2. Progressivism
Progressivism is posed as a socialist agenda series of
reform movements through government regulation,
scientific methods, and evolution during the late 1800
and early 1900s.
3. Progressive goals
Progressives sought the following:
Temperance
Reform of the government
Suffrage for women
Better working conditions
More government regulation
Efficient industry
Improving society
All through the federal government
4. Political Reforms
Progressives wanted big business out of politics and saw
themselves as elites to run the government and make
the decisions for the lower masses.
Progressives wanted more popular sovereignty and
muddled the difference between socialism and
democracy.
5. Temperance
Movement
Women fought
to ban alcohol
in America.
They did this
without the
vote!
Carrie Nation with her hatchet
that she would destroy saloons
7. Temperance movement
Later in 1920, they would be successful with the 18th
Amendment which banned the sale or production of
alcohol.
It proved to be a dismal
failure because the federal
government attempted to
regulate human behavior
8. “Ain’t Gonna Drink No More”
Prohibition was the result of decades of effort by liberal Progressive citizen
groups such as the Women’s Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League.
Congress approved the Eighteenth Amendment in 1917 when Wilson’s war
effort was perpetrating a sense of high moral purpose through his Progressive
propaganda. The amendment was ratified by two-thirds of the states in 1919.
The Eighteenth Amendment proved to be difficult to enforce. Many people
either violated the law or refused to help with its enforcement because
bootlegging was highly profitable.
Criminal gangs organized to control the flow of “bootleg” whiskey and were as
well organized as the law-enforcement agencies. Violence, including murder,
was their method of maintaining discipline in the ranks. Between 1920 and
1929, more than 500 gang-style killings took place in the city of Chicago alone.
The best known criminal in the prohibition era was Al Capone. He controlled
the flow of whiskey into Chicago’s 10,000 speakeasies.
9. “Ain’t Gonna Drink No More”
Speakeasies of the Prohibition era Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Al Capone and his destination of Alcatraz Federal Prison
10. U.S. Labor
Movement
Unions are distinctly national institutions that vary in structure and character from one
country to another. Even within a country each has its own peculiar history and its own
unique way of conducting its affairs. A noteworthy difference between U.S. trade unions
and their British counterparts is that U.S. unions achieved a political identity with the
Democratic Party and even clearly associated their individual interest as “working class.”
Whether this is attributable to the absence of a traditional guild legacy in the United States,
the greater degree of labor mobility compared to Britain, the negative impact of early
antitrust legislation (which extended to unions), or the dominance, as late as 1930, of
agricultural employment, the fact is that in 1956, the peak year of U.S. union membership,
slightly less than 25% of all eligible workers were union members. The largest union at
the time was the American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO).
These data reflect, on the one hand, an ambivalence on the part of workers about aligning
themselves with unions and, on the other, the unions’ less-than-sympathetic public image.
The numbers, however, belie the lobbying effectiveness that unions have had, at least until
the recent past, on social legislation. Legislative gains in such key areas as minimum
wages, safety regulations, and unemployment compensation are in no small measure
attributable to the success of labor’s powerful lobbying efforts in Washington which is a
large part of the dues paid by union members.
11. U.S. Labor
Movement
AFL president George
Meany (L) attending the
AFL-CIO convention
with union counsel
Walter P. Ruther (R). the
first large union
12. Progressive Agenda Graphic
Organizer 1 Progressive Goals
Temperance Movement Union Movement
Examples Examples
13. Progressive Agenda Quiz
1. What was the first large union?
2. What was the percentage peak of union membership in 1956?
3. What is one legislative bill that has been championed by unions?
4. What is one of the women’s group that led the way for
Prohibition legislation of the 18th Amendment?
5. Prohibition was a failure and what criminal profited from its
failure?
14. Suffragette
The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first
seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848). After the War
between the States, agitation by women for the ballot became increasingly
vociferous. In 1869, however, a rift developed among feminists over the
proposed 15th Amendment, which gave the vote to black men. Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others refused to endorse the
amendment because it did not give women the ballot. Other suffragists,
however, including Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, argued that once the
black man was enfranchised, women would achieve their goal. As a result
of the conflict, two organizations emerged. Stanton and Anthony formed
the National Woman Suffrage Association to work for suffrage on the
federal level and to press for more extensive institutional changes, such as
the granting of property rights to married women. Stone created the
American Woman Suffrage Association, which aimed to secure the ballot
through state legislation. In 1890, the two groups united under the name
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In the same year
Wyoming entered the Union, it became the first state with general
women’s suffrage (which it had adopted as a territory in 1869).
