Defective Babies Should Be Aborted, Bio-ethicist Says

CNS News ^ | 11-25-2002 | Robert B. Bluey

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A scholar from the National Institutes of Health says America would benefit from aborting the blind and disabled.

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200211\CUL20021125b.html

[ctnoell]

I think Nazi Germany had the same attitude back in the 1930-40s. And I only thought conservatives were capable of being "fascists".

[FormerLib]

Have they come around to calling them "Useless eaters" yet?

[CanisMajor2002]

You probably already knew this, but the "Nazi" name comes from the German words for "National Socialist". They certainly weren't conservative or even liberal in the classic sense.

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200211\CUL20021125b.html

[Buffalo Bob]

Dear ethicist Dan W. Brock: Prepare to one day stand before almighty God and make that argument!

[azsportsterman]

Would he feel this way if his mother had been given the choice? Imagine, 'the severly disabled' now, then later we could develop a test to identify those that would make stupid statements, political affiliation...

[BibChr]

Why stop with aborting them?

Why not declare open season, issue licenses, and simply kill them all where they stand?

(Come to think of it, Babylon 5 did an episode with a theme similar to this. Ended rather badly, though. As no one is truly "pure," the result was the eradication of a planet's entire populace. Oh well; I'm sure the Shining Lights of our elite will handle it much better. Right?)

< /scathing sarcasm >

(In case you missed that)

Dan

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[Ol' Sox]

Methinks Mr. Brock ought to be foist by his own petard. This would not only be wonderfully ironic, but would remove one more useless eater from society.

[Vic3O3]

evil strikes again ping

[Desdemona]

Whoa!! Doing that would make us no better than the Third Reich, Margaret Sanger and any number of other repulsive people and regimes.

Sorry. DOn't think so. Can anyone imagine a world without some of the great "defectives"? Get real.

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my sentiments exactly, check out the key words I listed above

[Kevin Curry]

And I only thought conservatives were capable of being "fascists".

Most people who accuse others of being "fascist" are usually just taking stands agasint laws that they believe cramp their personal desires to blow dope and to indulge in irresponsible, death and disease-spreading sexual behaviors.

The Nazis, especially the more prominent ones, were very much into kinky sex and recreational drugs.

But the Nazis also practiced eugenics on a huge scale. In that sense, this bio-ethicist definitely shows his Nazi sympathies.

That's really about all there is to it.

[SpinyNorman]

This rubbish is what Peter Singer made his "career" on. See http://www.petersingerlinks.com/ for a taste of the latest eugenics crap and much, much more. He is despoiling the Princeton campus now, I believe.

Maybe they will turn the discarded fetuses into "Soylent Green!"

[OldFriend]

Maybe he's angling for a job at Princeton. They already have one psycho Professor Singer who thinks you ought to be able to kill your handicapped baby up to thirty days AFTER birth.

[eleni121]

University of Rhode Island, biomedical ethicist Dan W. Brock

The University of Rhode Island and the NIH have a very serious mental case on their hands. But they probably don't care. Just as Princeton University doesn't care that Peter Singer who espouses even more inhuman "ethical" views doesn't care.

What is this with these neo Socialists?

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[ImaGraftedBranch]

Ten minutes is all I would need (alone, in a locked room with no windows, of course) to change this person's mind.