For sale:Baby-only $100.00

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Paul Marquez is a 23-year-old New Yorker. He is in jail today, charged with attempting to sell the baby of a woman he dated on Craigslist for $100. He has pled not guilty; a friend says, "he probably did it as a joke." He reportedly faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

In Michigan, a woman was captured on video attempting to hire a "hit man" to kill her husband. "It was easier than divorcing him," she explained. The man she tried to hire was an undercover policeman. In a remarkable twist, her husband later testified in court: "I wholeheartedly forgive my wife for all she has done in this act of hatred." She quoted Scripture before the judge and expressed her repentance tearfully. He then sentenced her to at least five years and eight months in prison.

And a California woman will stand trial on felony charges that she plotted to have two ex-boyfriends killed. She allegedly asked her current boyfriend to kill one of her ex-boyfriends. Then a second ex-boyfriend told investigators that the woman had asked him to kill yet another former boyfriend while they were dating.

Meanwhile, abortions resulting from prenatal genetic testing are on the rise. For instance, as many as 16 out of 17 babies discovered to have cystic fibrosis are aborted. One couple is suing their doctors for "wrongful birth"-their daughter was born with cystic fibrosis and would have been aborted if testing had revealed her condition. Will more social pressure be placed on couples to abort unborn children with expensive medical conditions? Will insurance companies begin exempting such conditions from coverage?

Emerson believed that "one idea lights a thousand candles." But one idea can put a thousand out as well. Marxism was an idea birthed by a lonely scholar in the British Library before it became a political system that enslaved a third of the world. Now consider "eugenics," defined as "the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics." It fell into disfavor after its doctrines were used by the Nazis. Are we seeing its rise again today?

Doctors are reporting a significant rise in gender-based abortions. The states of Washington, Oregon, and Vermont have all legalized forms of physician-assisted suicide. Is life becoming less precious in our society? How should Christians respond to this issue?

 

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... But one idea can put a thousand out as well. Marxism was an idea birthed by a lonely scholar in the British Library before it became a political system that enslaved a third of the world. Now consider "eugenics," defined as "the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics." It fell into disfavor after its doctrines were used by the Nazis. Are we seeing its rise again today....

 

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It's The Law

 

In the Buck vs. Bell decision of May 2, 1927, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute that provided for the eugenic sterilization for people considered genetically unfit. The Court's decision, delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., included the infamous phrase "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Upholding Virginia's sterilization statute provided the green light for similar laws in 30 states, under which an estimated 65,000 Americans were sterilized without their own consent or that of a family member.

Although Indiana passed the first eugenic sterilization statute in 1907, this and other early laws were legally flawed and did not meet the challenge of state court tests. To remedy this situation, Harry Laughlin of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor designed a model eugenic law that was reviewed by legal experts. The Virginia statute of 1924 was closely based on this model.

The plaintiff of the case, Carrie Buck, and her mother Emma, had been committed to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded in Lynchburg, Virginia. Carrie and Emma were both judged to be "feebleminded" and promiscuous, primarily because they had both had borne children out of wedlock. Carrie's child, Vivian, was judged to be "feebleminded" at seven months of age. Hence, three generations of "imbeciles" became the "perfect" family for Virginia officials to use as a test case in favor of the eugenic sterilization law enacted in 1924.

On the eve of the Virginia legal contest, the ERO dispatched its field worker, Dr. Arthur Estabrook, to provide expert testimony. After some cursory examination, Estabrook testified that the seven month old Vivian "showed backwardness." The Superintendent of the Virginia Colony, Dr. Albert Priddy, testified that members of the Buck family "belong to the shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of anti-social whites of the South." Upon reviewing the case, the Supreme Court concurred "that Carrie Buck is the probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring, likewise afflicted, that she may be sexually sterilized without detriment to her general health and that her welfare and that of society will be promoted by her sterilization"

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/39.html

 

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Paul Marquez is a 23-year-old New Yorker. He is in jail today, charged with attempting to sell the baby of a woman he dated on Craigslist for $100. He has pled not guilty; a friend says, "he probably did it as a joke." He reportedly faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

In Michigan, a woman was captured on video attempting to hire a "hit man" to kill her husband. "It was easier than divorcing him," she explained. The man she tried to hire was an undercover policeman. In a remarkable twist, her husband later testified in court: "I wholeheartedly forgive my wife for all she has done in this act of hatred." She quoted Scripture before the judge and expressed her repentance tearfully. He then sentenced her to at least five years and eight months in prison.

And a California woman will stand trial on felony charges that she plotted to have two ex-boyfriends killed. She allegedly asked her current boyfriend to kill one of her ex-boyfriends. Then a second ex-boyfriend told investigators that the woman had asked him to kill yet another former boyfriend while they were dating.

Meanwhile, abortions resulting from prenatal genetic testing are on the rise. For instance, as many as 16 out of 17 babies discovered to have cystic fibrosis are aborted. One couple is suing their doctors for "wrongful birth"-their daughter was born with cystic fibrosis and would have been aborted if testing had revealed her condition. Will more social pressure be placed on couples to abort unborn children with expensive medical conditions? Will insurance companies begin exempting such conditions from coverage?

Emerson believed that "one idea lights a thousand candles." But one idea can put a thousand out as well. Marxism was an idea birthed by a lonely scholar in the British Library before it became a political system that enslaved a third of the world. Now consider "eugenics," defined as "the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics." It fell into disfavor after its doctrines were used by the Nazis. Are we seeing its rise again today?

Doctors are reporting a significant rise in gender-based abortions. The states of Washington, Oregon, and Vermont have all legalized forms of physician-assisted suicide. Is life becoming less precious in our society? How should Christians respond to this issue?

 

Eugenics never went away.  Family Planning began as a eugenics movement, the woman who founded it believed that an increase in availability of abortions to the poor would have the natural effect of lowering the birthrates of 'undesirables' such as criminals, ethnic minorities, the mentally ill, and people with naturally unsuccessful traits.  It was an act of social engineering born directly out of the eugenics movement.  It's really quite bothersome that every kid isn't taught this in school when their class is discussing these social issues.