Leave it to the pro-lifers. In the aftermath of Warren Buffet's stunning charitable gift of somewhere between 30 and 40 billion dollars (the value depends on what Berkshire Hathaway is worth when the dough is turned over) the pro-lifers, led by some insane Catholic priest, are calling Buffet Dr. Mengele for supporting population control.

"The merger of Gates and Buffett may spell doom for the families of the developing world," said the Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, a Roman Catholic priest who is president of Human Life International.

Referring to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi death camp doctor, Euteneuer said Buffett "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of philanthropy unless he repents."

I guess that means this priest thinks every woman who takes birth control is a "little Eichmann." Unlike Ward Churchill though, this guy is disguising his bigotry as religion so I doubt he'll experience any untoward effects from such an idiotic slur against the huge majority of Americans, including President Bush, who think that birth control should be accessible to all.

Does anyone else think that it's insane for the Catholics to send missionaries to areas of the world that are mired in poverty, largely due to a glut of unwanted children and over-population, and then preach to them that they shouldn't seek to control their problems by taking control of their fertility? Or how about telling people not to wear rubbers, because HIV will only kill you, but a rubber will rob you of your soul? Offer them bibles and hospitals to go to die in, but for the love of god, never suggest they actually do anything about the root causes of poverty in places like Calcutta, or attempt the minimum of prevention of a deadly sexually-transmitted disease.

They make it sound like Planned Parenthood is in charge of forced sterilization programs of the world's poor, when all they're doing is offering them the choices that exist in the first world. And notice, they don't attack us for using birth control by calling average men and women in America Nazis, their contributions just might dry right up if they did.

You too can contribute to Planned Parenthood. If you don't believe in giving up that is. I think once they start going after our birth control it really will be the end of the moral majority. We love our rubbers and our pills, and attempts to take them away will not go over well. So I say, let them attack birth control in the US, let them oppose the cancer vaccine that passed the scientific Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without trouble yesterday. They will dig their own grave.