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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 44847" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>What they are advocating is eugenics, same thing as the nazis preached (it originated right here in the USA though), and very unfortunately it is making a resurgence now. In this twisted thinking, right after preventing "defective" people from having "defective" children comes eliminating the "defective" people who are already here. Often it is said that their lives are not worth living - this is couched in terms of compassion, "ending sufffering", to make it more palatable but the idea is the same. Witness the number of people who were so anxious to cut off Terri Schiavo. (Hope I'm not venturing too close to politics here.) The field of (so-called) bioethics is rife with that kind of thinking. One of the main factors driving the push for genetic testing in the womb is to detect conditions such as Down's syndrome, implicitly so that the baby can be aborted (eugenic abortion is the term). The pressure to undergo genetic testing and eugenic abortion is formidable. The people who advocate this stuff even call it "curing genetic diseases" when the "cure" is to eliminate the patient! </p><p></p><p>Every life is precious, regardless of how worthwhile that life appears to be to somebody else. </p><p></p><p>You are absolutely right, those people have no business in the medical profession. </p><p></p><p>Ooops. Excuse me while I climb back down from my soapbox. It so happens this is an issue I'm very passionate about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 44847, member: 3485"] What they are advocating is eugenics, same thing as the nazis preached (it originated right here in the USA though), and very unfortunately it is making a resurgence now. In this twisted thinking, right after preventing "defective" people from having "defective" children comes eliminating the "defective" people who are already here. Often it is said that their lives are not worth living - this is couched in terms of compassion, "ending sufffering", to make it more palatable but the idea is the same. Witness the number of people who were so anxious to cut off Terri Schiavo. (Hope I'm not venturing too close to politics here.) The field of (so-called) bioethics is rife with that kind of thinking. One of the main factors driving the push for genetic testing in the womb is to detect conditions such as Down's syndrome, implicitly so that the baby can be aborted (eugenic abortion is the term). The pressure to undergo genetic testing and eugenic abortion is formidable. The people who advocate this stuff even call it "curing genetic diseases" when the "cure" is to eliminate the patient! Every life is precious, regardless of how worthwhile that life appears to be to somebody else. You are absolutely right, those people have no business in the medical profession. Ooops. Excuse me while I climb back down from my soapbox. It so happens this is an issue I'm very passionate about. [/QUOTE]
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