June 2008 Newsletter
Posted By admin on August 14, 2008
Eugentics
The term, eugentics, literally means “well born”. It was an early 20th Century movement which aimed to improve the quality of the population by preventing unfit peple from reproducing and encouraging “fit “people to reproduce. SOURCE: www.antenataltesting.info/glossary.html
QUESTION: I’ve heard about the eugenics movement, but I thought it essentially ended with the atrocities of the Nazi regime. Does the eugenics movement still exist today?
ANSWER: The eugenics movement is more comprehensive than most people realize. A review of the history of eugenics shows that the past eugenicists were void of compassion for individuals with a low value or quality of life. The pervading thought was that society would improve with the elimination of poor and disabled children. During the late 1800s and most of the 1900s, this was accomplished through selective breeding.