Book TV

[MJE]

CNN’s Book TV featured a Joan Ringelheim of the US Holocust Museum and author/lawyer Harriet McBryde Johnson. McBryde Johnson has a physical disability and has always needed help to eat, bathe, dress and is in a wheel chair. They were discussing the eugenics of the nazi’s. I only watched for a few minutes but wondered if Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger would come up. I checked McBryde-Johnson up on the internet and she was an active Democrat. altho I saw an article she posted re: Terri Shiavo and she was opposed it seemed to Terri being killed. Do any of you know anything of this author/lawyer? How can someone who writes and works for persons with disabilities align with modern Democrats who are funded by the supporters of Planned P. and their ilk? I am not made for this world, indeed!

 

[JimG]

I watched part of that interview. Some time back I saw an article she had in the New York Times Magazine online, about a meeting she had with Peter Singer, (whose ethical principles would have allowed her parents to have killed her as an infant because of her disability.) As a member of a disability rights group, she was opposing his viewpoint.

She went against the majority opinion in the Schiavo case, arguing for the appropriateness of court intervention and review. She said during this interview that she doesn’t think a spouse should be able to unilaterally decide to have the other spouse killed by withholding food and water; and that at least the State through the courts has a valid interest in review of such a decision.

She said that in such cases, the default position ought to be in favor of life. But on abortion she seems more ambivalent, factoring in the idea that the woman as a distinct individual from the baby must be allowed that decision. At least, that was my impression.

 

[JimG]

Here’s a link to her NY Times Magazine article: “Should I Have Been Killed At Birth?”

He insists he doesn’t want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along. . .

 

[MJE]

Part of the reason I could not sit still and watch that show for my suspicion that they could talk all day about “eugenics” as related to the Nazi’s but “willfull ignorance” to Planned Parenthoods et al roots in eugenics. Ignorance, willfull or otherwise, can be comfortable. Rush Limbaugh refers to abortion as a liberal sacrament and that is so obvious!

 

[Al_Masetti]

Book TV had a major recent reorganization and it has gone from neutral balanced ( half-liberal / half-conservative ) to mostly liberal… in my opinion.