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FAMILIES raising disabled or seriously ill children are struggling to survive due to the scale of the cost-of-living crisis, a study revealed today leading a disability rights group to accuse the government of back-door eugenics.

Nine in 10 of families with a disabled child are struggling or falling behind on their regular household bills, a survey by Family Fund found.

Many are forgoing living essentials, such as food and heating, as well as basic household equipment, to try and make ends meet.

More than half of parents and carers report skipping or cutting the size of their meals, a 9 per cent increase since September last year, and 13 per cent say they have had to cut back on items that are essential for their disabled children.

More than 80 per cent are in debt with 40 per cent reporting they cannot afford to keep their homes warm, a 13 per cent increase since last December.

On average, families raising a disabled child live on 17,000 a year and spend 60 hours a week in a caring role, with one-third caring for more than 100 hours a week, the charity said.

Fewer than one in four parents and carers can work full time with more than half not able to work at all.

The charity is calling for an increase in benefits in line with inflation.

Linda Burnip of Disabled People Against Cuts warned of the risk of disabled people dying as they have to choose between heating or eating.

She told the Morning Star: Many disabled adults and children rely on vital equipment such as kidney dialysis machines, various machines that aid breathing, peg feeding equipment, or have a need to store insulin and other essential medicines in fridges.

All of these must have a power supply to work and without which an expensive and unnecessary hospital admission is the least worstoption.

The government must introduce a specific tariff for all disabled people and families with disabled children to ensure that they can afford energy costs.

Frankly not to do so suggests they are pursuing a back-door eugenics policy.

Poverty Alliance director Peter Kelly called it an injustice that disabled people are more likely to be in poverty, also urgingincreased support.

We can help free people from the grip of poverty by renewing and rebuilding our social security, providing adequate incomes for everyone.

Thats even more important for disabled people who face extra barriers when it comes to finding suitable, appropriate work.

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said the government was supporting six million disabled people with an extra 150 payment.

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MARK LEVIN (HOST): And so this whole thing about climate change, hurricanes, when they come out and say, see, there's a hurricane, climate change, see, it's bad. It's a bad hurricane. It would be less bad but for climate change, and you got to vote for us. You got to give us the money. You got to give us the power. You got to stop driving with gasoline powered combustion engines. Maybe you need smaller homes, less cars now. No gasoline cars. We're just going to do electricity.

And then eventually it'll be determined we can't use electricity because the backup is fossil fuels. So you can have to take public transportation and you're going to have to live in more and more dense areas and you're going to have to get special approval if you want a home that has more than 1500 square feet.

And then, of course, we want to control, as the Democrats tried with eugenics a hundred years ago, population. You think I'm crazy? I'm telling you this is the future. I know what I'm talking about. And it'll be done in bits and pieces at times that'll speed up, times it'll slow down. But that's -- that's the path. That's the trajectory.

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A solitary figure stands on his boats bowsprit, right hand on the forestay, his chiseled torso light against the dark sky. His left arm and posture reach forward where a distant hill and small village emerge above the waves under a crescent of clear sky. Rockwell Kents Home Port, (1931) wood engraving on maple printed by Elmer Adler, is from a series of 12 essential Kent prints used in a national advertising campaign for luxury yachts.

Across the Fleming Museum gallery from Home Port, on the cover of a pamphlet, a woman cradles a baby in one arm and holds the hand of a little girl as two more children clutch her skirt. Strength, dignity and hardship are evident.

This pamphlet holds the transcript of a public hearing in West Rutland, on the strike of the Vermont Marble Company workers, Feb. 29, 1936. Kent supported the strikers cause and assisted with aid for their families, in person and with his artwork.

Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection opened last month at the University of Vermonts Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington. Nemecs collection is the largest assemblage of Kents print work the exhibition includes 49 selections from it, from his first wood engraving print in 1919 through the 1940s.

The exhibition also features Kent-related works from the Flemings collections and the University of Vermonts Special Collections Rare Books, including books illustrated by Kent, Works Progress Administration instructive panels on printmaking techniques, and selections by Kents Vermont peers including Ronald Slayton and Anne Squire.

Upstairs at the Fleming is Shanta Lee Ganders multi-part exhibition Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine. Ganders large-scale photographs, co-created with her models and accompanied by their words, overturns the traditional relationship of photographer and subject. In its extension Object-Defied, the artist reexamines objects in the Flemings collection through the gaze of the sacred feminine.

The Flemings Wolcott Gallery features Call and Response, a debut collaboration with the Howard Center Arts Collective. Exhibiting artists selected artwork from the Flemings collection, pieces of personal interest to them, then created original works. Among the participating artists, Jacob Weber considers the first director of the Fleming Museum in Shattered Fragility: A Portrait of Henry F. Perkins, inspired by Arshile Gorkys 1939 Head of Margulies. Besides his role at the Fleming, Perkins was a Eugenics advocate and promoted Eugenics legislation.

The Montier Portraits, the fourth special exhibit, features a rare pair of 1841 oil paintings of an African-American couple. Hiram Charles Montier, a Philadelphia bootmaker, Elizabeth Brown Montier, his wife are each painted in a formal setting. The portraits are on loan from the family of the late William Pickens III. Pickens served as first African American president of the UVM Student Association in 1957-58.

