"It takes three to make a baby: A man, a woman, and the Holy Spirit. What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually?"
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The 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson, in a 1977 article for National Right to Life News, quoted in Daniel P. Coyne. "Another Souper Candidate." The Wanderer, May 15, 2003, pages 4 and 10.
"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
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Jesse Jackson, quoted in Richard Cohen of The Washington Post. "Jesse Jackson's Remark Allows a New Level of Discussion." The Columbian [Vancouver, Washington], December 23, 1993, page A9.
Jacobson, Cecil B.
"I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what fetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now."
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Cecil B. Jacobson, Chief, Reproductive Genetics Unit, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. Psychology Today, September 1975, page 22.
Jacobsohn, Francoise (National Organization for Women (NOW))
"I think sex-selection abortion is a horrifying symptom that women are still being ignored and disregarded as human beings in virtually every society in the world. The real issue in question here is not abortion, but the treatment of women."
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Francoise Jacobsohn, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Eve Glicksman. "Breeding for Gender Encourages 'Shopping Mentality.'" The Oregonian, June 18, 1991, page B7. Also see R. Rao. "Move to Stop Sex-Test Abortion." Nature Magazine. November 20-26, 1986, page 202 [NOTE: Notice how "the real issue is not abortion." Of course not! It never is. Jacobsohn's 'logic' is like saying that "The real issue is not rape, but men's sexual rights." To admit that the real issue is abortion would be psychic death to pro-abortionists].
Jaffe, Frederick S. (Planned Parenthood/World Population (PP/WP))
"Table 1: Examples of Proposed Measures to Reduce U.S. Fertility by Universality or Selectivity of Impact.
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Restructure family:
(a)
Postpone or avoid marriage
(b)
Alter image of ideal family size
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Compulsory education of children
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Encourage increased homosexuality
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Educate for family limitation
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Fertility control agents in water supply
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Encourage women to work
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Modify tax policies
(a)
Substantial marriage tax
(b)
Child tax
(c)
Tax married more than single
(d)
Remove parents' tax exemption
(e)
Additional taxes on parents with more than 1 or 2 children in school
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Reduce/eliminate paid maternity leave or benefits
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Reduce/eliminate children's or family allowances
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Bonuses for delayed marriage and greater child-spacing
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Pensions for women of 45 with less than 'N' children
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Eliminate welfare payments after first 2 children
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Chronic depression
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Require women to work and provide few child care facilities
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Limit/eliminate public-financed medical care, scholarships, housing, loans and subsidies to families with more than 'N' children
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Compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies
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Compulsory sterilization for all who have had two children except for a few who would be allowed three
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Confine childbearing to only a limited number of adults
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Stock certificate-type permits for children
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Housing Policies:
(a)
Discouragement of private home ownership
(b)
Stop awarding public housing based on family size
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Payments to encourage sterilization
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Payments to encourage contraception
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Payments to encourage abortion
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Abortion and sterilization on demand
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Allow certain contraceptives to be distributed non-medically
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Improve contraceptive technology
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Make contraception truly available and accessible to all
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Improve maternal health care, with family planning as a core element
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Frederick S. Jaffe, Vice President of Planned Parenthood/World Population (PP/WP). "Examples of Proposed Measures to Reduce U.S. Fertility by Universality or Selectivity of Impact." Table in "Activities Relevant to the Study of Population Policy for the U.S.," March 11, 1969 memorandum to Bernard Berelson. Reprinted in Robin Elliott, Lynn C. Landman, Richard Lincoln and Theodore Tsuruoka. "U.S. Population Growth and Family Planning: A Review of the Literature." The American Population Debate (Daniel Callahan, Editor) [Garden City, New York: Doubleday], 1971, page 206 [NOTE: This article originally appeared in the October 1970 issue of the Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives].
Jaffer, Mobina (British Columbian Senator)
"[Defending the existing definition of marriage is tantamount to] "giving comfort to those who hate. ... They are telling more generations of young Canadians that we should not treat homosexuals equally," she said. "They are also teaching that intolerance of homosexuals is both proper and righteous."
