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POLITICO Get the Massachusetts Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. SANTIAGO LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR State Rep. Jon Santiago is jumping into the race for mayor of Boston this morning. Santiago is pitching himself as someone who can lead the city out of the Covid-19 crisis, highlighting his background as an emergency room doctor on the front line of the pandemic at Boston Medical Center. ....
Stephen Kershnar Eugenics is a practice designed to improve a population’s gene pool. The issue has reappeared with Danish parents aborting fetuses who will become cognitively disabled (in ordinary English, retarded). Writing in The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang notes that in Denmark, couples use taxpayer-funded prenatal testing for Down Syndrome and other genetic defects. As a result, 95% of couples who discover their fetuses have Down Syndrome abort them. In 2019, she notes, only 18 Down Syndrome children were born in the country (population 6 million). Responding in The Federalist and on the Tucker Carlson Tonight, Evita Duffy, writes that eugenic abortion is evil. She argues that the Danish people are attempting to exterminate those with Down Syndrome, which, she claims, is the opposite of a culture of life and is similar to the Nazi attempt to eliminate those with serious disabilities. She questions Zhang’s and the left’s consistency in not judging the practice. Sh ....