not be tolerated by citizens who believe in democracy, there has been as yet no attempt to sterilize any special racial group ...
"Most of the objections to eugenical sterilization are based upon unfounded fears, insufficient knowledge, or faulty reasoning. None of the objections has substantial merit. They are comparable to the arguments made ten years ago against birth control, even by some supposedly will-informed individuals, that birth-control devices caused sterility, necessarily led to immorality, would cause 'race suicide,' were unreliable, etc.
"... we do not need the defective classes. They are already an excessive burden upon the State. A few special students of the problem even believe that our society is undergoing a "moronization" process; that the intelligence level of the American people is declining because the gifted have few children and the stupid many ... Probably it will take society a span of years to learn how to use it [eugenic sterilization] properly as a weapon for its own improvement ..."
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Norman E. Hines, Ph.D. Practical Birth-Control Methods [New York City: Viking Press], 1946 [NOTE: Notice the author's representation and summation of classic eugenicist theories, which, despite their antique quaintness, are still deadly poisonous to this day; that all rights are bestowed by the State alone, even to the granting (or withholding) of the right to life to handicapped persons; that "defectives" are expensive and "contaminate the biological stock," and therefore society does not need "the defective classes;" that the slippery slope theory (here called the "ultimate danger fallacy") has no merit, and, in fact, all anti-eugenicist arguments are baseless and originate from ignorance; and that birth control methods are reliable, do not cause physical damage, do not lead to immorality, and may one day be compulsory].
Hitchins, Christopher (Newsday)
The media and others, of course, attempt to abuse the 'Seamless Garment' to condemn every pro-lifer — no matter how sincere or holy, or no matter how much they do in other areas — if they dare to oppose abortion in any way. For example, Christopher Hitchins, editor of Newsday, who refers to Mother Teresa as "the ghoul of Calcutta," discusses his visit to one of her hospices; "I was about to mutter some words of praise, when M.T. [Mother Teresa] announced, "You see, this is how we fight abortion and contraception in Calcutta." M.T.'s avowed motive somewhat cheapened the ostensible work of charity, an exercise in propaganda for the Vatican's heinous policy of compelling the faithful to breed, and denying where it can the right of non-believers to get hold of birth control. After this experience with the leathery old saint, I kept up an M.T. watch of sorts.
"I wasn't surprised to see her turn up in Haiti a few years later, as a kind of paid confessor to the Duvalier gang ... in August 1989, she made an official visit to the worst of all Stalinist tyrannies (Albania). ... Having prostituted herself for the worst of Communism, it was an easy and worldly step to embrace the worst of capitalism."
Hitchins also recommended that Governor Edmund Brown of California "couldn't make a better move than dropping the old hell bat over the side."
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Christopher Hitchins, editor of Newsday, quoted in Henry V. King. "Left-Wing Columnist Unleashes Vicious Slurs Against Mother Teresa." The Wanderer, September 24, 1992, pages 1 and 8.
Lamb: "We can come back to Henry Kissinger possibly. There's so much to talk about, I want to move to Mother Teresa. You have a piece in here [NOTE: Hitchin's book For the Sake of Argument] that was in The Nation in April 1992, called "Ghoul of Calcutta." Mother Teresa?"
Hitchens: "Mother Teresa, the ghoul of Calcutta. I always had real doubt in my mind as to whether there really was this saintly person. If you ask people why they think Mother Teresa's so great, they'll always say, "Isn't it true that she spends her time always helping out the poor of Calcutta?" But if you really push them, they don't know anything about her at all. They just take it on faith, as saints always are taken. So I went to Calcutta, actually for another reason. I thought while I was there I'd go and look her up, and I was rather appalled by what I found. She showed me around her mission and announced that the purpose of the mission is to run the campaign in Calcutta and Bengal against abortion and conception. As it happens, I have my doubts about abortion. I find I'm very squeamish on the subject, but one thing that Calcutta definitely does not need is a campaign waged by an Albanian Catholic missionary against the limitation of the population. It rather, to me, spoiled the effect of her charitable work. She was saying, actually, this is not charity; it's really just propaganda. I think the Vatican policy on population control is calamitous. So that aroused my curiosity anyway. It had been a bit of a disappointment meeting her then, and I didn't like her manners particularly, either, as she went around among the poor. Then I found her turning up as the defender of the Duvalier family in Haiti, saying how lovely they were and how gentle and beautiful. I found her turning up as Charles Keating's personal best friend in the Lincoln Savings & Loan scandal, taking a lot of money from his for a private plane, giving him blessings and crucifixes in return. I found her turning up in Albania where she's a supporter of a very extreme right nationalist party. And quite a few other such things. I thought, hey, I don't like any of these things singly or together, and, second, when does she ever get time for the poor old poor of Calcutta. She's forever on some scumbag's Lear jet going around cashing in on everyone else's belief that she's a saint. I think this is probably how medieval religion was worked. You took the faithful as credulous, and you reckoned that they would believe whatever you said."
