While Holocaust Survivors Denounce Resurgent Nazi Medical Ethics, David Frum Channels Himmler at Posen
By John Zmirak Published on December 14, 2021
John Zmirak
It started here, as it did in the 1920s, with abandoning the Hippocratic Oath. Darwinist German doctors who endorsed euthanasia for “life unworthy of life” pretended that they weren’t leaving behind the ancient respect for the sanctity and dignity of each patient. American doctors in the 1960s who embraced abortion were more forthright. They simply rewrote the Oath to stuff its prohibition of abortion down the Memory Hole.
Next our medical establishment abandoned the Nuremberg Code. Written after the trials of medical war criminals (among others), that code included this injunction regarding experimental treatments:
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
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