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To: Thomas M. who wrote (11590)	6/14/2004 2:28:24 PM
From: Amots	Read Replies (1) of 20773

I think you need to read the whole thing, they were not targeting Palestinians..... But it's a very good readings on what going on this days (and not just in Israel): Have eugenics really vanished? The eugenic chapter in the history of Western culture has been closed, but have eugenics really disappeared? "Eugenic thinking is alive and well today," asserts Stoler-Liss. "It is expressed mainly in the very high rate of pre-natal tests and genetic filtering [of genetically deviant fetuses]. Mothers are very highly motivated to give birth only to healthy children and the attitude toward the exceptional, the different and the handicapped in Israeli society is problematic." At hospitals today future parents are offered a plethora of genetic tests that diagnose the fetus before birth. Some of them are aimed at identifying serious disorders, like Tay-Sachs disease, a degenerative disease that causes a painful death in infancy. Others, however, are aimed at screening fetuses with conditions like deafness and sterility, the bearers of which can lead full and satisfying lives.

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