Source:   NewsMax; April 8, 2003

Planned Parenthood:  Iraqi Women Need Abortion
by Father Michael Reilly

What do Iraqi women need now more than ever? According to Planned Parenthood, if you answered food, water or medicine, you're wrong.

Instead, the pro-abortion advocacy group sees the liberation of Iraq as an opportunity to extend abortion and birth control to yet another civilization.

"If we are fighting for freedom in Iraq, then most surely that freedom should extend to women globally and in the United States," says Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt, in a statement posted on the group's Web site. "The most fundamental freedom is the freedom of reproductive self-determination."

But the Bush administration, Feldt complains, is standing in the way. "In mid-February, a leaked State Department memo indicated that the administration intended to extend the global gag rule to cover all health programs, including reproductive health programs for refugees."

Imagine the outrage on the "Arab Street" if the U.S. war of liberation became a genuine liberal culture war, with a victorious America imposing abortion on Muslim women of a conquered land.

How might the Muslim world react, for instance, to the words of abortion crusader Margaret Sanger, who favored the practice of eugenics to limit "inferior" populations?

"We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all," Sanger wrote in a screed she titled "Pivot of Civilization." "The wealth of individuals and of states is being diverted from the development and progress of human expression and civilization."

If the Bush administration decided to take Planned Parenthood's advice, observations like Sanger's would surely fuel Arab speculation that the U.S. is more interested in aborting Iraq than rebuilding it.