This paper does not attempt to deal with the legitimate ethical or moral debate on abortion. Utilizing abortion as a subject I will show how science and medicine in general, and abortion in particular, were used as weapons of mass destruction by Nazi physicians in their zeal to comply with the political climate of the time. Nazi policy on abortion and childbirth was just one of the methods devised and designed to ensure the extermination of those whom the Nazis deemed had "lives not worth living." Physicians implemented these policies, not with the fate of their patients in mind, but rather in the name of the "state." When discussing pregnancy, abortion and childbirth during the Holocaust it is imperative to include an essay of how these issues affected the Jewish prisoner doctors in the ghettos and camps. Nazi policy dictated their actions too. From an extensive search of their testimonies, I conclude that for these doctors ethical discourse comprised a fundamental component of their functioning. I do not propose to judge them in any way and one should not, in my opinion, argue whether their behavior was or was not morally acceptable under such duress; nevertheless, unlike their Nazi counterparts, a key theme in their testimonies was to "keep their medical values."

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本文不试图处理有关堕胎的合法道德或道德辩论。以堕胎为主题,我将展示纳粹医生如何将科学和医学,特别是堕胎作为大规模杀伤性武器,以顺应当时的政治气候。纳粹关于堕胎和分娩的政策只是旨在确保消灭纳粹认为 “不值得生活的人” 的方法之一。医生实施这些政策,不是考虑到病人的命运,而是以 “国家” 的名义。在讨论大屠杀期间的怀孕,堕胎和分娩时,必须包括一篇有关这些问题如何影响贫民窟和营地中的犹太囚犯医生的文章。纳粹政策也决定了他们的行动。通过对他们的证词的广泛搜索,我得出结论,对于这些医生,道德话语构成了他们功能的基本组成部分。我不建议以任何方式对他们进行评判,我认为,在这种胁迫下,不应争论他们的行为在道德上是否可以接受; 然而,与纳粹同行不同,他们证词的一个关键主题是 “保持他们的医疗价值”。

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