Commentary by Wesley J. Smith
December 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Can you imagine if “the experts” suggested that genetic tests be done on all pregnant women to screen for supposedly undesirable racial characteristics or a propensity for homosexuality (if that could be done), with the goal of vastly reducing the number of babies born with those traits? There would a clarion outcry.
Well, that is precisely what is happening in Australia, only the targets are unborn babies with Down syndrome, people that “the experts” want very much to cull from society by preventing most from ever being born. From the story:
“Australia urgently needs a national screening policy for Down syndrome, experts say, after international research showed it could halve the number of babies born with the incurable genetic condition. Access to the four tests that help detect if a foetus has Down syndrome varies widely … leading to stark differences in birth and termination rates…
“Euan Wallace, professor of obstetrics at Monash University, said: ‘In Australia in 2008 every single woman should be offered and have access to state-of-the-art screening tests irrespective of age.’… Professor Wallace said NSW Health’s age-based policy is ‘15 years out of date and not good public health policy.’”
This is rank eugenics. Germans in the 1930s called it racial hygiene. Not long ago, it was considered the worst sort of bigotry. Not today, apparently because “the experts” tell us so.
Babies with Down won’t be the only casualties of this pogrom, either. Making these tests universal will also result in the unintended deaths of babies that would have been born without a disability. As I noted in a previous SHS post:
“Two healthy babies are miscarried for every three Down Syndrome babies that are detected and prevented from being born, research has suggested…”
Oh well, just collateral damage in the “urgently” needed effort to cleanse Australia from the scourge of the sweetest human beings who walk on the planet Earth.
Culture of Death? What Culture of Death? Wesley, it is all in your paranoid imaginings.
This article reprinted with permission from www.wesleyjsmith.com