September 18, 2008 - Eugenics is the attempt at manufacturing the "master" race. Nazi Germany tried to breed better human beings by encouraging reproduction with "good" genes, and discouraging reproduction with "bad" genes. In 2002, it was found that >90% of Down Syndrome kids are being aborted (American Eugenics Movement) .

It’s interesting that a vice-presidential candidate for one party has decided not to abort a known Down Syndrome child. You’ll get no such guarantee from the other party. Down occurs in one out of every 733 live births, but it’s revealed that the vast majority of early screen "positives" is false, and constitutes a false alarm. That is, of course, if it’s correct to kill someone you think might even have Down’s.

It’s mind-boggling to actually calculate the number of abortions done for the >90% of Down syndrome cases. Most experience some cognitive delays. This effect is usually mild to moderate, and is not indicative of many strengths and talents each individual possesses. So many seem to forget Chris Burke playing Corky Thatcher, a rambunctious teenager on TV’s "Life Goes On".

Down Syndrome is typically called Trisomy. There are currently over 350,000 people alive in the US with Trisomy. In other words, >1 person out of every 3000 must understand that the vast majority of Americans would have killed them, and assume they can take undesirable life at will.

Obviously, abortion is a eugenics method many believe strengthens the human race. Prominent feminist Camille Paglia believes abortion involves the murder of an innocent life. But under her philosophy, even murder can be advocated as long as it protects another more important right—the alleged "right to have an abortion". Paglia (Professor of Humanities/ Media Studies) is at the University of Philadelphia.

George Will has a Down Syndrome son. He specifically called his son’s recommended abortion, "eugenics by abortion". LifeNews describes, under what is known as the Groningen Protocol, infanticide that is already taking place on a regular basis in the Netherlands with government support.

We have stumbled across the proverbial slippery slope. For each step we take, it gets a little easier to get a little more callous towards life. Just some of the undesirable traits considered earlier include eye color, hair color, skin and hair pigmentation, hemophilia, Huntington’s Disease, albinism, feeble-mindedness, manic depression, dementia, color blindness, tendency towards violence, alcoholism, sexual immorality, and schizophrenia. Some positive traits have been intelligence, elocution ability, drawing, musical composition, golf, and honesty.

Eugenics is in many places, though it’s never admitted. In the US, it has successfully influenced three specific policy areas: marriage regulation, sterilization of the unfit and legal immigration restriction. By 1914 thirty states had passed laws preventing marriage of the mentally handicapped or restricting marriage between people suffering from a venereal disease. A sterilization law was passed in Indiana in 1907 and in fifteen other states by 1917. Eugenics in the US also provided justifications for legal immigration restriction and the development of IQ testing.

Some leaders and infamous people that supported eugenics were Sir Francis Galton (cousin of Charles Darwin), Alexander Graham Bell, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Margaret Sanger (Planned Parenthood).

Leaders and well-known citizens who had genetic disorders were: Queen Victoria, Nicolo Paganini, Vincent van Gogh, and Abraham Lincoln (Marfan syndrome/ genetic problems with heart/aorta). Back during their time, genetic disorders were not known until after birth, and people lived with what they had.

Another instance of presumed physical defects was Tim Tebow, the most recent Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Florida. Doctors had advised his mom to get an abortion while pregnant because of the likely affects of the medication she received earlier for amoebic dysentery. She would not bite. Later, Tim won the Heisman.

Because we’ve aborted literally 1/5 of the US population, it’s not really known what these aborted kids could have done during their lifetime. We do know that Lincoln rightfully emancipated the Blacks. We know that Paganini and van Gogh gave us some of the best compositions and art that exist today. What cures and inventions we have missed out on because someone was aborted is something we dare not ask.

It could be said there has been a return to eugenic ideas with increased interest with in-vitro fertilization (the ultimate in choosing who lives and who dies), sperm banks of Nobel winners (trying to guarantee an intellectually superior fetus), and cloning.

This upcoming presidential election is exactly the decision point as to whether we keep sliding uncontrolled, or make the decision to take that second sentence in the Declaration of Independence about "...the inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" as seriously as its writers.



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