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'Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination...and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.'|||"Human Rights and the Unborn Child," p. 186}} | 'Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination...and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.'|||"Human Rights and the Unborn Child," p. 186}} | ||
| − | Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazi's chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', authored by | + | Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazi's chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', authored by [[Social Darwinist]], Progressive justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], which legalized compulsory sterilization.<ref>Lombardo, Paul A. (November 10, 2008). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Three_Generations_No_Imbeciles/Z_dSEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023</ref> |
==Atheistic United Kingdom and forced abortions== | ==Atheistic United Kingdom and forced abortions== | ||
Revision as of 17:36, June 8, 2023
Although Progressive Movement–inspired eugenics officially became discredited in the global outcry of the Holocaust, its legacy was resurrected by neo-Marxists in Secular Europe who gradually replaced Christianity with scientism. In both Nazi Germany[1] and countries in contemporary Europe, Down syndrome is viewed as an abnormal disease in need of "weeding out." According to Healthline, "nearly 100 percent of women in Iceland who receive a positive test for Down syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy."[2]
Background: Nuremberg prosecutors condemn Nazi-permitted abortions
Although contemporary neo-Marxist leftists insist that Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders were "anti-abortion," the prosecutors at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal recognized otherwise. Human rights activist Rita Joseph writes:[3]
| “ | Eastern women workers were induced or forced to undergo abortions. [emphasis added]
Decriminalization of abortion was judged and condemned at Nuremberg as encouraging abortions. The fact that the Nazi authorities had removed abortion from Polish domestic law did not nullify the fact that abortion was still judged "a crime against humanity". This was in accord with the working definition: 'Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination...and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.' |
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—"Human Rights and the Unborn Child," p. 186 | ||
Karl Brandt, an officer for the Schutzstaffel (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazi's chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing the United States Supreme Court ruling in Buck v. Bell, authored by Social Darwinist, Progressive justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., which legalized compulsory sterilization.[4]
Atheistic United Kingdom and forced abortions
In September 2019, a British woman was ordered by a court to undergo an abortion due to laws permitting abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy if "a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped."[5] However, the woman later gave birth despite eugenicist court rulings.[6]
References
- ↑ Khazan, Olga (September 3, 2014). Remembering the Nazis' Disabled Victims. The Atlantic. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ↑ Wakeman, Jessica (December 6, 2018). The Debate Over Terminating Down Syndrome Pregnancies. Heathline. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ↑ Joseph, Rita (2009). Human Rights and the Unborn Child, p. 186. Google Books. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ↑ Lombardo, Paul A. (November 10, 2008). Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell. Google Books. Retrieved June 8, 2023
- ↑ September 23, 2021. Court dismisses challenge to U.K. law allowing abortion of a fetus with Down syndrome until birth. Associated Press via CBS News. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ↑ October 18, 2019. UK woman who was ordered to have a forced abortion in June has given birth. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Retrieved June 8, 2023.