Commentary: Opponents need to stop equating abortion with eugenics (via latimesopinion )
suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of the now-reviled practice of eugenics.
That clinical-sounding word refers to the appalling and scientifically incorrect theory that was promoted in the past by government and prominent civic leaders — and even the U.S. Supreme Court — to justify the forced sterilization of women and men deemed feeble-minded, mentally ill, criminal or poor to prevent them from bearing offspring who might sully the gene pool.
“As a result of the impacts on their parents,” Lindo wrote, “these children are expected to do worse in school” and have “an increased likelihood of criminal involvement.”The ruling ignores good sense, sound medical judgment and more than two decades of safe usage around the world. Mifepristone has been used safely in the U.S. for more than 20 years.
Of course, no government lawyer stood up in court and suggested women wanted to abort their pregnancies because they feared they would otherwise give birth to future criminals. Nor did the abortion opponents mention eugenics. Kacsmaryk “is bringing it up to delegitimize access to abortion for anyone,” said UC Davis law professorLinking such an evil philosophy with abortion distorts everything about the personal right to control your own body and decide whether to terminate a pregnancy.
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