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An organization that has been battling Minnesota state procedures in which DNA from every newborn is collected and warehoused says virtually all states do the same thing, and the alarming trend eventually could lead the United States back into eugenics.
The report from Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care, says, "Throughout history, proponents of eugenics have focused on the reproduction of children, either through encouraging the 'healthy' to reproduce or discouraging the 'unhealthy' from procreation. This focus has been evidenced in history by 29 state sterilization laws … and the horrific Nazi campaign aimed at ridding Germany of the 'unfit' – the Jews, the physically deformed, the mentally retarded, the 'feebleminded,' the inferior, the epileptic, the deaf, the blind, 'those suffering from hereditary conditions,' the deviant 'asocial' and the politically dissident."
The report then continued, "That the focus on reproduction still exists today is more than troubling.
"The authors of a 2001 study 'were struck' by the large number of state government officials who agreed with a specific statement regarding assessment of a child's suitability for future reproduction," the report said. "Nineteen (54 percent) of 35 … respondents who routinely provide counseling – mostly newborn genetic screening follow-up staff at state health departments across the country – thought it important when giving advice to parents to 'identify children who might be, for genetic reasons, unsuitable choices for future reproduction,'" the report said. . .
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The perfect storm of intellectual thought, economic reality and societal context that allowed the mass killings of "undesirables" in Germany before and during the Second World War, is swirling today, warned an American professor.
And while history won't repeat itself exactly -- it's doubtful that even pro-abortionists would condone death camps -- "the pro-abortion twist is spinning bad into good," said Mark Mostert, director of the Institute for the Study of Disability and Bioethics at Regent University, in Virginia. "In the battle for the sanctity of life, we need to watch what's happening with legally assisted-suicide and euthanasia. The sick, infirm, elderly and those with disabilities are most at risk."
Mostert, a professor of special education, was a guest speaker at the annual conference of Alliance for Life Ontario, that was held Friday and Saturday in Guelph. He said medical and technological advances now allow doctors to do more for their patients, including detecting defects in unborn children, which is adding to a death-on-demand culture.
"The ethical thinking hasn't caught up with the scientific advances and we really need to have those discussions," he said. "What we're talking about is the value of a life."
Mostert said those values began to shift in Germany after the First World War, when intellectuals, medical researchers and law makers began to measure a person's value by how much they contributed to the economy. By extension, those who did not or could not contribute were considered a burden. . .