So, how long does a life have to be in order to be of value? Speaking from conception, is a life valued at 3 weeks? 6? 40 weeks? 120 weeks? Where is the line?
Or, is it your opinion that deformed life is less valuable?
Thing is, I believe that every single human being is of an intrinsic value, that each life, from the life that is 1 minute old to the life that is 52,560,000 minutes and going is still precious, respected, valued.
I want to understand where the point is that you value life.
Eugenics is described as; “the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.”
That is part of the description, the beginning, however eugenics has far more tentacles:
Introduction to Eugenics Eugenics is a movement that is aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race. Historically, eugenicists advocated selective breeding to achieve these goals. Today we ...
knowgenetics.org
"The eugenics movement began in the U.S. in the late 19th century. However, unlike in Britain, eugenicists in the U.S. focused on efforts to stop the transmission of negative or “undesirable” traits from generation to generation. In response to these ideas, some US leaders, private citizens, and corporations started funding eugenical studies. This lead to the 1911 establishment of The Eugenics Records Office (ERO) in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The ERO spent time tracking family histories and concluded that people deemed to be unfit more often came from families that were poor, low in social standing, immigrant, and/or minority. Further, ERO researchers “demonstrated” that the undesirable traits in these families, such as pauperism, were due to genetics, and not lack of resources.
Committees were convened to offer solutions to the problem of the growing number of “undesirables” in the U.S. population. Stricter immigration rules were enacted, but the most ominous resolution was a plan to sterilize “unfit” individuals to prevent them from passing on their negative traits. "
Moving into modern technology, IVF embryos who have conditions like Down’s Syndrome, Dwarfism, other profound genetic conditions are always destroyed.
We have moved further down the eugenics road now with pre-natal screening. When a fetus tests positive for Down’s or Dwarfism (and other conditions) are aborted at a rate between 50 & 90%. This is a serious issue, some states are legislating against this form of eugenics.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/09/down-syndrome-and-abortion-rates/
Iceland has almost eliminated Down syndrome by aborting virtually 100 percent of fetuses that test positive.
www.cbsnews.com
The technique of amniocentesis, by which an abnormal fetus can be detected in utero, has brought a technological advance in medical science but attendant medical and moral problems. Dr Seller describes those congenital disabilities which can be detected ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
