COULD THIS BE EUGENICS ?

[Alison J Stevens]

Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor David Marsland
defends his view that the mentally and morally unfit should be
sterilised. Professor David Marsland is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology
and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial
Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Buckingham. He argues
that the only way to prevent the abuse and neglect of children whose
parents are incapable of looking after them is to stop them from being
born in the first place. It should be open to police and social workers
to recommend that drug addicts, alcoholics and the mentally disabled
should be irreversibly sterilised - and the courts should be able to
enforce this. Challenging his views will be three expert witnesses
including a senior social worker, a drugs charity lawyer and a moral
philosopher.
Join in the debate by emailing [e-mail] or text during the programme on 84844.
Producer: Peter Everett.
Broadcasts

Wed 25 Aug 2010
20:00
BBC Radio 4

Sat 28 Aug 2010
22:15
BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tgf14


Value-eugenics.