This stuff is pretty intense.  Is it eugenics?  That’s what people like the Pope are saying.  It all depends, I suppose, on how you define abortion, but I think it’s close, anyways.

The Pope said, “A new mentality is insinuating itself that tends to justify a different consideration of life and personal dignity based on individual desire and individual rights.

“There is thus a tendency to privilege the capacities for work, efficiency, perfection and physical beauty to the detriment of other dimensions of existence that are not held to be valuable.”

Alex Schadenberg, the chairman of the International Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, attended the event. He said that the Pope was aiming his remarks at a rising trend of “genetic screening, eugenic abortion - of all types, and eugenic attitudes towards people with disabilities that are leading to euthanasia and medical discrimination related to end-of-life care”, reports LifeSiteNews.

Figures show that in many Western countries, 95 per cent of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. A new screening technique is also being developed that may make it possible to diagnose if an unborn child has autism, raising fears that such children will be at greater risk of abortion.