Maybe we should revisit the notion of eugenics
Your biology teacher probably covered eugenics in high school. Or maybe a history teacher did.
The sad part is, most of us, including myself, weren't truly paying attention.
In short, eugenics is the attempt to "improve" human heredity through selective breeding. In its worst manifestations, it becomes an ugly monster, like the Nazi's attempt to exterminate the Jews. But its subtler forms are the ones that are at work today.
Don't confuse it with genetics, which is a science. Eugenics is a philosophy that uses science to promote its agenda.
For instance, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had distinct and hard to disprove sympathies with the eugenics movement. Does this discount how she brought birth control into widespread use and provided reproductive choice to millions of women? Of course not.
But you might be shocked by some of her own words.
Eugenics is the product of people who think that some humans are superior to others. When those people get power, money and science on their side, they can affect the lives of those they deem inferior.
There are some in the truth movement who contend that this is happening right now, in our present day. The problem for most people is that they seen no concentration camps or widespread, obvious extermination programs going on.
What you need to look for is more subtle things: DNA testing of all newborns, forced sterilization, overriding parental notification in regards to teenage abortion.
Eugenics did not die with the defeat of Hitler, it just went underground and got very sneaky.
The sad part is, most of us, including myself, weren't truly paying attention.
In short, eugenics is the attempt to "improve" human heredity through selective breeding. In its worst manifestations, it becomes an ugly monster, like the Nazi's attempt to exterminate the Jews. But its subtler forms are the ones that are at work today.
Don't confuse it with genetics, which is a science. Eugenics is a philosophy that uses science to promote its agenda.
For instance, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had distinct and hard to disprove sympathies with the eugenics movement. Does this discount how she brought birth control into widespread use and provided reproductive choice to millions of women? Of course not.
But you might be shocked by some of her own words.
Eugenics is the product of people who think that some humans are superior to others. When those people get power, money and science on their side, they can affect the lives of those they deem inferior.
There are some in the truth movement who contend that this is happening right now, in our present day. The problem for most people is that they seen no concentration camps or widespread, obvious extermination programs going on.
What you need to look for is more subtle things: DNA testing of all newborns, forced sterilization, overriding parental notification in regards to teenage abortion.
Eugenics did not die with the defeat of Hitler, it just went underground and got very sneaky.
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