Dread genetic diseases are disappearing -- because parents and doctors are eliminating the children who have them.
March 2, 2010 (MercatoNet)
Any allusion to present day biomedical practices as being eugenic usually leads to quite hysterical denials and the accusation that one sees everything one disagrees with as being painted with the inappropriate Nazi brush.
I’ve heard all the arguments, so please spare me: "The only people who were Nazis were the Nazis. The only things that are eugenic are what the Nazis did in the interests of breeding a more superior race. Genetic research in this day and age is an absolutely cutting edge, wonderful, and very necessary ethical endeavor".
The howling eugenics deniers will even concede that eugenics didn’t originate in Nazi Germany (the US and the UK have that distinction), and, if pressed, that some prominent historical figures supported eugenics (Margaret Sanger and Winston Churchill among them).
