War Against The Weak; Eugenics And America's Plan To Create A Master Race

Townhall.com ^ | Nov. 24, 2004 | Review by: Johannes L. Jacobs

[Rain-maker]

Eugenics is an old hat term. It's now refashioned into the term "transhumanism",

which includes using technology to advance humanity's development..

 

 

http://www.transtopia.org

 

Transhumanism is "a philosophy that humanity can, and should, strive to higher levels, both physically, mentally and socially. It encourages research into such areas as life extension, cryonics, nanotechnology, mental enhancements and megascale engineering."

 

 

Cerebral implants and gene altering coming soon....

[tkathy]

A form of eugenics is being practiced now. Pro abortion liberals have a plummeting birth rate. Good reason to get the whole abortion issue out of politics for good.

[Wonder Warthog]

There is nothing wrong with "eugenics" as long as participation is voluntary. And to equate "genetic counseling" with something bad is ridiculous.

[Constantine XIII]

It's really sneaky, we get a few people from everywhere together and mix them all up. ^^

[Constantine XIII]

IOW, he's blaming Hitler on the US.

Barf. :\

[shubi]

Margaret Sanger, the originator of the abortion movement, was a racist and eugenics advocate. She wanted to eliminate poverty by eliminating the poor.

The federal government is prohibited from funding abortion, as it is not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. That doesn't seem to stop our politicians from violating it in a wholesale manner on a whole variety of issues.

On the other hand, having liberals off themselves may be worth our tax money.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[TomSmedley]

IOW, he's blaming Hitler on the US.

The infamous Nuremburg Statutes were modeled on Virginia's eugenics code. Just as the 1968 ban on specified weaponry was almost a literal translation of a Nazi law. Influence runs both ways.

[Rocket1968]

From the Planned Parenthood Mission Statement:

---International Family Planning
Planned Parenthood Federation of America affirms the fundamental right of each individual to manage his/her fertility free from coercion. It is Planned Parenthood's policy:

to support international programs which are designed to increase access to safe and effective means of voluntary fertility regulation;
to advocate and assist in the expansion of voluntary family planning services throughout the world;
to encourage public and governmental attitudes and policies favorable to the continuation and expansion of United States support for international voluntary family planning programs;
to provide leadership in encouraging other countries to address population issues and to develop their own effective voluntary family planning programs;
to assist community groups, agencies, and institutions in developing countries to undertake innovative, effective, and self-supporting voluntary family planning programs.---

Also from their Mission Statement:

---Population
It is the policy of Planned Parenthood Federation of America to advance understanding of the interrelationship between population growth and the quality of human life.

Voluntary family planning programs and sound population policies contribute to the process of socioeconomic development and to family health, particularly in countries where rapid population growth hinders development efforts. Therefore, the Federation is committed to providing education in the communities it serves to enable people to understand the scope of world population growth and its impact on the economic, political, social, and physical environment we all must share.
[Adopted 1984]---


Most of the population conrtol and family planning efforts are being conducted in "developing countries", i.e. populations of color. Is this so different from some of the "outreach" programs advocated by Margaret Sanger and other Eugenics proponents of the Early 20th century?

[Kerfuffle]

"Nothing should be done to exclude, infringe, repress, or harm a person because of his genetic makeup."

Sounds like a whole new field for Affirmative Action.

[eno_]

It's really sneaky, we get a few people from everywhere together and mix them all up. ^^

Actually, if we were only a LITTLE BIT selective, by any set of objective measures, about immigration, we would do far better than any eugenics program.

Immigration of PhDs from Russia and Asia is good. Immigration of criminals from Mexico is bad. Even the cost of an airplane ticket is selcetive enough to raise the quality of immigrants.

[GeekDejure]

Every Early Eugenics Engineering Experiment Editorial Enthusiastically Embraced Exhausted Educators Every Eighteen Evolutions, Excluding Emancipated Ethnic Economic Evil Eyed Eunuchs. Eeeeeyuch... Each It !!! Easy, Eh ???

[KateatRFM]

I am in favour of voluntary eugenics -- I can't imagine why the self-righteous would insist on the duty of people they do not know, to bear Tay-Sachs babies and watch them die, or to perpetuate Huntingtons Chorea or other well known genetic weaknesses in families that choose to end the problem with their own generation. I do not see any problem in encouraging people to have fewer children if they can't support the ones they already have. The law in Georgia that prevented girls from getting more welfare when they had more babies cut the out of wedlock birth rate 40% in the first year of implementation.

We do not insist that the Volkswagen Corporation be dismantled and people forbidden from driving their cars because Hitler had the idea first. And I have never understood the difference between binding burdens on other people and forbidding them from enjoying their pleasures because you in your high mightiness know better than they do how to run their lives.

[eccentric]

Read The Tentative Pregnancy by Barbara Katz-Rothman. Like any 'counseling,' genetic counseling can be very persuasive.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Read The Tentative Pregnancy by Barbara Katz-Rothman. Like any 'counseling,' genetic counseling can be very persuasive."

So??? As long as initial participation in and choice of final result is voluntary, who cares??

[LWalk18]

As long as initial participation in and choice of final result is voluntary, who cares??

But what if it no longer became voluntary? What if insurance companies insisted on genetic counseling prior to covering a pregnancy or a child? Genetically "faulty" children would be excluded from coverage.

[Wonder Warthog]

"But what if it no longer became voluntary? What if insurance companies insisted on genetic counseling prior to covering a pregnancy or a child? Genetically "faulty" children would be excluded from coverage."

As long as it's not mandated by law, it's voluntary. In the case of the hypothetical insurance company--there are sure to be OTHER insurance companies that will offer coverage, although perhaps at higher rates.

[TMSuchman]

As for this story I believe I smell ozone in the air.

Here kitty,kitty,kitty,kitty.....................

[eccentric]

You have to be there to understand. When a woman is told that her child will never be a ble to walk or talk... When she is told that she will have to change his diapers and wipe his mouth forever... When she is told that she is being selfish to 'burden' society and even the rest of her family. When they are told only the WORST of any possible outcomes, the 'voluntary' choice becomes very coercieve. This book tells of 'counseling where the mother didn't even know what she was there for. There were instances where a child have to translate for his Spanish speaking mother.

The key word is voluntary. Too often, it isn't.