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Nazi Eugenics Propaganda: One alcoholic will have 894 descendants in 83 years40 will live in poverty, 67 will be criminals, 7 murderers, 181 prostitutes, 142 beggars
An entire healthy German family can live for one day for the same it costs to support a hereditarily ill person for the same amount of time
Further concerns about the cost of care for those mentally and/or physically disabled The government was throwing away money to support those less valuable to society Fear for the
Images/Propaganda 1919-1933
because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.
Life as a burden
The entire countrys population was measured for hereditary/genetic make up Marital Health Law banned unions between hereditarily healthy and persons deemed genetically unfit Law for Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring made forced sterilization of those deemed unfit legal
The Nazis began forced emigration of Jews in 1938 Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass) Nazi organized and sanctioned attack on Jewish property
Images/Propaganda 1933-1939
The Nazi Regime award the Cross of German Motherhood to Aryan women who had several children. Bronze 4-5, Silver 6-7, Gold 8 or more
Images/Propaganda 1939-1945
This poster (from around 1938) reads: "60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read '[A] New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP."
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
Is it ethical (moral, right, good, fair) to prevent any person from becoming a parent?
If so, under what conditions? (Race, sexual orientation, genetic disease/health, age, criminal history)
Are human rights and privacy rights violated when the right to parenthood is denied?
Should nations or states have the right to enact laws regarding compulsory sterilization?
Homework Assignment
What does Federal law say regarding reproductive rights? What does the Constitution say about reproductive rights? What does the United Nations say about reproductive rights?