These exhibitions continue to Dec. 9. The Fleming is presenting extensive events and programs relating to the exhibits, with information at http://www.flemingmuseum.org online.

Artist, illustrator, adventurer, architectural draughtsman, author, dairy farmer, and more Kent, born in 1882, was already a well-established artist when he cut his first wood engraving, Bluebird in 1919. He was in Alaska for an extended stay with his son, a time recounted in his enthusiastically received 1920 memoir Wilderness. A friend had sent wood-carving supplies with Kent.

Engraving and printmaking opened another realm for Kent and his exploration of it soon took off.

Kent believed that printmaking was inherently democratic, said Alice Boone, Fleming Museum curator of education and public programs, noting that part of the appeal of printmaking to Kent was bringing art into hands of many, rather than the few who could afford paintings.

Kents work reached viewers in myriad ways, including in editions of numbered and signed prints and images including Home Port that were reproduced in advertising and posters. He illustrated editions of many classics, Moby Dick among them, although these were often with his drawings. For the epic Beowulf, he created lithographs Nemecs set is in the exhibition. Kents Christmas cards and book plates also reached wide audiences.

Kents mastery of shadow and light pervades in his woodcut engravings. His fine lines and sharp definition heighten the black-and-white contrast, with magnificent, often heroic figures emerging from the fields of black ink.

The Fleming exhibition spans three decades of Kents prints.

From 1919 into the 1920s, Kent spent extended solitary time in remote lands Alaska, Newfoundland, Tierra del Fuego and his works speak to solitude, the wilderness and mystical connections.

In the 1930s viewers see Kents attention to daily life of the Adirondacks, where he had his Asgaard Farm in Au Sable Forks his home for the rest of his life and also of life in Greenland, where he spent two years in a fishing village above the Arctic Circle.

Kents deep social consciousness shows in the third stage of his printmaking, late 1930s through 1940s. He belonged to several unions and supported aid groups. He advocated nuclear disarmament and better relations with the Soviet Union, views that later landed him in front of Joseph McCarthys House Un-American Activities Committee.

Nemec began collecting Kents work in the mid 1980s only a portion of his vast collection is in this exhibition.

They just spoke to me. Rockwell became a force of his own, said Nemec, noting that people who already know the artist will love seeing this breadth of his work.

Those who dont know Kent, Nemec believes, will become fans.

Its a real joy. Im so proud that Ive been able to bring this collection together and to share it.

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Rarely have so many stars labored to so little effect as they do in "Amsterdam."

Big names who headline their own movies took roles that give them almost nothing to do in the chaotic comedy, including Chris Rock, Michael Shannon and Alessandro Nivola. Some of the cameos leave an impression Taylor Swift is lively and intriguing in a couple of scenes as a woman who asks the leads to investigate her father's murder but most vanish in a movie so enraptured with its own goofy accents and peculiar behaviors that it loses track of whatever it was supposed to be about. It's like a recipe with a dozen great flavors that don't mix well together.

It's too bad, too, because a few individual scenes are entertaining. Some of the fast-talking dialogue is amusing ("You call your husband The General?"/ "Only on weekdays") and Christian Bale, in particular, has fun with the Coen brothers-like intricacy of the language. Bales' narration is almost nonstop so we get most of our info from the perspective of his Burt, a doctor who tries to help fellow World War I veterans with their lingering injuries and traumas. His best friends are Harold (John David Washington), also a vet, and Valerie (Margot Robbie), who is Harold's girlfriend, although they can't be open about that in the racist U.S.

Racism is one subject the movie has a tough time grappling with. Writer/director David O. Russell ("American Hustle") tackles the hatred experienced by soldiers fighting WWI and re-entering America afterward, as well as attempts to sterilize Black Americans. But whatever message Russell is trying to send something about the importance of kindness? gets lost in an exhausting string of asides about bird-watching, eugenics, the rise of fascism in America in the 1930s, high tea and morphine addiction. The whole movie, in fact, might be the addled imaginings of Burt, who constantly passes out after taking experimental medicines.

Shot by three-time Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki, "Amsterdam" is visually stunning, shifting from the rich, earthy tones of the 1930s to various configurations of black-and-white for fake newsreel footage. Russell's direction to his actors seems to have boiled down to, "Go for it!," so it's never boring, even if we're not sure why Rami Malek, as Valerie's brother, sounds like he's about to overthrow the world when he welcomes a houseguest (James Bond villain hangover?) or whether the de-aging special effects used for Mike Myers have also somehow altered his "British" accent.

What I'm saying is that I'd almost recommend "Amsterdam" even though it's a mess. I kept thinking it was like a lesser Wes Anderson movie on speed or a Coen brothers movie that was taken away from them in editing but the truth is that "Amsterdam" is not like any other movie I can recall. Like the city it's named for but only partially set in, "Amsterdam" is a beautiful, often confounding adventure.

'Amsterdam'

** out of 4 stars

Rated: R for language, violence and drug use.

Where: In theaters.

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Eugenics, which began in the 1880s as a concept of selective breeding by Sir Francis Galton, grew to encompass other disciplines and offer genetic screening and manipulation that included trait selection, gender choice and disease resistance. Opponents suggest that the science of eugenics does more than help parents protect their unborn children; instead, they say that it has harmful effects on peoples perceptions and fuels racial disparity.

