To the Editor:
During an interview with The Republic, that was shared by the Daily Journal on August 11 Senator Greg Walker was quoted as saying the following with regard to the abortion ban: “… public policy should minimize a woman’s ability to choose an abortion … because stronger families will help power the state’s economy and ensure its future. You have to have population growth to expand your opportunities, and so that’s one big public community interest.”
Wow, what a spectacular revelation. Hoosier women are simply baby machines to fuel future population growth in the state. This is very reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s baby farms in the 1930’s. Banning all abortions and recruiting “suitable” women to have babies under the Nazis was an effort to increase the population of Germany.
China also recognized women as pawns of the state, forbidding women to have more than one child, forcing abortions when they had more than one, and requiring a permission certificate from the government before a couple was permitted to get pregnant. Draconian measures like these are still used in China against certain minority groups the government wants to control.
Treating women, or anyone, as mere pawns of the government is an anathema to American democracy. That an elected official of the Republican Party would even suggest otherwise is totally at odds with the traditional core Republican principle that government should stay out of the private lives of citizens.
Jim Curry
Franklin
