sanctity of life Archives | Eugenics and Other Evils

Separating Sex from Reproduction, the School, and the State

Filed under 1968, abortion, Aldous Huxley, applied biology, artificial insemination, Bible, Biological Laws, compulsory education, Contraception, dissolution of marriage, education, eugenics quote of the day, every child a wanted child, family (the institution of), Fit and Unfit, gay marriage, genetic engineering, Gordon Rattray Taylor, homosexuality, Kingsley Davis, legislative eugenics, population control, population explosion, public school, right to reproduce, sanctity of life, sterilization, the State, Year

“The family is already being eroded by the intervention of school and state, and [the separation of sex from reproduction] might be its coup de grace.” G. Taylor, 1968

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Guy Irving Burch: Sterilize or Segregate

Filed under eugenics, Guy Irving Burch, mental defectives, sanctity of life, segregation, sterilization

[Source] Context, etc, to be determined. [T]here is almost unanimous agreement among competent authorities that those who are definitely mentally defective should not reproduce their kind. This can be accomplished either by segregation or by voluntary sterilization.

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DH Lawrence pines for the lethal chamber for the sick and maimed (1908)

Filed under 1908, defectives, England, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, euthanasia, lethal chamber, medical killing, mental defectives, sanctity of life, Year

DH Lawrence in a letter to Blanche Jennings, October 9, 1908. [Reference] If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, …

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Joseph Fletcher, A Right to Die; Down Syndrome people are not persons and OUGHT to be killed

Filed under 1968, abortion, birth defects, defectives, Down Syndrome, duty, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, euthanasia, every child a wanted child, humanitarianism, idiots, Joseph Fletcher, lethal chamber, sanctity of life, sentimentalism, Year

[People] have no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down’s syndrome baby away, whether it’s “put away” in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible lethal sense. It is sad; yes. Dreadful. But it carries no guilt. True guilt arises only from an offense against a person, and a Down’s is not a person.

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Leon Cole on the Social Body and Our Duty to Future Generations

Filed under 1907, 1911, 1914, American Eugenics, applied biology, breeding horses or cattle, Charity, defectives, duty, eugenics, Evolution, feeble-minded, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Fit and Unfit, Francis Galton, Herbert Spencer, infanticide, Karl Pearson, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, life unworthy of life, man as animal, medical genetics, medical killing, national stock, Natural selection, nature vs nurture, philanthropy, Progressive Era, race betterment, racial progress, rational selection, right to life, sanctity of life, social body, social organism, Year

From The Relation of Philanthropy and Medicine to Race Betterment by Leon J. Cole, University of Wisconsin, at the First Conference for Race Betterment (1914) Among those who have in their treatment of this subject emphasized the importance of the natural selection viewpoint may be mentioned especially Herbert Spencer, Francis Galton, and Karl Pearson, the …

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

Filed under 1915, Action T4 Program, After-birth abortion, American Eugenics, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, criminals, defectives, euthanasia, German Eugenics, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, human weeds, idiots, infanticide, life unworthy of life, medical genetics, medical killing, mental defectives, Nazis, Neonatal Euthanasia, Oops!, Parasitism, sanctity of life, sentimentalism, useless eaters

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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Elaine Freeman in “The ‘God’ Committee”: infanticide and euthanasia logically flow from arguments for aborting children with birth defects

Filed under 1972, abortion, Action T4 Program, American Eugenics, amniocentesis, Andre Hellegers, birth defects, Contraception, defectives, Down Syndrome, Elaine Freeman, euthanasia, genetic counseling, Genetics, German, infanticide, life unworthy of life, meningomyelocele, mongolism, Nazis, New York Times, Papal Commission on birth control, sanctity of life, spina bifida, The God Committee, Year

Elaine Freeman, The ‘God’ Committee, published May 21, 1972, in the New York Times [excerpt] [Opening vignette by Freeman] The baby is a mongoloid born with duodenal atresia, an intestinal obstruction. The parents, professional people in Maryland, refuse permission for the surgery that will enable the infant to survive, deciding that it would be unfair …

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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 …

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