Eugenics and Leftism make a merry couple

The left are so tolerant !!!!

We the people on the right are bigots, racists, warmongers and a blight on humanity. Those on the Left are saintly, demure, loving, peaceful and above all, tolerant.  Oh you didn't know that ?   Come on !!!

A woman with learning difficulties could be forcibly sterilised after she gives birth this week, to stop her becoming pregnant again. The report says: “The secretive Court of Protection will rule on the woman’s case on Tuesday, in a rare open hearing scheduled because of the overwhelming “public interest” in understanding the case.

“The woman will be represented by the official solicitor, a government lawyer who represents those who cannot instruct their own legal team because they lack capacity.

“The patient’s local NHS trust and council have made an application to the Court of Protection to decide whether she lacks the capacity to make decisions about contraception for herself – and if so, whether she should be sterilised by means of ‘tubal ligation’.”

This is a complicated and highly unusual case and, whatever the comments made below, it is not the first step on the road to Auschwitz. Neither is the 2005 law eugenics by the back door; but it is true to say that the arguments put forward to sterilise those who “lack capacity” are essentially very similar to those used to justify forcibly sterilising 80,000 Americans in the 20th century – that it is a kindness.

And what is striking is just how much support there is for such procedures among the public, and this cuts across class and political lines. (People immediately reach for the Nazi analogy whenever anything of this kind pops up, but eugenics was practiced in many, many countries and was championed by many on the centre-Left.) So could it happen again? In fact there are several reasons why eugenics may return in some form............