Author Topic: Us Political leader advocates coerced contraception (Read 1723 times)

poche · « **on:** September 17, 2014, 12:46:34 AM »

Former Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce has resigned as vice chairman of the state's Republican Party over controversial comments he made about birth control.

“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations," Pearce said on his talk radio show. "Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”

Democrats and Republicans alike were outraged by the comment.

“For the first vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party to advocate for forced sterilization is unacceptable,” DJ Quinlan, executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party, said in a statement Saturday.

"Russell Pearce’s ignorant, hateful comments are insulting to women everywhere. He needs to resign or be removed from office immediately," tweeted Martha McSally, a Republican nominee in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District.

In a statement announcing his resignation, Pearce said the comments actually weren't his, but that he failed to correctly attribute them and doesn't want to become a distraction ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

“Recently on my radio show there was a discussion about the abuses to our welfare system," Pearce said. "I shared comments written by someone else and failed to attribute them to the author. This was a mistake. This mistake has been taken by the media and the left and used to hurt our Republican candidates. I do not want the progressive left and the media to try and take a misstatement from my show and use it to attack our candidates. I care about the Republican Party and its conservative platform too much to let them do that."

Pearce added: "I will never back down from standing up for what I believe in, and I will continue to fight for the principles that our founding generation risked their lives for. But I have no intention of being used as a distraction by the Democrats.”

http://news.yahoo.com/russell-pearce-birth-control-senator-resigns-152716895.html

Brennus · « **Reply #1 on:** September 17, 2014, 08:54:45 AM »

Spoken like a true republican. That's what the party is really like.

Marlelar · « **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2014, 10:45:03 PM »

If he really stood for what he believe in he would stand up against a smear campaign. All he's done is cave. I don't care for him but he shouldn't just let the left wing run him out on a rail.

Marsha

poche · « **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2014, 11:33:00 PM »

This idea of coerced contraception is something that Pope Paul VI warned about in his encyclical, Humanae Vitae.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html

Tiffany · « **Reply #4 on:** September 19, 2014, 08:11:23 AM »

He isn't the first GOP politician to advocate for sterilizing poor women.

Brennus · « **Reply #5 on:** September 19, 2014, 08:47:25 AM »

Quote from: Tiffany

He isn't the first GOP politician to advocate for sterilizing poor women.

No he is not. I'm not sure who you are, Tiffany, but I found it encouraging that someone knows that.

Not far from where I am, is a town in which a doctor carried out something like 40,000 abortions over a 30 year period ending in the late 60s. People came from all over the country here to get the "service" that this doctor provided, including prominent people. He did this with the tacit support of the political establishment. He was a republican.

In fairness, the DA who eventually prosecuted him was a republican but he only did that when one of the women died from the anesthesia.

The GOP has, historically been the party of post-Puritan Protestant progressivism, which includes eugenics, contraception, abortion, forced public education, sex education, and many under things under the heading of "hygiene." I do not believe that this has ever been fully expunged from the GOP establishment and that is why the GOP failed to win the poorly fought culture wars and why we will soon see the GOP fully embrace Sodomy, abortion and, especially, genetic engineering. This will NOT be a novelty when it happens, it will only be the GOP getting back to its roots.

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** September 20, 2014, 11:33:24 PM »

Quote from: Tiffany

He isn't the first GOP politician to advocate for sterilizing poor women.

It is still grossly immoral.