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

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

[eccentric]

perpetuate Huntingtons Chorea

Now THAT I have never understood. How selfish of a woman who has an affliction to kill her child just because he will have the same problem!

[Wonder Warthog]

"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."

And I repeat---so what?? It's STILL ultimately her (or their, assuming a married couple) choice. It is the DUTY of any physician or counselor to point out the "worst case" possibilities. I know if "I" was being counselled, I would expect to be told such.

[jordan8]

"Eugenics", it should be pointed out, has been a standard practice of the human race since time immemorial. The weak did not survive, and were often helped on their way, the Roman practice of exposure for defective infants, for example. It is only in the scientific age, and the increase in wealth it has brought, that we have the luxury to name and discuss such things.

[valkyrieanne]

IOW, he's blaming Hitler on the US.

Read the book. The Nazis were very impressed with our US eugenics programs, especially the forced sterilization of criminals and "mental defectives" in the period between 1900 and the 1930s, and that our US Supreme Court *upheld* the sterilization of prisoners as *constitutional* in 1924, in the Buck vs. Bell case.

The US eugenics laws were mostly overturned *after* WW II - because people saw where they led (to the gas chambers.) But before WW II, the US thought it was OK. So in a way the US did provide inducement and a fine example for Hitler.

[valkyrieanne]

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

Nope. This is a scholarly publication that is *well* worth the read, and a good reference for the 20th century history section of the home book shelf. Note that its review is published in a *conservative* site.

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