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British Columbia Senator Mobina Jaffer, during comments made in the Canadian Senate on November 22, 2001. "Defending Marriage Incites Hatred, Says Canadian Senator." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, November 30, 2001.
Jagger, Alison
"It is necessary to change the whole existing social structure in order to achieve women's liberation."
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Alison Jagger. "Political Philosophies of Women's Liberation." In Vetterling-Braggin, Elliston and English [editors]. Feminism and Philosophy [Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co.], 1977, page 9. Also in Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press], 1997, page 100.
James, John Paul (United States Agency for International Development (USAID))
"For 28 years I was an AID Population Officer, beginning my career at the end of 1969 in Chile. There, I witnessed two very serious interventions by the Catholic Church that negatively affected family planning. The Church was instrumental in convincing the Government to terminate the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering and successful family planning services project in the National Health Service. The number of women served immediately plummeted.
"After a year of academic training in population/family planning at the University of Chicago, Professor Donald J. Bogue told me about an AID-funded population project in Chile that had consumed millions of dollars with no apparent output. AID had given a $5 million grant to Father Roger Vekemans (a Belgian Jesuit priest) to persuade the Catholic Church in Latin America not to oppose family planning initiatives. Upon my arrival, I found that not only had this four-year old project never been audited, but no such review was planned. The requested audit was finally scheduled after many months of delay in Washington. Toward the end of the examination of the financial records, when the audit team could document legitimate expenditures of only $1.3 million out of the $5 million, a fire at Father Vekemans's office destroyed all the records. These were but the first two of scores of examples of Catholic interference in family planning programs during my tenure in AID, of which I have personal knowledge.
"I have dealt with opposition to family planning by the Vatican and the local Church in every country where I have been posted except Egypt. I have often been told by my host country counterparts about periodic private meetings of their Presidents with the Papal Nuncio or their Archbishop at the behest of these clergymen to pressure the governments to either stop or de-emphasize family planning.
"When Ronald Reagan became President in 1980, I was told that a political deal had been made before the election that would have a negative impact on AID's Population Program. An accelerated and sustained decline in the AID program began. By then, most of Dr. Ravenholt's original team had been forced into retirement or transferred out of the Office of Population. I was in the Africa Bureau from 1980-1983. The Reagan Administration appointed Francis Ruddy (a Catholic) as head of all of Africa. From the minute Ruddy arrived he aggressively tried to stop all family planning projects. He had been a lawyer for the Texas Right to Life Committee before receiving his political appointment to AID. He wrought havoc on family planning in Africa.
"Since 1977, the program has sharply deteriorated every year so that today it is judged to be inconsequential by many who know its history. We believe that were the program terminated today, it would have no appreciable effect on birth rates around the world. I would be very surprised if AID is getting even 25 cents' worth of family planning services for each dollar earmarked for population programs. More than 75 cents of every dollar is spent on non-family planning services activities.
"The Church has successfully savaged what was the most effective program in AID's history and all who have stood like a 'rock,' as one reviewer referred to Steve Mumford, have been mercilessly liquidated from the family planning program.
Following are just a few who have fought for the survival of the program and who have been purged: Dr. Ravenholt, Dr. Willard Boynton, Dr. Benjamin Viel, Dr. Mario Jaramillo, Dr. Juan B. Londono, Dr. Elton Kessel, and Dr. Stephen Mumford."
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John Paul James, Population Officer, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 1969-1997. He had tours of duty in six countries in Latin America, the Middle East and in Africa, plus three tours in Washington with the central Office of Population, the Africa Bureau, and the Europe and Newly Independent States Bureau (no other person has had more experience in the AID Population Program). Here he is favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Jaramillo, Mario (International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID))
"Thirty years ago, nations, their leaders, and the scientists of the world were conscious of and seriously preoccupied with the excessive growth of population, the imminent danger of destruction of the environment, and the frustration of hopes of development for most countries. Today, this awareness and concern no longer exist because the policymakers allowed themselves to be intimidated by conservative extremists guided by the Roman Catholic Church, and the scientists were supplanted by groups of merchants and charlatans—advisors and trainers—masquerading as researchers, who have arrogated to themselves the international funds destined for birth control.
