Pro-Life Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda

[Shin]

Pro-Life Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda
By Peter J. Smith

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews) – 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.

“The thing is, if the 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 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.”

[Shin]

De-personalization is key to a good deal of bad behavior. Just as the opposite, is part of the key to the cure.   

[martin]

Michael Hitchborn also used the word Dehumanize to describe what these people must do to achieve their end.
That word has such a diabolic ring to it that goes beyond mere hatred of the creature to that of the Creator.
Not difficult to discern who's behind this culture of death.

[Brigid]

De-personalization is key to a good deal of bad behavior. Just as the opposite, is part of the key to the cure.   

I would really agree with this.

I think that the leadership of the abortion plague are leading a eugenics movement. They may not even be aware of it, but that is the slippery slope they're already on.

[Plain Catholic]

The politicians who support abortion see it as a means of balancing the budget, thus the support of abortion clinics in poor neighborhoods: they value it for reducing the dole, another de-personalization attitude.

These are the same politicians who support "euthanasia" as a means of removing the burden off of Social Security. None of them care about the poor, they only see elections to win and budgets to balance. They are not worried about being "offed" because most are independently wealthy and can pay for private care.

Then there are the wives of Presidents who take very expensive trips to Spain while another half a million people lose their jobs and have families to feed. In spite of the spin put out that she paid for her personal expenses, the American taxpayer had to shell out $73,781.50 just for Michelle Obama to take Air Force Two to Spain. Then there is the cost of lodging, food, salaries, and transpo for the Secret Service contingent that had to go with her and for which the taxpayer had to pay. 

Right, off the soapbox, back to the pidgies.