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Josef Mengele and creating a human super-race, as though you were breeding horses

Filed under 1985, 1986, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, concentration camps, Darwinism, eugenics quote of the day, Evolution, genetic engineering, Genetics, German Eugenics, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, Jewish race, Josef Mengele, Nazis, planned evolution, Polish race, pseudo-science, scientific racism, Year

As quoted in Mengele: The Complete Story by Gerald L. Posner and John Ware (1986) on page 43: … [Josef] Mengele’s main aim, as interpreted by Dr. Puzyna, the inmate anthropologist, was wholly unscientific: I found Mengele a picture of what can only be described as a maniac. He turned the truth on its head. …

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Gordon Rattray Taylor: “The Biological Time Bomb” — the remaking of society via eugenics, family planning, and education

Filed under 1968, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, artificial insemination, Artificial Selection, Aryan, birth control, birth rate, breeders, Britain, Catholics, China, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, Darwinism, death rate, defectives, degeneration, democracy, Einstein, eugenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family (the institution of), family planning, family size, fertility control, Fit and Unfit, Fred Hoyle, gay marriage, genetic counseling, Genetics, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, Gordon Rattray Taylor, H.J. Muller, heredity clinic, Hitler, homosexuality, individual freedom, Kingsley Davis, laws of heredity, Lyndon Johnson, Malthus, monogamy, National Academy of Science, Nazis, negative eugenics, Ordensburgen, over-population, planned evolution, Plato, population control, population explosion, positive eugenics, Progressives, public school, Rand Corporation, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade, science, Scientific Management, scientific world view, sterilization, United Nations, Year

Gordon Rattray Taylor’s 1968 book, The Biological Time Bomb, was referenced in the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling as providing insight on future developments in America. Taylor’s book was released at a time when the term ‘eugenics’ had not yet fallen out of favor. Though he does not explicitly endorse many of the things …

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Eugenics and Family Planning Associated Together from the Beginning, Family Planning and Population Control Likewise

Filed under 1949, abortion, ASHG, compulsory abortion, compulsory education, compulsory marriage, compulsory sterilization, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, family size, Fit and Unfit, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, H.J. Muller, individual freedom, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, Natural selection, over-population, Progressives, quote collections, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade

One of the ‘pioneers’ of ‘family planning,’ Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also an avowed eugenicist and advocate for population control. That is, like many advocates of ‘family planning,’ out of one side of their mouth they talk about a “woman’s right to choose” while on the other side they say, “but …

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The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

Filed under 1914, 1915, 1916, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1968, 1972, abortion, After-birth abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, ASHG, birth control, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, Down Syndrome, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, Elaine Freeman, eugenics, euthanasia, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, feeble-minded, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Frederick Osborn, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, Germany, H.J. Muller, Harrison Brown, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, hereditary cripples, heredity clinic, Holocaust, human weeds, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, Lee R. Dice, Madison Grant, medical genetics, medical killing, meningomyelocele, mental defectives, mongolism, morality, Natural selection, Nazis, New York Times, planned evolution, quote collections, race, rational selection, sanctity of life, science, sentimentalism, social body, spina bifida, sterilization, The God Committee, The Passing of the Great Race, Year

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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Eugenics is Darwinism and Evolution Applied

Filed under 1879, 1895, 1914, 1921, adaptation, American Eugenics, applied biology, Bible, Biological Laws, Charles Darwin, civilization, conscious selection, Darwinism, defectives, definition of eugenics, Dobzhansky, dysgenics, Efficiency Movement, eugenics, eugenics as a science, euthenics, Evolution, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Fit and Unfit, Francis Darwin, Francis Galton, Frederick Osborn, H.J. Muller, Helene Stocker, human breeding, inferior people, Karl Pearson, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, League for the Protection of Mothers, national stock, Natural selection, Origin of the Species, Paul Popenoe, Plato, quote collections, race, race betterment, racial progress, rational selection, Richard Weikart, right to life, sanctity of life, science, scientific world view, The Eugenics Review, Wisconsin, Year

In the essay on the definition of eugenics hosted on this site, it is shown that eugenics was merely seen as Darwinism intelligently applied to the human race. On this page, further corroboration of this will be provided in the words of the eugenicists themselves. Emphasis is added. —————————– R.Z. Mason, mayor of Appleton, WI, …

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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 …

Eugenicists Shared in Common with the Nazis Concepts of the “Social Body.”

Filed under 1863, 1879, 1889, 1900, 1910, 1914, 2012, American Eugenics, August Weismann, Civic Biology, Darwinism, death rate, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, euthanasia, Evolution, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Greece, Helene Stocker, Herbert Spencer, immortality, John Stuart Mill, League for the Protection of Mothers, morality, Natural selection, Progressive Era, Progressives, quote collections, race betterment, Rome, social body, social organism, Utilitarianism, W. Duncan McKim, Wisconsin, Year

One of the under-appreciated elements of what animated the eugenics mindset was the view that each species could very well be conceived of as a ‘body’ of sort. A different level of moral calculation could be applied to the ‘social organism’ or ‘social body’ then the individual. This is no mere invoking of the ‘common …

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American and British Eugenicists Agree: Life Unworthy of Life

Filed under 1873, 1900, Artificial Selection, defectives, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, Evolution, feebleminded, Herbert Spencer, imbeciles, Laws of Nature, life unworthy of life, Natural selection, race, W. Duncan McKim

The phrase ‘life unworthy of life‘ is known particularly because of the fact that the Nazis used it when eliminating ‘defectives’ in their Action T4 project (and later, in reference to the Jews), but American and British Eugenicists also were known in terms of ‘lives unworthy of life.’ Quotes are provided below. ————- Herbert Spencer, …

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Abortion As Eugenics Tool: Harrison Brown and “The Challenge of Man’s Future”

Filed under 1973, abortion, Aldous Huxley, American Eugenics, artificial insemination, birth control, birth rate, collectivization, compulsory abortion, Contraception, death rate, defectives, degeneration, eugenics, Evolution, family planning, family size, Fit and Unfit, Genetics, Harrison Brown, individual freedom, infanticide, John Holdren, legislative eugenics, mental defectives, Natural selection, one world government

Today, abortion is nearly always described in terms of a woman’s reproductive right in relation to family planning, but it is not understood that abortion was widely seen by eugenicists as a means of reducing the human population, and especially certain sub-populations (eg, black people, handicapped people, etc). Part of this is intentional–if it was …

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Definition of Eugenics

Filed under 1883, Darwinism, definition of eugenics, Dobzhansky, eugenics, Evolution, Frank Taussig, Frederick Osborn, human breeding, Paul Popenoe, race, racial progress

Eugenics Defined Eugenics is “the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits …

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