'Nazi shadow' over IVF research

[madkins]

10

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)

BBC.-Germany
Last Updated: Monday, 28 June, 2004, 00:30 GMT 01:30 UK

'Nazi shadow' over IVF research

By Caroline Ryan
BBC News Online health staff in Berlin

Current research is being affected, it is claimed
German scientists must address the taboo of Nazi fertility research in order to make progress in the future, a researcher has warned.
Professor Rolf Winau of the Medical University in Berlin says German experts have "the shadow of eugenics hanging over them".

He believes this has led to t
e country having some of the strictest laws on human reproduction in Europe.

He will issue his warning to a major fertility conference in Berlin.

There are still a great number of doctors
r
who do not wish to be 'disturbed' by remembering the dark times of German
medicine

Professor Rolf Winau
Professor Winau will tell the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference that if the Nazis' work is not understood, German researchers will struggle to decide on ethical issues confronting experts working in gynaecology, embryology and reproduction.

He is set to say: "This research should not be about blaming or accusing individuals long after the event, but should shed light on how and why professionals in a particular branch of medicine behaved.

"Knowledge about such behaviour is as important as the knowledge about the success of scientific medicine.

"Only this knowledge will make it possible to reflect on our present
situation."

Egg donor ban

German law currently does not allow couples to undergo preimplantation genetic diagnosis, which can detect genetic diseases in an embryo before it is tra
nsf
erred to a woman.

In addition, embryos cannot be frozen for use at a later stage.

Professor Winau says this has led t
o Germany having one of the higher rates of multiple births in Europe, because doctors have to transfer all the embryos they manage to create, regardless of their quality.

Forty per cent of all IVF births in Germany are multiple births. However, multiple births carry risks for both the mother and the babies.

The country has also banned surrogacy and egg donation.

Professor Winau, professor of the history of medicine at Charite (the medical university in Berlin), said: "From 1952 to 1980 there was no research at all into medicine during the Nazi era.

"Today, there are still a great number of doctors who do not wish to be 'disturbed&#39
; by remembering the dark times of German medicine. Only a few hospitals have faced up to their history."

It is time to deal with this issue in universities, on courses and in s
ociety


Professor Winau

He said many researchers working during the Nazi era seized on the opportunities offered by the regime to pursue their research.

Over 45%
of German doctors at the time were Nazis and some even worked as researchers in the concentration camps.

"Not all who used this opportunity did so from unscrupulous motives; however, for many scientists, the scientific impetus triumphed over ethical scruples.

"This definitely goes for the anatomist Hermann Stieve, who undertook a fundamental examination of ovulation in executed women from the Ploetzensee prison between 1942 and 1944.

"His scientific thirst for knowledge led to him seizing the opportunities offered to him without questioning them."

Professor Winau said the magnitude of th
e crimes committed by these men, and many others, means it is vital to understand why they behaved in the way that they did.

He added: "We need to study the 'Rassenhygi
ene',
the German version of eugenics, in order to show how far eugenic and racial thinking can go, so that we can have it in mind when we discuss ethical questions on reproduction and fertility.

"If we do not, we face uncertai
nty, lack of information and confusion when considering ethical questions in the future."

Professor Winau added: "It is time to deal with this issue in universities, on courses and in society."

Skara Brae,

madkins

 

[Sophia]

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http://www.eugenics.net/index.shtml


Eugenics is a name for NATURAL SELECTION

of the fittest to breed with the fittest as all NATURE does.

This is the NATURAL process of breeding UP a stock,
animal, vegetable or human.

Follow NATURAL LAWS and make a better world !

EUGENICS was practiced by our ANCESTORS to make us

what we became.

The policies of the J*w have outlawed EUGENICS and we are

being bred DOWN !

Time to reinstitute EUGENICS and SAVE OUR RACE !

Work WITH NATURE not against HER and

SHE will raise you and yo
r people

higher and higher.

Follow NATURAL LAWS :Swastika2:

Even the most superficial observation shows that Nature's
restricted form of propagation and increase
is an almost rigid basic law of all the innumerable forms
of expression of her vital urge.

Every animal mates
only with a member of the same species.

The titmouse seeks the titmouse, the finch the finch, the stork the stork,
the field mouse the field mouse, the dormouse the dormouse,
the wolf the she-wolf, etc.

Only unusual circumstances can change this,
primarily the compulsion of captivity or any other cause
that makes it impos
sible to mate within the same species.

But then Nature begins to resist this with all possible means,

and her most visible protest consists either in r
efusing fu
rther capacity

for propagation to bastards

or in limiting the fertility of later offspring;

in most cases, however, she takes away the power of resistance

to disease or hostile attacks.