15. Suffragettes
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men
and women are created equal.
24. Suffragette Quiz
1. Where was the enfranchisement of American women first seriously
formulated?
2. Name one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.
3. Name the legislation that gave women the vote.
4. What was the first state to allow general women’s suffrage?
5. What major event allowed women to get the vote?
27. Henry Ford invented 8 Hour day,
5 Day Work Week—Not Progressive
Unions
No industrialist enjoyed upsetting the apple cart more than
Henry Ford. In 1914 he announced that he would pay $5 a day to
his workers, double the going rate. With the extra cash, Ford
reasoned, they could purchase his Model Ts. The workers were
becoming a bulwark of the middle class.
Ford's next act came in September 1926, when the company
announced the five-day workweek. As he noted in his company's
Ford News in October, "Just as the eight-hour day opened our
way to prosperity in America, so the five-day workweek will open
our way to still greater prosperity ... It is high time to rid
ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost
time or a class privilege." The five-day week, he figured, would
encourage industrial workers to vacation and shop on Saturday.
Before long, manufacturers all over the world followed his lead.
"People who have more leisure must have more clothes," he
argued. "They eat a greater variety of food. They require more
transportation in vehicles." Taking advantage of his own wisdom,
he discontinued the Model T and then, on a Saturday, launched
the Model A.
31. Teddy was the youngest president in history.
32. The Progressive President:
Segregation and Prejudice
Theodore Roosevelt was the first Progressive President of the United States. The elitism of
Progressives led to a false science called eugenics that tried to make the human race better
through the same methods a farmer uses on his livestock- selective breeding, sterilization,
and slaughter of inferior stock. He made the following quote on 3 Jan 1913 about the Negro
race and the less desirable Caucasian and Mongoloid of the time:
“I am ‘greatly interested’ in the memoirs you have sent me. They are very instructive
. . . I agree with you . . . That society has no business to permit degenerates to
reproduce their kind . . . It is really extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to
human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to
apply to his own stock breeding. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock
not to breed and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit
inmates for an asylum. Some day we will realize that the prime duty of the good
citizens of the right type is to leave his blood behind him in the world and that we
have no business to perpetuate citizens of the wrong type.”
From Theodore Roosevelt’s book, The Winning of the West--
“The presence of the Negro is the real problem; slavery is merely the worst possible
method of solving the problem.
34. Roosevelt read The Jungle by the
progressive socialist author Upton
Sinclair, a muckraker who wrote
“Mugwump Literature.”
This reading led to the government
regulation of the Food and Drug Act
35. The Founders Intent
We are here
Rule of Law
Constitution
1791
Kings
Earls
Dukes
Lords
Parliament
Queens
S
Equal Justice
Communism
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c
i
a
l
i
s
m
Woodrow Wilson
French Revolution 1789Nationalsozialismus
National Socialism (Nazi)
36. The Progressives and the Social
Remedy
1. The Progressive Movement was drawn from the Populists who demanded
that people have greater role in government.
1. The Progressive Movement adopted the idea that government should protect the
public’s economic well-being and that the average citizen should have a more direct
role in politics. This was a mirage for the average citizen. These were communist-influenced
politicians who wanted to have more government control over the private
sector which creates wealth.
2. “Mugwump Literature,” which appeared in the late 1800’s, fostered a desire for laws
that would make government more responsive to the needs of the people.
2. Among the problems exposed by muckrakers, critics of social and
political evils, were:
1. The excessive power of big business due to favoritism by government (corporate
welfare)
2. Corruption in government
3. Fraudulent advertising
4. Street crime and poverty
3. They attempted to remedy social evils through legislation. They
believed that the federal government should act as a referee between
big business and ordinary people.
37. Progressive Agenda Concept Map
Progressive
Agenda
1st Progressive President
Ideas and Theories
Actions & Examples
38. More Progressive Agenda Quiz
1. Name one of the laws that progressives got passed.
2. Who was the first progressive President?
3. What did Roosevelt feel was the real problem of the human race was as an
elitist?
4. What was the type of literature used to start progressive legislation, e.g.,
The Jungle?
5. What were among the problems exposed by muckrakers, critics of
social and political evils?
