| − | Although [[Progressive Movement]]–inspired [[eugenics]] officially became discredited in the global outcry over the [[Holocaust]], its legacy was resurrected by neo-Marxists in [[Secular Europe]] who gradually replaced Christianity with [[scientism]]. In both [[Nazi Germany]]<ref>Khazan, Olga (September 3, 2014). [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/a-memorial-to-the-nazis-disabled-victims/379528/ Remembering the Nazis' Disabled Victims]. ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> 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."<ref>Wakeman, Jessica (December 6, 2018). [https://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-debate-over-terminating-down-syndrome-pregnancies The Debate Over Terminating Down Syndrome Pregnancies]. ''Heathline''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> | + | Although [[Progressive Movement]]–inspired [[eugenics]] officially became discredited in the global outcry over the [[Holocaust]], its legacy was resurrected by neo-Marxists in [[Secular Europe]] who gradually replaced Christianity with [[scientism]]. In both [[Nazi Germany]]<ref>Khazan, Olga (September 3, 2014). [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/a-memorial-to-the-nazis-disabled-victims/379528/ Remembering the Nazis' Disabled Victims]. ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> 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."<ref>Wakeman, Jessica (December 6, 2018). [https://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-debate-over-terminating-down-syndrome-pregnancies The Debate Over Terminating Down Syndrome Pregnancies]. ''Heathline''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> |
| | In comparison to European countries whose Down syndrome rate is over 90%, in the United States it is a comparatively lower 67%<ref>Bilger, Micaiah (July 9, 2020). [https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/09/the-united-states-kills-67-of-babies-with-down-syndrome-in-abortion/ The United States Kills 67% of Babies With Down Syndrome in Abortion]. ''LifeNews''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref>, as a result of remaining American conservative Christian values to a significant extent relative to the greater atheistic left-wing influence among the populations of Secular Europe. | | In comparison to European countries whose Down syndrome rate is over 90%, in the United States it is a comparatively lower 67%<ref>Bilger, Micaiah (July 9, 2020). [https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/09/the-united-states-kills-67-of-babies-with-down-syndrome-in-abortion/ The United States Kills 67% of Babies With Down Syndrome in Abortion]. ''LifeNews''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref>, as a result of remaining American conservative Christian values to a significant extent relative to the greater atheistic left-wing influence among the populations of Secular Europe. |
| | '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 Nazis' chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing, as a precedent, 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> In addition, Brandt "cited Harry Laughlin's 1914 proposal calling for the sterilization of fifteen million Americans.". Laughlin, a hardline racist pro-eugenics activist of the [[Progressive Era]], was an associate of [[Margaret Sanger]] in the organization Population Association of America<ref>Hansen, Randall; King, Desmond (August 26, 2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sterilized_by_the_State/IjUUAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=harry+laughlin+margaret+sanger&printsec=frontcover Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America], p. 190. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> and subsequently became a Nazi supporter. | + | Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazis' chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing, as a precedent, 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> In addition, Brandt "cited Harry Laughlin's 1914 proposal calling for the sterilization of fifteen million Americans." Laughlin, a hardline racist pro-eugenics activist of the [[Progressive Era]], was an associate of [[Margaret Sanger]] in the organization Population Association of America<ref>Hansen, Randall; King, Desmond (August 26, 2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sterilized_by_the_State/IjUUAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=harry+laughlin+margaret+sanger&printsec=frontcover Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America], p. 190. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> and subsequently became a Nazi supporter. |
| − | ''Buck v. Bell'' was also cited by Nazi defendant Otto Hafmann, who headed the SS Race and Settlement Office, to justify mass sterilization.<ref>Cohen, Adam (March 2016). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imbeciles/z9TnCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck], p. 303. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> The 1961 movie ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' portrays a Nazi lawyer glowingly praising Justice Holmes as "that great American jurist.". | + | ''Buck v. Bell'' was also cited by Nazi defendant Otto Hafmann, who headed the SS Race and Settlement Office, to justify mass sterilization.<ref>Cohen, Adam (March 2016). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imbeciles/z9TnCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck], p. 303. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> The 1961 movie ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' portrays a Nazi lawyer glowingly praising Justice Holmes as "that great American jurist." |