Modern eugenics allows physicians to screen for as many as 400 hereditary conditions, giving parents an accurate view of their unborn childs future medical needs and the ability to confront those needs proactively once the child has been born. The ability to diagnose and eliminate potential conditions is still too advanced for modern science, but the ability to proactively confront conditions gives parents a chance to prepare themselves and let their pediatricians know what to expect regarding their child's future health.

The ability to diagnose genetic disorders in samples before implantation allows women to select male donor samples that do not contain negative genetic consequences. Male samples found to contain genetic markers associated with hereditary conditions like Down syndrome, inherited colon cancer and inherited breast cancer can be eliminated. The advantage is a comprehensive protection for the child regarding hereditary conditions passed down by the biological father. The child is still susceptible to inherited genetic conditions from the mother; however, this eliminates half of the potential genetic inheritors from passing along genetic illnesses.

While the ability to control a childs gender is considered an advantage of the eugenics science, this ability forces a consideration for the motivation of the science. Ethicists contend that gender selection as a form of family gender variety -- that is, selecting a second childs gender that is the opposite from their first childs -- can prevent pre-birth stereotyping 2. In many countries including China and India, there is a cultural perception of superiority for the male over the female, which could result in the use of eugenics as a form of gender bias.

During the years leading up to World War II, the Nazi party began a program of forced sterilization, attempting to control racial population growth through eugenics. While modern eugenics scientists oppose leader Adolf Hitler's actions, such measures demonstrate the potential misuse of eugenics when applied to a social agenda and a willingness to violate civil rights. Eugenics opponents fear that eugenics could be used for similar purposes in other countries, providing a medical means of racial cleansing or oppression.

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Abortion advocates are attempting to paint the pro-life movement as racist by using the issue of immigration to claim that the motivation behind making abortion illegal is derived from an effort to increase the births of white babies. But this entire premise is absurd on its face, given the fact that for decades, abortion which is tethered to eugenics has disproportionately targeted Black Americans and other minorities. But even more to the point, the original promoters of the anti-immigration movement were aligned with the same eugenic movers and shakers that brought us abortion and Planned Parenthood.

According to the Harry H. Laughlin papers at Truman State University, The American eugenics movement greatly influenced U.S. policies regarding immigration. Policy writers were interested in the eugenics movement and immigration because the nativist side of eugenics focused on keeping the American race pure from immigrants who were seen as unfit.'

The very first anti-immigration group, theImmigration Restriction League (IRL), was founded in 1894 by three Harvard College graduates Charles Warren,Robert DeCourcy Ward,andPrescott Farnsworth Hall in response to an increasing sense of invasion of the United States by undesirable immigrants that threatened their sense of the American way of life,according to Harvard Colleges Houghton Library.

The Leagues goal, wrote researcher Adam S. Cohen, was to keep out groups they regarded as biologically undesirable. Immigration was a race question, pure and simple, Ward said. It is fundamentally a question as to what races shall dominate in the country. League members made no secret of whom they meant: Jews, Italians, Asians, and anyone else who did not share their northern European lineage, Cohen added.

The League was founded in Boston, but quickly spread to many other cities across the United States and they choseHall, who originally proposed calling the League the Eugenic Immigration League, to beChairman of the Committee on Immigration of the Eugenics Section of the American Genetic Association.

Immigration Restriction League Prescott F Hall Secretary 1904 National Archives

In Halls Eugenics, Ethics And Immigration, he wrote, The attempt to improve race stocks in recent times has, therefore, taken the form, not of killing off the less fit, but of preventing their coming into the State, either by being born into it or by migration. Eugenics includes, not only the prevention of unfit, but the conscious attempt to produce the more fit; indeed, it is in the latter sense that the word is most often used. Strictly speaking, however, it must include all attempts to improve the physical equipment of the individual in so far as he acquires it by heredity. The recent emphasis upon eugenics is a direct outcome of modern science.

The fact is, that our immigration laws, as at present administered, do not screen out the unfit so as to preserve the status quo, to say nothing of promoting eugenic improvement, Hall also wrote.

In his book Fatal Misconception, author Matthew Connelly cites Hall as stating, The moral seems to be this: Eugenics among individuals is encouraging the propagation of the fit and limiting or preventing the multiplication of the unfit Immigration restriction is a species ofsegregation on a large scale, by which inferior stocks can be prevented from both diluting and supplanting good stocks.

Eugenicists influence within the early anti-immigration movement was confirmed by University of Virginia historian Paul A. Lombardo, who wrote:

In 1911, Immigration Restriction League President Prescott Hall asked his former Harvard classmate Charles Davenport of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) for assistance to influence Congressional debate on immigration. Davenport recommended a survey to determine the national origins of hereditary defectives in American prisons, mental hospitals and other charitable institutions. Davenport appointed ERO colleague Harry Laughlin to manage the research program.

Laughlin was a founding member andpresident of the American Eugenics Society and the architect of the 1924 anti-immigration act. Laughlin joined others of his day in promoting forced sterilization and evenauthored a model eugenics sterilization law. In 1933, Laughlins ideas werepublishedby Margaret Sangers Birth Control Review, and in 1938 hebecame part oftheCitizens Committee on Planned Parenthood.

