Eugenics,race betterment, and forced sterilization, not just the Nazi's.

 Every one has heard of the Nazi's ideal Germany, they know of the attrocities carried out on fellow human beings, to try and create the perfect race. Hitler believed the the blue eyed blond perfection, and no-one dared call him up short for not fitting the bill himself

EUGENICS:- The science of improving the human race by way of selectve breeding. The same way as we do with dogs and cattle. It was developed in the 19th century and it was only thanks to the Nazis perversion of its ideals, that it ever went out of favour.

Here I will introduce you to some other places and people that you may never have thought would have such ideas.

Started in 1921 after a New York conference on Eugenics by M Grant, H Laughlin,I Fisher,H Crampton and H Fairfield Osborne, they promoted racial betterment though public exhibits and lectures.

Frederick Osborn later placed more focus on population control, genetics and later on medical genetics. These people believed in forced sterilization of the poor disabled and immoral. Do not think this was not carried out; they got the law on their side and between 1907 and 1963 64,000 enforced sterilizations were said to have been carried out in the United States.

In 1930 many wealthly and well known peple were members, including John Harvey Kellog, a man known by most as the inventor of cornflakes, he was actually founded the Race Betterment Foundation he believed that the races should be segregated and that all immigrants and non whites damaged the gene pool

You may never have heard of the British Eugenics Society, possibly because since 1990 it has been known as the Galton Institute, a much nicer name I think you'll agree.

Francis Galton was I believe a cousin of Charles Darwin and was greatly impressed with his work. He strongly wanted people of sound mind and body to breed together, and those less fortunate not to breed at all.

At the time Bertrand Russell suggested that the state should issue colour coded procreation tickets, those that chose to breed with an inferior ticket holder, should face a heavy fine. Bertrand was a very well known and learned man who at the end had the title, The Right Honorable, The Earl Russell. OM. FRS.

This is another society which the rich and famous wanted to do well. It is difficult to find the full information of this groups past presumably as it is still running, but some interesting links are below.

Not a place that comes to mind on thoughts of Eugenics, but in the late 19th and eary 20th centuries an opinion based on eugenic theory led to many people losing their children.

It was believed that the true blood Aborigines would die out, as it was they were dying from the deseases European settlers had taken with them! The Idea was that Europeans were a superior race to the Aborigine and therefore any mixed race child should be removed from its Aborigine parent.

This happened mainly between 1869 and right up until 1969, infact it has happened much more recently as the link below states.

One has to ask when is it right to take away a child that is not being ill treated in some way?

The Alberta Genetics board was used to determine whether a person was mentally disabled and should then be forced into being sterilized. Who knows how many suffered this for nothing as it seems the IQ test were only available in one language, and immigrants did not all speak it well. This was 1928.

In 1933 British Columbia also set up its own Eugenics Board for the same purpose.

Neither of these acts ended until 1972.

There are other countries that have had eugenics programmes, some of which are Norway, Denmark, France and even Switzerland. There are sure to be some that still do.

We humans all over the world still carry on the eugenics policy, no way you may cry, but to be honest what is the abortion of an ill fetus, if not that.

One might see why no one chooses to bring a disabled or sick child into this world, hard to live in as it already is. But people go to great trouble to try and choose things like the baby's sex, this does not seem all that devastating, but remember the genetic diversity of the human race is what keeps it alive, cut into this at our peril.

Don't beleive me, ask any breeder of animals, a zoo keeper has to take the males from his animals gene pool and swap them for another to keep them healthy,.

What makes us think we are any better?