"The universities and genuine scholars have given up, disgusted by the corruption and mockery of foreign aid programs, which have been and continue to be systematically torpedoed by WHO, UNFPA and AID.
"Steve Mumford is one of the few survivors of the dying breed who were the international apostles of birth control. His books on the historic culpability of the Vatican in the world's demographic and economic catastrophes constitute the solitary and courageous voice of those who dare to identify the number one enemy. Thanks to his writing, many people now know about the great injury that this small theocracy inflicts on the world. But it is time to point out how the Vatican contrives to destroy, from within, international aid programs for family planning."
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Mario Jaramillo, M.D., Latin American birth control pioneer, and founder of the first family planning clinic in Medellin, Colombia in 1958. During the period from 1969-1992, he was employed by USAID population/family planning contractors, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, John Snow and POPTECH and several local AID missions. He was a consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1972 to 1978 and to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in 1974 and 1975. Here he is favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Jarrett, Gregg (MSNBC)
"Is there any reason, Howard, to believe that this tragic attack on children, for goodness sakes, will trigger any movement by this Congress to enact tougher, meaningful new gun laws? ... You know, Howard, I asked Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Denver, who certainly has had to wrestle with this, about why her colleagues consistently reject tougher gun control measures. She said two things, they're too afraid of the NRA and they're too beholden to the NRA. Does it really come down to that? Do Congress people care more about perpetuating personal power than they do about saving the lives of children?"
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MSNBC's "News with Brian Williams" fill-in anchor Gregg Jarrett to Newsweek Magazine's Howard Fineman, August 12, 1999.
Jeffries, Leonard
"There was a conspiracy planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood, with people named Greenberg and Weisberg and Triglani and whatnot. Russian Jewry had control over the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a system of destruction for the Black people."
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City University of New York (CUNY) professor Leonard Jeffries, quoted in "Dubious Achievement Awards of 1991!" Esquire Magazine, January 1992, pages 94 to 119.
Jenkins, Mark (adventure writer)
"Is it true one can buy condoms in a grocery store in America?"
I smiled weakly. Her expression did not change.
"We have just heard this from some friends. It is not true then."
"No, no, it's true," I said.
Luda and Sasha were stunned.
"Condoms are not found here," said Sasha. "They are very, very expensive. One must acquire them on the black market."
"Other forms of birth control are also not found here," said Luda, looking at Sasha painfully. She was biting her lip.
I wanted to ask Luda something more, but couldn't. She knew this.
"Abortion. Abortion is the only form of birth control. And the doctors are very poor. And the instruments are very old. Many women are hurt." Luda's voice was falling.
"And of course, sterilization," she whispered. Her face was stricken.
For a long time we all sat at the table together without speaking.
"You see, Mark," Sasha's eyes were still closed, "we are pets."
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Mark Jenkins. Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia [New York City: William Morrow and Company, Inc.], 1992, page 205 (uncorrected bound galley).
Jennings, Peter (ABC)
"When he entered the race nearly a year ago he had the courage to say that as President he would probably have to raise taxes. And he never recovered from his courage."
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ABC's Peter Jennings on Bruce Babbitt's withdrawal from the Presidential race, "World News Tonight," February 18, 1988.
"Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to every Cuban and it is free. Some of Cuba's health care is world class. In heart disease, for example, in brain surgery. Health and education are the revolution's great success stories."
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ABC's Peter Jennings on the April 3, 1989 "World News Tonight."
"Twelve million American children who do not have enough to eat, who lack adequate health care, and who are behind in schools and being left behind in life. Much of our broadcast will be dedicated to that. Which makes the major news in Washington today seem even more of a contrast. The President's Chief of Staff, John Sununu, is at the center of attention again having to do with his use of limousines and corporate jets."
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ABC's Peter Jennings opening the June 18, 1991 "World News Tonight."