In 1936, Laughlin received anhonorarydegree from the Nazi-controlled University of Heidelberg as a pioneer in the science of race cleansing, according to Lombardo.Smithsonian Magazine identifiedLaughlin as[o]ne of the primary examples of how eugenics played a role in immigration law.

In 1920, Laughlin appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, where Lombardo says he argued that the American gene pool was being polluted by a rising tide of intellectually and morally defective immigrants primarily from eastern and southern Europe. Laughlins research culminated in his 1924 testimony to Congress in support of a eugenically-crafted immigration restriction bill, where Lombardo claims the resulting law, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, was designed consciously to halt the immigration of supposedly dysgenic Italians and eastern European Jews, whose numbers had mushroomed during the period from 1900 to 1920 The 1924 Act ended the greatest era of immigration in U.S. history.

Truman State Universitys special collections website points out that the 1924 anti-immigration act set an annual ceiling on the number of immigrants allowed entrance into the U.S., regardless of origin, except Arians, who were totally excluded, they claimed.

Harry Laughlin author of Immigration Act signed Committee for Planned Parenthood

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, whobelievedthat non-white races must be excluded from America, was connected to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and authored a book titled, The Rising Tide of Color. Stoddard was a journalist and Exalted Cyclops of the Massachusettschapter of the Ku Klux Klan.He served on Sangers National Council, her American Birth Control League (ABCL)Board of Directors, and the conference committee of theFirst American Birth Control Conference.

According to an article published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

Stoddard testified to Congress on immigration issues in the 1920s and 1930s. He supported restricting immigration to the United States, and he particularly opposed theadmission of groups heconsidered to be undesirable or racially inferior. On one occasion, Stoddard referred to refugees from the Middle East who were fleeing violence as parasitical and mongrel people who would be very undesirable immigrants.He also supported laws that would exclude Asians from entering the United States.

Author Matthew Connellywrote of Stoddard, Stoddard claimed that white men were responsible for their own demise, because they had reduced famine and disease and had thus removed checks to population increase among other races.

Sanger herself expressed concern about immigration. Writing in Plan for Peace, published in her Birth Control Review (BCR), she advocated a Population Congress which would keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.

Plan for Peace by Margaret Sanger

Former Population Council employeeShannon HarveyonceallegedonTwitterthata Population Council VP had expressed concerns about African immigration into Europe,tweeting:

At a donor event a VP made this case for family planning: Theres widespread concern about 4bn people in Africa: poverty, environment, famines With 1bn Africans, immigration is more than [Europe] thinks they can handle. With 4bn people it will be a much bigger problem.

The Population Council brought the abortion pill RU486 (mifepristone) into the United States and set up the pills U.S. manufacturer, Danco Laboratories.

California abortionistEdward Allred, owner of the Family Planning Associates Medical Group (one of the largest privately owned abortion chains in the U.S. at the time) expressed what has since beendescribedas a racist view of Hispanics, eventellinga reporter from the San Diego Union that he hoped to stem the tide of the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Allred said:

Population control is too important to be stopped by some right-wing pro-life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide. Id set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could. Maybe one in Calexico would help. The survival of our society could be at stake.

In 1967,Coloradobecame thefirst U.S. stateto legalize abortion, in large partdueto the leadership ofthen-Denver RepresentativeRichard D. Lamm, the abortion billsprincipal sponsor. Lamm, who later became Governor of the state, also opposed immigration into the U.S. and served on the boards of anti-immigration organizationslike theFederation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR),Progressives for Immigration Reform(PFIR),andCalifornians for Population Stabilization(CAPS). In addition to Lamm,Charles Westoff amemberof both the American Eugenics Society as well as Planned Parenthoods National Advisory Council alsoservedon the CAPS advisory board.

Garrett Hardin was both a NARALco-founderand an admitted anti-immigration (and pro-abortion) activist.In aninterview with Skeptic magazine in 1996, Hardin stated:

I started being an activist for legalized abortion in 1963. I spent most of my external time on that issue until the Supreme Court reached the famous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. I thought the fight was all over. Well, I was wrong.

At the time, my wife and I were active in Planned Parenthood. She was on the local board of directors. The question came up in Planned Parenthood as to what our position should be on abortion. Some wanted to stay clear of it entirely because they realized there would be a lot of opposition. Fortunately, Planned Parenthood decided that it was a question of womens rights.

Abortion is above all other things a method of birth control. To put it another way, its a backstop for any system of birth control when the rest of the system fails.That decision to support the womans right to abortion put Planned Parenthood in a dangerous position.

A University of Californiaarchived historyof Hardin described him asa leading ecological thinker, whose views influenced debates on abortion, immigration, foreign aid, overpopulation, and other provocative issues.

UC Political Science Professor Matto MildenbergerdisturbinglydescribedHardin as aracist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamophobe. Hardin was against immigration,reportedlybecause most immigrants into the United States have been Mexicans, blacks from the Caribbean and Africa, and Asians. According to theGarret Hardin Society website, Hardin believed that an increasingly multicultural society was a recipe for social disorder. In 1990, Hardin wasawardedby the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), where heservedas a board member.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is one of the largest anti-immigration organizations. FAIRs2001 annual reportdescribed itsfounderJohn Tantonas becominginterestedin immigration to the United States through his long-standing concerns about the effects of unplanned and uncontrolled population growth and resource depletion.

