Last week in Tampa, a mother carried her screaming, autistic, non-verbal daughter into a river and let go. There were witnesses. When police found her near the scene, she was singing nursery rhymes.
In the police car, reportedly she said her 4-year-old was now "pure" and with her grandmother. As for other bizarre statements, her aunt said, "I just know she was not in her right mind."
While this single mother must be charged, we don't know her story. We do know the story of national evil solving the "problem" of people considered defective.
It began with medical decisions carried out by doctors and their assistants. "Mercy" killings were defended in 1920 by a professor of psychiatry. These acts were "not to be equated with other types of killing...but (is) an allowable, useful act," he wrote.
From that foundation evolved the notion that defective people were subhuman. (Not Darwin's fittest?) The professor focused on "the tremendous economic burden such people cause society to bear."
The list of the unworthy grew to include entire groups - Jews and Gypsies for example. Physicians "weren't killing as much as curing," at a national level.
Finally, came the Holocaust, and medical experiments.
Across the Pacific, Japan simply loaded people on boats and sank them. The Axis powers well deserved their defeat in World War II.
In today's America, people "cure" the "defective" unborn. In other cases, it's the mother who needs cured of emotional and financial complications. Stress is bad for mental health.
Abortion may be necessary, rarely. Mostly, it is allowable and useful.
After reading tens of thousands of Nazi documents, a scholar never saw the word "killing." Except once - in reference to killing dogs.
Nazi history -
Charles Horton, WORLD magazine
Jimmy
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