Posted on Sep 5, 2019
Sanders: My Administration Would Feature Population Control In Climate Fight
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Oh good. International aid used to provide abortions. I wonder which countries would be the primary recipients of such aid.
So many problems with this.
1. For all the sound and fury about how it is none of the government's business in determining who gets pregnant and who decides if that pregnancy goes to term or is aborted, now one of the most vocal proponents of Choice thinks that it is totally the US Government's role to dictate and facilitate that in countries that we are not even sovereign over? How the hell does that logic work?
2. Pay a visit to any developing country in the world. I will (semi-randomly) select Brazil, home to the Amazon rain forest. A Catholic country (religious complication) that has brown-skinned, Portuguese-speaking people. A country with local, state, and federal governments rife with corruption. Do you really think they would accept aid with strings attached? Do you really think that anything more than a fraction of that would be used for the intended purpose? If you are really trying to flush money down a toilet, at least keep it in the good old USA.
3. Such a policy would surely devolve to charges of racism as they get focused to the developing world. Money spent in Africa, South America, Asia... not good optics at all. I don't know how you would even begin to justify this. Just cross out "poor Pakistani teens" and substitute the words "pregnant, Central American refugees" for imposed and encouraged abortions and see how that goes over.
I thought we were past the point where eugenics was considered a viable policy.
Fortunately, this won't go anywhere, but that it was even stated out loud by an American Presidential candidate should give us all pause.
So many problems with this.
1. For all the sound and fury about how it is none of the government's business in determining who gets pregnant and who decides if that pregnancy goes to term or is aborted, now one of the most vocal proponents of Choice thinks that it is totally the US Government's role to dictate and facilitate that in countries that we are not even sovereign over? How the hell does that logic work?
2. Pay a visit to any developing country in the world. I will (semi-randomly) select Brazil, home to the Amazon rain forest. A Catholic country (religious complication) that has brown-skinned, Portuguese-speaking people. A country with local, state, and federal governments rife with corruption. Do you really think they would accept aid with strings attached? Do you really think that anything more than a fraction of that would be used for the intended purpose? If you are really trying to flush money down a toilet, at least keep it in the good old USA.
3. Such a policy would surely devolve to charges of racism as they get focused to the developing world. Money spent in Africa, South America, Asia... not good optics at all. I don't know how you would even begin to justify this. Just cross out "poor Pakistani teens" and substitute the words "pregnant, Central American refugees" for imposed and encouraged abortions and see how that goes over.
I thought we were past the point where eugenics was considered a viable policy.
Fortunately, this won't go anywhere, but that it was even stated out loud by an American Presidential candidate should give us all pause.
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Nazis did that too.
The last election he bowed out after being given a giant house. He will require much more this time.
The last election he bowed out after being given a giant house. He will require much more this time.
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There are a lot of clowns in this clown car, and they are really starting to show their true colors in their frantic maneuvering to take out President Trump.
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