posted 2017 edited 2022
What is the purpose of prenatal testing?
Most people (even doctors such as pro life doctors) do not know the foundation of prenatal testing. Most would say that the foundation of prenatal testing is to help the child by preparing the family to know how to care for this baby. Right? Wrong. This is the motive of 100% pro life doctors as they know to embrace children’s lives in the womb if the children won’t live long inside or outside the womb and with this they may do prenatal testing but they know to embrace children and not discriminate against the children in utero based upon the testing results (which around 80% of the time are inaccurate). A 100% pro life OBGYN also will offer in utero surgery for babies who may have certain poor prenatal diagnoses such as spina bifida which can be corrected in utero. A 100% pro life OBGYN knows that abortion is not a “medical solution” or “answer” for having diagnoses in the womb.
The 100% pro life obgyns recognize that God is the author of all preborn children and they realize even if they are not a Christian that preborn children are persons and killing them is not a “solution” and not a “medical solution to save the life of children or mother.” My point in this blog is sharing of the eugenic foundation of prenatal testing. Even though it is not known by many, is my understanding, about the foundation of prenatal testing being eugenic the tests cause for a pro abortion person to have a mindset that makes them believe the lie that abortion is the “solution” when finding out preborn children have diagnoses in utero through ultrasound or prenatal testing. To think that some doctors discriminate against preborn children based upon their diagnoses and location in the womb or the lie of the “health of the mother” or the lie of claiming abortion is needed “to give the other babies a better chance” is heartbreaking. Any excuse a doctor or nurse gives for claiming someone “needs an abortion” knows that they are flat out lying. Why would a doctor tell a couple to kill one or multiple children in utero “to give the other babies a better chance?” Let’s say a doctor says “you have twins who are conjoined” and they are outside the womb and “to make the excuse of abortion/killing outside the womb” let’s say the doctor suggests killing one twin to quote “give the other twin a better chance”- how absurd with that be and evil for a doctor to suggest? Why is the killing the preborn children justified? Why is the legally of it, and the preborn child’s location being inside the womb, the reason why so many justify killing a person in utero. We have to understand these people are heartbreakingly deceived and they need to be encouraged to know that all preborn children should be valued not aborted.
Sadly, the origin of prenatal testing was not a demonstration of care for children but a lack of care which has been named “medical genetics.” (Osborn, 1965) Its real foundation was grounded in eugenics. There were many players in the eugenics movement. The term “eugenics” was coined by Francis Galton as he attributed the term from the Greek word which means “well-born.” (Galton, 1883) Eugenics is a way (so cleverly disguised) to discriminate against those “deemed” unfit and unworthy by those that support this philosophy and goal of eugenics.
Frederick Osborn was the “mastermind” of the American Eugenic movement. His goal was to take the lives of children who were sick or disabled or a certain race and exterminate these people. Osborn stated, ‘“The term medical genetics has taken the place of the old term negative eugenics…’ The older term means efforts to prevent births among people deemed to be inferior, especially those with inherited disabilities.”’ (https://meehanreports.com/eugen-PT-pt1.htm) Osborn sickeningly said, “The public should insist that doctors and public health authorities get to work at reducing the number of defectives.”(https://meehanreports.com/eugen-PT-pt1.htm) People made in God’s very image, he is calling the abhorrent term “defective.” These eugenicists use semantics to attempt to influence those they are trying to convince of the evil of their philosophy. Osborn, and people like him, took on the eugenic movement under new names and groups to corrupt medicine and cause their to be genetic testing in medicine to eliminate the children who are considered and deemed to have no value.
Prenatal testing and the large amount of abortions from that has caused the eugenic society to flourish. Osborn used economic arguments to back up his eugenic goals. He found the targeting of children with Down syndrome nothing more than accomplishing one of his major goals which is to rid the world of those he saw unfit. Meehran Reports, “As early as 1941, Osborn had said the public “should insist that doctors and public health authorities get to work at reducing the number of defectives.” This was a recurring theme, and he used economic arguments to back it up. By 1972, when Down syndrome children increasingly were targeted by prenatal testing and abortion, Osborn complained: “Now with modern medical care they can be carried through to an age of thirty to forty years at an expense estimated at over $200,000 for each case of mongolism” (as Down syndrome was then called). But he could claim advance toward a longtime goal. “Reducing the frequency of inherited defects and deficiencies,” he wrote, “has become an important function of medicine and public health. It is not done under the name of eugenics, but it is no less effective for that reason.”(14)“(https://meehanreports.com/eugen-PT-pt1.htm) Osborn is basing the value of human life on the amount of chromosomes a child has and the cost attached with that.