39. The Modern Day Plague- Progressivism
The Presidents who saddled us with this problem and debt
R D R D D D
R R D R D R D
40. Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement was a Protestant intellectual movement that was
most prominent during the time period of 1880-1940 in the United States and
Canada, during the Third Great Awakening. It applied Christian principles to social
problems, especially poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad
hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war. Theologically, the Social Gospel
leaders were energized by the Third Great Awakening and were overwhelmingly
”post-millennialist." This theology is what they believed, that the Second Coming of
Jesus Christ could not happen until humankind rid itself of social evils by human
effort. For the most part, they rejected pre-millennialist theology (which was
predominant in the South and among Fundamentalists), according to which the
Second Coming of Christ was imminent, and Christians should devote their
energies to preparing for it rather than addressing the issue of social evils. Social
Gospel leaders such as Washington Gladden, (1836-1918) were predominantly
liberal politically and theologically, although William Jennings Bryan was
theologically conservative and politically liberal. Most of the Social Gospellers
favored progressivism and labor unions. The ministers started to move away from
individual salvation to collective salvation. The answer for solving society’s
problem was not in God’s gospel but in a social gospel. The individual’s charity
through his faith was not sufficient and it is not until society through whatever
means solves the problem that everyone will be saved.
41. Social Gospel
Prominent leaders in the U.S. included Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington
Gladden, Josiah Strong, W.D.P. Bliss, Irwin St. John Tucker, J. Stitt Wilson,
Franklin S. Spalding, George Washington Woodbey, and Bouck White. Economist
Richard Ely played a major role, as did John R. Mott and other leaders of the
YMCA. Most Protestant missionaries supported the movement as well. The
Federal Council of Churches (later renamed the National Council of Churches)
formed in 1908 as a coalition of mainstream Protestant denominations that lobbied
in Washington for reforms preached by the Social Gospellers.
43. Today’s Issues- Humanism
Can America Survive Evolutionary Humanism?
Evolution serves as the creation myth
“Evolution is a religion,” declared evolutionary humanist Michael Ruse.
The denominations of evolutionary humanism are:
Cultural Marxism/Communism, Secular humanism, Postmodernism, and
Spiritual Communism
The offshoots of these denominations are:
New Age, green environmentalism, Gaia, socialism, progressivism,
liberalism, multiculturalism, and atheism
Dialectic- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the
exchange of logical arguments.
“We may regard the material and cosmic world as the supreme being, as
the cause of all causes, as the creator of heaven and earth.”(Vladimir Lenin)
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever will be.” (Carl Sagan)
Deadly Problems
Ethics must be built on human social instincts (that are in a continuous
process of change)
44. Today’s Issues- Humanism
Darwin wrote in his autobiography, “. . .can have for his rule of life. . . Those
impulses and instincts which are strongest or. . . Seem to him the best ones.”
“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then. . . what is
the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges?
That’s how I thought. . . I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that
we all just came from the slime.” (Jeffrey Dahmer in an interview with Stone
Phillips, Dateline NBC, 11/29/1994)
“The universe cares nothing for us,” trumpets William Provine, Cornell
University Professor of Biology, “And we have no ultimate meaning in life.”
(“Scientists, Face It! Science and Religion are Incompatible,” The Scientist, Sept.
1988)
Man... “must be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic pattern. He
must think of himself as an animal, capable of only animalistic reactions. He
must no longer think of himself . . . as capable of ‘spiritual endurance,’ or
nobility.” By animalizing man his “state of mind. . . can be ordered and
enslaved.” (Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, Degradation and Shock,
Chapter viii)
45. Today’s Issues- Humanism
Jeffrey Dahmer during an
interview for Dateline NBC with
Stone Phillips.
Name Age Date of death
Stephen Hicks 19 Jun 6, 1978
Steven Tuomi 26 Sep 15, 1987
James "Jamie" Doxtator 14 Jan 1988
Richard Guerrero 25 Mar 24, 1988
Anthony Sears 26 Mar 25, 1989
Eddie Smith 36 Jun 1990
Ricky Beeks 27 Jul 1990
Ernest Miller 22 Sep 1990
David Thomas 23 Sep 1990
Curtis Straughter 19 Feb 1991
Errol Lindsey 19 Apr 1991
Tony Hughes 31 May 24, 1991
Konerak Sinthasomphone 14 May 27, 1991
Matt Turner 20 Jun 30, 1991
Jeremiah Weinberger 23 Jul 5, 1991
Oliver Lacy 23 Jul 12, 1991
Joseph Bradehoft 25 Jul 19, 1991
46. Today’s Issues- Humanism
For it happens---by chance of course-
--that some lucky ‘species’ and ‘races’
of the human animal are more highly
evolved (superior) and therefore
enlightened than the others, who are---
unluckily for them---less evolved and
as a consequence, subhuman.
