Lifenews.com describes the iron link between abortion and communism:
“In the Communist Manifesto, Marx several times wrote openly of the “abolition of the family” and of communism abolishing “eternal truths” and “all religion, and all morality.” “The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional relations,” Marx affirmed. “[I]ts development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.” Marx knew how shockingly revolutionary this was. He wrote: “Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.”
Marx practiced what he preached. He was a terrible father who caused tremendous discord in his family. As the family nearly starved, and as Marx’s long-suffering wife neared the breaking point, Marx began an affair with the family’s young nursemaid, whom he impregnated. When the child was born, Marx refused to acknowledge its existence and his paternity.
Marx’s disciples, of course, happily followed in his footsteps.
The Bolsheviks, when they took over, immediately lifted the Russian Orthodox Church’s longstanding prohibition against divorce. They also expunged God from wedding ceremonies, establishing so-called “Red weddings” — that is, purely secular wedding ceremonies. In short order, divorce skyrocketed to proportions never before seen in Russia’s long history or anywhere in the world. Within just decades, Russians had divorce rates worse than the worst rates in recent American history. I recall the female character in John le Carré’s book, The Russia House, who remarked to her foreign love interest, “But everyone in Moscow is divorced!”
It was the perfect the communist plot, literally. They had sought to undo traditional notions of marriage and morality, and they succeeded wildly.
And it wasn’t just in Russia. This thinking was endemic to the communist movement worldwide. In America, Communist Party USA (CPUSA) members swapped wives and divorced easily and merrily. They lived very loosely in their sexual morality and marital relations, pursuing practices that would make even today’s culture blush. They boasted about it; it was a source of pride. Anyone who has studied American communism or been involved in the communist movement knows this.
To be sure, a 1930s CPUSA member wasn’t thinking about gay marriage, and the Russians certainly weren’t. Nonetheless, all of them consistently, consciously undermined the traditional understanding of marriage. It was one of their targets.
That brings me to abortion. The Bolsheviks advocated abortion. It was one of the first things they legalized. By the early 1920s, Bolshevik Russia had the most liberal abortion policies in the world. And what happened? Just like divorce, abortion exploded. In fact, the proliferation in abortions was so bad that it shocked even Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger during a trip to Russia in 1934. By the 1970s, when America was just getting around to legalizing abortion, the Soviet Union was averaging over 7 million abortions per year — dwarfing the very worst rates in America post-Roe v. Wade. The direct effect of this on the Russian population has been staggering.
For the record, Russia’s horrific abortion rates are common in communist countries, which to this day lead the world in abortions.”