Author: unitedfamilies

A jaw-dropping story published by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition revealed that a disabled woman having suicidal thoughts called a suicide hotline for help — and was told to consider ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ (MAID). Meghan Schrader, a disability rights self-advocate who regularly campaigns against assisted suicide, said her friend, “Amy” (a pseudonym) — an impoverished survivor of child abuse suffering from PTSD and injuries that cause chronic pain — struggled with suicidal ideations after MAID was legalized in 2021 and had reached out to Schrader. She correctly recognized that MAID would pose a threat to her as a disabled person.

Priests, social activists, and others are criticizing companies that offer genome testing to weed out in-vitro fertilization (IVF) babies – highlighting just one of the problems with the procedure. Noor Siddiqui created Orchid Health to help parents decide which of their human embryonic children to implant and which to discard or leave frozen potentially forever. She is also a former winner of Peter Thiel’s “Thiel Fellowship.”

Most people are familiar with eugenics as a disturbing and morally repugnant artifact from the past, something we associate with Nazi experiments and racial pseudo-science. But it’s making a comeback in our time thanks to new branding and new technology. Call it neo-eugenics, coming soon to an IVF clinic near you.