Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on May 6, 2008

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I would like someone to explain to me the need/purpose of requiring Ethnic information when seeking abortions.

Why do you need the woman's ethnic background? Why aren't you also asking for the ethnic background of the father? What kind of quota are you planning for this? What purpose will it serve to know the mother's ethnic background? IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!!!

Because the head of planned parenthood has admitted in the last week that their goal is to abort mostly minority babies. If this can be proven then maybe we can put a stop to some of this nonsense.

And again I ask, WHY?

Will we all ever be considered the same? Every time we sort a particular group out it creates that mental separation between people. I get the reasoning and it would have benefits but it fosters division of people.

If a woman is a citizen of the United States of America, would not her ethnicity be "American"? If the purpose of maintaining a database is to profile and target populations, as a proactive measure to reduce abortions, then it would it not make more sense to document education and income background? Perpetuating archaic ideologies of eugenics does not make good policy. The following is a simple exercise for policymakers: A white U.S. citizen and a black U.S. citizen mate to produce offspring A. A brown U.S. citizen and a yellow U.S. citizen mate to produce offspring B. Offspring A and Offspring B mate to produce Offspring C. What is the ethnic background Offspring C? An American child. Now, how would one report the ethnic background? Beverly Tran

"The following is a simple exercise for policymakers: A white U.S. citizen and a black U.S. citizen mate to produce offspring A. A brown U.S. citizen and a yellow U.S. citizen mate to produce offspring B. Offspring A and Offspring B mate to produce Offspring C. What is the ethnic background Offspring C? An American child." Not if your name is B. Huseein Obama. Then the correct answer would be black. Seems that nobody ever mentions his white family that raised him after dad split when he was about two. Must not have as much appeal to the voting blocks he is after.

I might expect such actions against women in Iraq, but here it is unthinkable! Talk about going backwards. This Rep. John Espinoza is a *&^$%!@#!!.

I might expect such actions against women in Iraq, but here it is unthinkable! Talk about going backwards. This Rep. John Espinoza is a *&^$%!@#!!.

I might expect such actions against women in Iraq, but here it is unthinkable! Talk about going backwards. This Rep. John Espinoza is a *&^$%!@#!!.

This will not happen in MY BACKYARD. Shameful bill.

You do know that the entire abortion scam was ethnic cleansing, don't you? How can you get your panties all bunched up about a bill like this and still condone the murder of about 45,000,000 babies in the last 30 or so years? You lefties amaze me. Margaret Sanger aligned herself with the eugenicists whose ideology prevailed in the early 20th century. Eugenicists strongly espoused racial supremacy and “purity,” particularly of the “Aryan” race. Eugenicists hoped to purify the bloodlines and improve the race by encouraging the “fit” to reproduce and the “unfit” to restrict their reproduction. They sought to contain the “inferior” races through segregation, sterilization, birth control and abortion. Sanger embraced Malthusian eugenics. Thomas Robert Malthus, a 19th-century cleric and professor of political economy, believed a population time bomb threatened the existence of the human race.2 He viewed social problems such as poverty, deprivation and hunger as evidence of this “population crisis.” According to writer George Grant, Malthus condemned charities and other forms of benevolence, because he believed they only exacerbated the problems. His answer was to restrict population growth of certain groups of people.3 His theories of population growth and economic stability became the basis for national and international social policy. Grant quotes from Malthus' magnum opus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in six editions from 1798 to 1826: All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons. We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.4 Malthus' disciples believed if Western civilization were to survive, the physically unfit, the materially poor, the spiritually diseased, the racially inferior, and the mentally incompetent had to be suppressed and isolated—or even, perhaps, eliminated. His disciples felt the subtler and more “scientific” approaches of education, contraception, sterilization and abortion were more “practical and acceptable ways” to ease the pressures of the alleged overpopulation.