022879 Letter linking the Massacre in Guyana to Abortion
To the Editor:
One lesson to be learned from the tragic Guyana massacre is the need to be selective in choosing the leaders that one follows. Tape recordings made during the last hour of the commune reveal that Jones told his assembled followers, "I tried to give you a good life ... but a handful of our people have made our lives impossible. If we can't live in peace, let's die in peace." He then commanded, "Take my babies and children first."
An eye-witness reports that nurses took babies out of their mother's arms and squirted the deadly liquid down the children's' throats. It was assumed that after the mothers saw their children die, they'd think, "What's there to live for? I may as well die, too."
The leaders of Nazism, fascism Marxism and of many of the cults that have come into existence in recent years have offered their followers "a good life," The leaders of Planned Parenthood likewise offer their followers "a good life." As is clear from their 1976 - 1980 manifesto, their objective is to impose their code of conduct on everyone. They see their mission as a comprehensive campaign for "modifying attitudes, behavior changes and /or/ skills" and abolishing "the arbitrary and outmoded restrictions--legal, regulatory and cultural-which continue to limit the individuals freedom of choice in fertility matters." They look forward to eliminating any moral standards that would inhibit their view of what population control should be.
To attain these ends the manifesto recommends infiltrating the media, professional organizations, education institutions, churches, civil-liberty organizations and community health agencies. The PP leaders look upon the medical services they offer as a primary channel through which they can gain entrance to and "command authority in the councils where national decisions are made."
The PP leaders are attempting to convey the erroneous impression that our fundamental civil laws have their source in the desires of the people. This position contradicts the statement in the Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Lib rty, and the pursuit of Happiness ..." Tie important words to note are that it is the Creator who does the endowing with certain "unalienable Rights." largely because of this misdirection 4300 in utero children are killed daily-over one million a year and an unknown number of women are mutilated, some permanently.
Having successfully infiltrated the regulatory agencies and the judiciary, PP has succeeded in having bestowed on doctors the privilege of killing their patients in addition to curing them. In deed, the doctors are paid out of the public treasury for many of these acts of violence. They have succeeded in instilling in women the erroneous belief that they have a fundamental right to engage an abortionist to kill their unborn children.
The past few years have been a period of great personal openness, a time when many were willing to listen to new ideas and to act on them. Many wanted to belong to anything that promised happiness without tears. As the happenings in Guyana make clear "doing one's own thing (pro-choice)" leads not to utopia or paradise but to anarchy and destruction.
Patrick H. McHugh