(*Damned, as in no having salvation, and being sent to Hell for our Sins! Not, I will point out, as an expletive.)
I have studied history for most of my life, with certain periods engaging my interest more than others. One of these period is the rise and activities of the Third Reich. How on earth, I wondered, could such an aberration, such an embodiment of evil ever get started? I still am not clear on that, in the mundane sense, but the movie The Night and the Fog proved to me beyond all doubt of the existence of objective evil, and the ways in which utilitarianism and expediency become vehicles for it.
"Life Unworthy of Life" was a phrase that came out of the German Medical establishment in the 20s, after studying American thinking on eugenics. Physicians became the most heavily represented profession on the Nazi Party, because of the scope it offered them for the implementation of such theories, and the expansion of practice to include the euthanasia of children with developmental disabilities. Mostly this was done through planned neglect. A modern equivalent is through withholding of care. We've all, well those of us who care, and who read the things that come to light via the Catholic 'net, are aware of children with poor prognosis, or with serious disability that are 'set aside' and die withi hours of birth--but in Nazi Germany, they did it to children who were much older than newborns, often because they were developmentally disabled.
You Know, Like they do in The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. It's hit the MSM today, and there are explanations on the news items how the family just doesn't understand, etc.. But the bottom line is this: a physician told the mother of a three year old girl that her quality of life wouldn't be good enough to warrant a kidney transplant. The Mother pointed out that the family was going to provide the organ, that it wouldn't take one from the donors list away from another child. The doctor said, and I quote; "No, she is not eligible due to her quality of life. Because of her mental delays." When the parents argued, he went on to say that taking her anti rejection meds would be very important, and after the parents were gone, who would insure that? Bottom line, the doctor didn't think a retarded kid was worth saving.
This little girl is going to die of renal failure without a transplant. It's a horrible, agonizing death, marked by pain, vomiting, seizures, blindness--a death so bad that when it comes, the final coma is a blessing. I know--I've experienced renal failure, and it sucked.
The hospital is saying this that and the other thing, but the doctor said it was her "quality of life" and her "mental delays" that decided it. Retards ain't worth saving. Of course, since they have been able to detect Downs syndrome and other mental handicaps in utero, 90% of the kids conceived with these problems don't get born, because doctors counsel, indeed pressure, parents to abort. After all, they aren't really worthy of life, because some self appointed judge of what counts as quality of life has decided so.
In a related story, a Massachusetts appeals court just stuck down a court order by a lower court requiring a 32 year old woman who suffers from Schizophrenia to undergo an abortion and sterilization. The order appointed her parents--who don't want her to have a child--as her guardians so they could legally consent to the procedures. The Judge, Christina Harms of the Norfolk Probate and Family court ruled that if the woman was competent, she would want an abortion, that her opposition was due to her 'delusional beliefs"and said she 'should be coaxed, bribed or even enticed...bu ruse" until she was sedated for the abortion. BTW, expert testimony by psychiatrists said that she did not want and was competent not to want, and abortion. They were going to rely on good old fashioned legal coercion, and make this abortion happen.
One of the most shameful chapters in US history is the rise of Eugenics and mandatory sterilization for the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled and the "morally feeble minded". This ruling was simply a return to those days. Thank God that an appeals court overturned it, saying that "the personal decision whether to bear or beget a child is so fundamental that it must be extended to all persons...".
The Boston Herald observed, "Massachusetts historically lead the way in the movement to sterilize or incarcerate the mentally ill to prevent them from breeding--inadvertently inspiring Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's own eugenics agenda".
Somehow, with the professionalization of America, the professions have left behind the humanities infavor of sociology, and devalued human life to the extent that it is judged according to it's "quality", when the "quality" is some one in the professions subjective opinion of what matters.
Bunch of Damned Nazis.
I have studied history for most of my life, with certain periods engaging my interest more than others. One of these period is the rise and activities of the Third Reich. How on earth, I wondered, could such an aberration, such an embodiment of evil ever get started? I still am not clear on that, in the mundane sense, but the movie The Night and the Fog proved to me beyond all doubt of the existence of objective evil, and the ways in which utilitarianism and expediency become vehicles for it.
