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Here in the United States we are but a few steps behind the U.K. Having made our peace with 55 million abortions, we will likewise make our peace with 55million infanticides. Having flirted with voluntry euthanasia, we will make it compulsory. Remember Colorado govenor, Richard Hamm. Everywhere the former step has been taken, the later has not long tarried; 'mercy' has chained itself to terror as the department of euphemisms crank out deceit. In the Netherlands today more than 1/8 of people over 60 are terrified their doctor will kill them without their consent. We simply have not learned the lessons of history. G.K.Chesterton nearly singlehandly held back the tide of euthanasia and eugenics in the U.K., only to be relieved of that duty by the exposure of the horrors or Nazi Germany and the shame which accompanied it.

Darwinism proclaimed the ultimate doom of the "unfit", and Darwinists stated the 'unfit' would perish anyway in the struggle for existence. Some thought natural selection could be helped along, not only through sexual or marriage reforms (another story) but also by killiing those deemed 'inferior', 'unfit', 'worthless', or of 'negative value'. Since most Darwinsts and many early eugenicists were critical of JudeoChristian virtues of compassion and pity for the weak and sick, they led the attack on Judeo-Christian prohibitions against killiing innocent life.

Prior to the advent of Darwinism in the latter half of the 19th century there was no significant debate in European thought and law over the sanctity of human life. Judeo-Christian ethics proscribed the killing of innocent human life, and the Christian churches explicitly forbade murder, infanticide, abortion, and even suicide. The ideology of 'right to life', according to John Locke, was one of the supreme rights of the individual. Until the last half of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century most liberals upheld these ethics.

Darwinism played a very important part over the early debates of right to life. Haeckel, an ardent devotee of Charles Darwin's theory, proclaimed the creation of a new worldview and ethic, in the debate on the value of life. Darwinian monists and materialists led the public debate and led the movement for aboriton, infanticide, assisted suicide, and compulsory and involuntary euthanasia. The earliest, significant German advocate for euthanasia and the killing of the unfit was Ernst Haeckel (the same Haeckel who falsely drew misleading sketches of various embryos at different stages of developnment to deceive students), whose views of killing the weak and sick were, in his estimation, "a logical consequence of his Darwinian monistic worldview, and wrote about it in his book, The Natural History of Creation (1870). He prclaimed, in legitimating his postition he used evolutionary 'scientific' arguments. One of Haeckel's own contributions to evolutionary theory, now completely refuted, was the claim of ontology recapitulating phylogeny. This meant each individual developed from a single cell (feritilized ovum) to adulthood. As it does, he said, it allegedly traverses the evolutionary stages of its ancestors. The newborn, he stated, "not only possesses no consciousness and no reason, but is also numb and only gradually developps the activity of the senses and of the mind." Newborn infants, thus, have no soul, so killing them is no different than killing other animals (sounds familiar) and cannot be equated with murder. He used similar justification to legitimate abortion. Not only did Haeckel justify infanticide, abortion and assisted suicide, but he also supported involuntary killing of the mentally ill. he condemned the idea that alll human life should be preserved, "even when itis totally worthless".

Thus the leading Darwinist in Germany gave his scientific imprimatur to murdering the disabled, both in infancy and in adulthood.

These are the fruits of the Darwinian theory as applied societally and medically. There is a huge body of literature on the effect of the Darwinian ethic and how it was applied during the period leading up to WWII in the Rhineland. Nazism in full pearl, influenced (not caused) scientists, doctors, politicians, educators, and sociologists to give us 14 million dead innocents. We thought as we defeated Hitler, his ideology would likewise die. It has not died. It has flourished under the same wouldbe keepers of our culture. It is here and now. One needs to go no further than some comments on this very thread to see it insinuated, in full fluorish, garnished with the very same euphemisms, in the United States of America, where we hold these TRUTHS self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable right....LIFE.

J.Budziszewski tells us there are things which we can't not know. They are part of our nature. They define use as rational. He says as soon as we make peace with basic evil, even a movement for a good end becomes evil. Human beings can't not know it is wrong to kill innocent life. Go to an abortuary and speak with the nurses who have to piece together the parts of a morcelated baby. They will not tell you it does not have an effect on them. Go to a neonatal intensive care unit which stops fluids and nourishment of a "defective" infant and ask if it is without effect to watch for the ensuing week as a baby dies slowly, painfully, crying, desperate for any comfort. Those who sit in a sterile academic enviroment and makes pronouncements that the myelin sheath of the baby in not fully developed and therefore feels little pain. I tell you to take a pin and prick its tiny finger and see if you observe an avoidance reaction. Watch a hysteroscopy as a baby is 'torn' as it pushes against a stainless steel currett trying to rip its legs from its torso. You will see a desperation rarely seen by human adults. Take the time to watch Silent Scream and reflect on the torture we impose to diminsh the "suffering" of others. Then, if you want the trifecta, watch as a 'Healer" prevents the delivery of the head from the vaginal vault (to prevent birth) as he stabs the back of the neck of a baby whose legs and arms are pink and flailing, inserts the scissors into the foramen magnum, then spreads the scissors, with a twist, then inserts a canula into the cranial vault as suction the brain, collapsing the cranium, as the legs go limp, as the tiny toes slowly turn blue, as the recepticle fills with the brain and blood of what was, just moments before, a thoroughly healthy baby.

What sort of human could make their peace with those types of evensts which occur 1.5 million times per year in the United States of America.

We have embraced Haeckel and Darwin and Ploetz. An entire generation has now come of age taking for granted the liberty to kill one's children in the dim, soft refuge of what was once the safest place on earth, the mothers womb. We have embraced, by extension, other killings of infanticide and euthanasia. If we are to kill with impunity, our own offspring, flesh and blood, we need it to be as painless on the killers as possible. We must make it less distressing. There are many reasons given. "I won't be a fit mother." A delivery at that time will disturb a planned vacation." After all, babies are replaceable. Life is replaceable.

Truly this is the abolition of man, to arrive at such a depth of depravity that we chose to kill our children, just as Haeckle prescribed, undergirded with the new Darwinian ethic.