Eugenics...will it make a comeback?
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eu·gen·ics
1880–85; see eugenic, -ics
Here is the article that inspired this question and the link to the entire article:
Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are
“morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a
group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
A group of ethicists has argued that killing young babies is no different from abortion
The
article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn
babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The
academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed
if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.The journal’s editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro
Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death
threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and
threatening posts about the study were “fanatics opposed to the very values
of a liberal society”.The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was
written by two of Prof Savulescu’s former associates, Alberto Giubilini and
Francesca Minerva.They argued: “The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus
in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of
a right to life to an individual.”Rather than being “actual persons”, newborns were “potential persons”. They
explained: “Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and
potential persons, but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of ‘subject of a
moral right to life’.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
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I know where they can start.
It's really a shame because I think their girls are adorable! :)
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”~George Carlin
BTW, is he still alive?
Eddie's great. Trading Places is still one of my all time favorite movies. :)
I've been gone for a while but you seem to have stuck around...how is it here on old SH? Same stuff, different people?
Blessings Upon You
It seems as if this got zero coverage in the media so I thought I'd throw it out here.
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