"Life Unworthy of Life" was a phrase that came out of the German Medical establishment in the 20s, after studying American thinking on eugenics. Physicians became the most heavily represented profession on the Nazi Party, because of the scope it offered them for the implementation of such theories, and the expansion of practice to include the euthanasia of children with developmental disabilities. Mostly this was done through planned neglect. A modern equivalent is through withholding of care. We've all, well those of us who care, and who read the things that come to light via the Catholic 'net, are aware of children with poor prognosis, or with serious disability that are 'set aside' and die withi hours of birth--but in Nazi Germany, they did it to children who were much older than newborns, often because they were developmentally disabled.
You Know, Like they do in The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. It's hit the MSM today, and there are explanations on the news items how the family just doesn't understand, etc.. But the bottom line is this: a physician told the mother of a three year old girl that her quality of life wouldn't be good enough to warrant a kidney transplant. The Mother pointed out that the family was going to provide the organ, that it wouldn't take one from the donors list away from another child. The doctor said, and I quote; "No, she is not eligible due to her quality of life. Because of her mental delays." When the parents argued, he went on to say that taking her anti rejection meds would be very important, and after the parents were gone, who would insure that? Bottom line, the doctor didn't think a retarded kid was worth saving.
This little girl is going to die of renal failure without a transplant. It's a horrible, agonizing death, marked by pain, vomiting, seizures, blindness--a death so bad that when it comes, the final coma is a blessing. I know--I've experienced renal failure, and it sucked.
The hospital is saying this that and the other thing, but the doctor said it was her "quality of life" and her "mental delays" that decided it. Retards ain't worth saving. Of course, since they have been able to detect Downs syndrome and other mental handicaps in utero, 90% of the kids conceived with these problems don't get born, because doctors counsel, indeed pressure, parents to abort. After all, they aren't really worthy of life, because some self appointed judge of what counts as quality of life has decided so.
In a related story, a Massachusetts appeals court just stuck down a court order by a lower court requiring a 32 year old woman who suffers from Schizophrenia to undergo an abortion and sterilization. The order appointed her parents--who don't want her to have a child--as her guardians so they could legally consent to the procedures. The Judge, Christina Harms of the Norfolk Probate and Family court ruled that if the woman was competent, she would want an abortion, that her opposition was due to her 'delusional beliefs"and said she 'should be coaxed, bribed or even enticed...bu ruse" until she was sedated for the abortion. BTW, expert testimony by psychiatrists said that she did not want and was competent not to want, and abortion. They were going to rely on good old fashioned legal coercion, and make this abortion happen.
One of the most shameful chapters in US history is the rise of Eugenics and mandatory sterilization for the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled and the "morally feeble minded". This ruling was simply a return to those days. Thank God that an appeals court overturned it, saying that "the personal decision whether to bear or beget a child is so fundamental that it must be extended to all persons...".
The Boston Herald observed, "Massachusetts historically lead the way in the movement to sterilize or incarcerate the mentally ill to prevent them from breeding--inadvertently inspiring Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's own eugenics agenda".
Somehow, with the professionalization of America, the professions have left behind the humanities infavor of sociology, and devalued human life to the extent that it is judged according to it's "quality", when the "quality" is some one in the professions subjective opinion of what matters.
Bunch of Damned Nazis.
3 comments:
"...her opposition was due to her 'delusional beliefs"
So how long before we see this rationale applied to that portion of the population who are prolife?
How long before we find our kids taken away from us so they don't suffer by contact with our delusional selves?
How long before the camps open for business?
SubVet, the contracts that FEMA published notices for bid for the construction of camps specified 24 hours after notice.
So any time it suits the Masters.
BTW Did you see the thing about Obama's Science Adviser? John Holdren co-authored a book that advocates mandatory sterilization, etc. it's the Eugenics Plan, dressed up as ecology.
Instead of "Springtime for Hitler And Germany", it's Hope And Change For Obama And America"!
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