He was the national President of Zero Population Growth from 1975 to 1977 and was Chairman of its Immigration Study Committee from 1973 to 1975. He was organizer and President of theNorthern Michigan Planned Parenthoodchapter [1965-1971]. From 1971 to 1975, Dr. Tanton served as Chairman of the Sierra Club National Population Committee, the report added.

In Tantonsoral history, he claimed that in 1964, one of the first things we did was to establish a Planned Parenthood clinic in northern Michigan a fact confirmed by theDetroit News, which wrote that the Tantons (John and Mary Lou) co-founded the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood in 1965. Mary Lou Tanton was also employed by FAIR. Herresumreveals that she served as president from 1975-1978, on the board of Washtenaw County League for Planned Parenthood (1961-1964), and on the Michigan Planned Parenthood Council-Public Affairs and Legislative Chairman (1976-1979).

John Tanton on Planned Parenthood board

TantonfundedFAIRin part frommoneyfrom the Pioneer Fund, an organizationfoundedby eugenicist leaders Harry Laughlin and Fredrick Henry Osborn, a leader of thePopulation Councilwho signed Sangers Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood,publishedin her review in April of 1938.

Tanton wasintriguedbyPaul Ehrlichs book,The Population Bomb, and was eventually nominatedto the national board of Zero Population Growth (ZPG) andsubsequently elected national president of ZPG in 1975.Tantonhas beencalledthe father of the anti-immigration movement and hasnurturedmultiple anti-immigration groups like Numbers USA and FAIRs research arm, the Center for Immigration Studies.

Cordelia Scaife May funds John Tantons anti-immigration orgs (Image: New York Times)

FAIR was alsofunded in part with the finances of philanthropist Cordelia Scaife May, who openlyadmired Margaret Sanger, was a friend to Garrett Hardin, worked with Planned Parenthood, and served on the board of the Population Council,contributing $11.4 million to the Councils work during the 1960s. In 1969,May signed an ad paid for by the Hugh Moore Fund which pointed to the flood of humanity now engulfing the earth and the urgent necessity of controlling it. According toPhilanthropy Daily,May gave Tanton a $500,000 grant to start the organization in 1978.

Hugh Moore Fund 1969 ad signed by Cordilia Scaife May against Latin immigration

FAIRs pastleadershipis a whos who of abortion and eugenics proponents and includes the previously mentioned Richard D. Lamm who drafted andsucceededin passing the nations first liberalized abortion law in Colorado. It also includes NARALco-founderGarrett Hardin, who also receivedfundingfrom the Pioneer Fund and was deeply involved with ZPG and Planned Parenthood. In1980, Hardin received Planned Parenthoods Margaret Sanger Award.

Hardin also belonged to the Hemlock Society and took hisown lifein 2003.

Former California congressman Anthony Beilenson also sat on FAIRs boardandreportedly helped passthe first liberalization of Californias abortion law in 1967. In his bookabout the Tantons, author John F. Rohe describes FAIR Chairman Sherry Barnes andSidney Swensrud as also working with Planned Parenthood.

FAIR Board member Sarah G. Epstein, daughter of Pathfinder Internationals eugenicistfounder Clarence Gamble,servedon the boards ofPlanned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Center for Development and Population Activities, The Population Institute, andPathfinder International. (Clarence Gamble also served asdirectorof bothMargaret SangersAmerican Birth Control League andPlanned Parenthoodboards.) Epsteinwas a2009 sponsorof Planned Parenthoods Champions of Choice event.

Federation of American Anti-immigration Reform (FAIR) 2000 board John Tanton Donald A Collins

Also serving onFAIRs boardwas Donald A. Collins, a former vice chairman and trustee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and advisor of population affairs for the Scaife family of Pittsburgh. He alsoservedon the national oversight board of theCenter for Family Planning Program Development, whichlater morphedinto the Guttmacher Institute.

Florida abortion facility owner Joyce Tarnow, who also served on FAIRs board, once appeared on a local talk show where shesuggestedthat countries which needed help feeding their people should sink or swim on their own. The more people you help to survive the more people who are going to be reproducing and having children beyond what we can reasonably hope to have so that we can educate and house and feed these people, Tarnowstated.

Watch Tarnow in the documentary film Maafa21 below:

Tarnow founded theMiami chapter of Zero Population Growth in 1970 andserved on its national board from 19721974. Later, (1994) she co-founded Floridians for a Sustainable Population (FSP). In 2004, Tarnow was interviewed by a Broward-Palm Beach New Times reporter where Tarnow claimed thatFertility is an environmental issue before telling the media outlet, Thats why I try to get as many people sterilized as are in my way!

The article entitled Adios, Abortionist, then turned to immigration. Tarnow stated, We need to help nations that can subsist and let others wither on the vine. Regarding the nation of Haiti, Tarnow added that the people there need to stew in their own juices. Tarnow died in 2014.

