Doctors who kill
Dear Editor,
Dr Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who was convicted of three counts of murder in the USA recently, brings to mind a book called Nazi Doctors by Jay Lifton.
It recounts for its readers the gradual slide of doctors in Nazi Germany into depravity. In this book, eyewitness and personal testimony is given of how persons were able to talk themselves into doing the most barbaric acts. The fact that the state made these acts legal no doubt made it easier to kill, but gave no excuse.
The eugenic-abortion movement, which was in its heyday just prior to and during the period of Nazi dominance of Europe, originated in the United States and contributed in no small way to the atrocities that were committed in that period. One hopes that we are not once again in that slide towards state-sanctioned barbarism and ‘might makes right’ totalitarianism.
Kay Bailey
glowilone@yahoo.com
