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Eugenics is part and parcel of Utopianism. A perfect world filled with perfect people. To the Nazis anything other than blonde hair and blue eyes was imperfect because they were creating the master race. There is Utopianism on its face. The idea of preventing children with birth defects gets bigger and bigger. Should a girl genetically predisposed to small breasts be allowed to live. After all she will require surgery later in life to correct her birth defect. Isn't baldness hereditary? Sure it is, so those defective boys have to go as well.
Cultures that practice eugenics don't last very long. Which is a mercy. And goals of Utopia go even faster.
What the proponents of universal birth control don't realize is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Which means, that if there is universal birth control there must also be forced pregnancies. The culture will still need workers. There will have to be a mechanism to produce those workers. There will still have to be a way of forcing those with superior genetic material to reproduce when they choose not to. Removing freedom from people never has the result of more freedom. In Thomas More's Utopia the solution was to kidnap people from surrounding city-states and conscript them into service to the superior Utopians.
Feel free to sterilize yourself.
Leave my family alone, though.
Eugenics is part and parcel of Utopianism. A perfect world filled with perfect people. To the Nazis anything other than blonde hair and blue eyes was imperfect because they were creating the master race. There is Utopianism on its face. The idea of preventing children with birth defects gets bigger and bigger. Should a girl genetically predisposed to small breasts be allowed to live. After all she will require surgery later in life to correct her birth defect. Isn't baldness hereditary? Sure it is, so those defective boys have to go as well.
Cultures that practice eugenics don't last very long. Which is a mercy. And goals of Utopia go even faster.
I believe it depends on HOW the culture practices eugenics. I want to point out that even now -- and for several decades past -- our culture has allowed parents to practice eugenics on their unborn children.
When I was pregnant, I was given a blood test to find out whether my baby was at risk to have Down's Syndrome. The test came back positive, and we were recommended to have "genetic counseling" and amniocentesis to determine if indeed our daughter had Down's Syndrome, in which case a late-term abortion would be an option.
We were told the chances she actually had Down's were 3%; the risk of amniocentesis causing a spontaneous abortion was only 0.1%; so I did the math and blurted out, "That means that out of every 100,000 babies to whom you give this test, 100 babies die... and 97 of those 100 babies were perfectly healthy before the test killed them! How do you live with that?"
My point is that genetic counseling and amniocentesis are common forms of parental-consent eugenics in modern-day America, and they won't be abolished any time soon -- nor should they be.
UBC (universal birth control) is in no way comparable with this kind of eugenics.
UBC doesn't involve choosing NOT to have children; it instead makes the choice to have a child proactive, requiring a small amount of forethought, planning, and effort. The amount of effort involved in counteracting the UBC should be very small, certainly minor compared to the effort involved in taking care of a baby. It isn't intended to eliminate parenthood as an option for anyone except those who are unwilling or unable to make some small effort for the sake of having a baby.
That's the whole point of UBC: to change the paradigm of pregnancy-as-accident to pregnancy-as-choice.
Basically, putting UBC into metropolitan water supplies establishes a test for parenthood -- where currently the only test is whether one can find anyone who loves one enough or is drunk enough, stupid enough, desperate enough for money, or weak enough to force to have sex without birth control. The test isn't difficult, and it isn't expensive. It's simply this: can the parents obtain and remember to consume only non-UBC water (whether bottled, rainwater, or other natural-sourced water) in order to become pregnant?
Yes, it's a form of "eugenics" in that if you are too poor to buy bottled water (recently priced at 80 cents per gallon, less if you refill containers) and you are unwilling to make the effort to track down sources of free bottled water (like your local Catholic Church), then you will not be able to make a baby that would require much more effort than that from you if you were to give birth.
In that respect it is eugenics, in that it eliminates the possibility of parenthood for the lazy, the thoughtless, the apathetic, and those who didn't want or plan on getting pregnant at all even though they have sex without protection against pregnancy. Yes, UBC would eliminate accidental pregnancy for these people... but aren't these kinds of parents exactly the ones that cause so many of society's ills? People who are too lazy or thoughtless to care for their children, pay attention to their children, raise their children?
No, UBC wouldn't lead to any kind of social or cultural breakdown -- just the opposite. By ensuring that every child is a choice, UBC would ultimately strengthen society.
-- Paravani
That's one of those times where I think free sterilization would come in handy.A few years back I was acquainted with a woman named Susie. Susie has a laundry list of physical and metal handicaps. She is married to a very nice man, who also has a long list of both physical and metal handicaps. Both susie and her husband are supported by the state.
The issue is that, while being supported by the state, Susie and her husband decided to have babies, lots of babies. The last time i saw Susie, they were up to 4. Each of their children have physical(not sure about the mental) handicaps. They now have a case worker who visits the family regularly, and the state provides a helper who also comes at least once a week.
I can remember a coworker commenting that Susie was the poster child for forced sterilization.
The question is, should people who do not have the mental capacity to fully care for themselves, be allowed to procreate? Is this a slippery slope best steered clear of, or should the state be allowed to sterilize the mentally impaired.
Oh i am in support of forced sterilization on not just the mentally impaired.
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Sounds like her adoptive parents are incompetent. I hope the court is looking into revoking their rights.In accordance with this discussion. The forced abortion.
Court May Force Mentally Disabled Nevada Woman to Have Abortion | LifeNews.com
With obvious public outcries against forced abortions in China and forced sterilizations of mentally handicapped individuals in Nazi Germany, one might assume the United States knows better.
However, today, in Nevada, the life of an 11-week-old unborn baby and the future of his or her 32-year-old mother hang in the balance as a judge considers whether or not to order the woman to undergo an abortion and sterilization against her will.
Elisa Bauer, who suffers from severe mental and physical disabilities attributed to fetal alcohol syndrome, is currently in the final weeks of her first trimester. The second-oldest of six children adopted by William and Amy Bauer in 1992, Elisa has epilepsy and is said to have the mental and social capacity of a 6-year-old.
This should horrify anyone. The disabled woman, Elisa, HAS responsible guardians to make these decisions. The State doesn't agree with the guardians, whose decision should be final. It's cases like this that fundamentally changes the relationship between the government and the citizens.
There is a senate enquiry going on here into sterilisation. A mother of a severely disabled woman has told the senate why her daughter should never be allowed to have children. For a mother to speak out like that, the daughter must be very disabled and unable to care for herself, let alone her kids.
We do need to do something to stop people who are extremely disabled from having kids.