It's Tuesday, May 9, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Sometimes you see an argument and you just understand that argument requires an answer.

We cannot leave that statement, we cannot leave that argument where it is.

That is the case, with an argument that recently appeared at the Los Angeles Times.

The headline in the article by columnist Carla Hall is this,

opponents need to stop equating abortion with eugenics.

Now at this point, the worldview issues just explode because this is a massive intersection

of two different issues that do often, and this is what we need to acknowledge, they do

often collide, they do often combine.

The issues here are abortion and eugenics.

I'm going to assume that we know what abortion is, what is eugenics?

The linguistic background to the term means good genes.

The ideological background to the term means, especially what you see in the 19th and

20th centuries, continuing horrifyingly enough into the 21st.

The argument that we need as societies to encourage more children from those with good genes,

fewer children with less good genes, or inadequate or deficient genetic health.

You look at this issue and you hear the echoes of history, a very tragic history, the most

horrifying echo comes from the Third Reich in Germany, where eugenics became a major

plank of the Nazi platform.

More from the fit, less from the unfit.

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