Eugenics: Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow
Posted by Osagie K. Obasogie November 8, 2006
Biopolitical Times
Yesterday's New York Times had a fascinating article on Lebensborn, a Nazi eugenics program designed to breed children with desirable traits(blond hair, blue eyes, etc.) in order to create a superior Aryan race. While the entire article is eye opening, this passage is remarkably chilling:
"Ms. Heidenreich, the first of the Lebensborn children to write a book about her experience, argues that the program, sinister as it was, has echoes in today's world. With advances in genetics, she notes, discriminating parents will soon be able to select traits in their unborn children. Given that possibility, she said, the evils of the Nazi era must not be allowed to recede into the history books. "If we start engineering blond-haired, blue-eyed babies, can we blame just Hitler?" she said."