by Dan Becker of the Georgia Right to Life

1. Eugenics, Transhumanism
and Personhood:
THE 21st Century Public Policy
Debate
Georgia Right to
LifePersonhood—THE Prolife
Paradigm for the 21st
Century

2. Ideas Have Consequences

3. 2005 National Right to Life
Convention
Nigel Cameron, Dean of the Wilberforce Forum
―Two terms will come to dominate public policy
in the 21st century . . . ‖
• Transhumanism
• Eugenics ("germinal choice" or "reprogenetics―)

4. Transhumanism and Eugenics
September 2004 October 2009

6. The
Pillars of
Personhoo
Georgia Right to
LifePersonhood—a New
Prolife Paradigm for the
21st Century

9. “For the pillars of the
earth are the Lord’s, and
on them he has set the
world.” 1 Sa 2:8

10. Hadamar, Germany 1920

11. Hyper-
inflation

12. Hadamar, Germany 1920

13. ―In the 1920s, debate on this issue centered
on a book coauthored by Alfred Hoche, a
noted psychiatrist, and Karl Binding, a
prominent scholar of criminal law. They
argued that economic savings justified the
killing of ‗useless eaters‘.―
US Holocaust Museum
―They argued that economic
savings justified the killing of
‗useless eaters‘.―

14. • Potter‟s Syndrome (malformation of the kidneys)
• Children born with anencephaly
• Trisomy 16, 18, 21 (chromosomal anomalies such
as Down Syndrome “incompatible with life”)
• “the incurably ill” or “medically futile”
• the mentally challenged
• the blind, deaf and dumb children
• “half-breeds and other undesirables”
• Holocaust
Germany‘s ―Slippery Slope‖

16. ―Up to 100 victims arrived in post buses
every day. They were falsely told to disrobe
for a "medical examination". Sent before a
physician, instead of examining them he
assigned one of a list of 60 fatal diseases to
every victim, then marked them with
different-colored band-aids for one of three
categories: Kill; kill and remove brain for
research; kill and break out gold teeth.―
Patrizia Barbera: Todgeweihte kamen in Postbussen zur Hinrichtung, in
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, page 55

17. 1941

18. ―vivisections on the brains of victims who survived the
initial experiment.‖
Human Vivisection
Cold water immersion experiment

19. Genetic Research on Twins
Dr. Joseph
Mengele

20. Allied Prosecutor Thomas Dodd, 1945

21. Sixteen of the doctors charged were found
guilty. Seven were executed by hanging..
The “Doctor‟s Trial” at Nuremberg
Charged with human experimentation without ―Informed Consent‖.

22. Godwin‘s Law
"[Mike] Godwin observed that, given enough
time, in any online discussion—regardless of
topic or scope—someone inevitably
criticizes some point made in the discussion
by comparing it to beliefs held by Hitler and
the Nazis.―
Wikipedia

23. Godwin‘s Law
"Godwin's law itself can be abused as a
distraction, diversion or even as censorship,
fallaciously miscasting an opponent's
argument as hyperbole when the
comparisons made by the argument are
actually appropriate.‖
Wikipedia

24. Human
Vivisection
… from ―the
Beating Heart
Donors‖ pg 36‖
May 2012
POST-PERSON

25. Georgia Capitol 2012

26. ―. . . the fetus is anencephalic or that a
diagnosis of Potter‘s Syndrome or a
congenital or chromosomal anomaly is
made that is incompatible with life.‖

27. Faces of ―Medically
Futile Pregnancy‖
One year old Nick with St. Nick

28. "The Cornell scientists put a gene for a fluorescent protein into the single-
celled human embryo. The embryo had three sets of chromosomes instead
of two."
After the embryo divided for three days, all the cells in the embryo
glowed, Rosenwaks said. He said the goal of the work was to see if the
fluorescent marker would carry into the daughter cells, allowing genetic
changes to be traced as cells divided."
"A spokesman for the National Institutes of Health said the Cornell work
would not be classified as gene therapy in need of federal review, because a
test-tube embryo is not considered a person under the regulations."
Glow in the dark . . . Humans
May 13, 2008
―is not considered a person‖
Human Experimentation without Informed Consent

