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To: tejek who wrote (278851)	3/7/2006 2:05:02 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572580

A question to ponder. You are in a burning fertility clinic and there is a 2 year old and petri dish with 5 blastulas in it. You can only save one, which do you pick?

To: tejek who wrote (278851)	3/8/2006 4:42:11 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572580

Re: Many pro-life leaders disagree with South Dakota's timing. Now I see why your pro-life crowd is overwhelmingly white.... nytimes.com Excerpt: Bruinius sees America's leading role in the eugenics movement as a reflection of its utopianism. "Seeing their country as a land of innocence, many Americans had long clung to the idea of self-purification, attempting to excise that which posed a danger to the social good," he writes. "Eugenics would combine an American self-consciousness with the new and unimpeachable authority of Science." In the decade after Buck v. Bell, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden, Norway and Japan all passed sterilization laws. But it was the influence of American eugenicists on the Nazis that is most chilling. Bruinius describes how Hitler modeled Germany's sterilization policies on California's 1909 sterilization law. While reports of Nazi racial policies provoked a growing outcry among the American public, eugenicists themselves remained enthusiastic, with some traveling to Germany to study its program. In 1936, Laughlin received an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University for his work in racial hygiene, and two years later he advised Congress to keep Jews seeking political asylum out of the United States even after the Kristallnacht pogrom. [snip]