Hitler transformed Nazi racism from a political philosophy into a concrete public policy. As part of and overall effort to purify the German population, a program of forced sterilization was announced around 1933.
The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring required that certain categories of persons be sterilized: anyone suffering from congenital feeblemindedness, schizophrenia or manic depression, epilepsy, congenital blindness or deafness a severe physical deformity or severe alcoholism.
This sterilization began in 1934 and within a decade between 250000 and 300000 people most of them germans had been forcibly sterilized. Only the Roman Catholic Church opposed the program consistently. German Protestant churches accepted it often cooperated with it.
Nazi Germany was not the first or only country to sterilize people considered "abnormal". Before Hitler, the United States had led the world in policies of compulsory sterilization. But no nation carried sterilization as far as Nazi Germany did. There, it led to a euthanasia program: the systematic murder of the physically and mentally handicapped.
Like many horrible things that nazis did, nothing is comparable to what we are allowing to happen every single day at abortion facilities. Just because they are not born yet, it doesn't mean they don't feel and are alive. The worse thing is that we consider ourselves more advance an more human than them and we are everything but that.
The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring required that certain categories of persons be sterilized: anyone suffering from congenital feeblemindedness, schizophrenia or manic depression, epilepsy, congenital blindness or deafness a severe physical deformity or severe alcoholism.
This sterilization began in 1934 and within a decade between 250000 and 300000 people most of them germans had been forcibly sterilized. Only the Roman Catholic Church opposed the program consistently. German Protestant churches accepted it often cooperated with it.
Nazi Germany was not the first or only country to sterilize people considered "abnormal". Before Hitler, the United States had led the world in policies of compulsory sterilization. But no nation carried sterilization as far as Nazi Germany did. There, it led to a euthanasia program: the systematic murder of the physically and mentally handicapped.
Like many horrible things that nazis did, nothing is comparable to what we are allowing to happen every single day at abortion facilities. Just because they are not born yet, it doesn't mean they don't feel and are alive. The worse thing is that we consider ourselves more advance an more human than them and we are everything but that.
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