Dorothy Day--'a saint for our times'

[trotsky]

8. Further information for those interested:

http://subcreators.com/blog/2012/11/24/dorothy-day-birth-control-and-abortion-another-form-of-genocide/

Here’s an extraordinary quote from Dorothy Day, Catholic radical lover of the poor and peace activist – who was also a post-abortive mother. It comes from a 1974 interview with Hubert Jessup on a Boston TV station.

Well, we’re living in an era of genocide. I mean, after the Holocaust…which led to the Second World War…which went on…War itself is a holocaust. And, we’re still thinking in terms of war—the whole government…how much of our taxes go for war…a greater amount this year that ever before. And, so we’re pacifist as well as anarchist…and…we do believe that there is…not only the genocide of war—the genocide that took place in the extermination of Jews—but, the whole program—I’m speaking now as a Catholic—of birth control and abortion, is another form of genocide.

There’s many theories about birth control, many theories about a population going to seed when they’re poverty stricken—a neglected orchard, for instance—it goes to seed…and, so, they claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children, and the “solution” is to kill them off—the seed that is dead seed—by whatever methods they use: whether it’s intra-uterine devices, or the pill—about which they’re very dubious. But, I’m just saying that, when it comes to Mexicans, and Filipinos, and the Blacks in this country—they’re the ones who are multiplying. And, a great many of them believe that this is— the educated too—that the whole problem’s…the whole program of birth control and abortion, is a way of keeping down the population of the poor.