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Euthanasia
Assisted suicide is bootleg suicide
"Suicide ought to be a basic human right. I believe that killing oneself with illegal drugs prescribed specifically for that purpose is not legitimate medical practice. It is bootlegging suicide."
Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.
Saving Money by Taking Lives
Two weeks ago, my 91-year-old mother-in-law died in a nursing home in Amsterdam. But although she had been suffering for nine months from a paralysis that prevented her from speaking and eventually from swallowing her food, she did not die a natural death from lack of nourishment. She died because the doctors decided that her time had come. . . Even though she had never given any indication of wanting to die, the medical authorities at the Amstelhof home refused to perform a simple surgical procedure to put a nourishment tube in her stomach in order to prolong her life. They even refused to give her water intravenously. Without the benefit of widely available modern medical care, my mother-in-law expired within five days. Because she was unable to speak, the doctors at the government-financed nursing home made that decision for her.
Melvyn Krauss, Ideas on Liberty, Feb 2000
Euthanasia in the Third Reich: Lessons for Today?
"In general the medical profession was conspicuously uncritical about the Nazi euthanasia programme. Instead, abuse of human life by leading scientists and university professors was widespread. ‘Every university anatomical institute in Germany was the recipient of the cadavers of Nazi terror.’"
JA Emerson Vermaat, Ethics & Medicine Spr. 2002 18:1
Assisted Suicide: The Continuing Debate
Rita L. Marker
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Holland is the first country since Nazi Germany to permit the intentional killing of individuals by physicians.
The Old Dominion and Its Dark Secrets
Eugenic sterlization in Virginia
Mr. George B. Norris, Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation
Eliminating the Inferior: American and Nazi Sterilization Programs
"Whether the social and philosophical objectives of sterilization advocates diverged into democratic and totalitarian camps during the 1930s or not, with regard to eugenic sterilization, the United States served as an example to the rest of the world. The first sterilization law was passed in Indiana in 1907. From that year until 1928, when the first European sterilization law was passed in the Swiss Canton de Vaud, Americans had enacted nearly thirty state sterilization laws".
Barry Mehler, Science for the People, Nov-Dec 1987, pp. 14-18.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That whenever the Superintendent of the Western State Hospital, or of the Eastern State Hospital, or of the Southwestern State Hospital, or of the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, shall be of opinion that it is for the best interests of the patients and of society that any inmate of the institution under his care should be sexually sterilized, such superintendent is hereby authorized to perform, or cause to be performed by some capable physician or surgeon, the operation of sterilization on any such patient confined in such institution afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy; provided that such superintendent shall have first complied with the requirements of this act.
> Article One, An Act to Provide for the Sexual Sterilization of Inmates of State Institutions in Certain Cases, Commonwealth of Virginia. Enacted 1924.
Gov. Mark R. Warner apologized Thursday for Virginia's forced sterilization of thousands of people from 1924 to 1979, calling it ''a shameful effort'' that must never be repeated... Virginia conducted about 7,450 sterilizations under the banner of eugenics, or selective human breeding and social engineering ... On Thursday, it became the first of the 30 states that conducted such sterilizations to apologize. There were more than 60,000 eugenics victims nationwide.
> Virginia governor apologizes for forced sterilization, AP, May 2, 2002.
States that had eugenic sterilization laws and the number of people sterilized
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