Compulsory Sterilization And Stolen Fruit Of The Womb
By REY FLORES
“And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.”
We all know this beautiful scriptural part of the Hail Mary. It declares that Jesus is truly the fruit which Our Blessed Mother bore from her sacred womb. When God created us, He made woman to have the ability to do the same.
Like the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus, every time a child is created and eventually born, this miraculous event is repeated, constantly reminding us of God’s awesome power and love. Who on God’s green earth would ever even imagine interfering in any way with such an astounding miracle?
We learn from the very beginning of mankind in the Book of Genesis 1:28: “God blessed them, saying: ‘Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it’.” That, of course, was before the fall of man when original sin became part of all of us.
One of the worst sins of all is when people play God and decide who gets to live and who gets to die; who can reproduce and who cannot. Before anyone even brings them up, we won’t even get into arguments about the death penalty and war. Those are topics for another day and column.
Having shared all this with you, what follows is a very dark chapter in our recent history which we must never forget, or allow to occur ever again in any way, shape, or form.
Between 1929 and 1974, there were, at any given time, up to 31 states in our country who ran compulsory eugenics-based sterilization programs. Like World War II-era Germany under the National Socialist Party, over 350,000 human beings were forcibly sterilized. That Nazi sterilization program in Germany was the precursor to the twentieth-century genocide known as the Holocaust.
Throughout history we have witnessed cases of inhumane government-funded medical and scientific institutions who claim to be doing “research” for the good of humanity. In their efforts, human beings who are classified as “inferior” have been no more important or significant than lab rats who are at the mercy of these sick and twisted scientists. Just think of Josef Mengele, Alfred Kinsey, and Margaret Sanger.
Whenever we hear the words “compulsory sterilization,” we imagine that these atrocities no longer existed after World War II. Nevertheless, these experiments, while diminishing to some degree from the public eye, remain in places throughout the world like Africa, Latin America, and on our very own soil in the United States.
Today, many eugenics-based crimes continue to be committed by pro-abort groups in the name of what they deceptively call “reproductive justice” or “women’s rights.” Of course, one would never know this the way mainstream media gloss over and glamorize these dastardly institutions of death.
If there ever was a group of people who have every right to talk about true “reproductive rights” and justice, it is the still-living individuals who were part of the over 60,000 American women and men who were denied their God-given right to “be fruitful and multiply.”
There exist evil people and so-called medical and social welfare institutions who “play God” over so many other human beings they’ve deemed unworthy of procreation.
Imagine being a thirteen-year-old black girl in the late 1960s in North Carolina, at the height of the American Civil Rights movement. This young girl named Elaine was raped and became pregnant, was given a cesarean by a state-run medical institution, then without her consent had her fallopian tubes cut and tied, never to bear fruit again.
Thankfully, she was “permitted” to keep her son.
I wonder how today’s fake feminists — many of whom wear ridiculous pink hats, dress up like female genitalia, and scream vulgarities on the streets of America in one of their tired and ineffective so-called marches — would have defended this then-young woman’s “right to choose.”
That little black girl is now a fully grown woman named Elaine Riddick. Riddick has been through hell and back but is now leading a fight against all types of sexual violence, exploitation, and human trafficking of women and girls as executive director of a terrific organization known as The Rebecca Project.
At the time of her compulsory sterilization, social workers labeled her as promiscuous, feeble-minded, unfit to reproduce, and even mentally retarded. It’s almost like those social workers took a linguistics course at the “Margaret Sanger School of Mad Science, Inhumanities, and Eugenics.”
All the injustices, indignities, and humiliations Riddick went through only made her that much more determined to prove her God-given human dignity and worth to the monstrous, institutional, government bureaucratic predators who violated her humanity in a multitude of ways.
Riddick went on to earn a college degree and run her own nonprofit to help defend and save other people from similar victimization and the horrors she endured.
Riddick has given powerful testimony, nationally and internationally, about her experiences. Today she is looking to launch a shelter for young women who are experiencing sexual violence, exploitation, and other life-changing crises in their lives.
As she works to wrap up all the necessary nonprofit paperwork with the state of Georgia for this new effort, she is hoping for the donation of a large house, mansion, or real estate in the Marietta, Ga., area, where The Rebecca Project is based.
Riddick’s organization describes its mission like this: “The Rebecca Project for Justice is a transformational organization that advocates protecting life, dignity, and freedom for people in Africa and the United States. We believe that vulnerable women, girls, and their families possess the right to live free of environmental, medical, physical, and sexual violence.”
While her heart remains in helping women out against the injustices, she shared that she would like to explore how the organization may also be able one day to assist young men and women to also obtain training in the trades, providing them with marketable skills.
I met Elaine Riddick years ago at a pro-life gathering in Washington, D.C., but it wasn’t until recently that I’ve gotten to know her, her story, and the wonderful work she does on behalf of life and human dignity.
Please visit www.RebeccaProject
Justice.org to learn more about this great organization.
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(Rey Flores is a Catholic freelance writer and speaker. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail
.com.)
