eugenics

On Saturday, former Vice President Mike Pence tied the abortion industry to the eugenics movement, asserting that Planned Parenthood "shamelessly builds" on the goals of founder Margaret Sanger by targeting minority communities.

Our society has become a real-life version of the movie, Gattaca, in which a “perfect” society is built, not by eliminating defects, but by eliminating people.

A coalition of pro-lifers is asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade based, in part, on abortion's ties to the eugenics movement.

Pro-life leaders are criticizing Planned Parenthood's president for continuing to push abortions while also apologizing for the organization's past involvement in eugenics and its racist foundation.

A federal judge asserted this week, argued that America and the rest of the world are guilty of Nazi-like eugenics by allowing abortion that targets the unborn for various traits such as sex, race and disability.

In 2020, eugenicists may not be goose-stepping down the street in khaki uniforms, but they are not hard to find. While the word “eugenics” rightly offends our modern sensibilities, the eugenics impulse is alive and well, especially in the sciences and social policies of human reproduction.

Historical ignorance not only prevents us from learning from the evils of the past, we risk not even being able to recognize the evils of the past when they reemerge in our time.

One problem with the sperm donation industry is that it dehumanizes men and children. The God-given ability to procreate is transformed into a crude financial transaction. As is the case with egg donation, the way the “product” is marketed dehumanizes image-bearers, reducing them to a list of so-called “desirable qualities, such as height, hair color; supposed athletic ability, or where they went to college. This isn’t some “enlightened” new way to make a modern family. It’s re-branded eugenics.