Euthanasia of the Young

The top line of an email from Patriot Action Network read:

Check out the discussion 'SHOCK VID: MOTHER WANTS TO EUTHANIZE ‘SEVERELY DISABLED’ CHILDREN — AND ‘90%’ OF DR. PHIL’S AUDIENCE AGREES'

My first thought was that these people would fit right in with the Nazis.

Here is a sad statistic, just to put this attitude of killing disabled children in perspective:
Over 90% of babies with Down Syndrome are prenatally detected and aborted, and that grim Down Syndrome statistic has held steady for quite a while. From the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register (UK): "Of all pregnancies with a prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21, 94% of the parents decide to terminate the pregnancy, 5% are live born and 1% are stillbirths or neonatal deaths (1996-1999)."

Adolf Hitler called it the "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled.

The Nazi euthanasia program was called "Aktion T 4," and was created by Hitler to eliminate "life unworthy of life." In the beginning, the program only zeroed in on newborns and very young children, focusing on children that showed symptoms of mental retardation, physical deformities, or other symptoms the Reich Health Ministry deemed unacceptable. The decision on if the child was allowed to live was made by a panel of three experts based on a questionnaire filled out by the parents. There was no medical examination.  If all three chose the child must die, the child was sent to a 'Children's Specialty Department' for death by injection or gradual starvation.

After beginning with young children, the Nazi euthanasia program then expanded to include older disabled children and adults. In 1939 Hitler expanded the authority of certain physicians to name persons who, according the doctor's human judgment, are incurable, and to be accorded a mercy death.

Then Hitler zeroed in on mental institutions, hospitals and other institutions caring for the chronically ill.

Patients had to be reported if they suffered from schizophrenia, epilepsy, senile disorders, therapy resistant paralysis and syphilitic diseases, retardation, encephalitis, Huntington's chorea and other neurological conditions, also those who had been continuously in institutions for at least 5 years, or were criminally insane, or did not posses German citizenship or were not of German or related blood, including Jews, Negroes, and Gypsies.

Six killing centers were established. This is where the first Nazi experimental gassings took place. The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms, but were actually hermetically sealed chambers connected by pipes to cylinders of carbon monoxide. Patients were drugged before being led naked into the gas chamber. The dead was then cremated, and the families were told the cause of death was of a natural cause.

Despite criticism by church leaders, the Nazi euthanasia program continued. The process was expanded to include drugs and starvation.

The killing centers then led to larger killing centers at Auschwitz, Treblinka and other concentration camps in an attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.

Remember, it all began with euthanasia of newborns and the very young, just as the woman on Dr. Phil was calling for - and that came from the belief that killing our unborn with abortion is okay.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary