BEIJING, Mar 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – John Derbyshire a contributing editor for the National Review has presented startling evidence of the routine practice of eugenics in China. Derbyshire relates that when he was living in China several years ago, he mentioned Down’s Syndrome in conversation with a Chinese colleague. She did not know the English term and nor did he know the Chinese, so they had to look it up in a dictionary. “Oh,” she said when she understood it. “That’s not a problem in China. They don’t get out of the delivery room.”
For further evidence Derbyshire points to an article titled “Popularizing the Knowledge of Eugenics and Advocating Optimal Births Vigorously” by Sun Dong-sheng of the Jinan Army Institute, People’s Republic of China. In the article Dr. Sun delves right into proposals for raising public awareness of eugenics and reasons for including eugenic policies as a part of “socialist modernization.” Derbyshire says the significance of the article is that it is perfectly ethics-free. “It is just assumed that to ‘improve the genetic quality of our population’ is a thing that everybody should support, and that the methods of doing it can safely be left in the hands of scientists and politicians.” Derbyshire points out that when in the article Dr. Sun talks about “more regulations concerning the ways by which the idea of healthier offspring can be given reality,” he means yet more state intrusion into people’s decisions about who to marry, and whether or not to have children.
See the Derbyshire’s NR article at: https://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire022701.shtml
See an English translation of Dr. Sun’s article at: https://www.mankind.org/man22.htm