“At some future period. . . the
civilized races of man will almost
certainly exterminate, and replace, the
savage races throughout the world. .
.the anthropomorphous apes. . . will no
doubt be exterminated.” (Descent, 2nd
ed., p. 183)
Nazi Germany
The Lebensborn (“Spring of Life”)
SS Lebensborn being baptized
with full honors
SS Lebensborn Clinic
SS Lebensborn
Child giving
Heinrich
Himmler flowers
A perfect Aryan family
and the son is a Hitler
Youth
47. Today’s Issues- Humanism
The program founded in 1935 to create the master race by Heinrich
Himmler to bear blue-eyed, blond children. 8000 born in Germany and
12,000 born in Norway. Hitler believed the Nordic race was destined
to rule the world.
The Final Solution
The Soviet Union
Karl Marx wrote Fredrich Engels that Darwin’s ‘Origin’, “is the book which
contains the basis in natural science for our view.” (Marxian Biology and the
Social Scene, Conway Zirkle, 1959
48. Today’s Issues- Humanism
Vladimir Lenin exulted that, “Darwin put an end to the
belief that the animal and vegetable species bear no relation
to one another (and) that they were created by God, and
hence immutable.” (Fatal Fruit, Tom DeRosa, p. 9)
21st Century America
Alexis de Tocqueville’s insightful analysis of the source
of America’s greatness: “Not until I went into the churches
of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness
did I understand the secret and genius of her power.
America is great because she is good, and if America ever
ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
49. Our belief is not a “blind leap of faith.”
Make sure you and your children know
the evidence for why they believe what
they believe.
50. Humanist Manifesto
Humanism
There is no God
First plank:
Religious humanists
regard the universe as
self-existing and not
created.
51. Humanist Manifesto
Humanism
There is no God
Second plank:
Humanism believes that man
is a part of nature and that
he has emerged as a
result of a continuous
process.
Man is the product of evolution
52. Humanist Manifesto
Humanism
There is no God
Man is the product of evolution
There is no soul
Third plank:
Holding an organic view of
life, humanists find that
the traditional dualism of
mind and body must
be rejected.
53. Humanist Manifesto
Humanism
There is no God
Man is the product of evolution
There is no soul
Religion is a product of evolution
Fourth plank:
Humanism recognizes that man’s
religious culture and civilization, as
clearly depicted by anthropology
and history, are the product of a
gradual development due to his
interaction with his natural
environment and with his social
heritage.
54. Humanist Manifesto
Humanism
There is no God
Man is the product of evolution
There is no soul
Religion is a product of evolution
Fifth plank:
Religious Humanism considers
the complete realization of
human personality to be the end
of man’s life and seeks its
development and fulfillment in
the here and now.
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! (Epicurianism)
55. Humanism Quiz
1. Name one of the denominations or offshoots of evolutionary humanism.
2. What was the name of the master race the Nazis were trying to create through
evolution?
3. What was the name of the Nazi project to rid themselves of undesirable people?
4. Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of America surmised that “America would cease
to be great if America ceased to be _________ . “ (fill in the blank)
5. Name one of the planks of the Humanist Manifesto.
56. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
Eugenics- The Vehicle of Social Darwinists and Progressives
intelligence is the key human quality
intelligence is measurable
intelligence is inherited
the world would be a better place if more people were smart
The opposite of eugenics: All men are created equal "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness."
The American ideal is based on the idea that people are equal.
Eugenics, by contrast, is based on the idea that people are not equal.
A New Generation of Americans
57. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
JFK’s Inaugural Speech--
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -
- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal, as
well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same
solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters
ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human
life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears
fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of
man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let
the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that
the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans
58. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
Etymology of eugenics- eu means good; gen
refers to birth or race
The opposite of eu is dys meaning bad
Francis Galton coined and promoted the
word in the 19th century in England
He stated that he was building on the
ideas of Plato, Thomas Malthus and his
cousin, Charles Darwin.
