Fighting for the Wrong Right: Your Right to Die
Health care reform approaching the “Final Solution” to the high cost of health care? In Nazi Germany it meant “Kill ‘em, don’t bill ‘em.” The same influences inform our social thinking on the issue.
FTR #247 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Growing power, influence and respectability of the Moon organization; euthanasia and the Right-to-Die movement; domestic surveillance.
FTR #220 Miscellaneous Stories and Updates
Use of genetically engineered adenoviruses for “gene therapy” to introduce DNA into cells in order to correct genetic defects.
FTR #141 Interview III with Wesley J. Smith
Oregon’s Proposition 16, the first euthanasia law in the U.S., has proceeded very far down the “slippery slope.”
FTR #140 Update on Health and Scientific Matters
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As the title indicates, this program updates a number of stories in the health and science fields. Beginning with discussion of a bill introduced in the California legislature to permit physician assisted suicide, the broadcast presents analysis by author Wesley J. Smith of flaws in reportage about the Oregon euthanasia law (Prop. 16.) [...]
FTR #124 Interview II with Wesley J. Smith
Princeton bio-ethicist Peter Singer’s views compared to those of social philosophers behind Third Reich’s “T-4″ euthanasia program.
FTR #117 Interview with Wesley J. Smith
Medical ethics in U.S. compared to Nazi Germany, in which the physician’s primary responsibility was seen as to society, rather than to the patient.
FTR #32 Part II: The Right to Die Movement
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In Nazi Germany, the extermination programs which resulted in the horrors of Auschwitz began with the “T-4″ euthanasia program. The precedent that opened the door for state-authorized killing and that led to the euthanasia program and the extermination of the Jews and others was the Knauer case. In the [...]
FTR #32 Part I: Fascism, Eugenics and Euthanasia
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As the debate over physician assisted suicide intensifies in the United States and elsewhere, it is increasingly important to understand some of the far-reaching political implications of this issue. This program focuses on the relationship between the international eugenics movement and the international euthanasia movement, as well as their [...]
FTR #34 Hashude
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The growing problem of the poor and homeless in the United States is the backdrop against which this program sets forth the analysis of the SS’s “solution” to the problem of the “asocial.” Just as American reactionaries are calling for state institutions to confiscate the children of chronically poor “welfare mothers” and [...]
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