There is public evidence for a Hitler
mentality that actively seeks to eliminate other people or populations deemed
unfit or useless. I dare say that the push for legal ‘safe’ abortion originates
from this mentality. What is Hitler mentality? Understanding this mentality is
crucial if you want to understand bio-ethical controversies like abortion,
euthanasia, stem-cell research, cloning, sterilisation, contraceptives,
population control etc.
I have called it the ‘Hitler’ mentality not
because Adolf Hitler was the protagonist of the idea but because he epitomised
and acted according to it. This mentality states, “Low-quality human life is
not worth living or supporting”. Society is better off without such “useless”
lives than to be burdened with care and support for them.
In bio-ethical debates, we have those with
the quality-of-life view on one side and on the other side those with the
sanctity-of-life view. For example, one can look at the same pregnancy and say
the baby is better off not born (aborted) because it is deformed or
‘unwanted/unplanned/unintended. If the unborn baby is unplanned or born in a
poor family that is not ready to have a baby, then the quality of the life of the
baby would be low because of lack of love or proper care, so kill it.
The sanctity-of-life view, however, says no
one has the right to decide that another person’s life is of low quality. All
life is sacred. Besides, killing a person is not a proper solution for their deformity, disease or poverty. Therefore, the baby must live. Period!
The Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, said there were
people whose “lives were not worth living”. He masterminded the extermination
of the disabled, the sickly, the mentality insane, gypsies, slaves, blacks,
homosexual, Jews and others totaling over 12 million because he was convinced
their lives were of low quality and polluting the high quality lives of
Aryans/Nordics/whites.
Hitler sterilized by force over 500,000
people deemed unfit and feeble minded - the undesirables- so that they
do not reproduce their 'bad blood'. He forced abortions on non-Aryans women
while banning abortions for their Germanic race. They created ‘stud-farms’
where studs/men impregnated as many Aryans as they decreased the non-Aryans.
It was the Nazis who coined the phrase "freedom of choice" to encourage abortions and use of contraceptives in
Poland, in Hitler’s words, "as we could not possibly have the slightest
interest in increasing the non-Germanic population".
Ancient philosophers like Plato were of the
quality-of-life view (Hitler mentality). He authorized that artificial breeding
can lead to the master race just like dogs can be bred to get better dogs
implying that there were low quality humans. His student, Aristotle, also
shared those views, stating there must be a "limit fixed to the procreation of
offspring" otherwise abortion must be practiced to control population of the
commoners.
Ancient laws like, “The Twelve Tables of
Roman Law” stated that, ”deformed infants shall be killed.” These laws explicitly also gave
permission to the fathers to get rid of any female infant. Female infants were
abandoned more than the males until Christian opposition led to the banning of
infanticide and child abandonment acceptable in Greece, Rome, India, China and
Japan.
After Christianity won the battle for the
sanctity of life; abortion, infanticide and baby dumping were banned in 374 AD.
The world has largely retained that sanctity of life until recent times. In
1795, a fanatical atheist, Marquis De Sade, father of modern pornography,
sexual freedom movement and abortion, published a book elevating abortion to
public discussion. He boldly said, "it is not unjust, I say,
to prevent the arrival in the world of a being that will certainly be useless
to it. He proceeded to assert that, "every individual who is born without the qualities
needed to be valuable someday to the republic has no right to live. And the
best we can do is to end his life the very instant he receives it."
De Sade continued, "dread not infanticide;
the crime is imaginary. Giving the abortion movement their arguments, he
wrote, "we became as certain the masters of this lump of flesh (foetus) - no
matter how animated- as we are the masters of the nails we cut from our
fingers, or the digestives we expel from our innards, that’s because they all
come from us and they belong to us, and we are the sole owner of whatever
derives from us.
This
godless Sade cited Aristotle in support of his views and he greatly influenced
western thought from that point on. Ask yourself who funds the technological
and scientific developments of modern contraceptives and abortion methods.
