{"id":4791,"date":"2025-01-15T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ws-staging.prolifeeurope.org\/abortus-en-eugenetica\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:39:06","slug":"abortus-en-eugenetica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prolifeeurope.org\/nl\/meer-weten\/abortus-en-eugenetica\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortus en eugenetica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al zolang eugenetica (het verbeteren van de genetische samenstelling van mensen) bestaat, heeft abortus gegolden als een centraal hulpmiddel voor de eugenetische wetenschap. Vanwege de lange en ingewikkelde geschiedenis van eugenetica, die al in de 19e eeuw begon en tot onze huidige tijd reikt, kunnen deze twee argumenten niet los van elkaar worden gezien. Moderne eugenetische verenigingen, zoals de \u201cInternational Federation of Eugenics Organisations\u201d, opgericht in Londen in 1912, streefden naar een zuiver \u201cArisch\u201d ras en de eliminatie van andere ongewenste bevolkingsgroepen omdat zij genetisch ongeschikt zouden zijn voor de moderne samenleving.<g id=\"gid_1\">[1] <\/g>In diezelfde decennia werd Planned Parenthood \u2013 tot op de dag van vandaag de grootste organisatie die abortus in de VS bepleit \u2013 opgericht door Margaret Sanger in 1921 en later voortgezet door Alan Frank Guttmacher. Net als veel van hun collega\u2019s werden deze twee gynaecologen internationale pioniers van abortus en sterilisatie, waarbij zij hun racistische eugenetische opvattingen verspreidden.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Later werd Planned Parenthood een van de belangrijkste inspiratiebronnen voor de eugenetische ideologie\u00ebn van het nazi-Duitsland. Veel artsen van het Derde Rijk gebruikten Sangers principes om zich vooral te richten op mensen met een handicap, evenals op Joodse en niet-blanke bevolkingsgroepen, in naam van de \u201crassenhygi\u00ebne\u201d. Dit omvatte het verbieden van abortus voor de Duitse bevolking, maar het ondersteunen van gedwongen abortussen, sterilisaties en menselijke experimenten in de Neurenbergwetten van 1935. Vooral Joodse en Poolse vrouwen werden gedwongen tot abortus, ofwel om puur racistische redenen, ofwel om een groot aantal vrouwelijke dwangarbeiders te verkrijgen na de invasie van Oost-Europese gebieden.<sup>[2] <\/sup>Bovendien was abortus een van de meest gebruikte middelen in concentratiekampen om de voortplanting van gevangenen te verhinderen.[3] Interessant genoeg ontkenden de nazi\u2019s nooit de menselijkheid van het ongeboren kind en verwezen zij ernaar als een kind.[4] De eugenetische opvattingen van nazi-artsen kwamen vooral tot uiting tijdens de Neurenbergse Processen, waar zij verwezen naar de Amerikaanse wet \u201cBuck v. Bell\u201d, die door Sanger werd gesteund en de overheid toestemming gaf om gedwongen geboortebeperking toe te passen.  <sup>[5]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<p>Tot op de dag van vandaag is de nauwe band tussen abortus en eugenetica nog steeds niet verbroken. De meeste klinieken van Planned Parenthood, die werden gebouwd in de nabijheid van zwarte en Latijns-Amerikaanse gemeenschappen in Amerikaanse steden om hun nageslacht te doden, zijn nog steeds niet verplaatst. <sup>[6]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<p>In Europa schaden eugenetische tendensen vooral mensen met een handicap, in het bijzonder mensen met het syndroom van Down\/trisomie 21. 92% van de zwangerschappen waarbij een foetus met het syndroom van Down wordt vastgesteld in Europese landen, wordt de foetus geaborteerd vanwege de handicap en de mogelijke maatschappelijke problemen die daarmee gepaard gaan.<sup>[7] <\/sup>Vooral Noord-Europese landen zijn hier zeer vijandig over. In IJsland wordt bijna 100% van de ongeboren baby\u2019s met Downsyndroom in de baarmoeder gedood<sup>.[8]<\/sup> Bovendien worden foetussen van geaborteerde baby\u2019s vaak gebruikt voor wetenschappelijke experimenten[9] \u2013 een praktijk die nazi-wetenschappers al goed onder de knie hadden in hun laboratoria met gehandicapte mensen.<sup>[10]<\/sup>  <\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>[1]<\/strong> Black, Edwin, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America&#8217;s Campaign to Create a Master Race, (New York, 2003) p. 237.<br\/><strong>[2] <\/strong>Hunt, John, Out of respect for life: Nazi abortion policy in the eastern occupied territories, 381.<br\/><strong>[3] <\/strong>Hunt, Nazi abortion policy, 381-382.<br\/><strong>[4] <\/strong>Hunt, Nazi abortion policy, 383.<br\/><strong>[5]<\/strong> Forgotten History Channel, Eugenics and Planned Parenthood \u2013 Margaret Sanger &#8211; Forgotten History (04.07.2023),<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OP7ZzV4Z338&amp;t=197s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OP7ZzV4Z338&amp;t=197s<\/a><br\/><strong>[6]<\/strong> Nelson, Dean, Planned Parenthood: Rooted in Racism. Rooted in Racism \u2013 The Negro Project,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humancoalition.org\/2023\/03\/27\/planned-parenthood-rooted-in-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/www.humancoalition.org\/2023\/03\/27\/planned-parenthood-rooted-in-racism\/<\/a>, and Daniels, Cristina and others, The Effects on Abortion on the Black Community, p. 3,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/meeting\/house\/106562\/witnesses\/HHRG-115-JU10-Wstate-ParkerS-20171101-SD001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/meeting\/house\/106562\/witnesses\/HHRG-115-JU10-Wstate-ParkerS-20171101-SD001.pdf<\/a> <br\/><strong>[7]<\/strong> Mansfield C, Hopfer S, Marteau TM (September 1999). &#8220;Termination rates after prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, spina bifida, anencephaly, and Turner and Klinefelter syndromes: a systematic literature review. Prenatal Diagnosis.   19 (9). Wiley: 808\u2013812.<br\/><strong>[8]<\/strong> Right to Life News, Iceland called out at UN for aborting almost 100% of babies diagnosed with Down\u2019s syndrome, https:\/\/righttolife.org.uk\/news\/iceland-called-out-at-un-for-aborting-almost-100-of-babies-diagnosed-with-downs-syndrome.<br\/><strong>[9]<\/strong> Wadman, Meredith, The Truth about Fetal Tissue research, https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/528178a.<br\/><strong>[10]<\/strong> Weindling, Paul, Painful and sometimes deadly experiments which Nazi doctors carried out on children,<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/apa.16310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/apa.16310<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al zolang eugenetica (het verbeteren van de genetische samenstelling van mensen) bestaat, heeft abortus gegolden als een centraal hulpmiddel voor de eugenetische wetenschap. 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