In the realm of contentious social issues, few topics evoke as much debate and emotion as Euthanasia. Many historians are of the belief that the euthanasia debate as we know it was triggered by the works of 19th century British scientists Charles Darwin, Francis Galton and Herbert Spencer, the former lending his name to the scientific ideology known as Social Darwinism.
On the subject of abortion few figures loom as large as Margaret Sanger. Born Margaret Louise Higgins in 1879 to a large provincial family in Corning, New York, she rose to prominence by campaigning for greater access to birth control for women. However, beneath the surface of what many in the day already regarded as her controversial activities lay an even darker side that can be summed up by two words. Euthanasia and… Eugenics.
Before being seriously damaged by a homemade bomb on July 6, 2022, the Georgia Guidestones in Elberton, Georgia, had drawn visitors from around the world and been the source of much controversy. The six giant slabs of granite were erected under a cloak of secrecy in 1980 and arranged to resemble the ancient standing stones found in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
Whenever people hear the word Holocaust their thoughts usually turn to the extermination camps of Nazi Germany, such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. Anyone who has seen the grim photos and newsreels cannot be left unchanged and filled with horror.