The accusation that somehow the pro-life movement is attempting to increase the white population by restricting abortion is outlandish for many reasons. The abortion industrys current cries are to ensure that women of color, in particular, can access abortion even though Black women already currently account for 38.4% of all abortions in the U.S, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is stunning, considering that the Black community only makes up 12% of the U.S. population.

Aside from this, clear history shows that it is the abortion/population control/eugenics movement (which are not separate movements) that has always sought to keep certain people groups both from reproducing and from legally immigrating to the United States.

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Frontiers from 2007 is a brutal illustration of what humans are capable of doing to other humans, even invoking the worst violence painstakingly documented in recent history the Nazi violence perpetrated in pursuit of eugenics. Frontiersfrom French filmmaker Xavier Gens is part of a group of movies considered the New French Extremity Movement. This subgenre is characterized by grotesque violence to the human form shown in very gory detail. Martyrs, Frontiersand Inside make the perfect trio to explore New French Extremity, with Titane being perhaps a triumphant and more mainstream return to the subgenre. From a horror fans perspective, Frontiersis Hostel meets The Hills Have Eyes meets Texas Chainsaw Massacrewith even some moments reminiscent of The Descent, so lets get into it.

In the case of Frontiers, Gens claims it is inspired by the real-life political fears from the 2002 French election where a far right-wing candidate came close to winning the presidency, and the robbery perpetrated by our group of friends almost mirrors the instigating incident of the 2005 urban riots. The movie seems to take place in a future where France is under fascist rule, and starts with a sonogram and a voice over of our main protagonist, Yasmine (Karina Testa) philosophizing about how she could bring a child into a world filled with such violence and hatred interspersed with footage of the violent urban riots going on at the time. This focuses to a group of young people on the run, including the pregnant Yasmine.

After getting separated, Tom and Fariq stumble into a small motel run by the Von Geisler family where they are greeted by Gilberte and Klaudia. They text Yasmine and Alex their location before heading downstairs for some food. After the most awkward family dinner EVER, they are attacked by older brothers Karl and Goetz. As Klaudia collects their belongings and puts them with countless other glasses, cell phones, etc., it is clear that this family has been kidnapping those who make the unfortunate decision to stop at their motel.

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After the brutal attack by Karl and Goetz, Tom and Fariq attempt a desperate getaway only to end up crashing into an old mine shaft where they hope to find refuge. Meanwhile, unaware of the dangers awaiting them, Yasmine and Alex show up to the Von Geisler motel. Another WEIRD family dinner with a very young pregnant woman Eva, and Nazi father ends with Yasmine and Alex being chained at the necks by yet another brother, Hans, and dragged to the pig sty. Yasmine crawls through pig excrement after managing to break her chain, but must leave Alex behind his final words to her are that she should live.

Yasmine wakes up in Evas room where she is told she will marry Karl and be the infusion of new blood the family needs to keep the Von Geisler line going. She is clothed in a white frilly dress for the ceremonial marriage dinner where all hell breaks loose and Yasmine manages to get away, choosing any means necessary to save her own life and the life of her unborn child.Things just get crazier from there there are mutant cannibals, a room full of hanging corpses, a large oven, an exploding head, a miter saw, and so. much. blood.

The true horror becomes what Yasmine must endure, and also the savagery she must commit in order to survive. The brilliance of Testas performance is in her effective portrayal of shock and pain the way she holds herself, her jerky body movements, the small noises she lets out as she experiences extreme violence both against her and by her own hands. The final scenes where her pristine white frock is covered in blood, and mud, and more are visually striking. As the rain washes off some of the gore after she tears out a womans jugular with her teeth (long before Rick did it in The Walking Dead), it seems like almost a baptism of sorts but can anything wash away the hell she just lived through.

The tagline is what are your boundaries?, and Yasmine has shown that she has none when it comes to saving her life and the life of her baby. Does that make her a monster too? The original song Kill Me by score composerJean-Pierre Taeb that rolls during the credits brings this point home repeatedly in its lyrics saying kill me, Im a monster. So while this is a brutal and violent film that is at times difficult to endure, there is a deeper meaning lurking underneath the gore that keeps the soulless nature of these films at bay. Can brutality be redeemed in movies AND people? What are YOUR boundaries?

Do you have boundaries when it comes to the brutality in horror movies? What are they?

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IVF, or in-vitro fertilization, was invented in the 1970s and is termed an assisted reproductive technology. This procedure involves the acquisition of human male sperm and female eggs which are then artificially fused in a lab to create living human embryos. Typically, multiple of these embryonic humans are then implanted into a womans womb (sometimes a surrogate mother), typically resulting in a pregnancy of twins, triplets, or even quadruplets. This is done to maximize the chances that at least one of the children implants correctly and begins healthy growth in order to be carried to term. The rest of that childs siblings are then usually selectively reduced via abortion.

