{"id":2680,"date":"2012-11-13T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:59:59","slug":"eugenics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/13\/eugenics\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/7WBRjU9P5eo\/mqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I was chatting with a friend recently and he raised the subject of population control. It reminded me of the following video of\u00a0George Bernard Shaw. Now, I&#8217;m a fan of Shaw&#8217;s writing, but listening him speak about eugenics sends a shiver down my spine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7WBRjU9P5eo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end<\/span>, and can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree<\/span>&#8220;<\/em> &#8211; Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting with a friend recently and he raised the subject of population control. It reminded me of the following video of\u00a0George Bernard Shaw. Now, I&#8217;m a fan of Shaw&#8217;s writing, but listening him speak about eugenics sends a shiver down my spine&#8230; &#8220;Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1574,1575,474,252],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-eugenics","tag-evangelium-vitae","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-jp2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56602,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/56602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}