29. "When does life begin? I submit the
answer depends an awful lot on the
feeling of the parents. A powerful
feeling--but not science―
Melissa Perry, MSNBC July 21, 2013

30. ―If the parents want the newborn, it is wrong to kill the baby
because the act deprives them of happiness. On the other
hand, killing a defective newborn (up to 28 days after birth) is
not morally equivalent to killing a person.‖
Peter Singer
Member Independent Physicians Advisory Board (IPAB) over
ObamaCare, which is an unelected 15-member panel appointed
solely by the president
―... a person‖

31. ―So what if abortion ends life?‖
―. . . the fetus is indeed a life. A life
worth sacrificing.‖
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon Magazine, Jan 23, 2013
―Here‘s the complicated reality in which we live: All
life is not equal. That‘s a difficult thing for
liberals like me to talk about . . . Yet a fetus can be a
human life without having the same rights as the
woman in whose body it resides.‖

32. What do they have in common?
Margaret Sanger KKK Adolph Hitler Mary Williams
They believe that all human life is
NOT equal!
POST Birth Abortion

33. OUR MISSION
Our purpose is the recognition and protection of the God-
given, unalienable right to life of all innocent human beings
as legal persons at every stage of their biological
development.
―Human dignity and the
sanctity of life‖We MUST understand
―It is NOT to just save
babies . . .
It IS to re-establish
the ‗sanctity of life‘
and respect for
human dignity that our
biblical faith requires
. . . lest God‘s
‗sleeping judgment‘
awake.
Then God said,
“Let us make man
in our image, after
our likeness.”
Ge 1:27
“Imago Dei”
Personhood
Principle

34. “In the Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Harry Blackmun
wrote that, „(If the) suggestion of personhood [of the
preborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of
course, collapses, for the fetus‟ right to life is then
guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.‟”
Roe v. Wade
1973 decision
. . . the personhood of
the preborn child is the
single point on which
the entire debate turns.

35. • Elderly - ―Futile Care‖ Baby Boomers? (Post-Persons)
• Human Embryos – 500,000 (Pre-Persons)
• Severely Disabled - Anencephalic Infant (Non-Person)
• Human Animal Hybrids - UK Chimeras (Un-Person)
• PGD - Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, Eugenics (Good-Beginning)
• Assisted Suicide – Euthanasia (Good-Death)
Let‘s imagine that we wake up
tomorrow and Roe is overturned
. . . is our pro-life movement finished?

36. Natural Law or Divine Law
Under Roman law- Personhood was
defined and applied to some,
as opposed to being recognized as an
inalienable right incarnate in all.
Two Routes to Personhood
Historically government can not be
trusted with defining Personhood

37. Western law‘s historic struggle over the issue of Personhood
is clearly seen in the manner by which the concept has been
applied to the issues of slavery, suffrage and eugenics.

38. Constitutional Convention 1787

39. In September of 1787 the Constitutional
Convention meeting in Philadelphia declared
in Article 1, Section 2 of the American
Constitution that: ―blacks are only three fifths
of all other Persons.‖
In 1857, in the Dred Scott decision, the U.S.
Supreme Court declared blacks to be ―a
subordinate and inferior class of beings.‖
―blacks are only three fifths of
all other Persons.‖

40. In September of 1787 the Constitutional
Convention meeting in Philadelphia declared
in Article 1, Section 2 of the American
Constitution that: ―blacks are only three fifths
of all other Persons.‖
In 1857, in the Dred Scott decision, the U.S.
Supreme Court declared blacks to be ―a
subordinate and inferior class of beings.‖
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Following closely on this logic, within a year after the
Dred Scott decision the Virginia Supreme Court ruled
that . . .
―in the eyes of the law, so far certainly as civil
rights and relations are concerned, the slave is
not a person, but a thing.‖

43. In Canada in1876, a ruling in British common
law declared that ―Women are persons in
matters of pains and penalties, but are not
persons in matters of rights and privileges.‖

44. Emily Murphy
In 1916, she became the
first woman magistrate
(Senator) in Canada, and
in the British Empire. She
is best known for her
contributions to Canadian
feminism, specifically to
the question of whether
women were ―persons‖
under Canadian law.
specifically to the
question of whether
women were
―persons‖ under
Canadian law.

