August 15, 2015
Do We Destroy Life to Enhance Life?
Years before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, German scholars were advocating the killing of "worthless" people under the protection of the state. On April 7, 1933 the Nazis eliminated "long established ethical and administrative public supervisory bodies" when they introduced the "law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." Euthanasia and experimentation on human subjects became the Nazi norm. The purveyors of Nazism saw their system as "applied biology."
Can one draw a parallel with the Nazi "applied biology" ideology and the recent revelations of Planned Parenthood's selling of baby parts? Is it "erroneous thinking" to show sympathy for "lives [deemed] devoid of value" but from which parts of those lives medical benefit can be derived? And are any such "errors of judgment, diagnosis, and execution to be of concern when compared to the social benefits that might eventually...(Read Full Article)