Sentences with phrase «disabled babies»
From around the 1910s through the end of World War II, eugenicists promoted not only involuntary sterilization of the so - called «unfit,» but also infanticide of disabled babies (which was not carried out beyond Germany).
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Accordingly, his work castigated legalized abortion, partial - birth terminations, unethical experimentation on disabled babies, health - care rationing, the intentional dehydration of Terri Schiavo, euthanasia, and other life - disaffirming issues and policies that reared their ugly heads over the last thirty or so years of his writing career.
Unsurprisingly, when the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology called in 2006 for a debate on Dutch - style «mercy killing» of severely disabled babies, Jim compared the proposal to the eugenics policies of the Nazis and said: «This sends the message that only the perfect are acceptable and the disabled can be discarded.»
Certain analogies to Nazi horrors spring to mind: German doctors killed disabled babies between 1939 and 1945 — as is happening today in the Netherlands, despite being technically illegal.
During World War II, German doctors euthanized disabled babies and adults.
It is a painful irony that some of the very policies Seyss - Inquart could not force upon Netherlander doctors have been willingly embraced by their contemporary counterparts — including the technically illegal but widely accepted infanticide of disabled babies.
As a result, dying and disabled babies are in mortal danger of consignment into a killable caste that can — literally — be put down like dogs.
He then makes the predictable claim that since we euthanize our sick pets, we should also be permitted to kill seriously ill and disabled babies:
Skilled Pediatric Care — Our highly trained and experienced nurses work with each client and the client's physician to develop a home - based plan of care which may include a wide range of skilled services to help premature babies, and sick or disabled babies and children.
It is a story of a couple who bring a disabled baby into the world.