[Right Wing Professor]

It's a shame the article leaves out the role Protestant Christians had in promoting eugenics in the United States. Here's an article that remedies the deficiency.

[Red Badger]

[Fruit of the Spirit]

"Galton defined eugenics as "the science of improvement of the human race germ plasm through better breeding."

Do you suppose they factored in the omission of all the strong, intelligent, healthy men that died in the wars?

How can you improve anything if you don't have the very best quality to start with? Survival of the fittest does NOT apply to humans.

[Coyoteman]

One idea advanced in the journal is the belief that anthropology, if it is understood honestly, shows that mankind is divided into four species.

You (or they) mean races, not species. I don't care what anyone says, there are not currently four human species.

The number of races is still being debated, with numbers ranging from one to 60 or more, if you consider micro-races. I have never heard an anthropologist argue for four species. Can you provide a reference?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling reproduction."

As opposed to the study of people named Eugene. :)

[little jeremiah]

later read/ping.

[Dad was my hero]

bump for bookmark.

good read, thanks for the post!

[5050 no line]

Great read.

Eugenics, gene manipulation, cloning - you name it.

We haven't even scratched the surface yet. The future is exciting.

If 'humanity' ever wants to reach the stars or live in the oceans, it won't look much like we do right now.

Just keep the 'Holy Joes' out of it and we can get there.

What constitutes 'human' anyway? And don't be arrogant.

[litehaus]

Excuse the UN-PCness of the question, but has anyone here married, what in the old days, was considered a retard? Yes, we all make up our minds according to a set of beliefs. I met my wife in college....she got there at 15,out at 19, I married her at 20....Eugenics? Maybe so, but after 45 years we are happy still...3 kids--all really smart--won't go into Phds etc... but yeh..eugenics!

[William Terrell]

It's not about philosophies of life. Abortion is about money.

[quietolong]

The State Boys Rebellion
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422319

It’s interesting that Germany looked to the US for it’s ideas on eugenics.

[TigersEye]

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Total Abortions since 1973

45,951,133

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

[Alter Kaker]

Galton believed that the proper evolution of the human race was thwarted by philanthropic outreach to the poor: misguided charity encouraged the "unfit" to bear more children. This upset the mechanism of natural selection. Hence, the human race needed a kind of artificial selection, which he called "eugenics," from Greek for good birth.

Or, in other words, eugenics is Intelligent Design.

[longtermmemmory]

The American Journal of Eugenics 2 in 1906 called eugenics a "science," but also noted that the Century Dictionary defined it as "the doctrine of Progress, or Evolution, especially in the human race, through improved conditions in the relations of the sexes."


So this is what modern "progressive" means by progressive.
This explain all the NOW gang sex quotas, absurd feminst studies programs, and obsession with killing babies.

Not your grandfather's progressive.

[The Drowning Witch]

Vera scaray ping

[RightWhale]

The word was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin

Not fair. Is belief in genetics itself genetic?

[bannie]

Personal Eugenics = mate selection.

[VOA]

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