George Neumayr, executive editor of The American Spectator, reports the rise of a new eugenetic agenda aimed at eliminating the disabled through abortion.
Doctors and their patients use prenatal technology to screen unborn children for disabilities, then they use that information to abort a high percentage of them. Without much scrutiny or debate, a eugenics designed to weed out the disabled has become commonplace.In fact Neumayr claims the "vast majority of unborn children prenatally diagnosed as disabled are killed." This includes 80 percent of babies now prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome. For example, Kaiser Permanente disclosed that 95 percent of its patients in Northern California choose abortion after they find out through prenatal screening that their fetus will have the disease.
The opposition to the ban on partial-birth abortion was motivated in part by the desire to abort the disabled.
Hillary Clinton objected to a ban on partial-birth abortion because it didn't contain an exemption for late-term abortions aimed at the disabled. Women should not be "forced" to carry a "child with severe abnormalities," she saidNeumayr quotes Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the International Center for Technology Assessment.
"Whenever anybody thinks of eugenics, they think of Adolf Hitler. This is a commercial eugenics. But the result is the same, an intolerance for those who don't fit the norm."Another distressing trend is that parents with children born disabled are suing their doctor, claiming they had a right to know and a "right to choose."
The practice of eugenics, according to Neumayr, is mainstream. "In some cases the aborted children aren't disabled at all but are mere carriers of a disease or stand a chance of getting one later in life," he wrote.
Charles Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, coined the term eugenics in the 1880s. Sparking off his cousin's theory of evolution, he proposed improving the human race through eugenics, arguing that "what nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly."The culture of death is progressive and leads its participants to oppress the weak and helpless in evermore aggressive ways. The belief system upon which it is based considers the disabled of lesser value due to their instrumental characteristics. In fact, those who practice abortion eugenics consider it ethical and cannot imagine anyone opposing their desire to terminate the "impaired".
Therefore, the battle for the lives of the unborn and disabled will be won or lost over the conflict of worldviews. Laws must change (now) but the culture of death will only be stopped by a heart-felt change of beliefs among those who think lesser of the undeveloped, disabled and incapacitated.