Population Problems in the Scriptures
Israel in Egypt
Ex 1: 8-22
David and the census
II Sam 24: 1-17
Sir Francis Galton
59. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
The central idea in the book is about population and food
supplies
Population increases geometrically
Malthusian alternatives to mass starvation- war, disease, and
vice
Birth control was considered a vice by Malthus
Neo-Malthusians today no longer consider birth control a
vice
God is not concerned about the individual but the whole
human race
Should people care for the poor?
Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal”
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor
People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or
Country, and Making Them Beneficial to the Public
An example of his satire against Malthusian doctrine
60. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
Charles Darwin
Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, proposed the theory of evolution
in the 1790s
Natural selection-- “survival of the fittest”
Evolutionist millions of years age vs. Archbishop James Ussher’s age of
4004 BC
Darwin minimized the distinctions between animals and humans
These laws included: . . . a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a
Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing
Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms.
He wrote, "There is great reason to suspect, as Malthus has remarked, that
the reproductive power is actually less in the barbarous, than in civilized
races.”
He wrote that Malthus "does not lay stress enough on what is probably
the most important of all, namely infanticide, especially of female infants,
and the habit of procuring abortion.
“On the other hand, as Mr. Galton has remarked, if the prudent avoid
marriage, whilst the reckless marry, the inferior members tend to supplant
the better members of society."
61. Fabian Society and George Bernard
Shaw
The Fabians at first attempted to permeate the Liberal and Conservative
parties with socialist ideas, but later they helped to organize the separate
Labour Representation Committee, which became the Labour Party in
1906. The Fabian Society has since been affiliated with the Labour Party.
Its early members included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, Annie
Besant, Edward Pease, and Graham Wallas. Shaw and Webb, later joined
by Webb's wife, Beatrice, were the outstanding leaders of the society for
many years. In 1889 the society published its best-known tract, Fabian
Essays in Socialism, edited by Shaw.
The principal activities of the society consist in the furtherance of its goal
of socialism through the education of the public along socialist lines by
means of meetings, lectures, discussion groups, conferences, and summer
schools; carrying out research into political, economic, and social
problems; and publishing books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
63. Today’s Issues- Eugenics
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little
monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper,
or from that old baboon, who descending from the mountains, carried away in
triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs -- as from a
savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices,
practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no
decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Psalm 8 says: What is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man
that Thou dost take thought of him? And yet Thou hast made him little less
than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.
64. Eugenics Quiz
1. What is the vehicle of Social Darwinists and Progressives?
2. Who coined the word—eugenics?
3. Who stated that we cannot grow enough food to feed the population
because the population grows geometrically?
4. What is another term for “survival of the fittest?
5. What did Darwin minimize the distinctions between?
65. Today’s Issues-
Abortion Abortion
Origins
Margaret Sanger
Founder of Planned Parenthood, inspiration
to Adolf Hitler’s eugenics program, founded the
Negro Project “to rid the world of worthless
Negroes”
Lothrop Stoddard’s interview with Adolf
Hitler and his book, The Rising Tide of Color
Against White World Supremacy.
Dr. S. Adolfus Knopf of the American Birth
Control League (ABCL)
Sanger declared charity to be more evil than
the assistance it provided to the poor and needy.
Planned Parenthood
Largest abortion provider
78% of the clinics are in minority
neighborhoods
66. Today’s Issues- Abortion
Adolf Hitler - Fuehrer of Nazi Germany "The demand that defective people be prevented
from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of
mankind." Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10
Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood ". . .we prefer the policy of immediate
sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is ' absolutely prohibited ' to the feeble-minded."
The Pivot of Civilization, p102
"Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"Amos 3:3
Nazi T-4 Program
California sterilization experiment by Dr. Paul Popenoe- 1933
Gave the Nazis important information for their eugenics programs
“A Plan for Peace” by Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, Apr 1932, pp.107-8
to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of
population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable
traits may be transmitted to offspring.
to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or
sterilization.
to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they
would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.
67. Today’s Issues-
Abortion
Legislation
1973, Roe v.Wade and Doe v. Bolton
Roe v.Wade ended almost all legal protection for unborn children
It divided pregnancy into three "trimesters”
The first trimester was a matter to be decided by the woman and
her physician
The second trimester, the states could pass laws to protect the
woman during an abortion
The states could restrict or even ban abortion in the third trimester
unless the abortion was necessary to protect the life or health of the
woman
Under Doe v. Bolton, however, health is defined, and the definition is so
broad that abortion is effectively legal until birth—partial birth abortion
Justice William Rehnquist (later the Chief Justice) and Justice
Byron White dissented. Justice White called the rulings "an exercise
of raw judicial power.”