"I'd like to start, if I may, with what I think you may think is a puzzlement. You've reduced the deficit. You've created jobs. Haiti hasn't been an enormous problem. You've got a crime bill with your assault weapon ban in it. You got NAFTA, you got GATT, and 50 percent of the people don't want you to run again. Where's the disconnect there?"
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Peter Jennings interviewing President Bill Clinton on the January 5, 1995 World News Tonight.
"Next week on ABC's "World News Tonight," a series of reports about our environment which will tell you precisely what the new Congress has in mind: The most frontal assault on the environment in 25 years. Is this what the country wants?"
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Peter Jennings in an ABC promotion during the July 9, 1995 "This Week with David Brinkley."
"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week. ... Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."
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ABC "World News Tonight" anchor Peter Jennings, whining about Republican gains in Congress during his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14, 1995.
"I was thinking about what Jane Fonda said the other night about North Georgia and how she thought North Georgia was not unlike parts of the developing world and some politicians in Georgia jumped all over her. ... And the truth of the matter is there are parts of America which are just as bad as some of the worst parts in the rest of the world and that's desperately sad."
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ABC "World News Tonight" anchor Peter Jennings on Jane Fonda's charge that children are "starving to death" in Georgia, April 23, 1998 CBS "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder.
"The Chinese point out their economic miracle, they have had the fastest growing economy in the world, could not have been accomplished without population control. The United Nations estimates that China's population will grow by 24 percent in the next half a century. By comparison, the Indian population, more than 900 million people today, will grow by 65 percent. And Pakistan, 135 million people today, is expected to grow by about 162 percent. In this regard family planning makes a difference."
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ABC's Peter Jennings, commenting after a hard-hitting Brian Ross story on forced abortions and sterilizations in China on the June 9, 1998 "World News Tonight." Quoted in Tim Graham and Clay Waters. "Roe Warriors: The Media's Pro-Abortion Bias" (updated and revised). Media Research Center Special Report, July 22, 1998.
"Jesus of the Week 2000" contest
"Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's plane! No, It's Christ on a kite! ... Well, you might not want to take that lying down with the lamb thing too far, bub. It's good to bless the beasts and all that, and maybe a rock-climbing savior who's into extreme sports would make a good fit for the new millennium. ... This week's contestant, the lovely Heather Cornwell, has us thinking about this Messiah makeover project in a whole new light. To quote Ms. Cornwell, 'The Jesus of the new millennium is a woman, because what's more loving and comforting than breasts? I offer you myself as Jesus.'"
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Entries in the "Jesus of the Week 2000" contest, which asked readers to send in images of what they think Jesus would look like in the year 2000. The New Times [Broward-Palm Beach], September 2000. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Jiminez, Dezarae Dolan
"Hey F— Heads. I saw your trucks this morning on the 101 freeway. That was me, the friendly young lady who gave you the bird and said "F— You". I'd like to see you guys without your Police Escort. I'm sure you sissy's [sic] would never do without them. Maybe next time your out protesting I can get arressted for assualt [sic]. Your campaign and your Nazi propaganda tatics [sic] are complete bull—. How can you compare apples & oranges. You ignorant —holes."
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Typical violent, stupid and semi-illiterate pro-abort response to Gregg Cunningham's trucks with large photos of aborted preborn babies on them. This e-mail message was signed "Dezarae Dolan Jimenez" and was dated April 23, 2003. Cunningham responded "Whoa! If abortion is such a great idea, why do a few photos make you so angry? But we have heard it all before. Lots of pro-aborts who advocate violence against the unborn will threaten violence against us. Some have even tried it. They all went to jail. If you wish to join them we are willing to accommodate you. But in the mean time, you will be in our prayers."
John, Elton
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion. ... From my point of view I would ban religion completely, even though there are some wonderful things about it. I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
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Elton John, quoted in "When Elton Met Jake." The Observer, November 12, 2006.
Johnson, Howard (Zero Population Growth (ZPG))
"This is a thoughtful, well documented book explaining how overpopulation is causing a major world religious institution to self-implode, not interesting or newsworthy?
"In The Life and Death of NSSM 200 Mumford explains how the Vatican has derailed the overpopulation issue and argues that the overpopulation and contraception issues are now causing the Vatican to self-destruct.
