These clinics will of course be prevented from giving out any pregnancy prevention information or devices. Indeed, in the spirit of Jonathan Swift and of encouraging a new American Age of Simplicity, I would advance a single solution that would take care of them all - and without offending anybody's moral scruples about the right to life or the sin of sex education.Īll "truly poor" females of child-bearing age will be sent to clinics for pregnancy confirmation - clinics that will be widely seen as costless because they will come under the military budget. There is nothing really complicated about dealing with poverty, abortion, overpopulation, crime, unemployment, the draft, 'social engineering' programs and our justifiably voracious military appetite. It is, after all, the overwhelming complexity of government today which is intolerable, which fosters the widespread and infuriating myth, promoted by the liberal media, that life itself is complex. No, I am merely suggesting that, like Swift, we seek simple answers to complicated problems. Besides, we certainly wouldn't want to risk the cries of unfair competition from those who raise cattle, pigs and sheep for slaughter. We have, of course, advanced beyond such barbaric notions, to say nothing of the fact that we would not tolerate that kind of discrimination against the poor and in favor of the rich.
" Thus, he proposed, the rich would have a source of gourmet food, the poor would make a modest profit, and "it will prevent those voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children." After a careful study, you may recall, he reported that "a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled. I do not mean we should follow Swift's precise prescription. TWO HUNDRED and fifty years ago Jonathan Swift submitted his "Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public." This is well worth reading today, in light of our own anger at the immense burden the poor place on our national treasury, money that is obviously needed for more important things like weapons.
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