The Catholic Church officially and explicitly condemns IVF as a practice that is inherently contrary to the unity of marriage and to the childs right to be conceived and brought into the world in marriage and from marriage (Donum Vitae 36), and is always morally impermissible. In other words, IVF takes the creation of children out of its correct place as an act of love and cooperation between a married couple and God, replacing the marital act and Gods gift of life with an artificial, clinical procedure. Moreover, children have the right to be created through their own parents act of love, grow in their mothers womb, and be raised by their biological parents. IVF subverts the natural course of procreation by which children are entitled to be brought into life. That brings us to several problematic side-effects of IVF. Firstly, the collection of sperm is usually done through the utilization of masturbation, which the Church states is a gravely immoral act, even in order to obtain a good thing, in this case the creation of a child (the ends do not justify the means). Secondly, as previously mentioned, the leftover human embryos that are not chosen for implantation in the womb are sentenced to being frozen indefinitely, donated for inhumane research and experimentation, or killed. Thirdly, the extra embryos that were implanted who arent chosen to be kept and carried to term are aborted, which amounts to homicide and is grievously wrong (both from a secular and Catholic standpoint). In both the second and third cases, there is also much room for unjust discrimination, such as choosing only the most genetically fit embryos to survive (a eugenics mindset) or deciding which siblings to abort based on arbitrary characteristics such as their health conditions, sex, and so on (promoting bias). Additionally, IVF violates the dignity of the human person by treating children as marketable objects to be produced, bought, sold, and even destroyed on demand.

Going further, we must examine other potential ramifications of IVF in society. As technology advancement allows us to discern more and more information from genetic testing, the temptation will increasingly grow to pick between which artificially-created babies we prefer, or even custom design them, as if choosing which product we like most on the shelf. This is not only incredibly dehumanizing, but sets dangerous precedents for how we are allowed to treat human beings in the future.

This all being said, the Catholic Church understands the genuine struggle of couples who are infertile and deeply long to have children, which is a worthy and naturally good desire. We must be compassionate toward people who bear the great burden of infertility and walk with them through their pain and struggles. However, that does not mean that anyone is ever owed a child or that every type of attempt to have children is moral. For example, stealing someone elses baby or tricking someone into being impregnated are not permissible means of achieving the desire and good end of having a child or being a parent. It may provide hope to explain that there are alternative methods of assisted procreation that are morally licit. For example, procedures that assist the marital act but dont replace it (such as NaProTechnology) as well as strategies to enhance natural fertility or timing of conception (such as Natural Family Planning), are permissible. Likewise, just because our Catholic faith opposes the IVF method of conceiving does not mean it denounces those people who were conceived through that circumstance. Just as we can condemn rape and fornication and simultaneously love people who were created through those reprehensible acts, so too can we condemn IVF while still embracing as children of God every human being who was brought into this world by it.

Key takeaway: We must entreatnay, demandthat those at the helm of scientific investigation slow down in their ever-progressing pursuits to question whether just because we can do something, does that mean we should? In the case of IVF, our Church declares a definitive NO.

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Dobbs v. Jackson, reversing almost 50 years of abortion on demand, is existentially a legal and moral/ethical vaccine for the United States.

Why? While the legal challenges and political fighting will continue for some time, this is the greatest reversal of a Supreme Court in its history. It is worth noting that official Reconstruction lasted almost 25 years in the old Confederacy.

The Supreme Court has reversed itself some 232 times. (It is really not that unusual.) It has made horrible decisions before, such as the famous Dred Scott decision in 1846, that basically concluded that blacks were not protected by law, thus providing basic legal protections, preventing them from having civil rights, and basically determined they were property, not human beings. It took a new President from a new political party, Republican Abraham Lincoln, a civil war which killed over 600,000 soldiers, the razing of 11 states, and two Constitutional Amendments, the 13th and 14th, to right this wrong.

The Supreme Court, on the other hand, stood by the treaties made with indigenous people groups. It was Andrew Jackson, the first populist President, who famously said, The Supreme Court made the law. Let them enforce it. This led to the removal of many tribes to the West, including the infamous Trail of Tears.

The American system of justice is not infallible. Why? Because human beings are fallible. It is made by free moral agents.

The overturn of Roe was inevitable. There is an agent more powerful than man. It is God. He will only suffer the shedding of innocent blood so long. He has acted and will continue to act till the end of the eon/age. There is a basic concept that is one of the bedrocks of Western Jurisprudence. It is the concept of Imago Dei. Human beings have inestimable value not because the law makes it so, but because all people are made in the Image of God/

If one reads scripture, one can only image the prayers of the millions of innocents before the Father, pleading, as martyrs, to right this wrong and recompense their innocent deaths. In this narrative, abortion advocates have no chance. See Revelation 6:9-11.

But abortion has always been a moral rejection of all things good. Ultimately it denies God. It rejects Gods order and law entirely. Thou shall not kill.

Science has never been on the side of abortion. How many women celebrate a new baby by hanging pictures of ultrasounds on their refrigerator, and celebrate the new life? The fetus is obviously human, it can be nothing else. It is obviously alive. The child grows from conception on.

But why is it a vaccine? Dobbs v. Jackson gives every person in the United States, the opportunity to listen to their conscience. It is an injection into the very heart of the postmodern view of humanity. People are not disposable. Their will is not their own. It is superintended by conscience, which is either anesthetized or invigorated by the culture surrounding them.

If Roe was wrong, and it is, then almost every person is faced with a whole new/old reality. Women are, and here is the social impetus for the current uproar, forced to deal with all the current notions of womanhood and sexuality. Men are forced to deal with their sexual appetites. Relationships that involve sexual intercourse must again be covenantal. Modesty suddenly makes sense. Parents must again protect their children from opportunistic predators. Parents must also teach and model for their boys that they must, once again, genuinely respect and protect females.

