The head of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Klaus Heckemann, has triggered a wave of criticism with an editorial on the subject of human genetics. Among other things, he writes about genetic diagnostics and "eugenics in its best and most humane sense". In a statement, the main committee of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Saxony (KVS) emphatically distanced itself from these statements "in terms of style, choice of words and positioning in terms of content".
"Eugenics" stands for the doctrine of supposedly good hereditary traits. Under the guise of this term, the National Socialists carried out mass murders of disabled people for the purpose of supposed "hereditary and racial hygiene".
In his editorial, which appeared in the June issue of "KVS-Mitteilungen", Heckemann describes a "vision of the future" for genetic testing. According to this, all women who wish to have children should be offered a complete mutation search for hereditary diseases.