"Mumford documents how the Vatican's policy on contraception is in direct conflict with their dogma of 'papal infallibility' which has Catholics morally stuck in an impossible catch-22 situation from which some say there is no escape for the church leadership.
"He presents strong evidence showing how the Vatican leadership has demonstrated, time and again, that they will stop at nothing to save their institution, including tearing down the US democracy, stepping on free speech, committing atrocious human rights abuse. There is even a report of Catholic chaplains providing comfort to military commanders who flung political dissidents out of airplanes at high altitude into the ocean in Argentina.
"Mumford goes so far as to suggest how the ensuing anarchy of overpopulation could actually be in the Vatican's self-interest.
"Is Dr. Mumford off his rocker? Is the overpopulation issue causing the Vatican, a two trillion dollar institution, to implode. And as the Vatican attempts to save itself is it, in turn, trying to force the free world to its knees and back into darkness? ...
"Before starting work on publishing this book on the internet, I stopped by my public library to check on Mumford's claim about the lack of published criticism of Vatican policies. I spent half an hour searching the InfoTrac periodical data base and found practically no criticism in major magazines. This convinced me that as Mumford suggests, someone such as the Catholic League is suppressing criticism of Vatican policies.
"I leave you with Mumford's book and one short thought: Question infallibility!"
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Howard Johnson, Editor, The KZPG Overpopulation News Network, in the introduction to 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).
Johnson, Sonja
"Men are locked in the conquistador mind, the rapist mentality."
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Sonja Johnson, quoted in Sisterhood is Powerful (Robin Morgan, editor) [New York City: Vintage Books], 1970.
Johnson, Timothy (partial-birth abortionist)
Judge Casey: "Does the fetus feel pain? Simple question, doctor. Does it cross your mind?"
Johnson: "No."
Judge Casey: "Never crossed your mind?"
Johnson: "No."
Judge Casey: "So you tell her [the mother] the arms and legs are pulled off? I mean, that's what I want to know. Do you tell her?"
Johnson: "We tell her the baby, the fetus, is dismembered as part of the procedure, yes."
Judge Casey: "Do you tell the women that you are sucking the brain out of the skull?"
Johnson: "I don't think we would use those terms. I think we would probably use a term like 'decompression of the skull' or 'reducing the contents of the skull'."
Judge Casey: "Make it nice and palatable so that they wouldn't understand what it's all about?"
Johnson: "We try to do it in a way that's not offensive or gruesome or overly graphic for patients."
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Exchange between Judge Richard C. Casey and partial-birth abortionist Timothy Johnson during one of three Planned Parenthood challenges to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, testimony of March 31, 2004. "Judge Asks Abortionist if Dismembering a Live Baby During Partial-Birth Abortion Causes It Pain." LifeSite Daily News, April 1, 2004.
Jones, Jim ('sexologist')
"Kinsey is in a war, okay, with middle class morality as it prescribes and constrains sexual behavior ... Kinsey's cultivation of the image of the disinterested scientist was ... the scientific armor that he put on to ... keep individuals ... off the trail ... and it enables the state legislature to believe the University when it talks about academic freedom and academic integrity ... all part of the strategy that President Wells [President of Indiana University] ... used when explaining, justifying Kinsey before the state legislature ... When Kinsey becomes a sex researcher he picks up the heaviest club he can find, which is science, to fight back against prescribed morality ... he wants [his staff] to understand that, as scientists, they are not bound, okay, by bourgeois morality ... he builds a staff where there is some wife swapping ... gay contacts ... [for] both professional and private [needs] ... Kinsey, in one report, circumcised himself with a pocket knife without anesthesia or anything else ... pretty heavy masochistic behavior ... tying a rope around his scrotum and throwing the rope over a pole and trying to suspend himself using that rope and sort of jumping off a chair ... in Wiley Hall ... he had pain for sex ... I don't have any doubt in my own mind that man wreaked havoc in a lot of lives. Many of his victims were infants and Kinsey in that chapter himself gives pretty graphic descriptions of their response to what he calls sexual stimulation. If you read those words, what he's talking about is kids who are screaming. Kids who are protesting in every way they can the fact that their bodies or their persons are being violated ... a large number."
