The Secret World of Late-term Eugenic Abortions

This is what we are becoming, aborting viable fetuses because they will not be physically perfect; and, the UK government wishes to keep it all under wraps. From the story:

It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate.

Doctors say such conditions can usually be corrected by surgery. The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.

While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, "Ground E" of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality, right up to birth. There are continuing concerns that the law is being flouted to weed out "less than perfect" babies.

Prof Stuart Campbell, the leading obstetrician whose 3D-scan images of babies "walking in the womb" at 12 weeks led to calls for a lowering of the 24-week limit for social abortion, said last night: "It is a disgraceful situation for this data to be suppressed." This is not about whether one agrees with abortion. These statistics used to be published, now they are being withheld. Transparency is the essence of medicine. If we don't have that, all sorts of wrongdoing can go on. I am not saying that using abortion is doing wrong, but we need to see the data in order to understand what is happening."

No, we must never say that something is wrong. No, no, no: Can't have that. We are infected with terminal nonjudgmentalism. And so we lamely claim that "transparency" is the answer to everything. But something is very wrong, Professor. And I can tell you precisely what it is; a collapse in our capacity to love.

BTW: did you note the language? One has a "right" to abort a fetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality; not, one which has a risk of serious physical or mental abnormality? Can any level be sufficient? It appears so . . . club foot . . . !?!

The Pivot of Civilization

Margaret Sanger is the mother of modern contraception and the founder of Planned Parenthood. In her 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization, she outlined her theories of eugenics (control of the human race by selective breeding) and racial purity (3 years before Hitler did the same in Mein Kampf).

The basis of her support of contraception was entirely due to her belief that inferior humans should be killed to enable a superior race to appear over time (Social Darwinism). Sanger did not just entertain popular ideas of her time - she was the champion of the cause. In her book she says: “the most urgent problem of to-day is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” She goes on to say: “possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.” Birth control was, in her mind, “the greatest and most truly eugenic method.”

Needless to say, Planned Parenthood today have tried very hard to distance themselves from their founder.

* Notice that the Introduction was written by the Socialist H.G. Wells: some science-fiction does become science-fact.