Decisions Based on Deceit
Eugenics in Roe v. Wade
68. Today’s Issues- Abortion
The 1973 Supreme Court decisions that ended all legal protection of
unborn children were based on eugenics
Buck v. Bell, the 1927 case that opened the floodgates for sterilizing
people
the Court stated, the right to privacy is not absolute; it can be
limited in some cases, such as vaccination and sterilization
The abortion decisions were written by Justice Harry Blackmun
Influenced by Glanville Williams, who taught law at Cambridge
University, was a member of the Eugenics Society
Blackmun chose to discuss the history of abortion law
The Hippocratic Oath and Christian Use of It
The Hippocratic Oath is a stumbling block for historians who want to
argue that only Christians oppose abortion
the whole idea of humanity accumulating over time, from zero person at
conception through various levels of value in each trimester up to 100%
person at birth, is eugenics
Eugenics devalues humans by rating people on a sliding scale
69. Today’s Issues- Abortion
Roe v. Wade reflects a belief in the idea that each individual passes through
developmental stages that imitate evolution
8 cell division Blastocyst
4 week embryo
Zygote
The 1973 decisions on abortion reflect the idea that size and weight and
complexity — and value and rights — all accumulate gradually
70. Today’s Issues- Abortion
Present day with the issue of abortion
AP article - Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy
Sat Jan 24, 4:12 am ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush
administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform
abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has
bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
He said the ban was unnecessarily broad and undermined family planning in
developing countries
His action came one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark
Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund,
said: "The president's actions send a strong message about his leadership and
his desire to support causes that will promote peace and dignity, equality for
women and girls and economic development in the poorest regions of the
world.”
71. Today’s Issues- Abortion
Population Action International, an advocacy group, said that the policy had
"severely impacted" women's health and that the step "will help reduce the
number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk
pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning."
"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would
support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing
more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of
population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National
Right to Life Committee.
Thursday April 16, 2009 Adult Stem Cells Used Successfully to Cure
Diabetics, Heal Broken Jaw Bone
However, the astonishingly positive results of the use of adult stem cells to
treat diabetes have received very little mainstream media coverage, a fact that
has been strongly criticized by conservative bioethicistWesley Smith.
"The research was done in Brazil because doctors in the United States were
not interested in the approach.”
72. Today’s Issues- Abortion
"The problem with embryonic stem cells is that embryonic stem cells come
from embryos - like all of us were made from embryos - and those cells can
become any cell in the body," Oz said. "But it's very hard to control them, and so
they can become cancer.”
"Several events reinforced the notion that embryonic stem cells, once thought
to hold the cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes, are obsolete. The most
sobering: a report from Israel published in PLoS Medicine in late February that
shows embryonic stem cells injected into patients can cause disabling if not
deadly tumors," Dr. Healy wrote.
74. Today’s Issues- Feminism
Feminism
The person who brought the two movements together in an alliance that has
lasted to this day was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
She was an effective leader in the war to inflict contraception, sterilization and
abortion on the world.
She talked about the exaltation of joyful sex, but ended by trivializing human
sexuality into barnyard activity
She talked about service to the poor, but she built an organization that has killed
millions and millions of people, tiny children who were executed for the crime of
being conceived in poverty.
She helped to lay the foundations for global population control, pitting wealthy
white nations against the rest of the world.
77. Today’s Issues- Feminism
Pivot of Civilization (New York: Brentano's 1922)
She accepted the Malthusian theory that
overpopulation is the root of all evil. In her view, a
glut of humans was the root cause of warfare, low
wages, famine and plague, to mention just a few.
Women were the reason for “hordes of human
beings -- human beings so plentiful as to be cheap,
and so cheap that ignorance was their natural lot."
"What is the goal of woman's upward struggle?"
she asked, then offered three possible answers: "Is it
voluntary motherhood? Is it general freedom? Or is
it the birth of a new race?”
78. Abortion and Feminism Quiz
1. Who was the founder of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics?
2. What was the purpose of the Negro Project?
3. What Supreme Court case legalized abortion in the United
States? Partial-birth abortion?
4. Who signed legislation for the U.S. to fund free abortions for the
Third World’s poor in 2008?
5. According to Margaret Sanger’s views of feminism, who was
responsible for the “hordes of human beings?”