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Dr. Jim Jones, Kinsey's American biographer, Rockefeller and Kinsey Institute grantee, doctoral dissertation on the Kinsey Institute, 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.
Jones, Tamara (Los Angeles Times)
"Ten months after the new Germany merged, women in the eastern sector are coming to the stunning realization that, in many ways, democracy has set them back 40 years."
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Los Angeles Times staff writer Tamara Jones, August 6, 1991.
Joseph, Elizabeth
"Polygamy is the ultimate feminist lifestyle. ... [we] basically live together in a complex. We're right next door to each other. I have a big house that I share with another wife. ... [This arrangement enabled me to] "go to law school 400 miles away, knowing my husband had clean shorts in the morning and dinner every night. ... My 8-year-old son has never seen the inside of a day care center. ... According to the law, my husband is not a legal spouse because he does not have a [marriage] license from any state. There are unlawful-cohabitation laws on the book, but the last time Utah prosecuted under those laws was 1944. And by doing press [interviews], we keep overly zealous prosecutors at bay. There's a shortage of good guys worth marrying, so it's better if many women marry the same man. I chose to marry my husband. The fact that he had five other wives was not a barrier."
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Feminist lawyer, radio executive and college instructor Elizabeth Joseph, in an interview with the Washington Times. "Polygamy Could Help Moms Who Work, Says Utah's NOW." Deseret News, August 12, 1997. Article downloaded from downloaded from http://www.patriarchywebsite.com/resources/polygamy-working-moms.htm on June 11, 2001 (no longer available) [NOTE: Joseph had promoted polygamy in a speech she delivered to the Utah Chapter of NOW in May 1997, which responded very favorably to her remarks. She said her group had denounced the religion-based polygamy that is common among breakaway Mormon sects in southern Utah, saying that "That amounts to slavery and child abuse. Church fathers divvy up young girls, 12 or 13 years old, among old men." Joseph and seven other women share their common husband, Alex Joseph. She said that he had fathered 20 children].
Joyce, Brendan (homosexual activist)
"History has proven that the Catholic Church has been the biggest persecutor of homosexuals for the last two thousand years. There is not a force on earth that has committed more injustice and violence to homosexuals than organized religion. The Catholic Church is guilty of cold blooded murder.
"Formal religions grew as a result of fear of the unknown and the laity simply left all those unanswered questions of life and morals to the authorities — people like your stupid pope ... I will live to see your church punished and fined for all the atrocities committed against me or I will not live. That part of my mind that relates to my sexuality has been destroyed by the hate of your church ...
"I am asking you for money and I shall receive it. I feel no shame at all in asking your church for money. No shame! This is the last time I will make an effort to reach out to you. If you continue to ignore and deny my requests, do not be shocked, surprised or alarmed when I appear at your doorstep with weapon in hand ... "
"It is now time for this christ of yours to pay and he will pay plenty ... ask your church to take away this terrible stigma that has been placed on us by your church because of the activities of a few ugly, callous, dirty-minded men and the misinterpretation of your goddam bible written thousands of years ago by a bunch of asinine fools ...
"I learned that this ugly rash manifested itself on my body from the inner turmoil and struggle and emotional and mental conflicts going on inside me from trying like hell not to be what your goddam church said I goddam well better not be — a goddam faggot — a word so cleverly coined by the goddam Catholic church to further degrade, disgrace, and humiliate me.
"Your goddam mythical jesus god will pay for that rash. It saddens me to say that so powerful is the goddam Catholic church and the cult of your jesus that the church has convinced many gay people that they are really filthy and immoral and they spend their lives practicing self-hatred with feelings of worthlessness ...
"There are "virgin births" all over the place and each one of the dirty little bastards turned out to be a goddam god and in every case the name of the goddam mother was always Mary ..."
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A serial rant by homosexual activist Brendan Joyce. "Revealed." New York City News, February 2, February 17 and March 3, 1982.
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