Margaret Sanger, whose portrait can be found in the Civil Rights’ section of the Smithsonian Institute, is another player in the eugenicist movement. (https://www.liveaction.org/news/margaret-sanger-prominent-planned-parenthood-building-bust-smithsonian/) How ironic that a woman whose goal was to eliminate African Americans would have her portrait displayed among heroes who fought for civil rights in the Black communities. Children who had cleft palates, Down syndrome, cleft hands, anencephaly and other poor in utero diagnosis were considered horrid by Margaret Sanger. She saw children with these health issues as detriments to society and wanted them gone. Margaret Sanger was one of the most successful eugenicists as she has been the reason for over 60 million babies and more who have never had a chance to continue their lives. She called children who had certain poor in utero diagnoses the following: “lobster claw syndrome”, “anencephalic monster” and “harelip.” The child who was diagnosed with a cleft lip was called “harelip.” The child diagnosed with a cleft hand or foot was called “lobster claw syndrome.” The child diagnosed with anencephaly was called “anencephalic monster.” These are ways that Sanger described human beings made in God’s Image. Children with sicknesses are extremely dear to God’s heart and yet this woman along with many other eugenicists like her spent their entire lives working to indoctrinate others to make people believe they needed to rid our society of people who have health conditions. Their life’s goal was trying to eliminate different people group. She was also known for stating that African American people were “weeds.” Sanger, hailed as a civil rights icon was not who she presented herself to be as along with other eugenicists, her goal was to eliminate certain people groups that she saw as unfit. Prenatal testing, cleverly disguised as a way to help parents, is a tool with its foundations in eugenics to eradicate certain people groups and deny their value as of being made in God’s Image.
As families try to help their children by getting prenatal tests to make sure they aren’t sick, this thought process was predestined for harm for the entire family, each member (preborn and born.) Eugenicists knew how to target families. They knew how to give scare tactics to make families think that without these prenatal tests, a family would not be receiving the best medical care possible. So many doctors use these prenatal tests to scare families into thinking they could never consider raising a child who may have a health condition. These tests, if taken, are often used by doctors to encourage and insist upon aborting a child with a poor in utero diagnosis. Some doctors will use the results of these tests to place a judgment call on someone’s worth based on their health condition. These tests should not be done in healthcare or anywhere! They are a grand eugenic statement to eliminate your family, population control and ultimately devaluing life based on health. Satan wants to steal families and we must stand against this attack.
As you read Scripture tonight understand that what God states about the taking of innocent life and us being made intrinsically valuable from the moment of fertilization. God’s children are His. We are not labeled by God as how a doctor may label us. Hebrews 6:10, “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.” No child is unseen or forsaken by their Creator. We are not defined as the world says, as our value from the start and never ending is of and from His Image! Genesis 1:27, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” And this is just a small glimpse into the looking glass.
Lejeune, who was a French geneticist wanted to get rid of certain preborn children who did not meet certain standards. The Meehan Report shares, “In a lecture that leading American geneticists still remembered decades later, Lejeune proposed a special eugenics group–the National Institute of Death–to get rid of embryos and newborns who didn’t meet certain standards. There was a catch, though: “To prevent any possible error, concern, or prejudice, the advisors shall be chosen from among knowledgeable persons not belonging to any philosophy, society, or race.”‘ (https://meehanreports.com/eugen-PT-pt1.htm) Families who have a child who is sick in utero are sometimes told by genetic counselors to abort and try again for a healthier child as if the sick child has no value and not worth loving. In Human Life Review, Meehan Report shares, “When Osborn and other officers of the American Eugenics Society issued their report for 1953-57, they called heredity counseling the opening wedge in the public acceptance of eugenic principles. They realized, though, that it was an uncertain process–a matter of educated guesses and calculations.”(https://meehanreports.com/eugen-PT-pt1.htm)
As families go in to get prenatal testing each family must have a 100% pro life obgyn, as always, to make sure their preborn children are given truly doctors who cherish each preborn child no matter how sick or how long the children live in utero. Prenatal testings origin is rooted in dismissing the value of human life and eliminating those that do not meet whatever the defined standard is. The purpose of these tests was never founded in parents discovering a preborn child’s health to better care for that child but rather to eliminate them.
New York Times article states about prenatal testing how, “The analysis showed that positive results on those tests are incorrect about 85 percent of the time.“(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/upshot/pregnancy-birth-genetic-testing.html)
Resources:http://biblehub.com/hebrews/6-10.htm
http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm
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