Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2012

"Pregnant Women will be Put to Death": Policies on Childbirth

I am grateful to Kent Ford for transcribing ghetto diaries that show the policy of the Nazis towards pregnancy. The following text is largely in his own words and was originally posted in a RODOH thread that disappeared when the forum closed.

In Kovno ghetto, on 24 July 1942, around the time of Great Deportation from Warsaw, Avraham Tory noted the following: 
The Gestapo issued an order: pregnancy in the Ghetto is forbidden. Every pregnancy must be terminated. An eighth- or ninth-month pregnancy may be completed. From September on, giving birth is strictly forbidden. Pregnant women will be put to death.

Friday, December 09, 2011

Mattogno, Graf and Duke on Abortion

Page 238 of Sobibor acknowledges that Generalplan Ost contained plans for abortions. We know from Aly et al (p.54) that such abortions would have been extralegal abortions, and that this was authorised orally by Hitler decree (without a Fuehrerbefehl) on "ethnic, racial or eugenic grounds." There is no condemnation expressed by Mattogno or Graf of such plans. However, on page 383 of the same work, Graf rages about abortions in the USA, whilst here he cites an article on Duke's site that blames abortions on the Jews. Why the hypocrisy? Is it because of the assumed ethnicity of the foetus or the assumed ethnicity of the doctors? Moreover, why would a neo-Nazi like Graf or Duke have a problem with African-American and Hispanic women having abortions?