{"id":189474,"date":"2010-03-23T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/23\/why-the-religious-right-opposes-abortion\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T00:22:00","slug":"why-the-religious-right-opposes-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/23\/why-the-religious-right-opposes-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Religious Right Opposes Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/riben041107.htm\">Talibaptists make good coin selling babies<\/a>, and so they want to have a good supply of pregnant women, particularly <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">white<\/span> pregnant women, without options, so that they can cover a few medical bills, and then extracting fees from desperate parents:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>American websites currently offer[ ] mouth-watering<br \/>incentives to would-be buyers. &#8220;Delivery within four months&#8221;, &#8220;Discounts of up to $19,000&#8221;, they proclaim.  If it were cars they were selling this would not seem<br \/>odd, but it&#8217;s babies that are for sale \u2013 bright, smiling newborns to tempt the childless into parting with about \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shame in treating babies like any other purchase in America, where the adoption industry is largely privatized\u2026 (\u201cWhy adoption is so easy in<br \/>America\u201d Telegraph.co.uk 10\/31\/07)<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Brits have also rightly pointed to U.S. restrictions on birth control and abortion as a contributing to \u201cmarketable\u201d infants in the U.S. The religious right\u2019s imposed morality is perfectly partnered with those whose livelihoods depend upon the redistribution of children.<\/p>\n<p>In May, 2007 Evangelical Christians organizations such as Focus on the Family and pastors from across the nation held a three-day summit in Colorado. members of to promote adoption via a media blitz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there are any number of people who do good work in adoption, there is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lot<\/span> of money sloshing around, and it&#8217;s driving the way that business is done, and the Mega-churches and their ilk are taking their tithes, which keeps the pastors in SUV&#8217;s and business jets, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Talibaptists make good coin selling babies, and so they want to have a good supply of pregnant women, particularly white pregnant women, without options, so that they can cover a few medical bills, and then extracting fees from desperate parents: American websites currently offer[ ] mouth-wateringincentives to would-be buyers. &#8220;Delivery within four months&#8221;, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,976,1051,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-family","category-hypocrisy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}