First we have this from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A child welfare worker who impregnated an emotionally troubled woman he had investigated for child abuse ordered the woman to get an abortion or she would lose everything, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court and an interview with the woman’s attorney.
“He said, ‘If I have to lose everything, then you have to lose everything too,’” the attorney, Joy Bertrand, quoted the woman as saying.
The woman – Theola Nealy – refused to have an abortion.
Within weeks, Nealy’s two children – a daughter then 5 years old and a 3-year-old son – were taken into state custody. Years later, those children have not been returned.
And the baby fathered by the caseworker – now almost 3 years old – continues to live with her father, Peter J. Nelsen.
“Nelsen was assigned to protect the most vulnerable among us, and he preyed upon them,” Bertrand said.
So much is wrong here. But this is hardly the first case of a social worker intimidating those in his/her care. Bishop Victor Galeone of St. Augustine, Florida, revealed last year that his mother resisted pressure from a government social worker to abort him during the Great Depression. A Pennsylvania foster care mother had all of her foster children removed from her home after she told a newspaper that a Philadelphia Department of Human Services caseworker forced one of the children to have an abortion. The list goes on and on.
Do social workers receive job training from Margaret Sanger’s writings? The founder of Planned Parenthood had much to say about the poor and erasing the poor from society.
Margaret Sanger: Instead of helping the poor, she considered them slum dwellers (particularly Blacks, Hispanics, and Jewish immigrants) who would soon overrun the boundaries of their slums, contaminating the better elements of society with their diseases and inferior genes. Throughout the 200+ pages of this book Sanger called for the elimination of “human weeds,” for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of “morons, misfits, and maladjusted,” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.” She argued that organized attempts to help the poor were the “surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating. . . defectives, delinquents, and dependents.” She called for coercive sterilization, mandatory segregation, and rehabilitative concentration camps for all inferior Blacks, Hispanics, poor Whites, and Catholics.
