Eugenics: Alas, the Past is Yet Present

Modern “eugenics” emerged as an application of Darwinism in the late 1800s. Social scientists believed they could “improve the human race” by encouraging the “well-bred” and healthy to procreate, while discouraging (or even, for some, forcibly preventing) the poor, the sick or just the “undesirable” from having children. 

While eugenics typically brings to mind the Nazi effort to exterminate six million Jews during the Holocaust, the idea’s intellectual development is largely American. For example, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger openly advocated for eugenics, and actively worked to advance birth control with African American women as part of what she called the “Negro Project.”

By the way, the organization she founded is the best example in our culture of systemic or structural evil. Planned Parenthood kills black babies at a rate five times higher than children of other ethnicities...

Read the rest of this enlightening BreakPoint article (written by John Stonestreet and Maria Baer) right here. 

And then consider as one of the important "action steps" you could take the participation in Vital Signs Ministries next Book Brunch on Saturday morning, February 19th at 10 o’clock. The book under discussion that morning will be a G.K. Chesterton classic, Eugenics and Other Evils. You can find out more at this Vital Signs Blog post.