Lamb: "Let me just take her side for purposes of discussion. Let's say that she went to the Duvalier family and got money, went to Charles Keating and got money and moved it over to the poor. Wouldn't that be charity?"
Hitchens: "I don't think it's necessary for someone who is supposedly consecrated to the mission of charity and who's world famous for it to ever have to beg for money. If she ever wanted it, she knows where to go for it. People would open their pockets and, I think, their hearts. The fact is, I don't know if she got any money from the Duvaliers. What she was doing was defending them as a dynasty in Haiti, and everyone knows what the record of the Duvalier family is. She did get money from Keating, and I actually ask in my piece, you know, would she care, would anyone care to say that they know where it's gone because she must have known or should have known that that money doesn't belong to Keating and doesn't belong to her. It's stolen money. But the fact is she was giving him in return various kinds of absolution in his campaigns, and I think this is because he started off life as morals cop. He was another of the prohibitionists who began his career as an anti-pornography person. She's evidently, it seems, on call for people with dubious characters of this kind. I just thought it was worth pointing out. I can't tell you the mail I got about it. If you touch the idea of sainthood, especially in this country, people feel you've taken something from them personally. I'm fascinated because we like to look down on other religious beliefs as being tribal and superstitious but never dare criticize our own."
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Brian Lamb interviewing Christopher Hitchens on the October 17, 1993 "Booknotes" show on C-SPAN.
Hitler, Adolf, and the German Nazi (National Socialist) Party
NOTE: For a compendium of quotes from the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal proving that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were both anti-Catholic and pro-abortion, click here.
"The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future. ... Whether it's the Old Testament or the New, or simply the sayings of Jesus, it's all the same old Jewish swindle. ... The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. ... That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it. ... I shall make them [Catholics] appear ridiculous and contemptible. I shall order films to be made about them. We shall show the history of the monks on the cinema. Let the whole mass of nonsense, selfishness, repression and deceit be revealed: How they drained the money out of the country, how they committed incest. We shall make it so thrilling that everyone will want to see it. There will be queues outside the cinemas. ... The Church is hollow and rotten and false through and through. We should trap the priests by their notorious greed and self-indulgence. We shall thus be able to settle everything with them, in perfect peace and harmony. ... They will swallow anything in order to keep their material advantages. ... We need only show them once or twice who is the master. Then they will know which way the wind blows. ... The Church will not fight. I'm quite satisfied. As long as youth follows me, I don't mind if the old people limp to the confessional. But the young ones — they will be different. I guarantee that. ... We are obliged to depopulate. ... We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial units. ... Nature is cruel, therefore we, too, may be cruel. ... A new age of magic interpretation of the world is coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not of the intelligence. ... Man is becoming God — that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making. National Socialism is the will to create mankind anew."
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Adolf Hitler, quoted in Hermann Rauschning. The Voice of Destruction [interviews with Adolf Hitler 1933-1934]. These quotes are verbatim. Described in Jude McCabeus. "Hitler: A Pioneer for the "Politically Correct." New Oxford Review, October 1997, pages 19 and 20.
"The government has seven chief responsibilities. ... One of these is to maintain the practice of modern birth control. No diseased or weak person should be allowed to have children."
