Eugenics and Nancy Cruzan

Thomas has written a column that is overemotional, uninformed, unresearched and a diatribe against world overpopulation. Many educated and thinking people are limiting their families to two children--the number they believe they can properly feed, clothe, shelter and educate.

When he mentions Nancy Cruzan, he has gone too far out on a limb. Any physician could tell Thomas that it is not unusual for the needs of the brain dead to literally kill their keepers. He could get closer to the facts if he would don a nurse’s or orderly’s uniform and give a Cruzan-type family a month off while he, the pontificator, took care of the patient.

He speaks as though this “horror of eugenics” were something new. It is not.

ALICE C. REAM, Ridgecrest