Eugenics never really went away, but it certainly went out of fashion after the Nazis gave it a bad odor.
Well, it is roaring back and even getting loving coverage in The New York Times.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Planned Parenthood is the Left’s favorite cause. When Governor Walz here in Minnesota signed a bill that ensured that abortion until the moment of birth was the law of the land, Democrats lined up behind him–literally, the Democratic caucuses in the legislature all stood behind him as he signed–and when the pen left the paper, they broke out into cheers and applause.
Planned Parenthood exists because some progressives wanted to eliminate blacks and other people with genes they deemed defective from the world, or at least the United States. Oliver Wendell Holmes, a liberal icon, famously endorsed the forced sterilization of a mentally challenged woman, saying, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” And in Iceland, the authorities brag that they have almost eliminated Down syndrome in their population by…killing pre-born babies who might have it.
As the medical murder of the aged and infirm has gained popularity, entrepreneurs are forging into the designer baby business. It is one of the founders of Orchid, a company that weeds out the imbeciles and genetically defective from the gene pool, whom the Times featured.
What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently?
What if you could have stopped it…
but chose not to?That’s the question @OrchidInc’s embryo screening forces.
You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on… pic.twitter.com/6hYSsv13T8
— Noor Siddiqui (@noor_siddiqui_) August 15, 2025
Most kids are born by accident.
And yet we stigmatize parents who plan ahead? Who screen embryos to prevent deadly, (now) preventable diseases?
If you wouldn’t screen, fine.
Just be honest: you’re okay with your kid potentially suffering for life so you can feel morally…
— Noor Siddiqui (@noor_siddiqui_) August 15, 2025
The service is marketed as a kindness to the unborn, and I can see the point. It is tempting to believe that it is better not to be born than to suffer from a disease, or to live as a “defective.” Three generations of imbeciles are enough, right? We’ll make sure that all the babies born are perfect, or at least whatever you desire.
Siddiqui: What Orchid can do is it gives parents the power to protect their children before pregnancy begins. What happens today in I.V.F. centers is that they’re operating essentially almost blind. This really, really critical decision about which embryo to transfer happens with extremely limited information. What happens is that the embryo that looks best under the microscope kind of wins this morphology beauty contest and is often the one that’s selected. Other times there’s a very limited genetic test that’s offered that looks at a tiny fraction of genetic diseases that could affect a future baby.
Orchid completely changes that. We’re the first company in the world that allows parents to actually sequence the entire genome of an embryo, sequencing 99 percent of the bases in an embryo’s genome, which allows parents to detect risks for some of the most serious conditions — heart defects, birth defects, pediatric cancers, developmental disorders — things that massively change the trajectory of a child’s life. And the vast majority of these diseases don’t have cures.
What’s really exciting about this possibility is that now parents have this ability to protect their children from an entire category of disease that previously we had to just hope for the best and wish that our children wouldn’t be affected by them.
Underneath the faux compassion is the same impulse that the anti-natalists and the MAiD advocates exhibit: the desire to do away with people who are inconvenient. In just a few years–less than a decade–the percentage of deaths in Canada went from 0 to 5%, and the trend is accelerating.
People with disabilities such as being wheelchair bound, having diseases that are expensive to treat, or even soldiers who suffer from PTSD are encouraged to off themselves.
Even fashion retailers are promoting MAiD for fun and profit. It is a beautiful thing. What they left out was that the woman whom the state killed had a treatable disease, but the Canadian government refused to treat it. She revealed in an interview–with her identity concealed–that she didn’t want to die, but was in despair because she was denied treatment.
Canadian clothes retailer Simons is actually using suicide to market their products.
No, this isn’t made up. It’s part of a sweeping effort to introduce medically assisted suicide as a treatment for mental illness, PTSD and even children with defects in Canada. pic.twitter.com/LdTH8fLq9I
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 27, 2022
Simons, the company, has a very clear vision of who should be alive and who should not. They sell fashion, after all.
All of this is tied together in the “transhumanist” movement, which is driven by a complete rejection of God and Nature and the elevation of the human will to godlike status. Body modification, the obsession with sex, gender, and pleasure. Uploading ourselves into computers. The elimination of all limits.
Along with that comes a disgust with visible human frailties. Without God, everything is permitted. And without God, who lives and who dies is determined by the cultural hegemons.
I think of “death care” as quoting Jennyfer Hatch, the woman featured in this commercial for MAiD… sponsored by Simons. pic.twitter.com/5MrUB3YRTh
— Riss 𓅩 (@weblandian) December 5, 2023
Unlike the Nazi eugenicists, there is a gloss of kindness and compassion overlaid on the dark impulse to purify the human race. Compassionate doctors will ease your path to the afterlife, not guards wearing death’s head pins. You will not be starved and worked to death, and there will be no Zyklon B involved.
But the dark will is still lying just below the surface. Your death will be beautiful, but death at their hands will be coming nonetheless.
We could connect this movement to the COVID fascism, because the COVID fascism was also driven by the same impulse–your betters will govern your medical choices. But we don’t have to go there.
It’s enough to see that the cultural elite are gently, or not so gently, creating a society where they decide who lives and who dies.
It is appalling.
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