DNA databases prelude to return of eugenics?

WorldNetDaily ^ | 5/1/09 | Bob Unruh

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An organization that has been battling Minnesota state procedures in which DNA from every newborn is collected and warehoused says virtually all states do the same thing, and the alarming trend eventually could lead the United States back into eugenics.

 

The report from Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care, says, "Throughout history, proponents of eugenics have focused on the reproduction of children, either through encouraging the 'healthy' to reproduce or discouraging the 'unhealthy' from procreation. This focus has been evidenced in history by 29 state sterilization laws … and the horrific Nazi campaign aimed at ridding Germany of the 'unfit' – the Jews, the physically deformed, the mentally retarded, the 'feebleminded,' the inferior, the epileptic, the deaf, the blind, 'those suffering from hereditary conditions,' the deviant 'asocial' and the politically dissident."

The report then continued, "That the focus on reproduction still exists today is more than troubling.

"The authors of a 2001 study 'were struck' by the large number of state government officials who agreed with a specific statement regarding assessment of a child's suitability for future reproduction," the report said. "Nineteen (54 percent) of 35 … respondents who routinely provide counseling – mostly newborn genetic screening follow-up staff at state health departments across the country – thought it important when giving advice to parents to 'identify children who might be, for genetic reasons, unsuitable choices for future reproduction,'" the report said.

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The next step is obvious: The government, with information about potential health weaknesses, could say to couples, "We don't want your expensive children," Brase said.

Exactly!

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[wombtotomb]

What return to eugenics??? We already abort children of the poor, blacks, handicapped and the marginalized! Just moving it into overdrive IMHO.

[freekitty]

How can anyone demand written consent of DNA testing of newborns; when no one knew they were doing it?

I would think we would and should go after the offenders.

[wagglebee]

You’re right.

[wombtotomb]

Not to mention the innocents killed each year by abortifacents currently marketed as birth control.

[jonrick46]

As the socialist masters squeeze every last dollar from the over taxed and regulated system, they will turn to social engineering techniques that reduce their cash outflow. The rise of tyranny will be a necessity cost savings result.

Babies born with imperfect genetic codes will be sterilized as infants with efficient machines to replace the costly doctors.

[conservative cat]

Bump for later read.

[samtheman]

Euthanasia at one end, eugenics at the other. In the middle will be a culled race of moral degenerates and pre-programmed political idiots that will gradually slip away from the category currently known as “human”.

[metmom]

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[Charles Martel]

Obligatory eugenics content:

[mainestategop]

Yeah, people think the only thing they need to worry bout is someone using a gene content to lock away or kill someone for something stupid yet THIS is what we need to be afraid of. A race of Ubermen come to enslave us.

[Bushwacker777]

Has anyone taken note that our welfare and tax system hurts the eugenic health of the US? We pay people who are the least apt to produce healthy and hard working kids to pop out kids at taspayer expense yet we have fostered an ethic within the working and middle classes that having kids is too expensive. Of course, this is coupled with high taxation to get money from them to give to the former group.

Also, the typical girl who gets an abortion is a white female, around 21 years of age with some college education.

[Tax-chick]

Unfortunately, Ricardo Montalban had only one child.

[mysterio]

Gattaca should be required viewing in every college-level genetics class.

[Tax-chick]

Nope, you’re the first to notice all that.

[mysterio]

[wagglebee]

So, you support the return of eugenics?

[Charles Martel]

Yeah, people think the only thing they need to worry bout is someone using a gene content to lock away or kill someone for something stupid yet THIS is what we need to be afraid of. A race of Ubermen come to enslave us.

Remember the money quote: "We. Offered. The. World. ORDER!!" (Ricardo must've rehearsed his lines at some length with Shatner).

I'm actually more worried about a bunch of leaders who just *think* they have a "superior intellect". Hell, we're already there.