45. She appealed to the Canadian Supreme
Court, asking for clarification of a simple
question: ―Does the word ‗persons‘ in
Section 24, of The British North America
Act, 1867, include female persons?‖
The Court‘s unequivocal response: NO!

48. ―. . . an Indian is not a person within the meaning of the Constitution . . .
[Congress] may prevent an Indian from leaving his reservation, and while
he is on a reservation it may deprive him of his liberty, his property, his life.‖
George F. Canfield (1881)
The American Law Review

49. 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee
Frozen Body of
Chief Spotted Elk
“…that helpless children and
women with babes in their arms
had been chased as far as two
miles from the original scene of
encounter and cut down without
mercy by the troopers.”
General Nelson A. Miles

50. In November 1935 Nazi
Germany declared that
Jews were ―subjects‖ of
the Reich but not
―citizens‖ under the
newly enacted
Nuremberg Laws on
Citizenship and Race.
Article 4 (1) stated, ―A
Jew cannot be
a citizen of the Reich. He
cannot exercise the right
to vote; he cannot hold
public office.‖

51. After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a number
of additional Nazi decrees were issued that
eventually outlawed the Jews
completely, depriving them of their rights as
human beings.

52. After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a number
of additional Nazi decrees were issued that
eventually outlawed the Jews
completely, depriving them of their rights as
human beings.

53. ―This disturbing pattern of disputing
someone‘s humanity to weaken his
claims to rights of Personhood repeats
itself again and again in Western
history.‖
Center for Bio-ethical Reform

55. "The Cornell scientists put a gene for a fluorescent protein into the single-
celled human embryo. The embryo had three sets of chromosomes instead
of two."
After the embryo divided for three days, all the cells in the embryo
glowed, Rosenwaks said. He said the goal of the work was to see if the
fluorescent marker would carry into the daughter cells, allowing genetic
changes to be traced as cells divided."
"A spokesman for the National Institutes of Health said the Cornell work
would not be classified as gene therapy in need of federal review, because a
test-tube embryo is not considered a person under the regulations."
Glow in the dark . . . Humans
May 13, 2008
―is not considered a person‖

56. EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES
―The Emerging
Brave New
World‖
Thomas Glessner

57. 2005 National Right to Life
Convention
Nigel Cameron, Dean of the Wilberforce Forum
―Two terms will come to dominate public policy
in the 21st century . . . ‖
• Transhumanism
• Eugenics

58. TRANSHUMANISM:
The use of new sciences
and technologies to
enhance human mental
and physical abilities and
…creating a race so
enhanced that they are no
longer called human, but
post-human.
H+ = ―Homo perfectus‖

59. Transgenetics
(Chimeras)
Artificial
Intelligence
EctogenesisCyborgology
Nanotechnology
TRANSHUMANISM

61. Transgenetics
Artificial
Intelligence
EctogenesisCyborgology
Nanotechnology
TRANSHUMANISM
Genesis 3
But the serpent said to the
woman, ―You will not surely
die. For God knows that
when you eat of it your eyes
will be opened, and you will
be like God, knowing good
and evil.‖
• Immortality – ―you will not die
• God/Man‘s Sovereignty – ―You will be like God
• Omniscience – ― . . . Like God , knowing . . .

62. Ecto-genesis:
The creation and/or continuation of human life
outside the human uterus. It can refer to complete
artificial creation of human life and an artificial
womb preparing the way for using these creations
to harvest human body parts.
Ectogenesis
Artificial Womb

63. An article of TIME magazine called Of Headless Mice...And Men
told of scientists‘ new discovery of creating headless mice and
tadpoles through removing a particular gene from the embryos.
Most people would think this is a failure rather than a break
through, but the article goes on to say the reason this is a
success is that beginning of being able to create headless
animals for the purpose of harvesting body parts, and they plan
to use artificial wombs to produce them.

