The Outcome of Abortion is Eugenics

Clarence Thomas compared eugenics to abortion and called the latter modern day eugenics.

I claim that he is correct and Abortion has an unintended outcome that serves the purpose of eugenics. 

What was the purpose of eugenics and what was the outcome?

What is the purpose of abortion and what is the outcome?

I claim that the outcome outweighs the purpose, for rebranding of intent makes intent difficult to decipher.

What was the purpose of eugenics?

• To take note from the History channel and Plato, “Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by “breeding out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population. Early supporters of eugenics believed people inherited mental illness, criminal tendencies and even poverty, and that these conditions could be bred out of the gene pool.”

What was the outcome of Eugenics?

• From 1909 to 1979, around 20,000 sterilizations occurred in California state mental institutions under the guise of protecting society from the offspring of people with mental illness.
• The office tracked families and their genetic traits, claiming most people considered unfit were immigrants, minorities or poor
• In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced sterilization of the handicapped does not violate the U.S. Constitution.
• According to a 1976 Government Accountability Office investigation, between 25 and 50 percent of Native Americans were sterilized between 1970 and 1976
• Most sterilization were not based on specific  “disorders that have a clear transmission pattern across generations…[but those] which have a genetic component but do not have a clear transmission pattern.” This made the statistics about eugenics program hard to track.
• There are examples of eugenic acts that managed to lower the prevalence of recessive diseases, although not influencing the prevalence of heterozygote carriers of those diseases. The elevated prevalence of certain genetically transmitted diseases among the Ashkenazi Jewish population (Tay–Sachs, cystic fibrosis, Canavan’s disease, and Gaucher’s disease), has been decreased in current populations by the application of genetic screening.^[93]
• Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences multiple, seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits, an example being phenylketonuria, which is a human disease that affects multiple systems but is caused by one gene defect.^[94] Andrzej Pękalski, from the University of Wrocław, argues that eugenics can cause harmful loss of genetic diversity if a eugenics program selects a pleiotropic gene that could possibly be associated with a positive trait. Pekalski uses the example of a coercive government eugenics program that prohibits people with myopia from breeding but has the unintended consequence of also selecting against high intelligence since the two go together.
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What is the purpose of abortion?

• Roe v Wade is the main source for intent which claims, “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects against state action the right to privacy, and a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion falls within that right to privacy.”
• In the first trimester of pregnancy, the state may not regulate the abortion decision; only the pregnant woman and her attending physician can make that decision. In the second trimester, the state may impose regulations on abortion that are reasonably related to maternal health. In the third trimester, once the fetus reaches the point of “viability,” a state may regulate abortions or prohibit them entirely, so long as the laws contain exceptions for cases when abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the mother.
• Abortion is a legal procedure to stop a pregnancy in order to preserve the health and safety of the mother
• Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by various methods, including medical surgery, before the fetus is able to sustain independent life.

What is the outcome of Abortion?

• Improved safety of abortion
• Countries where abortion is legal only due to medical or social reasons have a 25 percent lower abortion rate than countries where abortion is available on request. 
• Other studies find little evidence that a significant number of minor girls circumvent these laws by obtaining abortions in nearby states (Blum, Resnick, and Stark 1987; Rogers et al. 1991; Joyce, Kaestner, and Colman 2006).
• Boston Globe writer James Alan Fox has yet another refutation of the claim by economists John Donohue and Steven Levitt in their infamous book Freakonomics that legalizing abortion led to a drop in crime rates.
• The evidence from Canada, Australia, and Romania also support the hypothesis that abortion reduces crime

The purpose of eugenics was to better the genepool, which unless strictly combating disease, becomes a subjective measure and collides with racism and elitism (elitism in the sense that sterilizing parents with low IQ operates on the faulty notion that two people with low IQ cannot have a child with a high IQ and the likelihood is the only thing taken into account.)

     Certain diseases can be passed hereditarily, and the data does not give a clear indication, but logically one can assume that eugenics will lower certain diseases.

The purpose is subjective and based on what a dominant group considers to be a just reason for sterilization. The outcome can be deduced logically that the population may have had a higher IQ, but the method was ineffective, inconsistent and not a clear cut science for many diseases such as schizophrenia.

The outcome did deliver some of the intended purposes, but many unintended purposes arrived: lack of diversity, increased racial selectivity, killing myopic birth that can also be associated with high intelligence etc.

Abortion has an unintended outcome that serves the purpose of eugenics. Abortion is argued in popular spheres as a method of getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy for various legitimate reasons and this choice is protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14^thAmendment (and right to privacy in the first, fourth, fifth, ninth and fourteenth).

The outcome is a contradiction. Many pundits, scientists and news sources claim that legal abortion will not increase the amount of abortions because illegal abortions, or migratory abortions (getting an abortion in a legal state when the pregnant woman lives in a state that will not allow her to get an abortion), but the book Freakonomics claims that because of legal abortions, crime dropped. The book claims that legal abortion allowed Chicago’s crime wave to dissipate because teens in poor and neglected areas were able to get abortions. This lowered crime because criminals typically are born into single parent homes that have a parent who is likely to be young, on drugs, involved in crime, living in a crime ridden area or brought into a household that cannot provide care and love (which is supplemented with gang life).

The outcome in this book directly negates the claim that legal abortion does not cause a rise in abortion. If illegal abortion happened at the same rate, then this drop in crime due to legal abortion would have never happened.

The connection to eugenics is the unintentional social engineering that abortions in crime ridden areas create. The purpose of eugenics is the betterment of society through the betterment of offspring and a nations citizens. Abortion has apparently lowered crime by ending the life of fetuses before they can become criminals.

The outcome of abortion is less criminal activity. Conception is not engineered, but birth is the target. Eugenics does not stipulate that conception must be altered (the Greeks did not have our modern methods, so either altering conception or killing out of the womb babies were their only options) but only that birth must be altered either through sterilization, or as I am proposing, through abortion.