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| | The [[liberal]] American Medical Society provided this summary: | | The [[liberal]] American Medical Society provided this summary: |
| − | :"The publication of Darwin's [[Origin of Species]] in 1859 led to the rise of the eugenics movement in Europe. Eugenics supporters believed that [[race]]s could be improved by [[selective breeding]]. The Nazi Party adopted this belief and began a campaign against the Jews. Many physicians joined the [[Nazi Party]] because they needed jobs." -- "Medicine against society: lessons from the Third Reich," ''The Journal of the American Medical Association'', Nov. 27, 1996 (Vol. 276, No. 20), at p. 1657(5), by Jeremiah A. Barondess. | + | :"The publication of Darwin's ''[[Origin of Species]]'' in 1859 led to the rise of the eugenics movement in Europe. Eugenics supporters believed that [[race]]s could be improved by [[selective breeding]]. The Nazi Party adopted this belief and began a campaign against the Jews. Many physicians joined the [[Nazi Party]] because they needed jobs." -- "Medicine against society: lessons from the Third Reich," ''The Journal of the American Medical Association'', Nov. 27, 1996 (Vol. 276, No. 20), at p. 1657(5), by Jeremiah A. Barondess. |
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| | ==Genocide== | | ==Genocide== |
| − | Many genocides have been commited in the name of Eugenics, most notably [[the Holocaust]]. Adolf Hitler was a strong believer in Eugenics & Evolution and believed that Jewish people were closest to apes, followed by Africans, Asians, non-Aryan Europeans, and finally Aryans whom he believed were most evolved. | + | Many genocides have been commited in the name of Eugenics, most notably [[the Holocaust]]. Adolf Hitler was a strong believer in eugenics and evolution and believed that Jewish people were closest to apes, followed by Africans, Asians, non-Aryan Europeans, and finally Aryans, who he believed were most evolved. |
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| | [[Stephen Jay Gould]], an [[evolutionist]], was more succinct: "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with [[genocide]]." <ref>http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm</ref> | | [[Stephen Jay Gould]], an [[evolutionist]], was more succinct: "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with [[genocide]]." <ref>http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm</ref> |
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| | ==Liberal Eugenics== | | ==Liberal Eugenics== |
| − | Some argue that parents who abort infants with genetic mutation or other disabilities are practicing a form of eugenics<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html</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 eugentics.<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>http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/04/nyt.kristof/index.html</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. |
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| | ==Historical Eugenics== | | ==Historical Eugenics== |