Killing to Heal

The Dawn Treader is examining the roots of the Nazi atrocities and the rise of euthanasia in the United States through the book, The Nazi Doctors. Robert Lifton, the book’s author, makes the argument,

"In Nazi mass murder, we can say that a barrier was removed, a boundary was crossed ... My argument in this study is that the medicalization of killing - the imagery of killing in the name of healing -- was crucial to that terrible step. At the heart of the Nazi enterprise, then, is the destruction of the boundary between healing and killing." p.14, The Nazi Doctors.

Killing in the name of healing? In addition to the slippery slope of euthanasia, this sounds remarkably like the arguments used to justify embryonic stem cell research.