To: Mrs. Don-o; crosshairs; Hulka; NYer; dangus; livius; Vaquero; Bon mots
Read through the journal article and you will find all the details you will ever want to read about a dark chapter of Western medicine which saw castration as a tool in a public health program to improve the human race through eugenics and to combat what that age saw as criminal sexual deviancy.Vindicated!
2 posted on
03/22/2012 6:09:03 AM PDT by
NYer
(He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
To: NYer
Exactly.
Aside from the fact that this was a common procedure (the Dutch have always been leaders in eugenics and involuntary medical procedures, such as death...), the whole premise that the Catholic Church could “order” the castration of anybody is ridiculous.
5 posted on
03/22/2012 6:23:16 AM PDT by
livius
To: NYer
Exactly.
Aside from the fact that this was a common procedure (the Dutch have always been leaders in eugenics and involuntary medical procedures, such as death...), the whole premise that the Catholic Church could “order” the castration of anybody is ridiculous.
6 posted on
03/22/2012 6:23:49 AM PDT by
livius
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