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Exodus 1:9 And the king said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.”
This is not the first time we have seen leaders of a nation moved by fear.
Communists China One-Child Policy
(Source: Wikipedia)
The term one-child policy refers to a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. That initiative was part of a much broader effort to control population growth that began in 1970 and ended in 2021, a half century program that included minimum ages at marriage and childbearing, two-child limits for many couples, minimum time intervals between births, heavy surveillance, and stiff fines for non-compliance. The program had wide-ranging social, cultural, economic, and demographic effects, although the contribution of one-child restrictions to the broader program has been the subject of controversy.
China's family planning policies began to be shaped by fears of overpopulation in the 1970s, and officials raised the age of marriage and called for fewer and more broadly spaced births. Overpopulation, in the eyes of the state officials, would hinder their agenda to boost the national economy and improve people’s standard of living. After a full decade of concerted efforts, a near universal one-child limit was imposed in 1980. It was then officially written into the constitution of the People’s Republic of China in 1982. At that time, there were already more than 1 billion people in China, and, if those trends persisted, there could be more than 1.4 billion by the end of the 20th century. As it was written in the constitution, couples have the obligation to abide by the requirements of family planning. All families were restricted to having only one child. Numerous exceptions were established over time, and by 1984 only about 35.4% of the population was subject to the original restriction of the policy. In the mid-1980s, rural parents were allowed to have a second child if the first was a daughter. It also allowed exceptions for some other groups, including ethnic minorities. In 2015, the government removed all remaining one-child limits, establishing a two-child limit. In May 2021, this was loosened to a three-child limit. In July 2021, all limits, as well as penalties for exceeding them, were removed.
Implementation of the policy was handled at the national level primarily by the National Population and Family Planning Commission and at the provincial and local level by specialized commissions. Officials used pervasive propaganda campaigns to promote the program and encourage compliance. The strictness with which it was enforced varied by period, region, and social status. In some cases, women were forced to use contraception, receive abortions, and undergo sterilization. Families who violated the policy faced large fines and other penalties, such as firings and restrictions for future careers.
The population control program had wide-ranging social effects, particularly for Chinese women. Patriarchal attitudes and a cultural preference for sonsled to the abandonment of unwanted infant girls, some of whom died and others of whom were adopted abroad. Over time, this skewed the country's sex ratiotoward men and created a generation of "missing women". However, the policy also resulted in greater workforce participation by women who would otherwise have been occupied with childrearing, and some girls received greater familial investment in their education. Even following the removal of the policy, birth rates in China remain lower now than they were previous to the implementation of the policy.
The Chinese Communist Party credits the program with contributing to the country's economic ascendancyand says that it prevented 400 million births.
Eugenics
(Source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenicswas coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton, who, influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, advocated a system that would allow “the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.” Social Darwinism, the popular theory in the late 19th century that life for humans in society was ruled by “survival of the fittest,” helped advance eugenics into serious scientific study in the early 1900s. By World War I many scientific authorities and political leaders supported eugenics. However, it ultimately failed as a science in the 1930s and ’40s, when the assumptions of eugenicists became heavily criticized and the Nazis used eugenics to support the extermination of entire races.
Buck v Bell 1927
On May 2, 1927, in an 8–1 decision, the Court accepted that Buck, her mother and her daughter were "feeble-minded" and "promiscuous," and that it was in the state's interest to have her sterilized. The ruling legitimized Virginia's sterilization procedures …
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr wrote the majority opinion:
“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
Holmes concluded his argument by citing Jacobson v. Massachusetts as a precedent for the decision, stating "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
This ruling made forced sterilization, for the good of the state, legal on a federal level as the law of the landin the United States of America. And by the way, it has not been overturned.
The original Virginia statue which the court upheld was drafted by Harry H. Laughlin. Laughlin was the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office in the state of New York from its inception in 1910. He was an unabashed Nazi sympathizer and in 1936 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Heidelberg for his work on behalf of “Science of the racial cleansing.”
One of the outspoken supporters of Buck v Bell was Margaret Sanger-Harris. There has been much controversy as of late over what she actually stood for and how she advocated reaching her goals. But one thing not in dispute is that she was a proponent of Eugenics and is considered the founder of Planned Parenthood. At least up until recently.
A NY Post article from July 2020 reads: “Planned Parenthood is finally removing the name of Margaret Sanger, its founder, from its Manhattan clinic — ending decades of denial about her horrid, racist views.”
Perhaps they have removed her name but they have not removed the planned parenthood abortion clinics which they have concentrated in the poorest inner-city minority neighborhoods of our nation, targeting those women who are the least educated and most impoverished, bombarding them with cute slogans in efforts to rally them against every other option available to have children and raise a family. In most cases by far, this still amounts to forced sterilization for what is considered best for the elite.
This is no new idea. Papers have been written and steps have been taken throughout history to reduce population growth for certain segments of a society or to completely eliminate whole people groups from the earth. Whether undesirables or enemies, it seems some leaders of nations feel the best way to stay on top is to get rid of those who could weigh you down.
How can a person be so deceived? Plainly, it’s the devil manipulating the demon-filled leaders of generation after generation, trying to destroy the family and defeat God.
Exodus 1 NKJV
15 ¶ Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah;
16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”
19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.
21 And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.
22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Everything done by a demon-filled leader is motivated by fear.
This is what motivates the devil and all of his minions. If he can get you to fear, he can get you to act.
Everything done by a Holy Spirit-filled leader is motivated by faith.
Take-Aways for leaders. Leaders of families; ball-teams; corporations; Bible studies; militaries; and nations:
