India has discovered grisly evidence of what happens when eugenics consciousness takes hold. In this case (as in China), it is a belief that boys are better than girls. As a consequence, female infanticide and abortion based on sex is rampant in India.
Now, a mass grave of murdered girl infants and aborted fetuses has been found behind a hospital. From the story in the Times of London: “Police in central India have found 390 body parts from foetuses and newborn babies—thought to be unwanted girls—buried in the backyard of a Christian missionary hospital.
“Separately, the Government said that it was setting up a network of girls’ homes—dubbed the ‘cradle scheme’—in an effort to stop poor Indians from killing their daughters. Both announcements threw a spotlight on female infanticide and foeticide in India, where an estimated ten million baby girls have been killed by their parents in the past twenty years.”
Ten million! This is a holocaust caused by the kind of laisez faire eugenics thinking that the new eugenicists and transhumanists seem to think will not be a problem, not being state sponsored and all of that. (The government of India is trying to fight these atrocities, apparently with little success.) But the problem isn’t the sponsors. It is eugenics.
The warning signs are everywhere in large, blazing letters, if we will but heed. Either human life has ultimate value simply and merely because it is human (sanctity/equality of human life ethic) or the devalued become fodder for murder, exploitation, and oppression—perhaps even commoditization.
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