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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>Incentives to abort the handicapped? Australian proposal
decried as reprise of eugenics<BR><A
href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=1141"
target=_blank>http://www.catholicculture.<WBR>org/news/headlines/index.cfm?<WBR>storyid=1141</A><BR>An
Australian parliamentary bloc has proposed financial incentives to encourage
mothers to abort handicapped babies. The suggestion, contained in a report
submitted by 41 members of the Parliamentary Group on Population and
Development, drew a horried reaction from Senator Ron Boswell of Queensland, who
commented: "This revisiting of eugenics principles is repugnant to a society
that prides itself on the contribution of all." The report suggested that it
would be less expensive to subsidize abortions than to pay the cost of services
for handicapped people. Several of the lawmakers who endorsed the report have
subsequently repudiated that suggestion.
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