Reply #23: This is scary. [View All]

I don't like where this is heading. Nationwide screening effectively leads to registration of the mentally ill.

Once you create that information, it makes it more likely to abuse it. For example...


Mentally and Physically Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era

Soon after Hitler took power, the Nazis formulated policy based on their vision of a biologically "pure" population, to create an "Aryan master race." The "Law for the prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases," proclaimed July 14, 1933, forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness (schizophrenia and manic depression), retardation ("congenital feeble-mindedness"), physical deformity, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, and severe alcoholism.

http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/index.php?content=/education/resource/handic/handicapped.php%3fmenu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt%26bgcolor=CD9544