Free Talk Live - eugenics

Nazi eugenics programs inspired by U.S., especially California

Cyphase — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:21:44 +0000

FTA: "After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it spread to Germany. California eugenicists began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals. By 1933, California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's."

Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’

Takeshi Kovacs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:58:58 +0000

“The editor of an ethics journal that recently published an article advocating infanticide (what the authors call ‘post-birth abortion’), has responded to widespread criticism by pointing out that promoting the killing of newborns is nothing new: in fact, in the Netherlands infant euthanasia is already legal and practiced."

Ethicists Argue Killing Newborn Babies Should Be Allowed

Takeshi Kovacs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:42:54 +0000

The authors argue that “both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons,” and that because abortion is allowed even when there is no problem with the fetus’ health, “killing a newborn should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”

America's Legacy Of Sterilisation

losingfeeling — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:28:18 +0000

"More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation."