Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
In the context of the 1933 Nazi law "Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses" (Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring), Brandt was one of the medical scientists who performed abortions in great numbers on women deemed genetically disordered, mentally or physically handicapped or racially deficient, or whose unborn fetuses were expected to develop such genetic "defects". These abortions had been legalized, as long as no healthy Aryan fetuses were aborted.