Abortionists
= serial killers, slave-owners and eugenicists.
Pro-Life
Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons
Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda
By
Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON,
D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– What do
serial killers, slave-owners, eugenicists,
and abortionists have in common?
According to Michael Hitchborn of American
Life League, all
these groups can only carry out crimes
against human beings by first de-personalizing
or trivializing the humanity of their
victims.
In
a new ALL report released on YouTube,
Hitchborn makes his case beginning with
the famous 1991 film “Silence
of the Lambs,” where a crazed
transsexual killer pursued by an FBI
agent (Jodie Foster) continually refers
to his latest female victim as “it.”
In
doing so, says Hitchborn, the killer
“depersonalizes his victim, reducing
her to the status of an object or animal.”
“The
thing is, if his victim isn’t
a person, then in his own mind, there
is nothing wrong with what he is about
to do,”
continued Hitchborn.
The
pro-life leader explained that
a similar process of depersonalization
and dehumanization is evident in the
way that abortion advocates speak of
a child developing in its mother’s
womb as a “fetus”, “fertilized
egg”, or a “clump of cells.”
“The
use of terms like these is the first
step in reducing humans to the status
of non-persons,” he added, saying
history was replete with such examples.
Hitchborn
referred to a clause within the U.S.
Constitution prior to the enacting of
the 13th amendment, where slaves were
counted as three-fifths of a person.
The agreement he said was a compromise
with a culture that “viewed human
slaves as property.” Proponents
of slavery would claim that slaves were
not people, and eugenicists of the 19th
and 20th century would do the same thing,
referring to those with disabilities
or of certain ethnicities as “undesirables.”
Taken
to its logical conclusion, these
ideas led to the forming of the Nazi
racial purity movement, which defined
certain people as “subhuman”
in popular propaganda.
“The
excuses, and they are excuses, for denying
the humanity or personhood of individual
human beings is done for one reason
and one reason only: it is the only
way to create a class of humans without
any rights.”
Hitchborn
said that Planned Parenthood, just like
slave-owners, has to offer similar arguments
dehumanizing or depersonalizing the
unborn in order to justify their actions,
with a motive for profit at the end
of the line. Hitchborn told LifeSiteNews.com
that “Planned
Parenthood’s sole agenda is to
gain money through the murder of children.”
Hitchborn
pointed to a Planned Parenthood White
Paper written in 1985 and republished
in 2002 in response to the pro-life
film “Silent Scream.” The
paper argues that a “fetus”
of 12 weeks gestation “cannot
be compared in any way to a fully formed
functioning person” – arguing
that the unborn child’s dependency
on his mother for survival, its undeveloped
organs, and lack of conscious thought,
means he does not merit the status of
person.
“It
is instead an in utero fetus with the
potential of becoming a child.”
Planned
Parenthood said they were responding
to Silent Scream, because they feared
it could jeopardize the “constitutional
right to abortion” as well as
“the lives and careers of abortion
providers.”
“It
really is a simple concept,” Hitchborn
told LSN. “The only people making
the argument that a human is not a person
are those who want to create a class
of subhumans that have no rights.”
Hitchborn
praised the personhood initiative in
Colorado, which is a ballot initiative
to amend the State Constitution to recognize
the personhood rights of all humans,
from their biological beginning to their
natural death. The amendment states:
"the term 'person' shall apply
to every human being from the beginning
of the biological development of that
human being.”
“The
personhood initiative out in Colorado
ties in perfectly with what [pro-life
groups] are doing, because they are
working on establishing an amendment
that would recognize there is no do
distinction between that which is a
person and that which is a human,”
said Hitchborn.
“They
are establishing that we are all human,
and that we are persons: that we all
have a beginning and that beginning
takes place in the womb, and not outside
the womb, or some random spot on the
spectrum by people who have an agenda
to fulfill.
“There
is no distinction between a person and
a human, and the only people that make
that distinction are those that have
an agenda.”
View
ALL’s full report with Michael
Hitchborn here.
See previous coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:
Personhood
Initiative Certified For Colorado Ballot
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10032904.html
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain." (Phil 1:21)