64. Transgenetics:
Mixing genetic code of two different species to
create what is called a ―chimera‖. UK is mixing cow
eggs and human genes to create a monstrosity
that our system cannot ethically judge which gives
scientists the ability to destroy or use as wished.
―Cowboys‖

65. Sculpture by Patricia Piccinini
entitled The Young Family

66. Spider + Goat = BioSteel
Fluorescent pigs have been
created through crossing
their genes with jellyfish
Hairless mice have
already been used to
grow human ears
―PHARMING‖

67. "The Cornell scientists put a gene for a fluorescent protein into the single-
celled human embryo. The embryo had three sets of chromosomes instead
of two."
After the embryo divided for three days, all the cells in the embryo
glowed, Rosenwaks said. He said the goal of the work was to see if the
fluorescent marker would carry into the daughter cells, allowing genetic
changes to be traced as cells divided."
"A spokesman for the National Institutes of Health said the Cornell work
would not be classified as gene therapy in need of federal review, because a
test-tube embryo is not considered a person under the regulations."
Glow in the dark . . . Humans
May 13, 2008

68. EUGENICS
Genetic
Engineering
Cloning Genoism

69. EUGENICS:
A social philosophy, which advocates the
improvement of human hereditary traits
through various forms of intervention by
the State. The State would ―purify‖ the
world of those traits or people that are
considered undesirable.

70. Eugenic Advocates
Margaret Sanger KKK Adolph Hitler

71. Genetic Engineering/Designer
Babies:
―A laboratory technique used by
scientists to change the DNA of
living organisms. It is used to
perfect what they feel are
unwanted characteristics of a
person, such as stupidity, autism,
or diabetes, and enable every
parent to have the perfect child of
their choosing like hair, eyes,
intelligence, and abilities: a world
of Barbie's and Kens. ―

72. Cloning:
Is taking the nucleus and replacing it with
the genetic makeup of a person to create its
clone for the future purposes of reproduction
for infertile or homosexual couples,
harvesting body parts, and research.
Somatic Cell
Nuclear Transfer

73. Genoism:
• It is creating a ―perfect race‖ through gene selection. It will be
producing what is classified as wanted children with their criteria and
destroying the undesired.
• ―At the Emory Reproductive Center, the mechanical process of
embryo cryopreservation is laboratory controlled to reduce the risk
of technical failure.
―Only high quality embryos are
selected for cryopreservation
since poor quality embryos
seldom survive the freezing and
thawing processes.‖

74. Genoism:
• It is creating a ―perfect race‖ through gene selection. It will be
producing what is classified as wanted children with their criteria and
destroying the undesired.
• ―At the Emory Reproductive Center, the mechanical process of
embryo cryopreservation is laboratory controlled to reduce the risk
of technical failure.
―Only high quality children are
selected for cryopreservation
since poor quality children
seldom survive the freezing and
thawing processes.‖

75. H+ Magazine Interviews
German Transhumanist
H+: Is there any interest in eugenics in Germany now or
is it a totally taboo topic?
MJS: Due to the Nazi history of Germany, eugenics is
actually a totally taboo topic here, regardless of differences
in definition, goals or means. It is also similar with
procedures like pre-implantation diagnostics (PID),
euthanasia and other human enhancement technologies
that are also often viewed in this context.

79. “God who gave us life gave us
liberty. Can the liberties of a
nation be secure when we have
removed a conviction that
these liberties are the gift of
God? Indeed I tremble for my
country when I reflect that
God is just, that his justice
cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson

80. Brave New World: Huxley 1932
2009 – Transhumanism will bring ―the Lie‖ of
Genesis 3 into our lives and will impact our
children‘s lives in ways never imagined.
―In the 20th century it was enough that we were
pro-life . . . In the 21st century we must be
diligent to also be pro-human.‖
Nigel Cameron, Christian bio-ethicist

84. Eugenics, Transhumanism
and Personhood:
THE 21st Century Public Policy
Debate
Georgia Right to
LifePersonhood—THE Prolife
Paradigm for the 21st
Century
Will YOU be a light in the
darkness?