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Why are pro-lifers immune to the eugenics temptation? It’s because of our unyielding belief that every single life matter
By Dave Andrusko The great apologist G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.” That quote is embedded in a paragraph someone wrote that I saved on my hard drive. Alas, while I do have the...
Doctor sued by parents who’d have aborted child had they known about their disability
By SPUC, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A doctor must pay compensation to angry parents after they “overlooked the child’s severe disability” in an ultrasound. The parents claim that they would have aborted the baby if they knew about their child’s...
Is it “practicing eugenics” to abort a baby because she is diagnosed with Down Syndrome? The in-house ethicist for the New York Time Magazine Weighs in
By Dave Andrusko We’ve already posted reflections by Michael Cook on a column written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the in-house Ethicist for the New York Times Magazine. I’d like to add a few thoughts. The headline for Appiah’s post is “Does Prenatal Testing for...
Driven mad by eugenics: a true crime drama from Spain
By Michael Cook Hildegart and her mother Aurora Rodriguez Eugenics with assisted reproduction technology is not new. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, devised schemes for making higher and lower humans without the assistance of DNA or Petri dishes. Eugenics was...
Is killing the disabled ‘eugenics’, or just a merciful release
By Michael Cook Eugenics is not a word to be trifled with. It evokes the horror of Nazi atrocities during World War II as well as widespread human rights violations in the early part of the 20th Century in the United States, Canada and some European countries. But,...
Yes, abortion is historically linked to eugenics
Even today, some bioethicists insist that parents should ‘improve the stock’ By Christopher M. Reilly Advocates for abortion rights are claiming that a recent legal opinion of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, which described abortion as a tool of eugenics, is...
Eugenics Is Still with Us: Death in the Name of ‘Best Interests’
By John Stonestreet with G. Shane Morris Eugenics is a bad idea, a bad idea that, like all bad ideas, has victims. Efforts to keep those deemed inferior from reproducing or even existing were a central part of the Nazi experiment in Germany, which upended the entire...
Carrie Buck and the old eugenics, the new eugenics and Alfie Evans
By Dave Andrusko Carrie Buck About once a week my search for “Today in History” turns up a reminder, positive or negative, of something that pro-lifers should carefully ponder. Ninety two years ago today, in the infamous Buck v. Bell, the United States Supreme Court...
Eugenics’ Deadly Legacy
By Wesley J. Smith We’ve seen it happen: A new assault on the sanctity of human life appears—say, infanticide being promoted in a major bioethics journal, or officials in Iceland bragging that no children with Down syndrome are born there, thanks to prenatal genetic...