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Pat Milmoe McCarrick and Mary Carrington Coutts, reference librarians for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University, were more succinct:  "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with [[genocide]]." <ref>McCarrick, Pat Milmoe and Coutts, Mary Carrington et al. (June 1995). [http://web.archive.org/web/20041013060122/http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm "Introduction"].  ''Eugenics'', Scope Note series, no. 28.  Georgetown University/The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics/National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature website.  Retrieved from October 13, 2004 archive at Internet Archive on September 18, 2014.</ref>

Pat Milmoe McCarrick and Mary Carrington Coutts, reference librarians for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University, were more succinct:  "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with [[genocide]]." <ref>McCarrick, Pat Milmoe and Coutts, Mary Carrington et al. (June 1995). [http://web.archive.org/web/20041013060122/http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm "Introduction"].  ''Eugenics'', Scope Note series, no. 28.  Georgetown University/The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics/National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature website.  Retrieved from October 13, 2004 archive at Internet Archive on September 18, 2014.</ref>

==Liberal Eugenics==

==Liberal eugenics==

Some argue that parents who abort infants with genetic mutation or other disabilities are practicing a form of eugenics.<ref>Kristof, Nicholas D. (July 4, 2003).  [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html "The new eugenics"].  ''The New York Times''.  Reprinted at CNN.com International/U. S. webpage.  Retrieved on September 18, 2014.</ref>  Some doctors and scientists have defended this practice and named it "liberal eugenics" in order to differentiate it from traditional forms of eugenics such as Nazi eugenics.<ref>http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4541</ref>  Eugenicists in the United States and elsewhere have been known to employ or advocate [[abortion]] as a method of eugenics.

Some argue that parents who abort infants with genetic mutation or other disabilities are practicing a form of eugenics.<ref>Kristof, Nicholas D. (July 4, 2003).  [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html "The new eugenics"].  ''The New York Times''.  Reprinted at CNN.com International/U. S. webpage.  Retrieved on September 18, 2014.</ref>  Some doctors and scientists have defended this practice and named it "liberal eugenics" in order to differentiate it from traditional forms of eugenics such as Nazi eugenics.<ref>http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4541</ref>  Eugenicists in the United States and elsewhere have been known to employ or advocate [[abortion]] as a method of eugenics.

==Historical Eugenics==

==Historical eugenics==

The Spartans in ancient Greece practiced a primitive form of eugenics, wherein babies which were judged to be too "weak" or "sickly" would be left to die.

The Spartans in ancient Greece practiced a primitive form of eugenics, wherein babies which were judged to be too "weak" or "sickly" would be left to die.

In the 2006 satirical comedy ''Idiocracy,'' the entire movie is premised on the idea that the out-breeding of the stupid over the intelligent will lead to a uniformly stupid world run by advertisers, marketers, and anti-intellectualism.

In the 2006 satirical comedy ''Idiocracy,'' the entire movie is premised on the idea that the out-breeding of the stupid over the intelligent will lead to a uniformly stupid world run by advertisers, marketers, and anti-intellectualism.

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Genetic engineering]]

* [[Genetic engineering]]