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Adolf Hitler, in his book Mein Kampf ["My Struggle"], quoted in Hermann Rauschning. The Voice of Destruction. New York, 1941, pages 34 to 38. Also see Joseph B. Schechtman. European Population Transfers, 1936-45. New York, 1946, pages 266 and 296.
"All measures which have the tendency to limit the [Polish] births are to be tolerated or to be supported. Abortion in the remaining area of Poland must be declared free from punishment. The means for abortion and contraceptive means may be offered publicly without police restriction. Homosexuality is always to be declared legal. The institutions and persons involved professionally in abortion practices are not to be interfered with by police."
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A November 25, 1939 "Reich Commission for Strengthening of Germandom" (RKFDV) policy statement, quoted in Ihor Kamenetsky. Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe. New York City: 1961, chapter on "German Lebensraum," page 171. Also see Paul Hilberg. The Destruction of European Jews. Chicago, 1961, page 642. Also see Nuremberg trial transcripts at NG-844. Also see Alexander Dallin. German Rule in Russia, 1941 to 1945. London: Winchester Books, 1957, page 457.
"In view of the large families of the native [Soviet Ukraine] population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible."
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Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's personal secretary, quoted in Alexander Dallin. German Rule in Russia, 1941 to 1945. London: Winchester Books, 1957, page 141. Also see Ihor Kamenetsky. Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe. New York City: 1961, chapter on "German Lebensraum," page 143 [NOTE: In July of 1942, Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician, and Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary, conducted a tour of the Soviet Ukraine for the purpose of reviewing population demographics. Bormann subsequently reported to Hitler as stated above].
"When girls and women in the Occupied Territories of the East have abortions, we can only be in favor of it; in any case we should not oppose it. The Fuhrer believes that we should authorize the development of a thriving trade in contraceptives. We are not interested in seeing the non-German population multiply."
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From the July 22, 1939 population control policy issued from the Fuhrer-Hauptquartier [Hitler's headquarters]. Quoted in Leon Poliakov. Harvest of Hate. Syracuse, New York, 1954, pages 272 to 274. Also see Ihor Kamenetsky. Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe. New York City: 1961, pages 197 to 199.
"Every propaganda means, especially the press, radio and movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures, must be used to instill in the Russian population the idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must emphasize the expenses that children cause, the good things that people could have had with the money spent on them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of childbearing on a woman's health.
"Paralleling such propaganda, a large-scale campaign would be launched in favor of contraceptive devices. A contraceptive industry must be established. Neither the circulation and sale of contraceptives nor abortions must be prosecuted.
"It will even be necessary to open special institutions for abortion, and to train midwives and nurses for this purpose. The population will practice abortion all the more willingly if these institutions are competently operated. The doctors must be able to help out, in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics. Voluntary sterilization must also be recommended by propaganda."
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The complete text of a short April 27, 1942 statement by Berlin population and demographics expert Professor Heinrich Wetzel, as quoted in the Nuremberg trial transcripts at NG-2325. See also Leon Poliakov. Harvest of Hate. Syracuse, New York, 1954, pages 272 to 274 [NOTE: Notice the striking parallels between Wetzel's statement and the modern-day propaganda methods and slogans used by anti-lifers].
"The Russian physicians or the Russian Medical Association, which must not be informed of this order, are to be told in individual cases that the pregnancy is being interrupted for reasons of social distress."
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Heinrich Himmler's March 1943 decree, quoted in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Washington, 1949-1954. Transcript at V:109. Also: Richard Stites. The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia. Princeton, 1975, pages 264, 265, 355, 385 to 388, and 403 to 405.
"It is known that racially inferior offspring of Eastern workers and Poles is to be avoided if at all possible. Although pregnancy interruptions ought to be carried out on a voluntary basis only, pressure is to be applied in each of these cases."
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One of the "Reich Commission for Strengthening of Germandom" (RKFDV) documents entered into evidence by the U.S. prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials, quoted in Michael Schwartz. "Abortion: The Nazi Connection." Newsletter of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, August 1978, page 1.
"We Germans cannot totally ignore events which occur outside our borders. A whole series of nations have positively accepted that the laws of heredity do affect the development of mental abnormality and have understood the consequences of that and created [compulsory] sterilisation laws. The Americans have been reproached with relentless pluck because of laws they have passed in 22 of their States."