This is only too natural.

Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level
produces a medium between the level of the two parents.

This means: the offspring will probably stand higher than
the racially lower parent,
but not as high as the higher one.

Cons
equently, it will later succumb in the struggle
against the higher level.

Such mating is contrary to the will of Nature
for a higher breeding of all life.

The precondition for this does not lie in associating superior and inferior,
but in the total victory of
the former.

The stronger must dominate
and not blend with the weaker,
thus sacrificing his own greatness.

Only the born weakling can v
iew this as cr
uel,

but he after all is only a weak and limited man;
for if this law did not prevail,
any conceivable higher development
of organic living beings would be unthinkable.

The consequence of this racial purity,
universally valid in Nature,
is not only the sharp outward delimitation of the various races,
but their uniform character in themselves.


The fox is always a fox, the goose a goose, the tiger a tiger, etc.,
and the difference can lie at most in the varying measure
of force, strength, intelligence, dexterity, endurance, etc.
,
of the individual specimens.

But you will never find a fox who in his inner attitude might,
for example, show humanitarian tendencies toward geese,
as similarly there is no cat with a friendly inclination
toward mice.

Therefore, here, too, the struggle among themselves
arises less from inner aversion than from hunger and love.

In both cases, Nature looks on calm
ly, with satisfact
ion, in fact.

In the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly
or less determined succumb,

while the struggle of the males for the female
grants the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest.

And struggle is always a means for improving a species' health
and power of resistance and,
therefore, a cause of its higher development.

If the process were different, all further and higher development
would cease and the opposite would occur.

For, since the inferior always predominates
numerically over the best,
if both had the same possi
bility of preserving life
and propagating,
the inferior would multiply so much more rapidly
that in the end the best would inevitably be driven
into
the background,
unless a correction of this state of affairs
were undertaken.

Nature does just this by subjecting the weaker part
to such seve
re living conditions<b
r> that by them alone the number is limited,
and by not permitting the remainder to increase promiscuously,
but making a new and ruthless choice according to strength and health.

No more than Nature desires the mating
of weaker with stronger individuals,
even less does she desire the blending
of a higher with a lower race,
since, if she did, her whole work of higher breeding,
over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years,
night be ruined with one blow.

Historical experience offers countless proofs of this.

It shows with terrifying clarity that in every mingling of Aryan blood

with that of lower peoples the result

was the end
of the cultured people.

North America, whose population consists in by far
the largest
part of Germanic elements
who mixed but little with the lower colored peoples,
shows a different humanity and culture from
Central and South America,

where the predominant
ly Latin immigrants
often mixed with the aborigines on a large scale.

By this one example, we can clearly and distinctly recognize
the effect of racial mixture.

The Germanic inhabitant of the American continent,
who has remained racially pure and unmixed,
rose to be master of the continent;

he will remain the master as long as he does not fall a victim
to defilement of the blood.

The result of all racial crossing is therefore in brief always the following:

Lowering of the level of the higher race;

Physical and intellectual regression
and hence the beginning of a slowly but surely progressing sickness.

To bring about such a development is, then,
nothing else but to sin against the will
of the eternal creator.

And as a sin this act is rewa
rded.

When man attempts to rebel against the iron logic of Nature,
he comes into struggle with the principles to which he himself
owes his
existence as a man.

An
d this attackâ┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�šÃ”š  must lead to his own doom.

Here, of course, we encounter the objection of the modern pacifist,

as truly Jewish in its effrontery as it is stupid!

'Man's role is to overcome Nature!'

Millions thoughtlessly parrot this Jewish nonsense
and end up by really imagining that they themselves represent
a kind of conqueror of Nature;

though in this they dispose of no other weapon than an idea,
and at that such a miserable one,
that if it were true no world at all would be conceivable

But quite aside from the fact that man has never yet conquered Nature
in anything,
but at most has caught hold of and tried to lift one or another corner of her

immense gigantic veil of eternal riddles and secrets,

that in reality he inv
ents
nothing but only discovers everything,

that he does not dominate Nature,

but has only risen on the basis of his knowledge of vari
ous laws


and secrets o
f Nature to be lord over those other living creatures

who lack this knowledge-quite aside from all this,

an idea cannot overcome the preconditions
for the development and being of humanity,

since the idea itself depends only on man.

Without human beings there is no human idea in this world,

therefore the idea as such is always conditioned

by the presence of human beings and hence of all the laws

which created the precondition for their existence.

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