Slate reprint of article written by Tucker Carlson in 1996: Jeffrey Greenspoon, M.D. is the director of the high-risk obstetric unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In the summer of 1995, during the beginning of the debate over partial-birth abortion, Greenspoon passionately defended the procedure, especially in cases where a child might be born with "problems ... incompatible with a normal life," such as Down Syndrome. "A pregnancy that is desired and planned is the foundation for the next generation of productive, healthy Americans," Greenspoon wrote. "The burden of raising one or two abnormal children is realistically unbearable."
He admits that he approves of eugenics—weeding out "babies who don't have much of a viable life." What makes him uncomfortable, he says, is the word "eugenics," which somehow has assumed "bad connotations over time. I think the better terms would be 'genetic counseling' and 'prenatal diagnosis' and 'having a country in which the option to exercise choice in whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy is a right of the people.'" After all, he says, "Sometimes you need to abandon words that have common meanings that connote the wrong ethics or morals."
But only the words have changed.
Abortion's ties to eugenics goes much deeper than that. Planned Parenthood's (the nation's largest abortion provider) founder Margret Sanger was a Eugenicist,and they have an award in her name that they give out every year. "Family Planning" was a term she and other eugenicists at the time coined to market services to get rid of what started as a new generation newly emancipated blacks. They expanded it to the poor and other "undesirables" to make it seem like a noble cause and appear less racist. It became about anybody they saw as beneath them...To learn more about their eugenics history and current goals, you should watch Maafa 21! www.maafa21.com It is incredibly powerful.
ReplyDeleteEugenics keeps cropping up, in many different forms.
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