But will abortion lead us to a new era where abortions can purge "bad genes" from the human population?
In ancient Greece, a pharmakos was a scapegoat or victim of sorcerers, who was sent into exile, and sometimes even stoned to death, in order to cleanse a community and to purge bad spirits.
The group's senior leadership team also issued "an open letter to the scouting community" that included an apology for past wrongs, but also a strong assertion that decades of efforts to internally document deviant behavior within the Scouts — to purge bad leaders — had worked.
The Emmanuel administration pitched the closings as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system.
Since its collapse, AIG has received a $70 billion investment facility from the Treasury, a $60 billion line of credit from the Federal Reserve, and the Fed also pledged $52.5 billion to create two special entities to purge bad assets from AIG's balance sheet.
Several Mexican mayors have been slain in recent years over efforts to purge bad cops.
