Pro-Life Professionals to Examine Abortion-Eugenics Connection

The Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change, an association of pro-life professionals, will examine the relationship between abortion and eugenics at its annual meeting and paper session this year. The meeting will be held the night before the beginning of the annual NRL Convention and will take place at the Adams Mark Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 27. The general public is invited to the meeting, which begins at 8:00 p.m., and there is no charge to attend. Refreshments will be served following the presentations. Those presenting papers are: John Hunt, Ph.D., a professor of history at St. Joseph College in Connecticut. His paper will discuss the abortion and eugenics policies of Nazi Germany.

Mary Nicholas, M.D., a medical ethics professor at St. John's University in Queens, New York, will discuss the influence of eugenics in prenatal care. Akua Furlow, a social researcher, will discuss the relationship between eugenics and birth control.

Marianne Linane, a pro-life nurse, who will describe the LifeLinks support group which has been established in Wisconsin for women with at-risk pregnancies.