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Foster Kennedy: Euthanasia for “Nature’s Mistakes” up to the age of 5

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Kennedy’s address at the 97th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1941 encapsulates well how the acceptance of evolution and utilitarian thinking are tied into arguments for eugenics (and euthanasia), which is ironic, of course, since many advocates for euthanasia deny such connections and modern proponents of evolution become apoplectic at the insinuation …

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Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915

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Due to the successful sanitization of the past in regards to eugenics, it is largely unknown how pervasive eugenics attitudes were, and how expansive eugenicists believed their program to be. Here we have Helen Keller, writing in a prominent liberal magazine, advocating explicitly for infanticide–in the name of the race. For more information and the …

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The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

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Charity requires us to believe that most contemporary genetic counselors are not at all motivated by considerations that we would term ‘eugenic.’ However, the founders of the field left no doubt about their motivations, stating them plainly and explicitly, and characterizing them as definitely constituting eugenics. The following material raises more than reasonable doubt that …

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Life Unworthy of Life Yesterday and Today, Science, Secularism, and the Sanctity of Life

Filed under 1920, Action T4 Program, After-birth abortion, Alberto Giubilini, Alfred Hoche, anti-semitism, applied biology, Attila the Hun, Charity, Christianity, Darwinism, Down Syndrome, eugenics, Eugenics Essays, euthanasia, Evolution, Francesca Minerva, Francis Collins, Francis Galton, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, Independent Payment Advisory Board, Irish, Jacob Appel, Jonathan Swift, Julian Savulescu, Karl Binding, legislative eugenics, life unworthy of life, Liverpool Care Pathway, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, medical killing, morality, National Socialists, Nazis, Neonatal Euthanasia, Nietzsche, Peter Singer, religion, Robert Jay Clifton, sanctity of life, science, scientific racism, separation of church and state, Steven Weinberg, The Pivot of Civilization, Wesley J. Smith

This foreword is reprinted with permission of the author and may not be copied and re-posted. The foreword originally appears in the translation of Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life lifeunworthyoflife.com | Buy on Amazon | Kindle Life Unworthy of Life Yesterday and Today, Science, Secularism, and the …

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Foster Kennedy: Euthanasia for “Nature’s Mistakes” up to the age of 5

Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915

The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

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