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Patricio Hilario da Silva\u2019s life was headed in the wrong direction. As a homeless child living in Rio de Janeiro, the nine-year old had no education and little hope. All that lay in store for him were more hard years on the street. Or at least that\u2019s how it seemed, until one day in 1989, when someone decided to take action, and reached out to young Patricio–with a bullet. His body was found with a note that read<\/a>, “I killed you because you didn’t study and had no future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricio\u2019s fate was not unusual. Brazilian death squads have murdered thousands<\/a> of impoverished children, an activity known as \u201csocial cleansing.\u201d Young boys and girls in low income areas are frequently<\/a> \u201cgunned down without question, as if they were wild dogs.\u201d’\u00a0The logic behind this violence is simple: by killing a homeless child, the death squad ensures that he or she won\u2019t be a drain on society.<\/p>\n

If this line of reasoning sounds familiar, it\u2019s because you\u2019ve probably heard it from supporters of the abortion industry. According to them, abortion is the only way many women can avoid raising unwanted children under difficult, harmful circumstances. But whereas Rio\u2019s cleaning staff are facing something of a crackdown<\/a> from the Brazilian government , Planned Parenthood, America\u2019s largest abortion provider, has comparatively little to worry about. In fact, the organization is not only allowed to pursue its own version of \u201csocial cleansing,\u201d but actually gets government funding to do so. Part of this is thanks to an odd (but evidently effective) claim: aborting a child is an act of altruism.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At first glance, child killing seems like a practice that even Don Draper would find difficult to sanitize. Whether it\u2019s shooting a preteen orphan, or dismembering a 20 week old fetus<\/a> who can apparently feel pain<\/a>, snuffing out kids strikes most people as distasteful. One way to overcome such queasiness is to explain that while you may be killing children, it\u2019s really for their own good. Planned Parenthood advances this argument in their list of \u201c9 Reasons Why Abortions are Legal.<\/a>\u201d . Under the heading, \u201cEvery Child A Wanted Child,\u201d the group explains that:<\/p>\n

“If women are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, the result is unwanted children. Everyone knows they are among society’s most tragic cases, often uncared-for, unloved, brutalized and abandoned. When they grow up, these children are often seriously disadvantaged, and sometimes inclined to brutal behavior toward others. This is not good for children, for families or for the country. Children need love and families who want and will care for them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there we have it: in order to stop \u201ctragic\u201d cases of children being \u201cbrutalized\u201d and \u201cabandoned,\u201d it is sometimes necessary to pull them apart and then dump their remains in a vat labeled \u201cMedical Waste.\u201d To be effective, of course, this argument requires the belief that these children are truly unwanted. The fact that there is currently a shortage of adoptable infants must therefore be kept obscure<\/a>, as must the long waiting lists for aspiring parents, and the network of pregnancy care centers<\/a> who help with bringing unplanned pregnancies to term. All of this would demonstrate that so-called \u201cunwanted children\u201d actually are wanted, just not always by the people carrying them.<\/p>\n

Members of Congress will be confronted with a myriad of arguments the next time they re-consider funding for Planned Parenthood. One that should be dismissed out of hand is the myth that the abortion industry does any favors for its victims. Far from sparing the unborn from a life of suffering, Planned Parenthood violently deprives wishful couples from the chance at parenting; the time has come for Congress to do some legislative cleansing and defund it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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