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Another story goes right under the radar of black news media. Oh well, I guess it’s because Bush can’t be tied to this one–so it’s not newsworthy.

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Dutch official proposes forced abortions 

WASHINGTON (BP)–If you are not going to be loved, you might as well be killed.

That seems to be the essence of a proposal by a Dutch politician. Rotterdam Alderman Marianne van den Anker has called for a debate on mandated abortion, as well as coercive birth control, for mothers who rear unloved children who become victims of abuse, according to a Feb. 18 report by the newspaper NRC Handelsblad on the Expatica website.

Van den Anker, a mother of two, even has some targets for her abortion solution: Teenaged girls from the Antilles Islands of the Caribbean, drug addicts and mentally impaired people. Children with these parents have an “unacceptable risk” of being unloved and living with “violence, neglect, mistreatment and sexual abuse,” she said.

The exceptions to this rule, van den Anker said, “can be counted on a pair of hands.”

The decision on which mothers would be forced to have abortions would be made by judges, who rule based on the recommendations of social workers and other experts, she said of her proposal. Such specialists “can see in 95 percent or even 100 percent of cases whether the child has a chance of growing up with love.” (more…)

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Hear that global outrage? The sound is deafening, right?