Instead, it will come to us in terms of "quality of life," and "health and safety." We will be urged that every child deserves the best society can grant, and stigmatize those for whom "the world is a difficult place." And thereby we legitimize the destruction of those who would merely "live" in society rather than thrive in it.
Obamacare makes mandatory eugenics almost inevitable.
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Since we don’t teach history anymore few people realize now how powerful the eugenics movement was in the early 20th. century. Margaret Sanger, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford....lots of historical figures were onboard in a way most people have little clue about today.
Eugenic racism in 1925 was consensus science in the field of human evolution. By 1928 there were 376 university-level courses on eugenics, and there was widespread support from scientists and other academics at leading universities -- Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins, to name a few -- as well as enthusiastic support from media and government. Eugenic science was funded lavishly by the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Harriman Railroad foundation, and the wealthy businessman J.H. Kellogg. Many national and international conferences on eugenics and human evolution were hosted at leading research institutions, including the American Museum of Natural History, and eugenic science gained the imprimatur of leading scientific organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. Wealthy donors created the Eugenic Records Office on Long Island, later to become the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. By the 1930s, thirty-one states in the U.S. would pass compulsory sterilization laws based on mainstream eugenic science and human evolution, and eugenics would receive the explicit endorsement of the Supreme Court in 1926. By the end of the first half of the 20th century, sixty thousand Americans had been sterilized involuntarily on the basis of consensus eugenic science.…Racism and eugenics were the hallmarks of the theory of human evolution in the early 20th century, representing a clear consensus of evolutionary biologists as well as other scientists and leaders in higher education and government. There were a few dissenters, but such skeptics were disdained in mainstream scientific circles.
- Michael Egnor
“Obamacare makes mandatory eugenics almost inevitable.”
I would take it a step further and state Obamacare is the implementation of eugenics.
As the current plan continues to fail, as it was designed to do, the intent is to replace it with “single payer”.
At that point the “death panels” will be there for all to see.
We’re already hearing the complaints that 80% of healthcare costs are incurred in the last 6 months of life, and this meme will be used to rationalize the withholding, not only of care and treatment, but even the testing to define the problem.
This is how Obama intends to “manage” Medicare costs.
If you don’t believe this is possible, look at the recent reports of the increase in “assisted suicide” in the Netherlands.
Wanna know the definition of “Mentally Ill”?
Have you forgotten where you put the car keys recently?
Give Liberals a choice, and they’d vote to have conservatives put down.
Eugenics sentiments never died and are stronger than ever. I hear comments to that effect every day.
Also, justification for sterilizing or making temporarily infertile ONLY WOMEN are spouted every day. (Long term contraception for teen women, poor women etc). You don’t routinely hear people spouting off about making men infertile, only women .... the true war against women.
This cannot have a good ending.
"Irresponsible breeder" is how people looked at my parents for having 10 children and all of us were healthy and grew into taxpaying adults.
Guttmacher Institute was named after Allen Gutmacher; one time President of Planned Parenthood and Vice President of the American Eugenics Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Frank_Guttmacher
Lawrence Lader, he helped found NARAL, Natonal Abortion Rights Action League with Bernard Nathanson (who became a pro-lifer) and Betty Friedan. Laden sued the IRS to try to get them to revoke the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church.
http://www.catholicleague.org/anti-catholic-roots-of-roe-v-wade/
Lader was furthermore quoted 11 times in Roe v. Wade.
From its conception, the Progressive Party embraced eugenics.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the progeny of the Progressives (in BOTH parties) still adhere to the company line.
Just another reason why the GOPe wants to diminish the importance of “social issues” in political campaigns.