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A July 1931 statement of a member of the German Mental Hygiene Movement, as quoted in Robert Lipton. The Nazi Doctors [New York City: Basic Books], pages 23, 24, and 129. Also see Bernard Schreiber. The Man Behind Hitler, pages 36 and 84.
"Nazism is applied biology?"
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Rudolf Hess, quoted in Robert Lipton. The Nazi Doctors [New York City: Basic Books], pages 23, 24, and 129. Also see Bernard Schreiber. The Man Behind Hitler. Pages 36 and 84.
"We always obeyed the law. Isn't that what you do in America? Even if you don't agree with a law personally, you still obey it. Otherwise, life would be chaos."
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Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, Chief of the Women's Bureau under Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler. Quoted in Claudia Koonz. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics [New York City: St. Martin's Press], 1987, page xxviii.
Hoch, Renate (Swiss professor of gynecology)
"The problem has become so widespread now that my colleagues and I last week made a rule never to help a woman athlete if she wants to get pregnant purely and simply to win a race."
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Gynecology professor Renate Hoch of Geneva, quoted in "Pregnancy Ploy Draws Criticism." The Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review. May 23, 1988, page C2. Also see "No Moral Compass." Our Sunday Visitor, June 5, 1988, and "Women Athletes Using Pregnancy to Gain Strength." San Francisco Examiner, May 23, 1988 [NOTE: Hoch was describing a hideous and apparently widespread practice among female track and field athletes. Coaches and trainers found that early pregnancy would actually enhance the athletic performance of their female competitors in many events. Therefore, the women would be artificially inseminated by their coaches, would compete in their events at anywhere from five to seven weeks of pregnancy, and would then travel en masse to local abortion mills to kill their preborn children. The London newspaper Sunday Mirror reported that "Success-hungry women competitors are now improving their performances by deliberately becoming pregnant and then having abortions," and quoted Finnish sports medicine expert Dr. Risto Erkola: "It's horrible and immoral. Now that drug testing is routine, pregnancy is becoming the favorite way of getting an edge on competitors"].
Hodgson, Jane (abortionist)
"A medically necessary abortion is any abortion a woman asks for."
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Abortionist Jane Hodgeson, quoted in Human Life International Special Report Number 83, August 1991, pages 6 and 7.
"In my medical judgment, every pregnancy that is not wanted by the patient, I feel there is a medical indication to abort a pregnancy where it is not wanted. In good faith, I would recommend on a medical basis, you understand, that, and it would be 100% ... I think they are all medically necessary ... Occasionally we will advise these women to carry their pregnancy to term, but most of these are medically necessary because I am considering the woman's physical, mental, emotional and social and welfare and family and environment and all that ... I am concerned with the quality of life, not physical existence."
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Abortionist Jane Hodgson, Transcript, August 3, 1977, at 99-101, McRae v. Califano, 491 F.Supp. 630 (E.D.N.Y. 1980), rev'd sub nom. Harris v. McRae. 100 S. Ct. 2671 (1980).
"Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly-civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young — say, those less than 14 years."
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Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgson at May 28-30, 1980 National Abortion Federation (NAF) conference in Washington, D.C., quoted in Mary Meehan and Elizabeth Moore. "Forced Abortion Suggested at Clinic Owner's Conference." National Right to Life News, June 2, 1980, pages 1 and 13.
Hole, Judith
"Any woman who wishes to terminate a late pregnancy undoubtedly has a very good reason and should have the right to do so. In addition, they [pro-lifers] argue that the concepts of "quickening" and "viability" are based on religious doctrine and ancient myths about when "life" begins. Any woman who believes in them will not seek an abortion beyond the time dictated by her beliefs. All women, however, should not be required to follow one doctrine.
"The first acts of civil disobedience included compiling and dispensing lists of abortionists, along with public announcements that any woman desiring an abortion could receive help from ARAL [Association to Repeal Abortion Laws]. Classes in self-abortion techniques were also given, less to encourage self-abortion than as another means of testing various sections
