Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide and Killing of CripplesThis desire to get rid of mentally and physically different people runs like a thread through human history. The Inuit of Alaska killed disabled children at birth, as did the Maasai of Africa and the Woggeo of New Guinea. The Greeks of the 4th century BC used to expose (leave to die to the elements) their disabled children. China's rulers will soon impose laws to "stop the prevalence of abnormal births." It's not about stopping the birth of robust people capable of carrying out massacres in Tiananmen Square. No, apparently it's quite good. By "abnormal" we mean disabled people. "China," says Beijing's Xinhua news agency, now has "10 million disabled people who could have been prevented through better controls." Even the Bible doesn't help much. In Leviticus 21:18, for example, some twelve impairments – from limited growth to broken testicles, are listed as unacceptable to God, while in 2 Samuel 5:8 He commands that those who are blind and lame “should not enter into the house.” "Darwin's theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest gave these ancient attitudes a new lease on life. In the capitalist jungle of Victorian England, Social Darwinism and eugenics were soon invented to scientifically demonstrate that if the weakest ended up at the wall, such would be the inevitable price of progress. Why bother changing society for the better when you had a scientifically legitimate way to get rid of those who couldn't keep up, who fell into oblivion. ?In 1907, Indiana was the first of 30 American states to legalize sterilization of a variety of disabled and other "undesirables," and similar laws were passed in Germany (1933-4), Canada (1928), Denmark, and Sweden. (1929), Finland (1930) and Iceland (1930). Of course it was in Germany that the lust for our blood was brought to its logical conclusion. Under the National Socialist Party, the Prevention of Congenital Offspring Act of 1933 and the Act. on Marriage Health of 1935 legalized involuntary sterilization and forced doctors to report known disabled people to sterilization tribunals. But it was Hitler who really started the sweep. us from the face of the earth. On September 1, 1939, he issued a directive authorizing "certain physicians to be designated by name so that persons who, in human judgment, are incurable may, after a more careful diagnosis of their diseased state, be accorded a merciful death.".