The decision ultimately flies in the face of the pornification of America, which has reduced sex to the level of at best, a casual decision to enjoy oneself.

Once upon a time, it was Women and children first. The womens movement which really rolled out in force in 1963, with the publication of Bettye Friedans The Feminine Mystique. It is interesting to note that the first birth control pills, which had terrible side effects, including strokes, was introduced by J.D. Searle, big pharma, in 1950. Betty Friedan also started the National Organization of Women, which became a political powerhouse.

Abortion is now championed most by Planned Parenthood. PP was begun by Margaret Sanger who had advocated for eugenics, much like the Third Reich, did with Jews, Poles, Croatians, Gypsys and many more. Its political arm pulls in huge sums. Its research arm, the Alan Guttmacher Institute has been pushing its agenda-driven advocacy data for decades.

The whole history of Roe is full of deception. Most interestingly, both the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade and the Jane Bolton of Doe v. Bolton were deceived by their lawyers. Both Roe, or Norman McCorvey, and Doe, or Sandra Cano repudiated their involvement before they died.

Coat hangers? Fact checkers have looked at the claim concerning the huge number of illegal abortions before Roe. The only real data with mortality rates indicates that there were 888 deaths in 1945 and 2,677 in 1933, before penicillin and sulfa drugs were introduced. (See article by Glenn Kessler in the May 29, 2019, Washington Post.)

What a mess weve made.

Now states like California and others are talking secession.

The Dobbs decision will be fought in every state. The Court has yet to rule on when life begins.

Only Kansas had this right, and it is being fought now.

Legal abortion is a nothing less than genocide.

Everyone involved is a victim.

But thankfully, a safety net exists for unwanted children. There are over 3,000 Pregnancy Resource Centers though out the United States. There is counselling, forgiveness and healing for woman who have had abortions. There are more people who want to adopt than there are babies available, though this should be incentivized through the tax code by an act of Congress.

Reversing Roe is convicting of the heart and mind.

This is the time to get it right.

Doug Daugherty, Sr.

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Within the first 10 minutes of Ken BurnsThe U.S. and the Holocaust I knew that I was going to learn things I never knew.

Part One starts with the U.S. governments enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first time that admission to the United States was limited for people not born here. It concludes in 1938 just after Germany invades and occupies Austria.

My main takeaway was how U.S. public opinion opposed to immigration in the early 1930s was driven by outright racism and antisemitism, which even included officials inside our government. Denying visas had the effect of denying admission to, among others, Jews in Europe trying to flee the growing Nazi threat.

But the episodes greatest impact on me was the rapid growth during the Great Depression of U.S.-based Nazi supporters and other racist groups and the spread of fake-science claims thatnon-whites were biologically inferior to whites. This became known as the eugenics movement.

Burns throws out big names such as Rockefeller, Carnegie and even Helen Keller as some who supported and funded research into the American eugenics movement, but really focused on one man in particular one man I had never heard of until last night, Madison Grant.

Madison Grant was a key figure in the history of the National Park Service who left behind a troubling legacy. And its this legacy that Burns ties to the eventual rise of Adolf Hitler and his belief system.

While Grant supported environmental conservation and worked to protect plant and animal species like redwood trees and the American bison, he is best remembered for his support of eugenics.

In 1916 he wrote a book entitled The Passing of the Great Race, in which he spread racist ideas that he claimed were scientific.

His philosophies influenced policymakers of the day, who used the ideas of Grant and those who agreed with him to restrict immigration and to control peoples ability to have children.

Many white protestant Americans came to fear they were about to be outnumbered and outbred by the newcomers and their offspring. That they were being replaced, said the filmmakers in a narration by Peter Coyote. They embraced a new pseudo-science born in Great Britain called eugenics.

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Literally meaning to be well born, eugenicsis the belief that a society should improve itself by controlling peoples reproduction. Eugenicists believed that some groups of people should be prevented from having children.

Madison Grant was among those who invented elaborate systems for classifying people based on their real or perceived disabilities. Further, Grant and other eugenicists argued that certain racial groups were superior to others.

Grant alleged that this supposed Nordic race was in danger of going extinct. He claimed, without evidence, that immigration and racial intermarriage caused crime and political corruption. According to Grants racist hierarchy, any mixing between Nordics and the other groups he saw as inferior could not be tolerated. He believed it would doom the United States.

For Grant and many others, Jews were a distinct race, not considered white, dismissed as uncouth Asiatics, said Burns, via narrator Coyote in Episode 1.

Another powerful moment in Episode 1, came around 17 minutes in when Burns included the following quote from an actual former President of the United States.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding. And when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons be forbidden from leaving offspring behind them, said Theodore Roosevelt.

The idea was that the bad people need to stop reproducing and the good people need to reproduce more. Negative eugenics says to sterilize the wrong people, snuff them out, and that is the eugenics the Nazis would pick up on, said historian Nell Irwin Painter.

If you missed Episode 1, you can watch it online.

To accommodate this primetime addition to their schedule, the air dates for The U.S. and the Holocaust have been adjusted. Episode two will now premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 7 pm, followed by episode three on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 pm.

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